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PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Community and Global Health, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
In recent years, Japan has experienced a significant increase in the number of foreign students and workers entering the country. This has resulted in a vast number of international patients in medical facilities. This shift emphasizes the immediate need for Japanese nurses who are both clinically proficient and culturally attuned.
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January 2025
Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Objective: The Adult Scale/National Stressful Events Survey Short Scale (NSESSS) is an emerging brief screening measure for the severity of Acute Stress Symptoms based on the of acute stress disorder (ASD). Scant information is known about the NSESSS's psychometric properties among different cultures or populations exposed to an ongoing trauma and displacement. Therefore, the present study aimed to (a) assess for the first time the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Hebrew version of NSESSS in an internally displaced population following the massacre in Israel on October 7, 2023; and (b) assess the possible risk and protective predictors of ASD according to sociodemographic characteristics, types of trauma exposure, absence of basic needs, and social support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Health Organ Manag
January 2025
Jindal Global Business School, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.
Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited the debate on effective leadership during a crisis. The study examined healthcare leaders' experiences, challenges and responses amid the COVID-19 crisis in India and the USA.
Design/methodology/approach: Thematic analysis culminated in developing a thematic framework that encapsulates the behavior of operational healthcare leaders in India and the USA to illustrate how they responded to the global pandemic.
Alzheimers Dement
December 2024
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA.
Background: Individuals' attitudes toward research predict recruitment, engagement, and retention. The Research Attitudes Questionnaire (RAQ), developed to predict individuals' willingness to participate, is often used in AD research. It can be used to identify strategies to mitigate individuals' reluctance to engage in research.
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December 2024
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Background: Long-term care (LTC) home residents may be isolated or lonely. Social connection is important for their physical, mental and cognitive health, quality of life and care. However, measuring social connection in LTC residents is challenging and there are no existing measures with adequately established psychometric properties.
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