The Application of Emotion Valence Ratios in Facial Emotion Recognition for Detecting Depression Among Older Adults in Institutional Settings.

Developing evidence-based parameters to enhance the reliability of face emotion recognition (FER) systems in detecting depression among the elderly is essential. This study aims to elucidate the relationship between the ratio of each emotion valence captured by the FER system and heart rate variability (HRV) while participants watch a video in relation to their depression scores. YOLO, an open-source data analysis toolkit, was used to extract three facial emotion valence features (neutral, positive, and negative) and determine the ratio of each emotion valence over time during video viewing.

Physiological Biomarkers for Assessment of Pain during Routine Blood Tests for Older Adults with Dementia in Long-Term Residential Care.

Objective: Evaluating pain in individuals with dementia can be difficult when verbal communication is limited. Vocalization has emerged as a potential avenue for assessments of pain in nonverbal populations. This study aimed to evaluate if physiological assessments of vocalization were correlated with observational assessments of pain during routine blood tests for persons with dementia.

The experience of eating for older nursing home residents with dysphagia: A qualitative descriptive study.

Background: Understanding the experience of eating for nursing home residents with dysphagia is essential for developing effective and holistic compensatory intervention programmes for older adults with dysphagia. However, there is a lack of studies on the experience of eating for older adults with dysphagia, especially for individuals in Asian cultures.

Objectives: This study aimed to understand the experience of eating for older nursing home residents who have difficulty swallowing (dysphagia), which is often a problem for this population.

The effect of a web-based self-care instruction on symptom experience and quality of life in living liver donors: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: Living liver donors need help to manage symptom distress and improve their quality of life. This study aims to test the effectiveness of a web-based symptom self-care instruction on symptom experience and health-related quality of life of living liver donors.

Methods: This study was a randomized controlled trial.

Anxiety, pain intensity, and decision regret of living liver donors during postoperative period.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore and examine the relationship between anxiety, acute pain intensity, and decision regret of living liver donors in the postoperative stage.

Methods: This is a prospective correlational study. Data were collected consecutively for one year (from September 2017 to September 2018) at a medical center in northern Taiwan.

The impact of symptom distress on health-related quality of life in liver cancer patients receiving arterial chemoembolization: the mediating role of hope.

Background: Trans-hepatic arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a treatment option for liver cancer patients. It can prolong patients' survival but can also cause symptom distress. Symptom distress (SDs) can directly impact quality of life (QOL) and may indirectly influence QOL by lessening hope.

Depression in nursing home residents and its correlation with meaning of family involvement and depression of family.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between depression in older nursing home residents and family caregivers' (FCGs) depressive status and reasons for involvement with residents.

Design: This study employed a cross-sectional design.

Setting: Eight nursing homes in northern Taiwan.

Smart clothes-assisted home-nursing care program for family caregivers of older persons with dementia and hip fracture: a mixed-methods study.

Background: The purpose of this preliminary study was to explore whether a smart clothes-assisted home-nursing care program could benefit family caregivers and their care recipients.

Methods: Family caregivers in charge of a care recipient's living situation participated in this convergent parallel, mixed methods study. We recruited older persons with dementia (n = 7) and those discharged following hip-fracture surgery (n = 6) from neurological clinics and surgical wards of a medical center, respectively, along with their family caregivers: three spouses, eight sons, one daughter, and one daughter-in-law.

Functional Status in Older Persons After Hip Fracture Surgery: A Longitudinal Study of Indonesian Patients.

Background: Hip fractures are one of the most serious injuries affecting older adults. Evidence-based knowledge regarding the functional status of older persons after hip fracture can provide information critical for developing effective continuous-care and rehabilitation programs.

Purpose: This study was developed to examine the post-hospital-discharge outcome measures and predictors of functional status in older adults in Indonesia after hip fracture surgery.

Sailing in a sea of perplexity: Family caregivers' experience of patients with delirium.

Background: Family caregivers play an important role for patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), and delirium is a common clinical syndrome. Little is known about the experiences of family caregivers when a relative is a patient with delirium, especially for caregivers in Asian cultures.

Aims And Objective: To understand the experience of family caregivers with a family member as a patient with delirium in the ICU in Taiwan.

Motivations for Family Members' Visits to Nursing Home Residents With Dementia in Taiwan: A Qualitative Study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore what motivates family members to visit a relative with dementia who has been transferred to a nursing home in Taiwan.

Design And Methods: Data were collected for this qualitative descriptive study using audiotaped, semi-structured, in-depth, face-to-face interviews. A total of 20 family members of elderly nursing home residents participated in the study.

Effectiveness of laptop-based versus smartphone-based videoconferencing interaction on loneliness, depression and social support in nursing home residents: A secondary data analysis.

Introduction: The worldwide coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic re-emphasises the importance of videoconferencing in supporting interactions between nursing home residents and their family and friends. However, there is a scarcity of comparative studies on how modalities of conferencing programs impact health outcomes. The purpose of this study was to compare laptop-based with smartphone-based videoconferencing programs on nursing home residents' perceptions of loneliness, depressive symptoms and social support.

Rethinking potentially inappropriate medication use in nursing homes within the Chinese population.

This study aimed to understand the prevalence of Chinese medicine and other potentially inappropriate medications and to examine if there are relationships with emergency room visits, hospital admissions, and falls in a Chinese nursing home population. This cross-sectional descriptive study was a secondary analysis of data from 531 nursing home residents in Taiwan. Cox proportional hazard regression models were used in the analysis.

"Tailoring homely meals": Family members' motivations underlying nursing home visits during residents' meals.

Aim: Elderly nursing home residents are often malnourished or at risk of malnutrition. Family members often visit residents during mealtimes, which might be an ideal opportunity for interventions targeted at improving the nutritional status of older residents. Therefore, this study aimed to explore motivations behind family member visits with nursing home residents during mealtime in Taiwan.

Effects of a smartphone-based videoconferencing program for older nursing home residents on depression, loneliness, and quality of life: a quasi-experimental study.

Background: Smartphones can optimize the opportunities for interactions between nursing home residents and their families. However, the effectiveness of smartphone-based videoconferencing programs in enhancing emotional status and quality of life has not been explored. The purpose of this study was to evaluate of the effect of a smartphone-based videoconferencing program on nursing home residents' feelings of loneliness, depressive symptoms and quality of life.

Pain Quality by Location in Outpatients with Cancer.

Background: The McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) pain quality descriptors have been analyzed to characterize the sensory, affective, and evaluative domains of pain, but have not been differentiated by pain location.

Aim: To examine MPQ pain quality descriptors by pain location in outpatients with lung or prostate cancer.

Design: Cross sectional.

Predictors of decision ambivalence and the differences between actual living liver donors and potential living liver donors.

Background: The decision to become a living liver donor is a stressful event. Ambivalence in decision making may result in psychological distress. Thus, the purpose of this study was to provide a description of the ambivalence of potential living liver donors, to examine the predictors of ambivalence, and to compare the ambivalence of potential living liver donors with that of actual living liver donors.

Development, validation and testing of a nursing home to emergency room transfer checklist.

Aims And Objectives: To develop and test the feasibility of an instrument to support patients' nursing home to emergency room transfer.

Background: Transfers from a nursing home care facility to an acute care facility such as a hospital emergency room are common. However, the prevalence of an information gap for transferring residents' health data to acute care facility is high.

Advance directives and mortality rates among nursing home residents in Taiwan: A retrospective, longitudinal study.

Background: No data-based evidence is available regarding the best time for nursing home nurses to obtain residents' signatures on advance directives, especially for do-not-resuscitate directives, the most common type of advance directive. This information is needed to enhance the low prevalence of advance directives in Asian countries.

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to understand (1) the timing between nursing home admission and signing a do-not-resuscitate directive, (2) the factors related to having a do-not-resuscitate directive, and (3) the association between having a do-not-resuscitate directive and nursing home residents' mortality in Taiwan.

Repeated Hospital Transfers and Associated Outcomes by Residency Time Among Nursing Home Residents in Taiwan.

Background: Nursing home residents' repeated transfers to hospital are costly and can lead to in-hospital complications and high mortality for frail residents. However, no research has examined the trajectory of residents' symptoms over their nursing home residency and its relationship to hospital transfer.

Aim: The purpose of this retrospective chart-review study was to examine associations between nursing home residents' characteristics, including length of residency, and repeated hospital transfers as well as the trajectory of transfers during residency.

Nursing home nurses' experiences of resident transfers to the emergency department: no empathy for our work environment difficulties.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the experiences of nursing home nurses when they transfer residents from nursing homes to the emergency department in Taiwan.

Background: The transfer of residents between nursing homes and emergency departments challenges continuity of care. Understanding nursing home nurses' experiences during these transfers may help to improve residents' continuity of care.

Attitudes Toward and Predictors of Videoconferencing Use Among Frequent Family Visitors to Nursing Home Residents in Taiwan.

Background: Videoconferencing with family members benefits nursing home residents by decreasing their depression and loneliness. Nevertheless, the rate of participation in videoconferencing by family members is low. The purpose of this study was to explore attitudes toward and factors related to videoconferencing by family visitors to nursing home residents in Taiwan.

More than communication skills: experiences of communication conflict in nursing home nurses.

Context: Communication conflicts are inevitable in nursing homes. Understanding communication conflicts experienced by practising nurses could provide insights to guide the development of sound communication education programmes.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of nurses in nursing homes of communication conflict in encounters with nursing home residents and their families in Taiwan.