Individual and joint effects of diabetes and depression on incident cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality: Results from a population-based cohort study.

Aims: To assess the individual and joint effects of diabetes and depression on all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the middle-aged and elderly Chinese populations.

Methods: 9105 individuals without CVD from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) were included and followed up for 9 years. Participants were divided into four comparative groups: diabetes alone, depression alone, both conditions, and neither condition.

Traditional Chinese medicine interventions based on meridian theory for pain relief in patients with primary dysmenorrhea: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Objective: To determine the comparative effects and safety of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) interventions based on meridian theory for pain relief in patients with primary dysmenorrhea (PD).

Methods: This is a systematic review with network meta-analysis. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing meridian-based TCM interventions with waitlist, placebo, western medicine, and conventional therapies for PD pain.

Pediatric massage therapy in infants and children under 5 years: An umbrella review of systematic reviews.

Objective: To systematically evaluate and synthesize quantitative evidence regarding the effects of pediatric massage in infants and children under five years.

Review Methods: We conducted searches in databases including MEDLINE, Embase, Health Technology Assessment Database, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Allied and Complementary Medicine, Embase, the China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang Data, SinoMed, and CQVIP up to February 2024. Two reviewers independently screened articles, extracted data, and conducted quality appraisals on the included studies.

The effects of multidisciplinary collaborative care on cardiovascular risk factors among patients with diabetes in primary care settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Multidisciplinary collaborative care has been widely recommended as an effective strategy for managing diabetes; however, the cardiovascular risk factors of patients with diabetes are often inadequately managed in primary care settings. This study aimed to assess the effect of multidisciplinary collaboration on cardiovascular risk factors among patients with diabetes in primary care settings.

Methods: Five databases (i.

Barriers and facilitators to the formation of professional identity among nursing students: A four-year longitudinal qualitative study.

Background: Nursing professional identity (NPI) is essential for nurses to develop their nursing profession. It reflects the competencies consistent with the professional practices of nurses and contributes to them providing better healthcare and public health. The formation process of NPI started with undergraduate nursing education and continued throughout the nursing career.

The integrated common-sense model of illness self-regulation: predicting healthy eating, exercise behaviors, and health among individuals at risk of metabolic syndrome.

Background: Little is known about the potential mechanisms of healthy eating and exercise change, and design interventions which aim to promote healthy eating and exercise change among individuals at risk of metabolic syndrome. This study aimed to identify key determinants of healthy eating, exercise behaviors, and health among individuals at risk of metabolic syndrome using the integrated common-sense model of illness self-regulation.

Method: A cross-sectional study with a multi-wave data collection strategy.

Exploring the Presence of Humanoid Social Robots at Home and Capturing Human-Robot Interactions with Older Adults: Experiences from Four Case Studies.

Background: Social robots have the potential to bring benefits to aged care. However, it is uncertain whether placing these robots in older people's home is acceptable and whether human-robot interactions would occur or not.

Methods: Four case studies were conducted to understand the experiences of older adults and family caregivers when humanoid social robot was placed in homes for two weeks.

Stroke survivors', caregivers' and nurse coaches' perspectives on health coaching program towards hospital-to-home transition care: A qualitative descriptive process evaluation.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the perspectives of stroke survivors, caregivers and nurse coaches on a health coaching program during hospital-to-home transitional care.

Background: Stroke is a major public health problem that seriously affects the health and safety of people in China. Nurse-led health coaching is a promising support option in enabling smooth hospital-to-home transition for stroke survivors and family caregivers.

The experience of stroke survivors and caregivers during hospital-to-home transitional care: A qualitative longitudinal study.

Background: Stroke survivors and their caregivers experience different difficulties that arise from certain physical, psychological, social aspects and caring burdens during the hospital-to-home transitional period. Although there are abundant studies that focus on stroke transitional care, there are limited qualitative studies that synthesize the experience of hospital-to-home transitional care for stroke survivors and their caregivers in China.

Objective: To evaluate the experience of stroke survivors and their family caregivers during hospital-to-home transitional care in China.

Nurse-led health coaching programme to improve hospital-to-home transitional care for stroke survivors: A randomised controlled trial.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of a nurse-led health coaching programme for stroke survivors and family caregivers in hospital-to-home transition care.

Methods: A total of 140 dyads of stroke survivors and their family caregivers were recruited and randomly assigned to either the intervention group (received a 12-week nurse-led health coaching programme) or the usual care group. The primary outcome was self-efficacy, and secondary outcomes were quality of life (QoL), stroke-related knowledge, and caregiver-related burden.

Correction to: A nurse-led health coaching intervention for stroke survivors and their family caregivers in hospital to home transition care in Chongqing, China: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

The effect of transition care interventions incorporating health coaching strategies for stroke survivors: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: To systematically analyse health coaching strategies in transition care and synthesise the effect of these strategies on health care outcomes for stroke survivors.

Methods: A systematic search of nine databases in two languages was conducted. Meta-analysis was conducted when data were available.

A nurse-led health coaching intervention for stroke survivors and their family caregivers in hospital to home transition care in Chongqing, China: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Hospital to home transition care is a most stressful period for stroke survivors and their caregivers to learn self-management of stroke-related health conditions and to engage in rehabilitation. Health coaching has been identified as a strategy to enhance self-management of poststroke care at home. However, interventions in this field that are informed by a health coaching framework are scarce.

Pain, fatigue, disturbed sleep and distress comprised a symptom cluster that related to quality of life and functional status of lung cancer surgery patients.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the common symptom cluster in lung cancer patients with surgical treatment and to evaluate the relationships between symptom cluster and patients' disease outcomes, including functional status and quality of life.

Background: Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death for both men and women, and its incidence is increasing in China. Growing number of researches confirmed that symptoms in lung cancer patients with chemotherapy and radiotherapy occurred as 'symptom cluster' across the disease trajectory and influenced disease outcomes.