Older Adults' Trust and Distrust in COVID-19 Public Health Information: Qualitative Critical Incident Study.

Background: The COVID-19 infodemic has imposed a disproportionate burden on older adults who face increased challenges in accessing and assessing public health information, but little is known about factors influencing older adults' trust in public health information during COVID-19.

Objective: This study aims to identify sources that older adults turn to for trusted COVID-19 public health information and factors that influence their trust. In addition, we explore the relationship between public health information sources and trust factors.

Individualistic Versus Collaborative Learning in an eHealth Literacy Intervention for Older Adults: Quasi-Experimental Study.

Background: Older adults tend to have insufficient health literacy, which includes eHealth literacy-the ability to access, assess, and use digital health information. Interventions using methods such as collaborative learning (CL) and individualistic learning (IL) may be effective in addressing older adults' low eHealth literacy, but little is known about the short- and long-term effects of CL versus IL on older adults' eHealth literacy.

Objective: The objective of this study was to use a 3 × 2 × 3 mixed factorial design to examine older adults' learning with CL versus IL for eHealth literacy.

Misinformation and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

Background: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has emerged as a major public health challenge. Although medical and scientific misinformation has been known to fuel vaccine hesitancy in the past, misinformation surrounding COVID-19 seems to be rampant, and increasing evidence suggests that it is contributing to COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy today. The relationship between misinformation and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is complex, however, and it is relatively understudied.

Trust in COVID-19 public health information.

Understanding the factors that influence trust in public health information is critical for designing successful public health campaigns during pandemics such as COVID-19. We present findings from a cross-sectional survey of 454 US adults-243 older (65+) and 211 younger (18-64) adults-who responded to questionnaires on human values, trust in COVID-19 information sources, attention to information quality, self-efficacy, and factual knowledge about COVID-19. Path analysis showed that trust in direct personal contacts ( = 0.

Assessing the Effects of eHealth Tutorials on Older Adults' eHealth Literacy.

eHealth literacy is the ability to access, assess, and use digital health information. This study compared the effects of a multimedia tutorial versus a paper-based control in improving older adults' eHealth literacy from pre- to posttest. A total of 99 community-dwelling older adults (63-90 years old; mean = 73.

Bacterial Distribution and Community Structure in Beef Cattle Liver and Bile at Slaughter.

Abstract: In this study, the distribution of hygienic indicator bacteria in cattle livers and bile was examined at slaughterhouses. One hundred twenty-seven cattle livers with gallbladders were carefully eviscerated from carcasses at 10 slaughterhouses. Microbiological examination revealed that nine bile samples (7.

Living Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: Community-Dwelling Older Adults' Experiences.

Increasing research is investigating the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on older adults, but relatively little is known about the complexities of community-dwelling older adults' lived experiences during this historical period. This study aimed to address this gap in the literature by taking a bottom-up, theory-generating, inductive approach. Older adults living in Central Texas ( = 200; age, 65-92 years, = 73.

Comparison of Analyzed and Calculated Values of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) Intake from Hospital Diet.

Intake of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) from nutritionally controlled hospital diet was analyzed and compared with those estimated by calculation. Thirty meals provided at a hospital in Okinawa were sampled. GABA content per meal were measured by HPLC and calculated from GABA content data in foods as much as available.

Insights from the ganglionic acetylcholine receptor autoantibodies in patients with Sjögren's syndrome.

Objective: It is not known whether autonomic neuropathy is a feature of Sjögren's syndrome (SS) or whether it is related to circulating antiganglionic acetylcholine receptor (gAChR) antibodies. The goal of the present study was to investigate the autonomic dysfunction in patients with SS and the associations between autonomic dysfunction, anti-gAChR antibodies, and clinical features of SS.

Methods: (1) The first observational study tested for the presence of gAChR antibodies in the serum samples from 39 patients with SS (absent information regarding autonomic symptoms) and healthy volunteers.

Effect of propiverine hydrochloride on stress urinary incontinence.

Objectives: To investigate whether the anticholinergic agent, propiverine hydrochloride, is clinically effective for stress urinary incontinence.

Methods: The participants were adult female patients with the chief complaint of stress incontinence. Propiverine (20 mg once daily) was given for 8 weeks.

[A case of transient ischemic attack of hemodynamic origin induced by postprandial hypotension].

An 82-year-old man had a transient ischemic attack (TIA) with symptoms of consciousness disturbance and right hemiparesis while resting in a sitting position after breakfast. His symptoms improved around 1 h after onset when he lied in a supine position and received intravenous hydration. Duplex carotid ultrasonography revealed severe stenosis of the left common carotid artery.

Phenotypic variance predicts symbiont population densities in corals: a modeling approach.

Background: We test whether the phenotypic variance of symbionts (Symbiodinium) in corals is closely related with the capacity of corals to acclimatize to increasing seawater temperatures. Moreover, we assess whether more specialist symbionts will increase within coral hosts under ocean warming. The present study is only applicable to those corals that naturally have the capacity to support more than one type of Symbiodinium within the lifetime of a colony; for example, Montastraea annularis and Montastraea faveolata.

Effect of combined therapy with the antiestrogen agent toremifene and local hyperthermia on breast cancer cells implanted in nude mice.

Purpose: We evaluated the effects of combined treatment with the antiestrogen agent toremifene (TOR) and local hyperthermia (LHT) on the MCF-7 breast cancer cell line.

Methods: BALB/c mice implanted with MCF-7 cells were divided into six treatment groups: a control group, a TOR30 group (given 30 mg/kg/day), a TOR120 group (given 120 mg/kg/day), an LHT group (43.5 degrees C), a TOR30 + LHT group, and a TOR120 + LHT group.

Continuous-flow complete-mixing system for assessing the effects of environmental factors on colony-level coral metabolism.

A small-scale chamber experimental system was designed to study the effects of temperature on colony-level coral metabolism. The system continuously supplies fresh seawater to the chamber, where it is mixed immediately and completely with the seawater already present. This continuous-flow complete-mixing system (CFCM system), in conjunction with theoretical equations, allows quantitative determination of chemical uptake and release rates by coral under controlled environmental conditions.

Device to promote pelvic floor muscle training for stress incontinence.

Aim: Many patients with stress urinary incontinence do not have enough motivation to continue pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) by themselves. Therefore, a device was created to support PFMT, and its effect was examined.

Methods: Forty-six women with stress urinary incontinence were assigned to a control group or a device group in order of presentation.

[Risk factors for duration of urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy].

Purpose: In this study, we examined risk factors for duration of incontinence after radical prostatectomy at our hospital.

Materials And Methods: From April 1988 to March 2000, 45 patients with prostate cancer underwent retropubic radical prostatectomy at our hospital. Thirty-eight of 45 patients could be followed up.

Telomerase activity in giant condyloma acuminatum.

A 46-year-old male came to our hospital 1 month after noticing a 2-cm penile tumor. Since malignant findings such as atypical cells and mitosis were not observed in the frozen sections obtained at operation, the pathological diagnosis of this tumor was giant condyloma acuminatum. This tumor was analyzed by a telomeric repeat amplification protocol method, and telomerase activity was revealed.

[Ventricular septal defect with pulmonary hypertension and concomitant left atrial myxoma in elder patient: a successful surgical case report].

A 70-year-old man was admitted with syncope attack on exertion. Ventricular septal defect with pulmonary hypertension and left atrial myxoma were confirmed by ultrasonography and cardiac catheterization. Preoperative Pp/Ps was 0.

[Treatment of stress incontinence by percutaneous bladder neck stabilization (Vesica)].

We experienced 9 cases of percutaneous bladder neck stabilization (Vesica) for patients with urinary incontinence who were diagnosed with stress incontinence from December 1995 to June 1998. None of the patients were able to control continence with any drugs. Chain cystography was performed on all of the patients before and after surgery.

Safety and efficacy of autologous platelet transfusion in cardiac surgery: comparison of cryopreservation, blood collection on the day before surgery, and blood collection during surgery.

In a group of 39 patients with ischemic heart and valvular disease (January 1997 to May 1998), three platelet collection methods were compared in terms of safety and effectiveness. The methods were: (i) collection of autologous platelets over several weeks and freezing them for storage until surgery (frozen group, 12 patients); (ii) collection of autologous platelets on the day before surgery and preserving them without freezing (fresh group, 8 patients); and (iii) collection of autologous platelets intraoperatively (intraoperative group, 9 patients). Ten patients served as controls (control group).

[Prophylaxis of recurrence in superficial bladder carcinoma by intravesical chemotherapy--comparative study between instillation of combined double anticancer agents and single anticancer agent].

We performed a study to compare the usefulness of double or single anticancer agents in the prophylactic treatment after the transurethral resection (TUR) of superficial bladder cancer. We experienced 127 superficial bladder cancer cases. Of these cases, 42 were treated with intravesical adriamycin (ADR) and peplomycin (PEP), 56 with ADR, PEP, epirubicin (epi-ADR) or pirarubicin (THP) only, and the remaining 29 with TUR only.

Effects of experimental chemoendocrine therapy with a combination of a pure antiestrogen and 5-fluorouracil on human breast cancer cells implanted in nude mice.

The antitumor effects of an experimental chemoendocrine therapy combining a new pure antiestrogen ICI 182780 and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) were studied on MCF-7 human breast cancer cells implanted in nude mice. ICI 182780 had a dose-dependent antitumor activity, which was potentiated by the concomitant use of 5-FU. When compared with the control group, the estrogen receptor (ER) level in the ICI 182780 group was lower and that in the combination group was markedly lower.