Publications by authors named "Feng-Lan Lou"
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- * A total of 1458 patients were reviewed, with primary angle closure glaucoma (PACG) and secondary glaucoma (SG) being the most common types, and average patient age increased over the decade.
- * The findings highlighted that female gender, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension were linked to PACG, while smoking and alcohol consumption were associated with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG); SG was connected to injury and diabetes mellitus.
The effects of acetylpuerarin treatment following oxygen-glucose deprivation/reperfusion (OGD/R) were examined in rat hippocampal neurons in vitro and compared with the effects of acetylpuerarin in normoxic cells to confirm acetylpuerarin's potential neuroprotective effects, including apoptosis inhibition. Wistar rat embryo hippocampal cells (day 18, E18) cultured for 8 days were subjected to 3 h OGD treatment, followed by reperfusion for 12, 24 or 36 h. For each time interval, a group of cells was left untreated (OGD/R-only groups) and treated with 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: To translate the Edinburgh Feeding Evaluation in Dementia scale (EdFED) into simplified Chinese and to comprehensively evaluate its reliability and validity.
Background: The EdFED, the only validated instrument at present for assessing feeding difficulty in older people with dementia, is available in the original English and traditional Chinese versions, but not available in simplified Chinese. The traditional Chinese version may not be applicable in Mainland China because of linguistic and cultural differences.
Aims And Objectives: To determine the current status of dementia patient's quality of life and compare influencing factors in China and Japan to inform nursing care and potentially improve the patient's quality of life.
Background: The prevalence of dementia is increasing related to lack of a cure, thus prompting some researchers and clinicians to focus on patient's quality of life.
Design: A cross-sectional study.
Caring for parents whose infant has died is extremely demanding, difficult, and stressful. In some situations, nurses may experience personal failure, feel helpless, and need to distance themselves from bereaved parents because they are unable to deal with the enormity of the parental feelings of loss. The aim of the study was to describe and compare attitudes toward perinatal bereavement care across a sample of nurses working in five obstetrics and gynecology settings from three Asian cities, as well as the factors associated with these attitudes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To explore nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care and to identify factors associated with these attitudes.
Background: It is likely that the attitude of nursing staff can influence recovery from a pregnancy loss and that nurses with positive attitudes to bereavement care can help bereaved parents to cope during their grieving period.
Design: Survey.
Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care and to identify factors associate with such attitudes.
Background: Caring for and supporting parents whose infant has died is extremely demanding, difficult and stressful. It is likely that the attitude of nursing staff can influence recovery from a pregnancy loss and nurses with positive attitude to bereavement care can help bereaved parents to cope during their grieving period.
Objective: to explore attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care among midwives working in Hong Kong through examination of relationships between attitudes towards bereavement support, need for bereavement education and appropriate hospital policy.
Design: a descriptive correlational survey.
Setting: the obstetric and gynaecology units at two hospitals.