AC-DC Electropenetrography for the Study of Probing and Ingestion Behaviors of Culex tarsalis Mosquitoes on Human Hands.

Mosquitoes transmit pathogens that negatively affect human and animal health. A greater understanding of their blood-feeding biology and interactions with hosts and pathogens could be exploited to develop new targets for controlling mosquito-borne diseases. Unfortunately, probing (i.

Developing a Pilot Curriculum to Enhance Undergraduate Student Well-Being.

Background: The purpose of this article is to describe the development and implementation of a program to improve well-being in undergraduate students and promote positive transitions into the workplace. College students experience anxiety, depression, and impaired coping, which were exacerbated during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. As students transition into their career, it is imperative they develop positive coping strategies and resiliency to manage workplace stress.

Examining efficacy and potential mechanisms of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for anxiety and stress reduction among college students in a cluster-randomized controlled trial.

The pervasiveness of anxiety and stress among college students necessitates the investigation of potential alternative and accessible interventions which can be implemented into existing curricular and student-support programming to improve students' mental health. Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) smartphone applications have shown promising outcomes in alleviating anxiety and stress. However, it is essential to gain insight into the feasibility and efficacy of such an interventional approach in a collegiate population, as well as explore potential underlying mechanisms, which could be better targeted to enhance the efficacy of future interventions for promoting mental health and well-being.

Velocity coding in the central brain of bumblebees.

Moving animals experience wide-field optic flow due to the displacement of the retinal image during motion. These cues provide information about self-motion and are important for flight control and stabilization, and for more complex tasks like path integration. Although in honeybees and bumblebees the use of wide-field optic flow in behavioral tasks is well investigated, little is known about the underlying neuronal processing of these cues.

Outdoor physical activity is not associated with better mental health in a sample of predominantly Black people, but spending time in parks is.

Spending time outdoors may bolster mental health via relaxation and physical activity. Yet, most studies use self-report and involve majority White samples from higher income areas. Findings may not hold true using device-derived measurement, among minoritized participants, or in low-income neighborhoods.

Surveillance of Youth Sports Participation in the United States: Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions.

Purpose: National surveillance of behaviors, including physical activity and sport can provide insight with respect to population-level trends. The purpose of this investigation was to characterize the existing sources of surveillance for organized youth sport participation in the United States and highlight knowledge gaps.

Methods: We identified nationally representative and free publicly available surveillance data from 2012 to 2022 and report the prevalence of sport participation, the number of sports in which youth participated, and in which specific sports youth participated overall, and by demographic characteristics.

Screen time, sleep duration, leisure physical activity, obesity, and cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents: a cross-lagged 2-year study.

Background: Considering the previous research that suggested that screen time (ST), sleep duration, physical activity (PA), obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors are related, it is essential to identify how these variables are associated over time, to provide knowledge for the development of intervention strategies to promote health in pediatric populations. Also, there is a lack of studies examining these associations longitudinally. The aims of the present study were: (1) to investigate the longitudinal relationships between ST, sleep duration, leisure PA, body mass index (BMI), and cardiometabolic risk score (cMetS) in children and adolescents; and (2) to verify scores and prevalence of cMetS risk zones at baseline and follow-up.

Polarized light detection in bumblebees varies with light intensity and is mediated by both the ocelli and compound eyes.

Like many insects, bumblebees use polarized light (PL) to orient and navigate. The celestial PL pattern is strongest when the sun is close to the horizon, during the dim light of dawn and dusk. In the dim light, the sensitivity of the compound eyes may not be sufficient for detecting PL or landmarks, and it has previously been hypothesized that bumblebees rely on PL from their more sensitive ocelli to navigate at dawn and dusk.

Sex differences in mobility recovery after hip fracture: a time series analysis.

Introduction: Sex differences are commonly reported for hip fracture incidence rates and recovery. Current knowledge about mobility recovery after hip fracture involves clinical assessments of physical capacity or patient-reported outcomes. Information on mobility performance during daily life is missing but relevant to evaluate patients' recovery.

Measuring treatment impacts on symptoms in adults with hypoparathyroidism: findings from the PaTHway trial.

Background: Hypoparathyroidism is a rare endocrine disease frequently associated with serious physical and cognitive symptoms. This study's purpose was to understand the impacts of the phase 3 PaTHway clinical trial treatment, TransCon PTH, on patients' overall, physical, and cognitive hypoparathyroidism signs/symptoms and what patients consider meaningful improvement.

Methods: Individual telephone exit interviews were conducted with patients who recently completed the PaTHway trial blinded period.

Looking Back to Advance Equity in Psychiatric Nursing: Strategies for the Classroom and for Practice.

With deep historical roots in psychiatry, structural racism persists in psychiatric nursing today. Psychiatric nurses may hold implicit biases and stereotypical beliefs that influence how they perceive, assess, and interact with people from different racial backgrounds, leading to discrimination, poor treatment, and misdiagnosis. To eliminate discrimination in clinical care and diversify the workforce, there is an urgent need to integrate teaching and learning strategies that address influences of racism and racial identity in psychiatric nursing education.

Quantifying time spent outdoors: A versatile method using any type of global positioning system (GPS) and accelerometer devices.

Spending time outdoors is associated with increased time spent in physical activity, lower chronic disease risk, and wellbeing. Many studies rely on self-reported measures, which are prone to recall bias. Other methods rely on features and functions only available in some GPS devices.

Dietary Quality Evidenced by the Healthy Eating Index and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Kuwaiti Schoolchildren.

Background: Poor dietary quality is associated with adiposity and other risks of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in children. In Kuwait, although children's food choices are a concern, no studies have evaluated dietary quality relative to the risk of CVD in Kuwaiti schoolchildren. This study hypothesized that dietary quality using the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is associated with CVD risk factors in children and that there are associated sex differences.

Integrating substance use peer support and screening brief intervention and referral to treatment services in the emergency department: a descriptive study of the ED leads program.

Background: The ED Leads program was introduced to 11 emergency departments (EDs) within New York City public hospitals from 2018 to 2019 to address a need for addiction support services in the ED. The purpose of this study is to (i) describe the ED Leads blended licensed-clinician and peer counselor team model in the ED at three hospitals, (ii) provide a descriptive analysis of patient engagement and referrals to substance use disorder (SUD) care post-intervention, and (iii) highlight potential barriers and facilitators to implementing the model.

Methods: The program intended to combine Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment and peer support services.

Benefits of Meeting the Healthy People 2030 Youth Sports Participation Target.

Introduction: Healthy People 2030, a U.S. government health initiative, has indicated that increasing youth sports participation to 63.

Systematic review of best practices for GPS data usage, processing, and linkage in health, exposure science and environmental context research.

Unlabelled: Global Positioning System (GPS) technology is increasingly used in health research to capture individual mobility and contextual and environmental exposures. However, the tools, techniques and decisions for using GPS data vary from study to study, making comparisons and reproducibility challenging.

Objectives: The objectives of this systematic review were to (1) identify best practices for GPS data collection and processing; (2) quantify reporting of best practices in published studies; and (3) discuss examples found in reviewed manuscripts that future researchers may employ for reporting GPS data usage, processing and linkage of GPS data in health studies.

Aspects of Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Adults with Cerebral Palsy.

Physical activity and sedentary behavior may differentially impact health-related quality of life in adults with cerebral palsy. The present investigation assessed the independent relationships between aspects of physical activity and sedentary behavior related to health related quality of life in adults with cerebral palsy. Through a cross-sectional online survey of 118 adults with cerebral palsy, participants self-reported the extent of their functional impairments using the Gross Motor Function Classification System, Manual Ability Classification System, and Communication Function Classification System; while mental and physical health-related quality of life were assessed using the RAND-36.

[Cooperation of geriatrics and trauma surgery in certified geriatric trauma centers : Insights into different care models and the implementation of requirements resulting from certification].

Background: In Germany, different models of orthogeriatric co-management have been implemented in certified geriatric trauma centers. So far, it is not clear how the different models are implemented and what influence the certification has on the structures and processes within the centers. The present study examined the extent of cooperation between surgery and geriatrics and if the quality of care had changed since the certification of the centers.

Optimizing workflow of urgent stroke endovascular intervention: A focused lean six sigma project.

Introduction: Urgent endovascular intervention is currently accepted as the primary and critical therapeutic approach to patients whose acute ischemic stroke results from a large arterial occlusion (LAO). In this context, one of the quality metrics most widely applied to the assessment of emergency systems performance is the "door-to-puncture" (D-P) time. We undertook a project to identify the subinterval of the D-P metric causing the most impact on workflow delays and created a narrowly focused project on improving such subinterval.

Sociodemographic disparities in sedentary time among US youth vary by period of the day.

Introduction: Studies have reported sex and race/ethnicity disparities in sedentary time (ST), but none have evaluated ST by well-defined periods of the weekday (before school, during school, afterschool, and evening) and weekend day (morning, afternoon, and evening). Comparing sex and race/ethnicity disparities in ST at different periods of a weekday and weekend day can deepen our understanding of disparities and inform intervention efforts. This study tests sex and race/ethnicity disparities in ST by period of day in a representative sample of US youth.

Intervention to increase physical activity and healthy eating among under-represented adolescents: GOAL trial protocol.

Introduction: To reduce obesity-related disparities, reaching economically disadvantaged and/or minority status adolescents to assist them in meeting physical activity (PA) and nutrition recommendations is important. To address the problem, a 16-week intervention called Guys/Girls Opt for Activities for Life (GOAL) was designed. The purpose of this randomised controlled trial is to evaluate any effect of the intervention, compared with a control condition, on improving: (1) adolescents' % body fat (primary outcome), moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA), diet quality and cardiorespiratory fitness from 0 to 4 months; (2) body mass index (BMI), overweight/obesity percentage and quality of life from 0 to 4 months and to 13 months; and (3) perceived social support, self-efficacy and motivation from 0 to 4 months with evaluation of any mediating effect on adolescent PA and diet quality.

Hospital-based caregiver intervention for people following hip fracture surgery (HIP HELPER): multicentre randomised controlled feasibility trial with embedded qualitative study in England.

Objectives: To assess the feasibility of conducting a pragmatic, multicentre randomised controlled trial (RCT) to test the clinical and cost-effectiveness of an informal caregiver training programme to support the recovery of people following hip fracture surgery.

Design: Two-arm, multicentre, pragmatic, open, feasibility RCT with embedded qualitative study.

Setting: National Health Service (NHS) providers in five English hospitals.

Perspectives of informal caregivers who support people following hip fracture surgery: a qualitative study embedded within the HIP HELPER feasibility trial.

Objectives: This study aims to illuminate the perspectives of informal caregivers who support people following hip fracture surgery.

Design: A qualitative study embedded within a now completed multicentre, feasibility randomised controlled trial (HIP HELPER).

Setting: Five English National Health Service hospitals.