Aims: To explore the association between nurse managers' paternalistic leadership and nurses' perceived workplace bullying (WPB), as well as to examine the mediating role of organizational climate in this association.
Background: There is a lack of empirical evidence regarding the relationship between nurse managers' paternalistic leadership, organizational climate and nurses' perceived WPB. Clarifying this relationship is crucial to understand how paternalistic leadership influences WPB and for nursing managers to seek organizational-level solutions to prevent it.
Background: The ethical competence of head nurses plays a pivotal role in nursing ethics. Ethical climate is a prerequisite for ethical competence, and moral resilience can positively influence an individual's ethical competence. However, few studies have focused on the relationship between ethical climate, moral resilience, and ethical competence among them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Endocrinol (Lausanne)
November 2023
Background: Globally, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) accounts for approximately 90% of diabetes cases. Resistance training (RT) is frequently employed to diminish Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) and Fast Blood Glucose (FBG) levels in T2DM patients. Yet, the specific dose-response relationships between RT variables such as training duration, frequency, and intensity for T2DM remain under-researched.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: This study was conducted to understand the research hotspots, research trends and research frontiers for hypothermia in surgical patients and provide a reference for developing effective measures to reduce the incidence of hypothermia in these patients.
Design: Using CiteSpace software, a visual analysis of 1288 included articles related to hypothermia in surgical patients was performed.
Methods: CiteSpace software is a Java application that supports knowledge research, data visualization and analysis of literature databases.
This study aimed to identify the risk factors associated with puncture site bleeding following percutaneous puncture of the common femoral artery during interventional treatment of cerebrovascular disease (CVD). A retrospective analysis was conducted on 710 patients who underwent interventional treatment for CVD via femoral artery puncture. Among them, 26 individuals (3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To explore the experiences of healthcare workers (HCWs) following occupational exposure to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during the early stage of the pandemic.
Design: A Husserl descriptive phenomenological study design was employed.
Methods: Convenient and snowball sampling was used.
Objective: To explore the influences of Heider balance on knowledge, attitude, practice (KAP), and quality of life in bladder cancer patients after urinary diversion.
Methods: A set of bladder cancer patients after urinary diversion in our hospital from January 2016 to December 2020 were included in this study. Patients who received out-hospital intervention based on Heider balance were included in the observation group (85 cases).
MicroRNA-378a (miR-378a), including miR-378a-3p and miR-378a-5p, are encoded in gene. miR-378a is essential for tumorigenesis and is an independent prognostic biomarker for various malignant tumors. Aberrant expression of miR-378a affects several physiological and pathological processes, including proliferation, apoptosis, tumorigenesis, cancer invasion, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAltern Ther Health Med
January 2023
Objective: To analyze the comfort and influencing factors in patients with enterocutaneous intestinal fistula (ECF) on hospital admission and propose targeted nursing intervention countermeasures.
Methods: A total of 193 patients with EDF admitted to Hunan Provincial People's Hospital in China from May 2018 to February 2021 were selected for this study. Basic patient data were collected upon admission and the Kolcaba Comfort Scale was used to score comfort status.
A total of 215 patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) were analyzed with SPSS. Samples of different genders showed significance in the obtuse marginal branch of the left circumflex branch × 1, the diagonal branch D1 × 1, and the ms PV representation. Patients with left circumflex branch occlusion are more male and tend to be younger.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pim-1 is overexpressed in cancer tissues and plays a vital role in carcinogenesis. However, its clinical significance in cancers is not fully verified by meta-analysis, especially in relation to prognosis and clinicopathological features.
Methods: Four databases, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science, were searched.
Jaundice is a detection index in many disease conditions commonly characterized by yellowish staining of the skin and mucous membranes. This work studies the postoperative care outcome in 1,246 patients (669 males and 577 females) with obstructive jaundice who underwent percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD). These patients were admitted to the interventional vascular surgery department of our hospital from February 2017 to February 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The effect of early enteral nutrition (EN) in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) has been confirmed. In recent years, some researchers provided new strategy that immediate EN was offered after admission. The effect and safety of immediate EN was unclear because of the different results among studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground Pulmonary rehabilitation is recommended for most patients with lung diseases. However, some previous studies have shown that pulmonary rehabilitation has no obvious effect on short-term lung function in patients with lung cancer. Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the ABCDEF pulmonary rehabilitation program on lung cancer patients who have undergone surgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Intermittent fasting is an effective approach to promote weight loss. The optimal model of intermittent fasting in achieving weight management and cardiometabolic risk reduction is an underexplored but important issue.
Purpose: This study was designed to examine the effects of alternate-day fasting (ADF) and 16/8 time-restricted fasting (16/8 TRF) on weight loss, blood glucose, and lipid profile in overweight and obese adults with prediabetes.
Background: Exercise rehabilitation therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) can accelerate physical recovery, improve cardiovascular work efficiency, and reduce the incidence of arterial restenosis. This study aimed to investigate the effect of resistance exercise therapy after PCI by literature search and meta-analysis.
Methods: The databases of Embase, Cochrane library, PubMed, and Ovid were searched for all published English language articles related to resistance exercise after PCI from January 2000 to January 2021.
Objective: The outbreak of COVID-19 has major impacts on the psychological health of the public. This study aimed to investigate the anxiety and depression levels of the general population during the rapid progressing stage of COVID-19 pandemic in China and to explore the associated factors.
Design And Setting: A cross-sectional online survey.
Purpose: Eriodictyol is an active flavonoid present in several vegetables and fruits. Eriodictyol-bearing plants have long been used in folk medicine used to treat different human disorders. It has been reported to exhibit the anticancer, antioxidative and antiinflammatory properties.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Alternate-day fasting (ADF) is a novel diet therapy that may achieve reduction in body weight and improvement of dyslipidaemia, but the impact of this diet on patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) remains unknown. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of ADF on the body weight and lipid profile of individuals with NAFLD.
Methods: NAFLD patients (n = 271) were randomised to the ADF group, time-restricted feeding (TRF) group, or the control group and subjected to the respective diet for 12 weeks.
Objective: To investigate the curative effect of bronchoalveolar lavage with fiberoptic bronchoscopy combined with vibration sputum drainage in the treatment of severe pneumonia patients undergoing mechanical ventilation (MV).
Methods: A prospective randomized controlled trial was conducted. 286 severe pneumonia patients undergoing MV admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) of Hunan People's Hospital from January 2014 to July 2016 were enrolled, and they were divided into control group and observation group according to random number table, with 143 patients in each group.
Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol
March 2017
Background: Stress-induced hyperglycaemia (SHG) can be observed in as high as 75% of critically ill patients, which can induce severe complications or adverse events. However, conventional intensive insulin therapy (CIIT) tends to induce hypoglycaemia and glucose variability.
Aims: This study investigated the clinical effects of a blood glycaemic control optimization programme (BGCOP) in patients with stress hyperglycaemia post hepatobiliary or pancreatic surgery.
The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of depressive symptoms for patients with type-2 diabetes at the population level in China and explore differences in demographic, socioeconomic, and disease-specific parameters between diabetic patients with and without depression. Self-rating depression scale was used to screen for depressive symptoms in 667 patients with type-2 diabetes from 4 communities in Beijing; their quality of life and social support was assessed using appropriate and validated tools. The results indicate that 44.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: To explore the factors related to quality of life for patients with type 2 diabetes with or without depressive symptoms in China.
Background: In patients with type 2 diabetes with or without depressive symptoms, different factors such as gender, social context or regional setting may affect their quality of life.
Design: This was a cross-sectional study.