Publications by authors named "Shengbin Guo"

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  • The research focuses on the impact of father support breastfeeding self-efficacy on exclusive breastfeeding rates in China, highlighting its importance as a mediator for new mothers' breastfeeding practices.
  • A multi-centre study involving 328 fathers revealed that higher levels of support breastfeeding self-efficacy significantly correlated with increased rates of exclusive breastfeeding at six weeks postpartum.
  • Factors influencing father's self-efficacy included breastfeeding knowledge, fatigue levels, positive emotions, previous experiences assisting with breastfeeding, and the quality of spousal relationships.
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The fate of sedimentary nitrogen during subduction is essential for understanding the origin of nitrogen in the deep Earth. Here we study the behavior of nitrogen in slab sediments during the phengite to K-hollandite transition at 10-12 GPa and 800-1100 °C. Phengite stability is extended by 1-3 GPa in the nitrogen (NH)-bearing system.

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Objectives: The objectives of this study are to describe couples' experiences and perceived barriers to participation in the CenteringPregnancy model in southeast of China and to understand whether smartphones could play a potential role in this model.

Design: This study employed a descriptive phenomenological qualitative study using semistructured dyadic interviews with women and their partners. The interviews were audiotaped, transcribed verbatim and subjected to thematic analysis.

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Aim: Adapt Fear of Birth Scale (FOBS) for the Chinese context, evaluate psychometric properties and determine optimal cutoff point for pregnant women in 3rd trimester.

Design: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. Cultural guidelines informed the development of the Chinese version of FOBS (FOBS-C) incorporating validation on translation, equivalence index, content validity index, and cognitive debriefing.

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Background: Restricting parturient women in healthcare facilities from choosing positions that provide the greatest comfort and benefit during labor is a global barrier. Several complex factors, including caregiver preference and medical intervention, shape the limitation. Therefore, a practical need exists to train midwives on the knowledge and skills to change this condition.

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Aim: To examine the impact of display rules on nurses' caring behaviors and emotional exhaustion and the mediating role of emotional labor (surface/deep acting).

Background: Hospitals often implement emotional display rules for nurses with the expectation of performance benefits. However, these rules may have an impact on nurses' caring behaviors and emotional exhaustion.

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Background: Clinical decision-making is considered an essential behaviour in clinical practice. However, no research has been done to examine the associations among midwives' clinical decision-making, work environment and psychological empowerment. Thus, this study aimed to determine the influence of work environment on midwives' clinical decision-making and confirm the mediating role of psychological empowerment.

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Background: Fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic, front-line nurses were under unprecedented psychological pressure. Therefore, it is necessary to promptly evaluate the psychological status of nurses during the COVID-19 epidemic period.

Aim: To investigate nurses' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to test the mediating role of social support and psychological resilience between coping and mental health.

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Background: The high caesarean section rate is a prominent public health problem in China.

Aim: This study aimed to determine the effects of midwife-led care during labour on birth outcomes for healthy primiparas.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

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Objective: To study the influence of HBV-DNA with different load levels of HBsAg-positive among fathers on the rate of neonatal cord blood HBV-DNA.

Methods: Using HBsAg and HBV-DNA as screening indicators for pregnant women and their husbands from an obstetric clinic. 161 pregnant women whose HBsAg and HBV-DNA were negative, but HBsAg was positive among their husbands and their newborns, were selected.

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Objective: To explore the risk factors of and the influence of different hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA load on paternal vertical transmission of HBV.

Methods: Totally, 161 HBsAg negative women, whose husband was HBsAg positive, attended the antenatal clinics of the Provincial Maternity and Child Health Hospital of Fujian from September 2007 to December 2008 and their newborns were selected, and the epidemiologic information, the duration of being a HBV carrier, the first class HBV family history of the fathers, HBV markers, HBV DNA load, HBsAb of the gravidas, the outcomes of the newborns were all collected. Cord blood was sampled after delivery for HBV DNA quantification and those with HBV DNA load >/= 1.

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