Nomograms Predicting Self-Regulated Learning Levels in Chinese Undergraduate Medical Students.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to construct a multi-center cross-sectional study to predict self-regulated learning (SRL) levels of Chinese medical undergraduates.

Methods: We selected medical undergraduates by random sampling from five universities in mainland China. The classical regression methods (logistic regression and Lasso regression) and machine learning model were combined to identify the most significant predictors of SRL levels.

The patient-provider discordance in patients' needs assessment: a qualitative study in breast cancer patients receiving oral chemotherapy.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the differing perspectives of patients and providers and their assessment of supportive care needs in breast cancer patients receiving oral chemotherapy.

Background: The patient-provider concordance in patients' needs assessment is critical to the effective management of cancer. Self-administered oral chemotherapy greatly shifts responsibilities for side-effect monitoring, symptom management and dose adjustments from the provider to the patient.

Testing measurement invariance of the Chinese version of the Strategies Used by Patients to Promote Health among patients with cancer.

Background And Purpose: The Chinese version of the Strategies Used by Patients to Promote Health (C-SUPPH) is a self-report instrument used to measure self-efficacy among patients with cancer. The purpose of this article is to examine measurement invariance of C-SUPPH using data of 764 cancer patients recruited in China.

Methods: Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models were applied across the selected sociodemographic groups of gender, age, education, and monthly income levels.

Smartphone interventions for long-term health management of chronic diseases: an integrative review.

Introduction: Long-term health management is challenging for the rapidly growing number of patients with chronic diseases. Smartphone interventions offer promising solutions. This article presents features of smartphone interventions for long-term chronic condition management, illustrating how these applications benefit patients with chronic diseases.

Self-efficacy difference among patients with cancer with different socioeconomic status: application of latent class analysis and standardization and decomposition analysis.

Introduction: Although the relationship between partial socioeconomic status (SES) and self-efficacy has been studied in previous studies, few research have examined self-efficacy difference among patients with cancer with different SES.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey involving 764 patients with cancer was completed. Latent class analysis (LCA) was applied to identify distinct groups of patients with cancer using four SES indicators (education, income, employment status and health insurance status).

Effects of psychological stress on serum iron and erythropoiesis.

There are about one billion patients with iron deficiency anaemia all over the world. Recently, researchers have reported successively that stress can cause decrease of serum iron, in consistent with our studies showing that heat exposure and acceleration stress led to significant decrease of serum iron in rats. However, so far whether pure psychological stress can cause decrease of serum iron and consequently affect erythropoiesis has not been reported.

[Studies on germination characteristics of Platycodon grandiflorum seed].

Objective: To find out the optimal condition for the germination by studying the effects of light, temperature, seed soaking and cultivation condition on Platycodon grandiflourm, and offer the basis for standardized culture of P. grandflorum.

Method: The rate of water absorption of the seed was determined.