Effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions in managing symptom clusters among lung cancer patients: a systematic review.

Background: Non-pharmacological interventions, as complements to pharmacological treatments, are widely employed for managing symptom clusters in patients with lung cancer. Although numerous systematic reviews and meta-analyses have explored the effects of these interventions, most studies have centred on the broader cancer population and specific symptom clusters. This review aims to consolidate existing non-pharmacological interventions and assess their effectiveness in managing symptom clusters among lung cancer patients.

Exploring shared decision-making needs in lung cancer screening among high-risk groups and health care providers in China: a qualitative study.

Background: The intricate balance between the advantages and risks of low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) impedes the utilization of lung cancer screening (LCS). Guiding shared decision-making (SDM) for well-informed choices regarding LCS is pivotal. There has been a notable increase in research related to SDM.

Promoting Lung Cancer Screen Decision-Making and Early Detection Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Background: Promoting lung cancer screening (LCS) is complex. Previous studies have overlooked that LCS behaviors are stage based and thus did not identify the characteristics of LCS interventions at different screening stages.

Objective: The aims of this study were to explore the characteristics and efficacy of interventions in promoting LCS decision making and behaviors and to evaluate these interventions.

Screening behaviors of high-risk individuals for lung cancer: A cross-sectional study.

Objective: To investigate current screening behaviors among high-risk individuals and analyse the factors that influence them.

Methods: A cross-sectional of 1652 high-risk individuals were recruited in Fujian Province, China from February to October 2022. Socio-demographic characteristics of participants were collected and other survey measures included a lung cancer and lung cancer screening knowledge questionnaire and a stage of adoption algorithm.

The effects of art-making intervention on mind-body and quality of life in adults with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: To investigate the effectiveness of art-making interventions on physical and psychological outcomes, as well as quality of life (QOL), in adult patients with cancer.

Methods: Seven English-language databases (PubMed, Academic Search Premier, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, The Cochrane Library, and Web of Science) and three Chinese-language databases (CNKI, WanFang, and VIP) were searched up to and including May 1, 2023. We used the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool 2.

Development and psychometric testing of the narrative nursing teaching effectiveness scale: A methodological study.

Background: Narrative teaching is widely used in nursing education. However, there is currently a lack of valid and reliable tool to assess the effectiveness of narrative nursing teaching from the perspective of nursing students.

Objectives: This study developed a Narrative Nursing Teaching Effectiveness (NNTE) scale and evaluated its psychometric properties.

Trajectories of cognitive reactivity and its predictive value on postpartum depression in Chinese women: a latent class growth modeling analysis.

Many women are experiencing postpartum depression (PPD) after giving birth. How to recognize and intervene in high-risk PPD women early and effectively remains unknown. Our objective is to describe the latent trajectory groups of cognitive reactivity (CR) in perinatal women, and their relationship to demographic and disease-related factors, as well as investigate the associations with PPD.

Dyadic effects of family resilience on quality of life in patients with lung cancer and spousal caregivers: The mediating role of dyadic coping.

Purpose: This study explored the effects of family resilience on quality of life (QOL) and examined whether dyadic coping mediates these effects in patients with lung cancer and their spousal caregivers.

Methods: In total, 313 dyads were recruited from three tertiary hospitals in Fujian Province, China, between March and July 2022. Study participants independently completed sociodemographic and clinical characteristics questionnaires, the Shortened Chinese version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale, the Dyadic Coping Inventory, and the 8-Item Short-Form Health Survey.

A self-healing polymerized-ionic-liquid-based polymer electrolyte enables a long lifespan and dendrite-free solid-state Li metal batteries at room temperature.

The implementation of high-safety Li metal batteries (LMBs) needs more stable and safer electrolytes. The solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) with their advantageous properties stand out for this purpose. However, low Li/electrolyte interfacial instability and uncontrolled Li dendrites growth trigger unceasing breakage of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), leading to fast capacity degradation.

Demoralization profiles and their association with depression and quality of life in Chinese patients with cancer: a latent class analysis.

Purpose: The study aimed to identify latent classes of demoralization and examine their associations with depression and quality of life (QOL) among patients with cancer.

Methods: Cross-sectional data from 874 patients with cancer from three tertiary hospitals in Fujian province were collected using a convenience sampling method. Demoralization, depression, and QOL were assessed using the Chinese version of the Demoralization Scale-II, Patient Health Questionnaire-9, and McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire.

Conductive Porous Laminated Vanadium Nitride as Carbon-Free Hosts for High-Loading Sulfur Cathodes in Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

Improving the sulfur loading in cathodes is a significant challenge for practical lithium-sulfur batteries. Although carbonaceous sulfur hosts can achieve higher sulfur content and loading, the low tap densities of carbonaceous materials lead to low volumetric energy densities, restricting practical application. Here, conductive porous laminated vanadium nitride (VN) as a carbon-free sulfur host has been successfully developed to construct high tap density, high sulfur loading, and high energy density sulfur electrodes.

TiO and Co Nanoparticle-Decorated Carbon Polyhedra as Efficient Sulfur Host for High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs)-derived porous carbon is proposed as a promising candidate to develop novel, tailorable structures as polysulfides immobilizers for lithium-sulfur batteries because of their high-efficiency electron conductive networks, open ion channels, and abundant central ions that can store a large amount of sulfur and trap the easily soluble polysulfides. However, most central ions in MOFs-derived carbon framework are encapsulated in the carbon matrix so that their exposures as active sites to adsorb polysulfides are limited. To resolve this issue, highly dispersed TiO nanoparticles are anchored into the cobalt-containing carbon polyhedras that are converted from ZIF-67.

Copper Mesh Templated by Breath-Figure Polymer Films as Flexible Transparent Electrodes for Organic Photovoltaic Devices.

Unlabelled: Metal mesh is a significant candidate of flexible transparent electrodes to substitute the current state-of-the-art material indium tin oxide (ITO) for future flexible electronics. However, there remains a challenge to fabricate metal mesh with order patterns by a bottom-up approach. In this work, high-quality Cu mesh transparent electrodes with ordered pore arrays are prepared by using breath-figure polymer films as template.

[Study on Sleep Staging Based on Support Vector Machines and Feature Selection in Single Channel Electroencephalogram].

Sleep electroencephalogram (EEG) is an important index in diagnosing sleep disorders and related diseases. Manual sleep staging is time-consuming and often influenced by subjective factors. Existing automatic sleep staging methods have high complexity and a low accuracy rate.

Carbon-free (Co, Mn)3O4 nanowires@Ni electrodes for lithium-oxygen batteries.

A carbon-free, three-dimensional network structured material composed of (Co, Mn)3O4 nanowires and Ni foam was synthesized. Without the addition of any binder or conductive additives, it could be employed as the air electrode for lithium-oxygen batteries and delivers a specific capacity of 3605 mA h g(electrode)(-1) at a current density of 0.05 mA cm(-2).

Daily intakes of naturally occurring radioisotopes in typical Korean foods.

The concentrations of naturally occurring radioisotopes ((232)Th, (228)Th, (230)Th, (228)Ra, (226)Ra, and (40)K) in typical Korean foods were evaluated. The daily intakes of these radioisotopes were calculated by comparing concentrations in typical Korean foods and the daily consumption rates of these foods. Daily intakes were as follows: (232)Th, 0.