Publications by authors named "Han-Yi Tsai"
Background: Adolescence represents a pivotal period for the initiation of smoking behaviours. While family, peer and social groups serve as significant reference groups influencing adolescents' decision-making process, there remains a paucity of research that examines how diversified reference groups influence their smoking decisions.
Objective: The objective is to compare normative and informative influences given by different reference groups on adolescents' smoking decision-making.
Background: Cumulative evidence supports the importance of health literacy in determining the quality of healthcare delivery and outcomes. To enhance health literacy competencies among professionals and alleviate healthcare barriers owing to patients' inadequate health literacy, evidence-based health literacy competency guidelines are needed for the development of health professionals' training curricula. The aim of this study was to validate and refine a set of health literacy competencies, including knowledge, attitude, and skills of health professionals, and to prioritize the importance of health literacy practices among healthcare professionals.
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- The study investigates the relationship between sleep duration and the occurrence of dental caries and myopia in first graders, noting that the transition to first grade may affect children's sleep patterns.* -
- Results show that children sleeping less than 9 hours per night have a significantly higher risk of developing dental caries, and maternal dental health is a strong predictor of children's caries risk, while sleep was not linked to myopia.* -
- The findings suggest the need for early screening for insufficient sleep among children to identify those at high risk for dental issues and recommend involving family nurses to implement effective sleep interventions and oral health practices.*
Sleep disturbances are commonly reported by parents of children and adolescents with epilepsy. However, evidence synthesis including quality and quantity of sleep in parents of children and adolescents with epilepsy is lacking. This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to quantify pooled mean estimates of parental sleep variables and to determine the prevalence of sleep disturbances in parents of children and adolescents with epilepsy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This present study investigated the incidence rates of cardiotoxicity among cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) plus other anticancer drugs.
Methods: This was a retrospective hospital-based cohort study using the medical records and the Cancer Registry records from the Taipei Veterans General Hospital. We enrolled patients diagnosed with cancer between 2011 and 2017, who were over 20 years old and had received ICI therapy, including pembrolizumab, nivolumab, atezolizumab, and ipilimumab.
The effectiveness of cold oral stimuli in quenching postoperative thirst: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Intensive Crit Care Nurs
April 2023
Objective: To examine the effectiveness of cold oral stimuli in quenching postoperative thirst in patients undergoing surgery.
Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies.
Setting: Postoperative care units.
Purpose: The objective of this study was (1) to examine sleep changes in first graders before and after school closure and (2) to examine the association between parental work rearrangement and children's sleep change during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Design And Methods: This was an observational study. The children's sleep habit questionnaire was completed by 103 parents of first-graders before and after school closure.
Aims: To examine the association of the timing and consistency of parent bedtime routines with infant night-time sleep duration and variability.
Design: This was a prospective observational study conducted between November 2012 and November 2016.
Methods: Three hundred and twenty healthy 6-month-old infants were recruited from the well-child clinics of a university-affiliated hospital in northern Taiwan.
Background: Prescription errors that occur due to the process of pill splitting are a common medication problem; however, available prescription information involving inappropriate pill splitting and its associated factors is lacking.
Methods: We retrospectively evaluated a cohort of ambulatory prescriptions involving extended-release or enteric-coated formulations in a Taiwan medical center during a 5-month period in 2010. For this study, those pill splitting prescriptions involving special oral formulations were defined as inappropriate prescriptions.
The allelic variant MDM2-SNP309 (T>G) has been suggested to influence cancer development, but the clinical correlation between the risk allele and breast cancer remains controversial. The genetic background and the ethnicity of selected subgroups may influence the power of these risk genotypes. In this study, we investigated whether MDM2-SNP309 is associated with p53 R72P genetic polymorphism for the risk of breast cancer development in Asian Taiwanese, which has not been well-studied in this regard.
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