Decoding Salience: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Reward and Contextual Unexpectedness in Memory Encoding and Retrieval.

The present study investigated the neuromodulatory substrates of salience processing and its impact on memory encoding and behaviour, with a specific focus on two distinct types of salience: reward and contextual unexpectedness. 46 Participants performed a novel task paradigm modulating these two aspects independently and allowing for investigating their distinct and interactive effects on memory encoding while undergoing high-resolution fMRI. By using advanced image processing techniques tailored to examine midbrain and brainstem nuclei with high precision, our study additionally aimed to elucidate differential activation patterns in subcortical nuclei in response to reward-associated and contextually unexpected stimuli, including distinct pathways involving in particular dopaminergic modulation.

Functional locus coeruleus imaging to investigate an ageing noradrenergic system.

The locus coeruleus (LC), our main source of norepinephrine (NE) in the brain, declines with age and is a potential epicentre of protein pathologies in neurodegenerative diseases (ND). In vivo measurements of LC integrity and function are potentially important biomarkers for healthy ageing and early ND onset. In the present study, high-resolution functional MRI (fMRI), a reversal reinforcement learning task, and dedicated post-processing approaches were used to visualise age differences in LC function (N = 50).

Exploring influences of environmental information, beliefs and self-efficacy on nurses' climate health behaviours and their relationships.

Background: To create a healthy nursing environment and protect human health in response to climate change, it is essential to encourage behaviour change among nurses. Although numerous studies have been conducted on nurses to address climate change, few studies have explored the relationships of factors that influence and promote nurses' climate health behavioural behavioural change, making it difficult to determine how nurses should act and prioritise regarding climate health behaviours.

Aims: To investigate influential environmental factors on climate health behaviours among nurses through the causal relationships between environmental information, environmental beliefs and environmental self-efficacy using the Information-Motivation-Behavioural Skills (IMB) model.

Incidence of overtriage and undertriage and associated factors: A cross-sectional study using a secondary data analysis.

Background: Improving triage accuracy for accurate patient identification and appropriate resource allocation is essential. Little is known about the trend of triage accuracy, and factors associated with mistriage vary from study to study.

Aim: To identify incidence and risk factors of mistriage, such as overtriage and undertriage.

Exploring the potential use of the metaverse in nurse education through a mock trial.

Background: The metaverse has been attracting attention as a space for the application of education, where integrating the real and virtual worlds offers immersive 3D experiences. Consequently, its potential for higher education, including nursing, is being explored as a dynamic alternative to traditional education.

Objectives: This study explores the applicability of metaverse in nurse education.

Structural and functional characterization of the locus coeruleus in young and late middle-aged individuals.

Introduction: The brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) influences a broad range of brain processes, including cognition. The so-called LC contrast is an accepted marker of the integrity of the LC that consists of a local hyperintensity on specific Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) structural images. The small size of the LC has, however, rendered its functional characterization difficult in humans, including in aging.

Work values and communication styles among Generation X, Y, and Z nurses: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To compare and contrast nurses' work values and communication styles across Generation X, Y, and Z.

Background: Intergenerational differences in the work values of nurses are well known, but the commonalities remain largely uninvestigated. It is also unclear if there are intergenerational differences and commonalities in the rhetorical communication style of nurses.

It is the locus coeruleus! Or… is it?: a proposition for analyses and reporting standards for structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging of the noradrenergic locus coeruleus.

The noradrenergic locus coeruleus (LC) is one of the protein pathology epicenters in neurodegenerative diseases. In contrast to PET (positron emission tomography), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) offers the spatial resolution necessary to investigate the 3-4 mm wide and 1.5 cm long LC.

Priorities for research on neuromodulatory subcortical systems in Alzheimer's disease: Position paper from the NSS PIA of ISTAART.

The neuromodulatory subcortical system (NSS) nuclei are critical hubs for survival, hedonic tone, and homeostasis. Tau-associated NSS degeneration occurs early in Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis, long before the emergence of pathognomonic memory dysfunction and cortical lesions. Accumulating evidence supports the role of NSS dysfunction and degeneration in the behavioral and neuropsychiatric manifestations featured early in AD.

Associations among workplace incivility, stress coping, and nursing performance in hospital nurses: A path analysis.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify the associations among workplace incivility, stress-coping strategy, and nursing performance and confirm how workplace incivility influences nursing performance through the stress-coping strategy.

Design: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional study. Data were collected using a self-reported questionnaire from 245 nurses working at seven hospitals in Korea between December 2019 and January 2020.

Factors influencing mental health nurses in providing person-centered care.

Background: Mental health nurses advocate for patients through a person-centered approach because they care for people experiencing mental distress who tend to be limited to exercising their human rights and autonomy through interpersonal relationships. Therefore, it is necessary to provide high-quality person-centered care for these patients by identifying the influencing factors.

Aim: This study aims to identify the factors affecting mental health nurses in performing person-centered care for patients.

Workplace spirituality and organizational justice in turnover intention of mental health professionals at small-sized centres.

Aim: To investigate the influence of workplace spirituality and organizational justice on the turnover intentions of mental health professionals working in small-sized communities.

Background: Many community mental health facilities in Korea are consist of the small size of members, and the turnover rate of mental health professionals is high. However, the influence of individual and organizational factors for lowering the turnover is not clearly identified.

FDG-PET assessment of the locus coeruleus in Alzheimer's disease.

Sensitive and reliable imaging of the locus coeruleus (LC) is important to develop and evaluate its potential as a biomarker in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD). It is not known whether AD-related alterations in LC integrity can be detected using F-labelled fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET). Mean FDG-PET images from AD patients (N ​= ​193) and controls (N ​= ​256) from the ADNI database were co-registered to a study-wise anatomical template.

Effects of a web-based education program for nurses using medical malpractice cases: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Education on legal obligations in healthcare related to medical malpractice is insufficient, which has the potential to reduce patient safety. Nurses need to improve their understanding of legal obligations in order to enhance patient safety. However, no easily accessible education program has been developed that covers both the concepts of legal obligations and patient safety.

Hand motor functions on the presence of red fluorescent dental biofilm in older community-dwelling Koreans.

Background: The Quantitative Light-induced Fluorescence-Digital (QLF-D) system visualizes old and mature dental biofilm as red fluorescence. Risk factors for poor oral hygiene have been identified, however, few studies have evaluated the relationship between mature dental biofilm and hand motor functions. This study aimed to investigate the effects of two important manual motor functions for object manipulation -handgrip strength and manual dexterity- on the presence of red fluorescent dental biofilm in older community-dwelling Koreans using QLF-D, an optical device that reveals dental biofilm.

The association between dyslipidemia, oral health behavior, and periodontal disease: The Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Objectives: This research aims to confirm the association between dyslipidemia, oral health behaviors, and periodontal disease according to age groups.

Method And Materials: This cross-sectional study used collected data from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) conducted from 2012 to 2015 with 17,004 adults. Complex samples logistic regression analysis confirmed the relevant factors of oral disease.

[Evaluation of the Korean formal educational program for training care workers for frail elderly].

Purpose: This study was done to evaluate the formal education program provided by the Korean government for care workers for frail elderly people.

Methods: This study was a cross-sectional survey in which 438 certified care workers who had completed the education program participated. Data were collected from June to October 2009, using a self-report questionnaire consisting of satisfaction with, and understanding of the education program.

[Comparison of the effects of an exercise program in non-obese and obese women].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of an exercise program on physical fitness, obesity indices, and blood lipids in cases of non-obese and obese women.

Method: Data was collected from May, 2006 to November, 2006 in a public health center. All Subjects(37 women) participated in an exercise program that consisted of Latin dance, muscular strength training, and dumbbell exercises.

[Factors effecting health promoting behaviors in middle-aged women].

Purpose: This study was to evaluate the casual relationship between the factors in the Pender's model and to explain health promoting behaviors among middle-aged women in order to facilitate nursing interventions for this population group.

Method: 116 women between 40-60 years old living in Incheon were asked to complete a questionnaire about their health. The data was collected between March and November, 2003.

[The effects of Koryo Hand-Acupuncture on the patients with chronic low back pain].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of Koryo Hand-Acupuncture on health status(pain, trunk flexion, IADL, depression) of patients with chronic low back pain.

Method: This study used a quasi experimental pre-test and post-test design. Data were collected from December 1st, 2000 to December 20th, 2001.

[Factors on decision-making participation related to clinical experience difference].

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between decision-making factors(theoretical knowledge, expertise, empowerment, intuition) and participation in proportion to nurses's clinical experience.

Method: Data was collected by quota sampling from July 10, 2001 to August 22, 2001 from 132 clinical nurses who work for 3 General hospitals. Data was analyzed using SPSSWIN 10.