Motivation to train during a pandemic: The role of fitness resources, mental health, and motivational profiles among student-athletes in team sports.

The sporting season across post-secondary institutions was canceled in March 2020 due to COVID-19, and student-athletes had to maintain their training at home. It is unclear what personal and contextual factors facilitated student-athletes' ability to maintain their training routines at home when social distancing and lockdown (SD/L) policies were put in place. Our cross-sectional study of 433 student-athletes examined (a) how athletes adapted their training, (b) what training barriers they experienced, (c) whether motivational profiles were associated with differences in training behaviors and mental health, and (d) what variables predicted athletes' motivation to train during this prolonged offseason.

How are the kids holding up? A systematic review and meta-analysis on the psychosocial impact of maternal breast cancer on children.

Background: Having a mother diagnosed with breast cancer can be a distressing time for a child. This review examines the impact maternal breast cancer has on the psychosocial functioning of children and what factors possibly moderate this relationship.

Methods: Using PRISMA guidelines, five electronic databases were systematically searched for published studies examining maternal breast cancer and the psychosocial functioning of children.

"A gift wrapped in barbed wire" positive and negative life changes after being diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease.

Purpose: A growing interest in posttraumatic growth among individuals who have experienced a traumatic event has given rise to measures such as the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI; Tedeschi and Calhoun, 1996). However, such measures may not fully represent all dimensions of change among individuals diagnosed with a chronic disease and fail to highlight the negative changes that may also occur. This study explores the positive and negative changes patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have experienced since diagnosis.

Patient compliance with telephone triage recommendations: a meta-analytic review.

Objective: To systematically investigate the extent to which patients comply with triage advice from telenurses and to identify factors that potentially influence compliance.

Methods: Findings from 13 studies identified through interdisciplinary research databases (1990-2010) were meta-analyzed. Separate pooled analyses compared patients' compliance rates for emergency services and office care (13 outcomes), emergency services and self care (13 outcomes), and self care and office care (12 outcomes).

An exploratory study of parents' use and knowledge of car safety seats in Beijing, China.

As the number of vehicles in China rapidly increases and there is no child safety seat law, the issue of road safety for children is a growing concern. The purpose of this study was to examine parents' use and knowledge of car safety seats in Beijing, China. Using a convenience sample of 843 parents, survey results showed that only 64.

Nurses' experiences with telephone triage and advice: a meta-ethnography.

Aims: This study is a meta-ethnography of nurses' experiences with telephone triage and advice and factors that facilitate or impede their decision-making process.

Background: Telephone triage and advice services are a rapidly expanding development in health care. Unlike traditional forms of nursing practice, telenurses offer triage recommendations and advice to the general public without visual cues.

Reporting practices in confirmatory factor analysis: an overview and some recommendations.

Reporting practices in 194 confirmatory factor analysis studies (1,409 factor models) published in American Psychological Association journals from 1998 to 2006 were reviewed and compared with established reporting guidelines. Three research questions were addressed: (a) how do actual reporting practices compare with published guidelines? (b) how do researchers report model fit in light of divergent perspectives on the use of ancillary fit indices (e.g.

Personality and consultations with complementary and alternative medicine practitioners: a five-factor model investigation of the degree of use and motives.

Objectives: As interest in and use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers continues to grow, it is important to understand which characteristics incline people to experiment with and become frequent consumers of CAM practitioners. The purpose of this study was to examine how personality, as assessed by the five-factor model, was related to the breadth, frequency, and types of provider-based CAM use. Relationships between the personality factors (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism) and motives for consulting CAM providers were also explored.

When one door closes, another door opens: physician availability and motivations to consult complementary and alternative medicine providers.

The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes, behaviours, and intentions to consult complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) providers, of health-care consumers living in a region with low physician availability. A survey was completed by a convenience sample of 235 CAM clients and nonconsumers recruited from an underserved urban centre in Canada. Nearly half had experienced difficulties getting an appointment with a physician when needed, and those who had experienced difficulties were more dissatisfied with conventional health care.

Lower adherence to screening mammography guidelines among ethnic minority women in America: a meta-analytic review.

Objective: This study investigates the association between ethnic minority status and receiving a screening mammogram within the past 2 years among American women over 50.

Method: The findings from 33 studies identified from interdisciplinary research databases (1980 to 2006) were synthesized. Separate pooled analyses compared white non-Hispanics to African Americans (28 outcomes), Hispanics (18 outcomes), and Asian/Pacific Islanders (10 outcomes).

Integrating nurse practitioners into Canadian emergency departments: a qualitative study of barriers and recommendations.

Objective: The objective of this study was to identify the facilitators and barriers associated with integrating nurse practitioners (NPs) into Canadian emergency departments (EDs) from the perspectives of NPs and ED staff.

Methods: We conducted 24 semi-structured interviews with key multidisciplinary stakeholders in 6 Ontario EDs to gain a broad range of perspectives on implementation issues. Data were analyzed using a grounded-theory approach.

Task analysis complements neuroimaging: an example from working memory research.

When functional neuroimaging researchers draw conclusions about the sensory, cognitive, or motor processes that are associated with changes in brain activity, they are making assumptions about the component processes involved in performing a complex behavioral task. We demonstrate the danger in making such assumptions using, as an example, the n-back task, which has been widely used in neuroimaging studies of working memory. Neuroimaging researchers have assumed that the letter n-back task only engages processes involved in the short-term maintenance and manipulation of verbal information.