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BMJ Open
January 2025
Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Objectives: To assess the feasibility of capturing older care home residents' quality of life (QoL) in digital social care records and the construct validity (hypothesis testing) and internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) of four QoL measures.
Design: Cross-sectional data collected in wave 1 of the DACHA (eveloping resources nd minimum dataset for are omes' doption) study, a mixed-methods pilot of a prototype minimum dataset (MDS).
Setting: Care homes (with or without nursing) registered to provide care for older adults (>65 years) and/or those living with dementia.
Clin Rehabil
January 2025
Postgraduate Program in Physical Education, Universidade Federal do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil.
Objective: To assess the test-retest reliability, internal consistency, and construct validity of the 9-item Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia in patients with chronic low back pain.
Design: Questionnaire validation study.
Setting: Study was conducted in an online environment.
Heliyon
January 2025
Psychiatric Nursing Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Bilecik Şeyh Edebali University, Bilecik, Turkiye.
Background: This study aimed to determine the therapeutic communication skills of nursing students, examine their experiences of communication during care, and evaluate the views of patients and their relatives.
Methods: This study was designed using the convergent parallel mixed method and was conducted in Türkiye. The therapeutic communication skills of 112 nursing students were examined using the Therapeutic Communication Skills Scale.
Animals (Basel)
January 2025
Unidad Académica de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, General Enrique Estrada 98500, Mexico.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the changes in enzymic activity, metabolites, and hematological responses during the first 56-d of arrival of newly received calves, which were qualified at reception as high-risk but diagnosed as clinically healthy. A total of 320 blood samples were taken from 64 crossbred bull calves (average initial body weight = 148.3 ± 1.
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January 2025
Department of Veterinary Sciences, Veterinary Teaching Hospital "Mario Modenato", via Livornese snc, San Piero a Grado, Pisa, Italy.
CT arthrography (CTA) for evaluating cartilage defects would be beneficial in clinical practice. Since the contrast medium (CM) volume is often driven by operator experience, the aim was to evaluate the minimum volume of iodinated CM for CTA sufficient to identify iatrogenic cartilage defects in horse fetlock. The study was conducted on ex-vivo 32 distal limbs from adult horses collected at slaughter.
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