Publications by authors named "Yousef Alshahrani"
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the levels and determinants of health-promoting behaviors (HPBs) and their correlations between HPBs, anxiety, depression, and social support among nursing students.
Design And Methods: A cross-sectional, correlational study was performed from March to June 2024 with 268 nursing students in the College of Nursing at the University of Hail using a self-structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed using t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson's correlation, and multiple stepwise regression.
Introduction: Nursing students in internship programs can play a role in preventing pressure injuries as they engage in real clinical situations and are assigned to conduct clinical tasks. Thus, nursing students in internship programs should be adequately prepared in terms of their knowledge and attitudes to contribute to pressure injury prevention.
Objective: To explore and understand the knowledge and attitudes of nursing interns toward pressure injury prevention in Saudi Arabia.
Perception and clinical practice regarding mucus clearance devices with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cross-sectional study of healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia.
BMJ Open
September 2023
Article Synopsis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients often struggle with clearing mucus from their airways, and mucus clearance devices (MCDs) are a potential solution, though awareness and use among healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia are unclear.
- A survey targeting 1,188 healthcare providers, including various professionals, assessed their awareness and clinical practices regarding MCDs for COPD patients.
- Results showed that while many providers recognized the benefits of MCDs, only a portion actively prescribed or recommended them, highlighting a gap in clinical practice and utilization despite awareness of their advantages.
: The chronic nature of heart failure requires long-lasting consumption of various medications. Despite the therapeutic benefits of heart failure medications, about 50% of patients with heart failure don't adequately adhere to their medications as prescribed globally. This study aimed to determine medication adherence levels among Jordanians with heart failure and its influencing factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe signals from electromyography (EMG) have been used for volitional control of robotic assistive devices with the challenges of performance improvement. Currently, the most common method of EMG signal processing for robot control is RMS (root mean square)-based algorithm, but system performance accuracy can be affected by noise or artifacts. This study hypothesized that the frequency bandwidths of noise and artifacts are beyond the main EMG signal frequency bandwidth, hence the fixed-bandwidth frequency-domain signal processing methods can filter off the noise and artifacts only by processing the main frequency bandwidth of EMG signals for robot control.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Clinical placement is an essential component in academic nursing programs to provide nursing students with an opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge to practice. The first clinical placement can be an extremely stressful experience for some nursing students, which may affect their decision to be a nurse.
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify factors and strategies that enable a positive experience of the first clinical placement for first year nursing students.