Patient education in ethnic minority and migrant patients with heart disease: A scoping review.

Objective: to describe the characteristics and synthesise the effectiveness of culturally and linguistically appropriate educational interventions for ethnic minority/migrant patients with heart disease.

Methods: Five databases were searched (journal inception to August/2023), identifying studies reported on health outcomes and patients' experience of educational interventions specifically designed for individuals from ethnic minority/migrant backgrounds. These outcomes included disease-related knowledge, self-care behaviours, risk factor profiles, hospital admissions, and patient satisfaction.

Uptake and implementation of cardiac telerehabilitation: A systematic review of provider and system barriers and enablers.

Background: Cardiac telerehabilitation has demonstrated effectiveness for patient health outcomes, but uptake and implementation into practice have been limited and variable. While patient-level influences on uptake have been identified, little is known about provider- and system-level factors.

Aims: To identify provider and system barriers and enablers to uptake and implementation of cardiac telerehabilitation.

Evaluation of a digital patient education programme for Chinese immigrants after a heart attack.

Aims: To evaluate a self-administered digital education resource for patients after a heart attack (adapted simplified Chinese version of Cardiac College™) on secondary prevention knowledge and health behaviour change outcomes.

Methods And Results: Chinese immigrants recovering from a heart attack were recruited from cardiac rehabilitation programmes at four metropolitan tertiary hospitals. Participants provided access to Cardiac College™ (adapted simplified Chinese version), a self-learning secondary prevention virtual education resource over 4 weeks.

Exploring approaches to contemporary clinical incident analysis methods within acute care settings: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: This review will explore the literature on contemporary incident analysis methods used in acute hospital settings, identifying types and characteristics of these methods and how they are used to minimize, prevent, or learn from errors and improve patient safety.

Introduction: Safety is a major focus in health care; however, despite best efforts, errors and incidents still occur, leading to harm or potential harm to patients, families, carers, staff, or the organization. Incident analysis methods aim to reduce risk of harm.

Effectiveness of Telehealth Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs on Health Outcomes of Patients With Coronary Heart Diseases: An Umbrella Review.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to conduct an umbrella review summarizing the evidence from existing systematic reviews of telehealth cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on health outcomes of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).

Review Methods: An umbrella review of systematic reviews was undertaken in accordance with the PRISMA and JBI guidelines. A systematic search was conducted in Medline, APA PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, Cochrane database of systematic reviews, JBI evidence synthesis, Epistemonikos, and PROSPERO, searching for systematic reviews published from 1990 to current and was limited to the language source of English and Chinese.

Online Health Information-Seeking Behaviours and eHealth Literacy among First-Generation Chinese Immigrants.

Due to linguistic and cultural barriers, immigrants often have limited access to health information. Online health information is popular and accessible, but quality is questionable and its benefits dependent on an individual's eHealth literacy. This study examined online health information-seeking behaviours, eHealth literacy and its predictors among first-generation Chinese immigrants.

Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Validation of a Cardiac Knowledge Questionnaire for Chinese Immigrants.

Background: Disease-related knowledge deficits are common in Chinese immigrants living in Western countries, putting them at risk of disease progression and mortality, particularly those with a coronary heart disease (CHD) diagnosis. However, no measurement instrument is available to assess CHD-related knowledge in this population.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to culturally adapt and examine the psychometric properties of the short version of Coronary Artery Disease Education Questionnaire (CADE-Q SV) (simplified Chinese version) in Chinese immigrants with CHD.

Systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression to determine the effects of patient education on health behaviour change in adults diagnosed with coronary heart disease.

Aims And Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of educational interventions and the relative effect of intervention duration on secondary prevention health behaviours in adults with coronary heart disease.

Background: Patient education can reduce disease progression and improve outcomes. However, there is a lack of knowledge of its efficacy and the relative impact of education duration on health behaviour change in this population.

A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression of patient education for secondary prevention in patients with coronary heart disease: impact on psychological outcomes.

Background: Patient education is a cardiac rehabilitation core component and is associated with improvements in self-management of patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). However, the efficacy of such interventions on psychosocial outcomes and relative impact of duration is less clear.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the efficacy of patient education for secondary prevention related to behaviour change and risk factor modification on psychological outcomes in CHD patients.

Establishing a process to translate and adapt health education materials for natives and immigrants: The case of Mandarin adaptations of cardiac rehabilitation education.

Background: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a proven model of secondary prevention in which patient education is a core component.

Objectives: to translate and culturally-adapt CR patient education for Mandarin-speaking patients living in China as well as immigrants, and offer recommendation for best practices in adaptation for both.

Methods: these steps were undertaken in China and Canada: (1) preparation; (2) translation and adaptation; (3) review by healthcare providers based on PEMAT-P; (4) think-aloud review by patients; and (5) finalization.

Education interventions in Chinese cardiac patients on health behaviours, disease-related knowledge, and health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to summarize and synthesize the available evidence in adult Chinese cardiac patients to determine the effect of education interventions on health behaviours, disease-related knowledge, self-efficacy, depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, health-related quality of life, morbidity, and mortality.

Methods: Seven databases were searched from database inception until January 2020 for randomized controlled trials. Characteristics of education interventions were described and random-effects meta-analysis was performed where feasible.

Patient education interventions for health behaviour change in adults diagnosed with coronary heart disease: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aim: To assess the efficacy of structured patient education on disease-related knowledge and health behaviour change outcomes in adults with coronary heart disease.

Design: Systematic review and meta-analyses including meta-regression on education duration.

Methods: Seven databases (including Medline, Pubmed (non-Medline), CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase, Emcare and Cochrane central register of controlled trials) will be searched from inception through 2020 to identify relevant randomized controlled trials testing interventions to improve health behaviours and disease-related knowledge in adults with coronary heart disease.

Prevalence and recovery time of olfactory and gustatory dysfunction in hospitalized patients with COVID‑19 in Wuhan, China.

Objective: To investigate olfactory and gustatory dysfunction in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Wuhan using a telephone interview.

Methods: This retrospective telephone survey investigated 196 consecutive patients with COVID-19 at 3 months after discharge from two hospitals in Wuhan, China. The characteristics of the patient's disease course and time to recovery from olfactory and/or gustatory dysfunction (OD and/or GD) were collected by telephone interview.

Development and Validation of a Medication Selection Model Under Clinical Application of Renin-Angiotensin Inhibitor Combined with Calcium Channel Blocker for Hypertension Patients.

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the impact of clinical features and concomitant conditions on the clinical selection of different renin-angiotensin system (RAS) inhibitors in patients with hypertension, and built a renin-angiotensin inhibitors selection model (RAISM) to provide a reference for clinical decision making. MATERIAL AND METHODS We included 213 hypertensive patients in the study cohort; patients were divided into two groups: the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) combined with calcium channel blocker (CCB) group (ACEI+CCB group) and the angiotensin receptor antagonist (ARB) combined with CCB group (ARB+CCB group). Basic demographic characteristics and concomitant conditions of the patients were compared.

Chinese Society of Allergy Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis.

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a global health problem that causes major illnesses and disabilities worldwide. Epidemiologic studies have demonstrated that the prevalence of AR has increased progressively over the last few decades in more developed countries and currently affects up to 40% of the population worldwide. Likewise, a rising trend of AR has also been observed over the last 2-3 decades in developing countries including China, with the prevalence of AR varying widely in these countries.

Intranasal immunization with DNA vaccine coexpressing Der p 1 and ubiquitin in an allergic rhinitis mouse model.

Background: The worldwide prevalence of allergic rhinitis (AR) is increasing, whereas treatments for AR remain limited in effect. Therefore, a new type of effective drug is eagerly in demand.

Objective: To create a hypoallergenic vaccine by forced ubiquitination.

[Recent advances in DNA vaccines against allergic airway disease: a review].

DNA vaccine is used in infectious diseases initially, and later is applied in neoplastic diseases, allergic diseases and other fields with the further understanding of DNA vaccine and the development of genetic engineering. DNA vaccine transfers the genes encoding exogenous antigens to plasmid vector and then is introduced into organism. It controls the antigen proteins synthesis, thus induces specific humoral and cellular immune responses.

Staphylococcus aureus superantigens are associated with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps: a meta-analysis.

Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a common health problem in the world. However, its etiology remains unclear. Recent researches have hypothesized that Staphylococcus aureus (SA) exotoxins which act as superantigens might be associated with inflammatory mucosal changes seen in CRSwNP.

[Construction of recombinant house dust mite group 1 allergen vaccine and study on immune response induced by nasal immunization].

Objective: To study the preparation of recombinant house dust mite group 1 allergen vaccine (chitosan-pVAX1-Derp1 nanoparticles, pVAX1-Derp1/CS) and to investigate the efficacy and mechanism of intranasally given chitosan-pVAX1-Derp1 nanoparticles on mouse model with allergic rhinitis (AR).

Methods: The chitosan-pVAX1-Derp1 nanoparticles was prepared by complex coacervation, and its nature was identified and analysed. A total of 40 BALB/c rats were randomly divided into 5 groups: the normal group (group A), the AR model group (group B), the chitosan (CS) prevention group (group C), the pVAX1-Derp1 prevention group (group D), and the pVAX1-Derp1/CS prevention group (group E).

Anticancer effects of 3,3'-diindolylmethane are associated with G1 arrest and mitochondria-dependent apoptosis in human nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells.

The antitumor effects of 3,3'-diindolylmethane (DIM) are exhibited in a number of human cancer cells. However, there have been few studies performed concerning the effect of DIM on nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) cells. In the present study, we examined the in vitro antitumor activity of DIM on the poorly differentiated NPC cell line CNE-2.