Publications by authors named "Ru-Xuan Wang"

Article Synopsis
  • - The study investigates how socio-ecological factors like sleep quality, psychological resilience, family resilience, and social support impact disability severity in patients with chronic schizophrenia after their psychotic symptoms remit.
  • - Involving 188 individuals, the research used various assessment tools to measure disability and resilience, revealing a mean disability score indicating significant challenges in daily activities among participants.
  • - Key findings showed that low education, frequent disease relapses, and poor sleep quality are risk factors for disability, while strong social support and resilience can protect against it; thus, enhancing these supportive factors may improve rehabilitation for these patients.
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Background: At present, the phenomenon of patients with mental disorders not seeking mental help is very serious, and the mental help-seeking attitude is the central structure of the help process. However, there is no consensus on which patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) should be used to assess mental help-seeking attitudes.

Objective: The systematic review aims to critically appraise, compare, and summarize the measurement quality of the all-available PROMs about mental help-seeking attitudes to provide evidence-based guidance and reference for clinical researchers.

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Advances in ultrasound fetal diagnostics and treatment have created a dilemma for doctors and parents: choosing whether to continue with a pregnancy as well as choosing between various treatment options. A multidisciplinary approach has been widely accepted in the management of other prenatally diagnosed anomalies and has shown superior results compared to routine care. We present a retrospective cohort of patients prenatally diagnosed with orofacial clefts who were offered consultation by an expert multidisciplinary team, including: a fetal medicine specialist, an obstetrician, a plastic surgeon, and a case managing nurse.

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A ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-ESI-MS/MS) method was successfully developed and validated for the identification and determination of eight alkaloids: tetrahydropalmatine (A); palmatine (B); magnoflorine (C); columbamine (D); berberine (E); worenine (F); berberrubine (G) and coptisine (H) in rat plasma, which are the active components in Coptis deltoidea C. Y. cheng et Hsiao (CCY) and Coptis chinensis Franch (CF).

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