The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Nurses' Professional Quality of Life in Pre-Hospital Emergency Settings: A Multicentre Mixed-Method Study.

Background: Pre-hospital emergency nurses, frequently exposed to high-stress situations, are at risk for burnout and stress-related issues, affecting their overall well-being. The Professional Quality of Life (ProQoL) scale, widely used among hospital nurses, remains untested in pre-hospital emergency settings.

Aim: To adapt and validate the ProQoL scale for pre-hospital emergency contexts and explore the protective role of emotional intelligence in professional well-being.

Development and Validation of an Evidence-Based Home Pursed Lip Breathing Protocol for Improving Health Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Aim: To develop and validate an evidence-based home pursed lip breathing (PLB) intervention protocol for improving related health outcomes (e.g., dyspnea and exercise capability) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to present a detailed intervention development process.

Nurses' attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines: A qualitative study (PROACTIVE-study).

Aim: To explore the attitudes of healthcare workers towards COVID-19 vaccines.

Design: A qualitative descriptive design was used.

Methods: Five focus groups were conducted between October and November 2021, with a total of 30 nurses from different contexts in Northern Italy.

Protective and risk factors of workplace violence against nurses: A cross-sectional study.

Aims: To describe how workplace violence (WPV) is experienced by nurses in hospitals and community services and identify protective and risk factors.

Methods: An online cross-sectional national study was conducted from January to April 2021 in Italy. Hospitals and community services were involved in the study.

Essential elements nurses have to address to promote a safe discharge in paediatrics: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Aim: The aim of the study was to synthesize the evidence on the essential elements, nurses must address when they perform therapeutic education to patients and their caregivers to promote a safe paediatric hospital-to-home discharge.

Design: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Methods: The search strategy identifies studies published between 2016 and 2023.

Severe Loneliness and Isolation in Nursing Students during COVID-19 Lockdown: A Phenomenological Study.

In 2022, COVID-19 continued to spread across the globe, and to stop the spread of the virus and protect people's health, universities across China continued to remain in a lockdown state. Loneliness is an important topic among college students, and the coronavirus pandemic has exacerbated loneliness. This prolonged school lockdown was unprecedented and it caused severe social isolation and emotional loneliness for students.

What is known from the existing literature about how sleep is measured in HIV care? A scoping review.

The HIV care landscape has significantly altered over the past 30 years with advances in HIV medical treatment. Despite these medical advances, people living with HIV experience a significant number of issues that affect their health-related quality of life, including sleep. Although poor sleep quality is common, there remains a lack of understanding of how to identify sleep issues in order to improve outcomes for people living with HIV.

Effectiveness of non-surgical interventions to improve health and well-being in women living with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome: A systematic review.

Aim: The aim of this paper is to present the evidence on the effectiveness of non-surgical interventions to improve health and well-being in women living with Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser (MRKH) syndrome.

Design: Systematic review guided by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews checklist.

Data Sources: The search was conducted between June and September 2022 across the following databases: CINAHL, EMBASE, Medline, PsycINFO and Cochrane.

Informal carers' experiences with their children's care during hospitalization in Italy: Child HCAHPS results from RN4CAST@IT-Ped cross-sectional study.

Purpose: To examine informal carers' experiences during their child's hospitalization and evaluate the associations with care received and care context.

Design And Methods: What is described in this article is only a part of the larger study, RN4CAST@IT-Ped, a multicenter cross-sectional study, with multi-level data collection through convenience sampling, the Child Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey was used to collect data from informal carers of pediatric patients, applying the "top box" approach.

Results: Nine hospitals, 1472 nurses, and 635 children's parents were involved.

'Hearing silences': Exploring culturally safe transitional care: A qualitative study among Turkish-speaking migrant frail older adults.

Aims: This study aimed to investigate the experiences and transitional care needs of Turkish frail older adults living in the UK and determine how this information can be utilized to improve the provision of culturally sensitive care during the transitional period.

Design: Qualitative descriptive research with semi-structured individual interviews.

Methods: "The 'Silences' Framework guided the research design, from conceptualizing the research question to structuring the report of final outputs.

Journey for a cure: Illness narratives of obstetric fistula survivors in North Central Nigeria.

Obstetric fistula is a life transforming event resulting in embodied biographical disruption. Survivors suffer myriad long-term physical and emotional consequences. This paper is an account of a narrative inquiry, conducted with 15 fistula survivors in North-central, Nigeria, who described how their identities had been transformed by their condition.

Trajectory analysis of the work and life experience of healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal qualitative study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a global health threat and has had a profoundly negative impact on the work and lives of healthcare workers. However, few people know how their experiences have evolved over time.

Aims: To describe healthcare workers' experiences during clinical responses to COVID-19 and how they changed over time.

Effects of Serious Games for Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Systematic Literature Review.

Background: The use of serious games for rehabilitation has been an emerging intervention in health care fields, referred to as an entertaining and positive activity. Although related studies have been conducted on patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a more comprehensive study that summarizes and evaluates its effects in this area is needed.

Objective: This review aimed to systematically evaluate the effects of serious games in promoting rehabilitation and related outcome measures of serious game-based engagement in patients with COPD.

Effects of yoga on anxiety, pain, inflammatory and stress biomarkers in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: The most common surgical method of managing coronary artery disease is coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Stress, anxiety, and pain are commonly identified postoperative symptoms and are closely correlated to patient recovery.

Objective: The purpose of this review was to investigate the effects of yoga interventions on anxiety, pain, inflammatory and stress biomarkers in CABG surgery patients.

Transitional care of older ethnic minority patients: An integrative review.

Aims: To critically synthesize the empirical literature on practice in transitional care and how to meet the care needs of older ethnic minority populations who discharged from hospital to community.

Design: An integrative literature review integrating empirical studies using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.

Data Sources: PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, EBSCO (including CINAHL and MEDLINE) and Scopus were searched for papers published between 2012 and September 2022.

Validation of the Italian version of the SexContraKnow instrument.

Introduction: A large proportion of all pregnancies worldwide occur in young adolescent women, and almost all these pregnancies are unintentional. To address effective educational interventions, it is necessary to assess adolescents' literacy on this topic. The aim of this study was to translate and validate the Italian version of the SexContraKnow instrument.