Evaluation of Autonomic Nervous System Function During Sleep by Mindful Breathing Using a Tablet Device: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: One issue to be considered in universities is the need for interventions to improve sleep quality and educational systems for university students. However, sleep problems remain unresolved. As a clinical practice technique, a mindfulness-based stress reduction method can help students develop mindfulness skills to cope with stress, self-healing skills, and sleep.

Analysis of the status and content of consultations with a Cancer Consultation and Support Centre during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Purpose: Cancer Consultation and Support Centres (CCSCs) in Japan have been established at designated cancer hospitals nationwide and these centres provide information and consultation support for cancer care. The purpose of this study is to analyse the status and content of consultations during the COVID-19 pandemic using consultation record data from the Cancer Consultation Support Centre (CCSC) database from January 2020 to March 2021.

Methods: First, we examined the number and percentage of cases involving and not involving COVID-19 and compared the items of the entry forms between the groups.

Analysis of Gaze Information Patterns of Nurses Gathering Patient Information Using Electronic Health Records.

The objective of this study was to clarify gaze information patterns of nurses gathering patient information using electronic health records. We recorded the electronic health record screen on which nurses' gazes were presented using an eye tracker and analyzed the recorded images. The analysis revealed two types of gaze information patterns of nurses engaged in patient information gathering.

Development of a Systematic Approach to Consultation Record Data from Cancer Consultation and Support Centers.

The purpose of this study is to extract features and structure them using text mining and to analyze changes over time on consultation records accumulated in a cancer consultation and support center database from 2009 to 2018. The text-mining approach worked effectively under conditions of expanding data, and a co-occurrence network revealed patterns and trends in the content of consultations.

Paediatric HIV and elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the ASEAN region: a call to action.

Recent achievements in scaling up paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) have changed the life of children living with HIV, who now stay healthy and live longer lives. However, as it becomes more of a chronic infection, a range of new problems have begun to arise. These include the disclosure of HIV serostatus to children, adherence to ART, long-term toxicities of antiretroviral drugs and their sexual and reproductive health, which are posing significant challenges to the existing health systems caring for children with HIV with limited resources, experiences and capacities.

Impact of CRF01_AE-specific polymorphic mutations G335D and A371V in the connection subdomain of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) reverse transcriptase (RT) on susceptibility to nucleoside RT inhibitors.

Certain mutations in the connection subdomain and RNase H domain of reverse transcriptase (RT) of subtype B HIV-1 contribute to resistance to nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). However, the impact of non-B subtype polymorphisms in this region on drug resistance remains unclear. In this study, we determined the frequencies of drug resistance mutations of the entire RT in patients with treatment failure from a cohort of Circulating recombinant form (CRF) 01_AE HIV-1-infected patients in Hanoi, Viet Nam.

The development of the nursing action master file.

The nursing action master was developed through collecting terms used by the nurses. The nursing action terms were classified in 2 of the basics and specialty. The nursing action master consists of four hierarchical structures.

Profile of HIV type 1 infection and genotypic resistance mutations to antiretroviral drugs in treatment-naive HIV type 1-infected individuals in Hai Phong, Viet Nam.

We evaluated the prevalence and profile of antiretroviral treatment (ART)-associated resistance mutations among HIV-1 strains in northern Vietnam by genotypically analyzing strains isolated from ART-naive individuals in Hai Phong, a city in which HIV-1 is highly prevalent. Plasma samples were collected from injecting drug users (IDU, n = 760), female sex workers (FSW, n = 91), seafarers (n = 94), pregnant women (n = 200), and blood donors (n = 210), and screened for HIV-1 antibodies. Plasma viral RNA was extracted from HIV-1-positive samples, amplified by reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR of protease and RT genes, and analyzed for genotypes and ART-associated resistance mutations.

Evaluation of analytical studies of critical pathway variances in Japan.

In the last 10 years (1994-2004), the contents of original papers that examined critical pathway variances were analyzed. The results revealed that many research achievements were not applied to practically improving path variances as a result of insufficient coding of variances, and the use of coded data for statistical tests was limited. In order to obtain scientific evidence for evidence-based nursing, it is necessary to actively plan a research design for intentionally analyzing variance.

Effects of arsenic on younger generations.

Health risks caused by the chronic exposure to arsenic-contaminated groundwater has been recognized in many Asian and Latin American countries. While the health effects among adults have been well documented, those among the younger generations including children, infants, babies, and fetus have been scarcely reported. In this minireview, possible effects of chronic arsenic exposure on the younger generations are discussed in terms of skin manifestations among the children, exposure among newborns and infants especially from the breast milk, child growth and development, reproductive performance.