Publications by authors named "Mingling Zhu"

Aim: To explore the effects of demographic characteristics, mental workload, and Adversity quotient (AQ) on the job engagement of nurses in East China.

Design: A quantitative and cross-sectional study.

Method: The survey collected questionnaire data on mental workload, adversity quotient, and job engagement from 473 nurses selected working in 12 Grade-A tertiary hospitals based on informed consent in East China between July 2020 and March 2021.

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Objective: To explore the psychological experiences of university students in prolonged quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: A qualitative descriptive study based on semistructured interviews; data were analysed using a thematic topic analysis approach.

Setting: Interviews were conducted via WeChat video.

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Background: Nursing work is a work with high-stress load, and nurses with different personality may have different subjective feelings about their workload. Therefore, it is particularly necessary to comprehend the perceived professional benefits of nurses engaged in nursing work under high-pressure background, especially during the epidemic period. This study explored the relationship between mental workload, personality, and perceived professional benefits of nurses, and offer advices for the intervention of nurses with different personality to improve their perceived professional benefits.

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Background: With the expansion of professional degree graduate students' enrollment in China education, the mental health of these professional degree graduate students in medical-related majors who are under pressure of study, scientific research, clinical practice, and employment should not be ignored. What is the mental health level of these graduate students under the effect of learning career adaptation (internal resources) in the face of daily stress (external factors)? The purpose of this study is to discuss the relationship between these variables, and the mediating role of learning career adaptation of professional degree graduate students in traditional Chinese medicine colleges, and universities, to provide a theoretical basis for improving the learning career adaptation of students, and improving the level of mental health.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1593 professional degree graduate students majoring in clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and nursing in five traditional Chinese medicine universities.

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Background: In recent years, self-regulated learning (SRL) has become a hot topic in medical education. However, the factors that affect the SRL ability of medical-related specialties, such as clinical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and nursing specialty in TCM colleges and universities are unclear. Whether the teaching of learning strategies can help improve students' SRL also needs to be further examined.

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Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), one of the motor neuron diseases, appears to be caused by genetic and environmental risk factors. However, the influence of Pro34Ser variant of CHCHD10 gene in increasing risk of ALS remains indeterminate. This study conducted a meta-analysis to establish the association between Pro34Ser variant of CHCHD10 gene and risk of ALS.

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