A path analysis investigation into menopausal osteoporosis, sarcopenia risk, and their impact on sleep quality, depressive symptoms and quality of life.

Purpose: The objective was to investigate the relationships among disease characteristics, sarcopenia risk, bone function, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and health-related quality of life in menopausal women. Additionally, we also examined the potential mediating role of coping in the relationship between these factors and health outcomes for individuals with osteoporosis.

Methods: In a cross-sectional approach, 201 participants were referred by a physician from the Family Medicine Department during their outpatient visits at a general hospital in Southern Taiwan.

Predictors of success in the registered nurse licensure exam for nursing graduates whose education was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on health-care education. However, the relationship between changes in nursing internships in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic and outcome in the national registered nurse (RN) licensure exam for new nursing graduates is underexplored. The study was to explore the predictors of first-attempt success in the RN licensure exam in 2022.

Nurses' perspectives on the application of humanistic anatomical knowledge in clinical practice.

Knowledge of human anatomy is vital for nurses. Medical educators use a variety of educational pedagogies, including the use of cadavers, to cultivate nursing students into competent and professional care providers and to help them gain authentic experience and knowledge before entering the workplace. Studies have provided numerous examples of students with positive learning experiences in human-centric (humanistic) anatomy courses; however, whether these positive experiences translate into effective clinical practice remains largely unknown.

Elaiophylin triggers paraptosis and preferentially kills ovarian cancer drug-resistant cells by inducing MAPK hyperactivation.

Finely tuned mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling is important for cancer cell survival. Perturbations that push cells out of the MAPK fitness zone result in cell death. Previously, in a screen of the North China Pharmaceutical Group Corporation's pure compound library of microbial origin, we identified elaiophylin as an autophagy inhibitor.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy plus Coping Management for Depression and Anxiety on Improving Sleep Quality and Health for Patients with Breast Cancer.

Cancer-related treatments may lead to side effects that undermine a patients' quality of life (QOL). Although cognitive behavioral therapy plus coping management (CBTM) may appear to improve health-related QOL in cancer patients, limited documentation exists on the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions for patients with breast cancer (BC) during recovery. The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of CBTM for sleep quality, anxiety, depression, and health among patients with BC.

Effects of an earplug placement intervention on sleep quality in patients in a medical intensive care unit: A randomized controlled trial.

Aims: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of an intervention involving earplug placement during nocturnal sleep in non-ventilated intensive care unit patients.

Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 107 adult patients between January 2017 and December 2018. Participants in the intervention group (n = 55) slept with earplugs between 10 pm and 7 am on the second night of their intensive care unit stay.

CHD1L promotes EOC cell invasiveness and metastasis via the regulation of METAP2.

Chromodomain helicase DNA binding protein 1-like (CHD1L) gene has been proposed to play an oncogenic role in human hepatocellular carcinoma. Previously we reported that CHD1L overexpression is significantly associated with the metastasis proceeding of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), and may predict a poor prognosis in EOC patients. However, the potential oncogenic mechanisms by which CHD1L acts in EOC remain unclear.

The influence of humanised anatomical pedagogy on psychophysiological responses and academic achievement in nursing students.

Anatomy, a fundamental subject in nursing education, provides students with knowledge of human structure and function. The study was to explore the influence of humanised anatomy educational method on nursing students' psychophysiological responses and academic achievement to human anatomy using cadavers, and to examine the correlations between the students' characteristics (such as gender), psychophysiological responses, and academic achievement in anatomy. A correlational study design was adopted.

Resilience and coping styles as predictors of health outcomes in breast cancer patients: A structural equation modelling analysis.

Introduction: Resilience has been associated with psychological adaptation to many threatening life events, but previous studies have rarely analysed the integrated relationships among demographic and disease characteristics and various health outcomes in Taiwan. This study examined the associations among demographic factors, disease characteristics, resilience, coping styles and adverse health outcomes, including anxiety and depressive symptoms and sleep disorders.

Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study design was used.

Effects of individual characteristics on insomnia severity trajectory among nurses: A prospective longitudinal study.

Aims: To examine the longitudinal effects of individual characteristics on the change pattern of insomnia and the association of occupational stress with insomnia over time in newly graduated nurses.

Background: The association between individual factors and insomnia in nurses is inconclusive. Longitudinal research on insomnia in newly graduated nurses is limited.

Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives: A Multimedia Education Program in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.

This -based evaluated the efficacy of a 4-week multimedia educational intervention followed by telephone consultations at Weeks 12 and 24 on the selection of a hospice program for end-of-life care and completion of an advance directive (AD) in case of future advanced dementia. One hundred twenty-three cognitively intact older adults from five community centers in Taiwan were randomly assigned to two groups. The study showed that 100% of participants in the intervention group (two community centers, = 52) selected hospice program care for end-of-life care and signed ADs, whereas those in the control group were less likely to do both ( < .

Insomnia and its associated factors in incarcerated adults: A cross-sectional study.

No evidence exists in the literature concerning the prevalence of insomnia and its associated risk factors among prison inmates in Taiwan. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with insomnia among inmates in a large prison in Taiwan. A cross-sectional anonymous questionnaire survey was conducted at a prison.

Relationships among personality, coping, and concurrent health-related quality of life in women with breast cancer.

Background: Theory has suggested that personality plays an important role related to health behavior and results in health outcomes, but inconsistent with the findings exist. Moreover, limited research has focused on style of coping with personality traits and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for patients with breast cancer. We tested how ways of coping and personality traits are associated with HRQOL in patients with breast cancer, after controlling for age, education, disease severity, and sleep disorders.

Nursing Students' Perceptions of a Silent Mentor Program in an Anatomy Course.

Anatomy is a core course in undergraduate nursing curriculum. In today's nursing profession, the integration of biosciences and humanities is increasingly emphasized. Anatomy is considered one of the most essential bioscience subjects for nursing practice.

Retrospectively investigating the 12-year experience of prenatal diagnosis of small supernumerary marker chromosomes through array comparative genomic hybridization.

Objective: This study retrospectively evaluated the incidences of small supernumerary marker chromosomes (sSMCs) in prenatal diagnoses and detected with gain of pathogenic copy number variation through array comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) in a laboratory in Taiwan.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively searched and reviewed the sSMC cases detected during prenatal diagnoses in the Youthgene medical laboratory, between 2004 and 2015 and used array CGH to successfully analyze 45 of 47,XN,+mar or 47,XN + mar/46,XN.

Results: A total of 68,087 cases of amniocentesis were analyzed, of which 59 were identified as sSMCs.

Use of integrative medicine approaches for treating adults with sleep disturbances.

Aim: This study determined the prevalence, perceived efficacy, and influencing factors and evaluated the sources of information as well as the barriers and facilitators for the use of integrative medicine approaches (IMA) within the previous 12 months to treat adults with sleep disturbances.

Background: No studies have assessed the use of integrative medicine approaches in adults with sleep disturbances.

Methods: A cross-sectional postal survey was conducted.

Factors associated with the teaching of sleep hygiene to patients in nursing students.

Teaching patients about sleep hygiene is a common practice in nursing. This study investigated the relationships of nursing students' sleep quality, sleep knowledge, and attitudes toward sleep hygiene with the teaching of sleep hygiene to patients with sleep disorders. A descriptive correlational design was adopted to investigate 258 nursing students from 2 nursing schools in different regions of Taiwan.

Effects of music and music video interventions on sleep quality: A randomized controlled trial in adults with sleep disturbances.

Objectives: The present study aimed to compare the effects of music and music video interventions on objective and subjective sleep quality in adults with sleep disturbances.

Design: A randomized controlled trial was performed on 71 adults who were recruited from the outpatient department of a hospital with 1100 beds and randomly assigned to the control, music, and music video groups.

Interventions: During the 4 test days (Days 2-5), for 30min before nocturnal sleep, the music group listened to Buddhist music and the music video group watched Buddhist music videos.

Differences Between Sleep Logs and Actigraphy Combined With Electroencephalography in Adults With Sleep Disturbances.

Background: Actigraphy plus single-channel electroencephalography (EEG) has a high agreement with polysomnography and is considered a simple method for monitoring sleep at home. No studies, however, have evaluated its agreement with sleep logs.

Purpose: A sleep log was compared to a single-channel EEG in adults with sleep disturbances.

Depression and Health-Related Quality of Life and Their Association With Resourcefulness in Survivors of Prostate Cancer.

Objective: This study aimed to identify the determinants of depressive symptoms (DSs) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in survivors of prostate cancer (PC).

Methods: This study used a descriptive, correlational design to assess a sample of 133 individuals with PC. The participants were face-to-face interviewed to collect demographic data and disease characteristics, assess self-control schedule, and survey health status.

Comparing the effects of music and exercise with music for older adults with insomnia.

Aim: To examine the effects of a soothing music intervention before bedtime and a treadmill brisk walking exercise combined with music in the evening on sleep quality of sedentary older adults with chronic insomnia.

Background: There is evidence to support the use of complementary interventions to improve sleep. They are rarely applied in Taiwanese elderly population.

Effect of Stimulative and Sedative Music Videos on Depressive Symptoms and Physiological Relaxation in Older Adults: A Pilot Study.

Music has been found to improve depressive symptoms and relaxation. However, few studies related to this issue have been conducted using music videos (MVs). The aim was to compare the effects of stimulative and sedative MVs on depressive symptoms and physiological relaxation (i.

The Effectiveness of Cupping Therapy on Relieving Chronic Neck and Shoulder Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

The research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cupping therapy (CT) in changes on skin surface temperature (SST) for relieving chronic neck and shoulder pain (NSP) among community residents. A single-blind experimental design constituted of sixty subjects with self-perceived NSP. The subjects were randomly allocated to two groups.

Effects of motivational enhancement therapy plus cognitive behaviour therapy on depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life in adults with type II diabetes mellitus: a randomised controlled trial.

Objective: This paper evaluates the effectiveness of motivational enhancement therapy plus cognitive behavioural therapy on depressive symptoms, glycosylated haemoglobin, fasting glucose, body mass index (BMI), and health-related quality of life in type II diabetes patients.

Methods: A controlled trial was conducted to compare patients who received the behavioural intervention with untreated controls on measures of health outcomes. A total of 31 intervention group participants and 30 controls were selected from patients that met the inclusion criteria from a hospital-based endocrinology outpatient department.