Psychometric Properties of the Brief COPE Among Sexual Minority Adults.

Background: The Brief COPE is a widely used coping instrument, but there is a paucity of research regarding its ability to measure coping among sexual minority (SM) persons.

Objective: This study determined the psychometric properties of the Brief COPE and identified coping domains among a sample of SM individuals.

Methods: An online survey was conducted with 530 SM persons in the United States.

Tailoring Household Disaster Preparedness Interventions to Reduce Health Disparities: Nursing Implications from Machine Learning Importance Features from the 2018-2020 FEMA National Household Survey.

Tailored disaster preparedness interventions may be more effective and equitable, yet little is known about specific factors associated with disaster household preparedness for older adults and/or those with African American/Black identities. This study aims to ascertain differences in the importance features of machine learning models of household disaster preparedness for four groups to inform culturally tailored intervention recommendations for nursing practice. A machine learning model was developed and tested by combining data from the 2018, 2019, and 2020 .

Evaluating barriers and facilitators to healthcare providers' use of an emergency department electronic referral portal for high-risk children with asthma using the Theoretical Domains Framework.

Objective: Urban children with asthma are at risk for frequent emergency department (ED) visits and suboptimal asthma management. ED visits provide an opportunity for referrals to community-based asthma management services. Electronic medical record-based referral portals have been shown to improve quality of care but use of these portals by healthcare providers (HCPs) is variable.

Sensitivity Analysis: A Method to Promote Certainty and Transparency in Nursing and Health Research.

Nursing and health researchers may be presented with uncertainty regarding the utilization or legitimacy of methodological or analytic decisions. Sensitivity analyses are purposed to gain insight and certainty about the validity of research findings reported. Reporting guidelines and health research methodologists have emphasized the importance of utilizing and reporting sensitivity analyses in clinical research.

Bicycle handlebar injuries - a systematic review of pediatric chest and abdominal injuries.

Objective: The severity of handlebar injuries can be overlooked due to subtle signs and wide range of associated internal injuries. Our objective was to describe thoracoabdominal injuries due to bicycle handlebars and their outcomes in children.

Methods: Articles that reported thoracoabdominal injuries were identified from database conception to March 3, 2019 using PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, CINHAHL Complete, Web of Science and Scopus.

Minor head injury transfers: Trends and outcomes.

Background: Children with traumatic head injury are often transferred from community Emergency Departments (ED) to a Pediatric Emergency Department (PED). The primary objective of this study was to describe the outcomes of minor head injury (MHI) transfers to a PED. The secondary objective was to report Computed Tomography (CT) utilization rates for MHI.

Pediatric minor head injury related return visits to the emergency department and their outcome.

Background: Minor head injury (MHI) in children is a common emergency department (ED) presentation. It is well established that majority of these patients don't require imaging and can be safely discharged. What is less known is how often these children come back to the ED and the outcome of their revisits? The objective of this study was to describe the frequency and outcome of unscheduled return visits (RVs) for MHI in a pediatric ED.

Factors associated with avoidable interhospital transfers for children with a minor head injury.

Introduction: Children with minor head injuries (MHI) are routinely transferred to a pediatric trauma center for definitive care. Unwarranted transfers result in minimal benefit to the patient and add substantially to healthcare costs. The purpose of this study is to explore the factors associated with avoidable interhospital transfers of children with MHI.

Testing the utility of the newest vital sign (NVS) health literacy assessment tool in older African-American patients.

Objective: To evaluate utility of the newest vital sign (NVS) which can be completed in 3min compared to the short version test of functional literacy in adults (S-TOFHLA) that takes 7min for health literacy in the older African American patients.

Methods: We enrolled 62 older (age>65 years) African American patients and administered the NVS and the S-TOFHLA. A score of less than 4 for the NVS and less than 16 for the S-TOFHLA was indicative of limited health literacy.

Variable length tandem repeat polyglutamine sequences in the flexible tether region of the Tsr chemotaxis receptor of Escherichia coli.

Methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins (MCPs) are receptors that play an important role in bacterial chemotaxis. Methylation of Tsr, the MCP that mediates chemotaxis towards serine in Escherichia coli, is thought to be facilitated by binding of the methyltransferase to a flexible tether region at the C-terminal end of Tsr. This study analysed natural length variants of the tether that occur in E.