Publications by authors named "Chieko Ikeda"
Article Synopsis
- - The study evaluated the effectiveness of a person-centered care program for nurses in acute-care hospitals, comparing it to a dementia-type-specific program over a period from July 2021 to January 2022 across seven hospitals.
- - Out of 158 participants, those in the intervention group showed significant gains in dementia nursing expertise, medical knowledge, and confidence, along with improvements in ethical sensitivity regarding patient dignity.
- - The control group also had positive outcomes, particularly in providing care tailored to cognitive function, indicating that both programs have valuable impacts on nursing care in dementia patients.
Since Cambodia has been recognized as one of the low- and middle-income countries with a successful COVID-19 vaccine program, its program approaches were reviewed based mainly on press articles and announcements from the Ministry of Health. From the beginning, the government's proactive approach to securing vaccines and its flexibility prior to WHO Emergency Use Listing (EUL) contributed greatly to the success of the program. Vaccines were provided by COVAX and other countries, but more than half of the vaccines secured were Chinese vaccines purchased with government funds.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDietary intake of high-dose biotin inhibits spermatogenesis in young rats.
Congenit Anom (Kyoto)
February 2015
To characterize a new function of the water-soluble vitamin, biotin, in reproduction and early growth in mammals, the effects of high dietary doses of biotin on early spermatogenesis were biochemically and histologically investigated in male rats. Weaned rats were fed a CE-2 (control) diet containing 0.00004% biotin, or a control diet supplemented with 0.
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