Social isolation and depressive symptoms among chinese older adults: Serial mediating roles of social support and resilience.

Background: Social isolation is a significant risk factor for depressive symptoms in older adults, with social support and resilience serving as protective factors. However, the mechanisms underlying this association are not well understood.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was performed of 1020 participants (aged ≥ 60years) in the northern, central and southern parts of Jiangsu Province, China.

Predicting nursing workload in digestive wards based on machine learning: A prospective study.

Background: The process of assessing and allocating nursing staff, as well as evaluating performance, relies heavily on nursing workload, which is strongly associated with patient safety outcomes. Nevertheless, most previous studies have utilized cross-sectional data collection methods, which limit the precision of workload prediction. Static workload models do not incorporate longitudinal changes in influential factors, potentially resulting in delayed or erroneous nursing management decisions and ultimately causing imbalances in nurses' workload.

Ethical risks in robot health education: A qualitative study.

Background: As health education robots may potentially become a significant support force in nursing practice in the future, it is imperative to adhere to the European Union's concept of "Responsible Research and Innovation" (RRI) and deeply reflect on the ethical risks hidden in the process of intelligent robotic health education.

Aim: This study explores the perceptions of professional nursing professionals regarding the potential ethical risks associated with the clinical practice of intelligent robotic health education.

Research Design: This study adopts a descriptive phenomenological approach, employing Colaizzi's seven-step method for data analysis.

The transformation of 20-year social participation policies of older people in China: Network analysis and text analysis.

Background: Social participation of older adults is a crucial component of China's aged care services and an important strategy for actively addressing the aging population. Analyzing policy texts on older people's social participation can inform future policy formulation and the development of relevant programs.

Objectives: This study aims to quantitatively analyze the transformation of China's social participation policies for older people from 1999 to 2023, employing institutional network analysis and policy text analysis.

The Relationship Between Social Isolation and Cognitive Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults: The Mediating Role of Depressive Symptoms.

Purpose: Social isolation and depression have an impact on cognitive frailty. However, the underlying mechanisms between these variables have not been well defined. This study aims to investigate the mediating role of depressive symptoms in the association between social isolation and cognitive frailty among older adults in China.

Latent Class Analysis of Sleep in Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients and its Influencing Factors.

Background: Individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) frequently experience sleep disorders, which may elevate the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Yet, sleep types in MCI patients and the factors influencing them have not been sufficiently investigated.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore potential sleep typing and its influencing factors in patients with MCI using latent class analysis.

Current situation and factors influencing elderly care in community day care centers: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The latest census data show that people over 60 years of age account for about 18.7% of the total population in China, and the aging of the population has become an irreversible trend in the 21st century. This study aimed to investigate the current status and factors influencing the care of the elderly in community day care centers in order to lay the foundation for the development of better services in community day care centers.

Staff's experiences of a culturally specific DEmentia Competence Education for Nursing home Taskforce (DECENT) programme: A qualitative process evaluation.

Aim: To understand participants' experiences with a culturally specific DEmentia Competence Education for Nursing home Taskforce programme within the contexts which was delivered.

Design: An exploratory descriptive qualitative approach.

Methods: Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted within one week with the participants upon their completion of the programme from July 2020 to January 2021.

Evaluating the Risk of Social Isolation in Older People: AHP-Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation.

Background: Social isolation is a serious and pervasive health issue among older people, and it is difficult to identify and assess effectively. Based on a thorough and scientific evaluation index system, AHP-Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation could be a valuable technique.

Objective: It is crucial to establish interventions that focus on risk factors for the prevention of social isolation in order to give a strong scientific foundation for enhancing older people's health habits.

A variant of RAG1 gene identified in severe combined immunodeficiency: a case report.

Background: The recombination-activating gene 1 (RAG1) protein is essential for the V (variable)-D (diversity)-J (joining) recombination process. Mutations in RAG1 have been reported to be associated with several types of immune disorders. Typical clinical features driven by RAG1 variants include persistent infections, severe lymphopenia, and decreased immunoglobulin levels .

Nurse managers' burnout and organizational support: The serial mediating role of leadership and resilience.

Aims: To investigate the relationship between organizational support and nurse managers' burnout and the serial multiple mediating effects of leadership and resilience.

Background: Nurse managers are at a high risk of burnout, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no research has been done to examine the associations between nurse managers' organizational support, leadership, resilience and burnout.

A critical assessment of the potential vertical transmission hypotheses: Implications for research on the early-life infection with COVID-19.

The risk of potential vertical transmission in SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnant women is currently a topic of debate. To explore the correlation between the two, we searched PubMed, Embase®, and Web of Science for studies on vertical transmission of COVID-19. The quality of the studies was evaluated by the Cochrane risk of bias tool.

Hirudin protects against isoproternol-induced myocardial infraction by alleviating oxidative via an Nrf2 dependent manner.

Oxidative stress plays a critical role in the progression of myocardial injury. Increasing evidence suggests that hiruidin can treat patients with cardio-injury. However, the mechanism of hirudin against myocardial infraction remains unknown.

Effectiveness of Auricular Acupressure for Acute Postoperative Pain after Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Objective: To identify the effectiveness of auricular acupressure (AA) in patients with acute postoperative pain after surgery by systematic review.

Methods: A search of randomized controlled trials was conducted in 5 English medical electronic databases and 4 Chinese databases. Two reviewers independently retrieved related studies, assessed the methodological quality, and extracted data with a standardized data form.

Optimizing evacuation efficiency under emergency with consideration of social fairness based on a cell transmission model.

Traffic assignment and management objectives are considered as two significant parts in developing the emergency evacuation plan, which can directly influence the evacuation performance and efficiency. From the perspective of disaster response operators, the evacuation objective frequently is to minimize the total evacuation time to reduce losses, which may lead to an unreasonable and unfair phenomenon where people in highest risk areas may be forced to sacrifice their priorities of evacuation to improve the system evacuation efficiency. In this paper, considering both efficiency and social fairness in emergency evacuation, a weight function consisting of risk evaluation index as variable and the emphasis degree of managers on social fairness principle as coefficient was initially proposed and embedded in system optimal (SO) objective function.

Redesigning the patient classification system in China: A pilot study.

The current prototype patient classification system in China has not been updated for over six decades. In the present study, we adopted a hybrid patient classification method using both disease severity and activities of daily living scores to classify patients. The time motion approach was used to measure the direct nursing time of 551 general acute care patients.

A Method for Formulizing Disaster Evacuation Demand Curves Based on SI Model.

The prediction of evacuation demand curves is a crucial step in the disaster evacuation plan making, which directly affects the performance of the disaster evacuation. In this paper, we discuss the factors influencing individual evacuation decision making (whether and when to leave) and summarize them into four kinds: individual characteristics, social influence, geographic location, and warning degree. In the view of social contagion of decision making, a method based on Susceptible-Infective (SI) model is proposed to formulize the disaster evacuation demand curves to address both social influence and other factors' effects.

Evaluation of a Self-Management Program for Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in China.

Gastroesophageal reflux disease is a chronic disease with a high incidence worldwide. The various symptoms have substantial impact on the quality of life of affected individuals. A long-term self-management program can increase the ability of patients to make behavioral changes, and health outcomes can improve as a consequence.