Digital Technology Use in US Community-Dwelling Seniors With and Without Homebound Status.

Objectives: To examine (1) the prevalence of digital technology use, including information and communication technology devices, everyday technology use, and digital health technology use among community-dwelling older adults with or without homebound status and (2) the associations of digital technology use with homebound status.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting And Participants: We used the 2022 National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) data that included 5510 community-dwelling older adults.

Patient, family, and community factors associated with medication adherence among people with hypertension or diabetes: A cross-sectional analysis.

Background: While suboptimal medication adherence remains an obstacle to the management of hypertension and diabetes in China, few studies have investigated associated factors with medication adherence on different dimensions simultaneously.

Objective: To systematically examine associated patient, family, and community factors with suboptimal medication adherence among people with hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes in China.

Methods: The study stratified a random sample of 622 adults aged 45 years or older with hypertension and/or type 2 diabetes from three southeast cities in China in 2019.

Community efficacy for non-communicable disease management (COEN): Conceptualization and measurement.

The importance of community-based non-communicable disease (NCD) management has been internationally recognized. However, currently, no instrument is available to evaluate a community's ability to provide NCD management for its residents. This study defined such an ability as "Community Efficacy for NCD Management" (COEN), and aimed to conceptualize, develop and validate a scale to measure COEN.

Community Efficacy for Non-Communicable Disease Management and Medication Adherence: The Sequential Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy and Depressive Symptoms.

Purpose: We assess whether the sequential mediating effects of self-efficacy and depressive symptoms on the relationship between community efficacy for non-communicable disease management (COEN) and medication adherence and whether these relationships differed by sex and age.

Patients And Methods: Overall, 662 individuals from 12 communities in China were interviewed twice 1 year apart. Serial mediation analysis examined whether the relationship between COEN and medication adherence was mediated by self-efficacy and depressive symptoms.

The relationship between urinary selenium levels and risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A nested case-control study.

Background: Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element for the human body. Serum Se and urinary Se are also biomarkers to assess Se exposure status. However, studies focusing on the association between urinary Se and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are rare.

The dynamic change of urinary selenium concentration during pregnancy and influencing factors: A longitudinal study.

Background: Selenium concentration of one spot urine sample cannot reflect selenium status during whole pregnancy. Studies on variations of urinary selenium concentration at different stages of pregnancy are limited.

Aim: To assess variations of urinary selenium concentrations during three trimesters of pregnancy and to explore the influencing factors.

Plasma levels of trace element status in early pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus: A nested case-control study.

Purpose: We investigated the impacts of plasma levels of magnesium (Mg), zinc (Zn), calcium (Ca), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), selenium (Se), and chromium (Cr) on GDM risk and the potential mediation effect of blood glucose levels on the relationship between trace elements and GDM risk.

Methods: This nested case-control study was based on data from a birth cohort study conducted in Wuhan, China in 2013-2016. A total of 305 GDM cases and 305 individually-matched controls were included in the study.

The intention to undertake physical activity in pregnant women using the theory of planned behaviour.

Aim: To identify the intention of Chinese pregnant women to undertake physical activity (PA) using the theory of planned behaviour.

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Methods: From April - October 2017, a cross-sectional questionnaire was completed by 746 pregnant women from the Health Birth Cohort in Wuhan, China.