Publications by authors named "Xinlan Shen"

Grief-related beliefs play an important role in bereavement adjustment. This study aimed to investigate the patterns and correlates of grief-related beliefs among recently bereaved adults (n = 311). Latent class analysis results suggested three meaningful grief belief classes could be identified: the High grief belief class (24.

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Bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic may have some unique characteristics that become potential risk factors (e.g., absence of grief rituals, no opportunity to say goodbye to the deceased and loneliness caused by social distancing) for acute grief.

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Although most chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients achieve effective virological suppression after receiving long-term nucleos(t)ide analogs (Nucs) therapy, the safety of off-therapy is controversial under the monitor. We identified studies through searching PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science from January 1990 to February 2021. The eligible studies compare the long outcomes between discontinued and continued Nucs treatments groups among CHB patients.

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