Enhanced setup for wired continuous long-term EEG monitoring in juvenile and adult rats: application for epilepsy and other disorders.

Background: The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a widely used laboratory technique in rodent models of epilepsy, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and other neurological diseases accompanied by seizures. Obtaining prolonged continuous EEG tracings over weeks to months is essential to adequately answer research questions related to the chronobiology of seizure emergence, and to the effect of potential novel treatment strategies. Current EEG recording methods include wired and the more recent but very costly wireless technologies.

Movie violence acutely affects food choices in young adults.

Background: Extensive research has been conducted to investigate the effects of media violence on attitudes, behaviors, and cardiovascular health; however, only few studies have examined its effect on appetite, eating behavior and food preferences. Little attention has been given to understand how movie genre manipulates the physiology and the eating behavior of individuals. The present study aimed at investigating the acute effect of violence content in movies on appetite perception, heart rate and blood pressure, along with food preferences and intake in young individuals.

Lestaurtinib (CEP-701) modulates the effects of early life hypoxic seizures on cognitive and emotional behaviors in immature rats.

Hypoxic encephalopathy of the newborn is a major cause of long-term neurological sequelae. We have previously shown that CEP-701 (lestaurtinib), a drug with an established safety profile in children, attenuates short-term hyperexcitability and tropomyosin-related kinase B (TrkB) receptor activation in a well-established rat model of early life hypoxic seizures (HS). Here, we investigated the potential long-term neuroprotective effects of a post-HS transient CEP-701 treatment.

Perceived impact of community kitchens on the food security of Syrian refugees and kitchen workers in Lebanon: Qualitative evidence in a displacement context.

Community kitchens (CKs) have been recommended as public health strategies with social and nutritional health benefits for low-income participants and their families in different settings. The benefit of CKs in improving the food security status of participants in the context of conflict and displacement is less conclusive. This study aimed to qualitatively explore the impact of CKs on the food security status of community kitchen workers (CWs) and Syrian refugee (SR) families in Lebanon.

Multidimensional Analysis of the Arabic Version of the Actual Scope of Nursing Practice Scale.

Background And Purpose: Data were analyzed from a national convenience sample of 3,000 bedside nurses in Lebanon to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of the first Arabic version of the Actual Scope of Nursing Practice (A-ASCOP) questionnaire.

Methods: The method used in this study was application of the partial credit model using the multidimensional random coefficients multinomial logit model.

Results: A-ASCOP subscales ( = .

Rey Figure Test with recognition trial: normative data for Lebanese adults.

Objective: This study aimed to provide normative data for four trials of the Rey figure Test - a complex design used to assess visuoconstructional abilities, aspects of visual memory, and aspects of executive functioning. Despite its frequent clinical and research use in the Arab region, published studies regarding the measures' adaptation or normative data remain absent.

Method: We administered the Rey figure on a convenience sample of Lebanese (n = 254) aged 30 years to 99.

An evaluation of involving family caregivers in the self-care of heart failure patients on hospital readmission: Randomised controlled trial (the FAMILY study).

Background: The prevalence of heart failure is increasing in Lebanon but to date there is no systematic evaluation of a disease management intervention.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of involving family caregivers in the self-care of patients with heart failure on the risk of hospital readmission.

Design: A multi-site, block randomised controlled trial.

Protocol for a block randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve heart failure care.

Aim: To describe the design of a randomised controlled trial conducted to evaluate a culturally tailored, nurse-led educational intervention.

Background: Self-care strategies are critical to improving health outcomes in heart failure. The family unit is crucial in collectivist cultures, but little is known about involving the family in the self-care of patients with heart failure.

Family-centred approaches to healthcare interventions in chronic diseases in adults: a quantitative systematic review.

Background: Increasingly there is a focus on self-care strategies for both malignant and non-malignant conditions. Models of self-care interventions have focussed on the individual and less on the broader context of family and society. In many societies, decision-making and health seeking behaviours, involve family members.

A survey of knowledge-to-action pathways of aging policies and programs in the Arab region: the role of institutional arrangements.

Background: While population aging challenges Arab governments to ensure well-being in old age, knowledge translation is gaining support worldwide in evidence-based policymaking and service provision. This study examines the status of existing knowledge translation efforts of aging-related research in Arab countries and evaluates the additional role that institutional arrangements (such as ministry departments, national committees, etc.) play in the relationship between knowledge creation and social and health policies and programs.

A family-focused intervention for heart failure self-care: conceptual underpinnings of a culturally appropriate intervention.

Aim: A discussion of the conceptual elements of an intervention tailored to the needs of Lebanese families.

Background: The role of informal caregiving is strongly recommended for individuals with chronic conditions including heart failure. Although this importance is recognized, conceptual and theoretical underpinnings are not well elucidated nor are methods of intervention implementation.

Case-based learning: What traditional curricula fail to teach.

Background: Case-based learning seeks to contextualize learning and to enhance the transition of nurses to practice. This instructional approach is gaining widespread interest in nursing education since the unfolding process emulates the work environment. Case-based learning holds great promise to the development of professional skills.

Quality of care and relationships as reported by children with cancer and their parents.

Between 2010 and 2011, a non-probability convenience sample of 85 children and adolescents between the ages of 7 to 18 years, who were receiving treatments at the inpatient or outpatient facilities of a tertiary pediatric cancer center in Lebanon, were enrolled in the study. A total of 85 parents or significant others directly involved in the care of these children were also included. The Needs at End of Life Screening Tool (NEST) questionnaire was used to evaluate the quality of palliative care (PC) provided to the children.

Contrast media induced nephropathy: a literature review of the available evidence and recommendations for practice.

Background: Contrast media induced nephropathy (CIN) is a sudden compromise of renal function 24-48 h after administering contrast medium during a CT scan or angiography. CIN accounts for 10% of hospital acquired renal failure and is ranked the third cause of acquiring this condition. Identifying patients at risk through proper screening can reduce the occurrence of this condition.

Readmission rates and emergency department visits after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and related factors.

Introduction: Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is associated with complications like wound infection, arrhythmias, heart failure, and pulmonary complications, leading to hospital readmissions. This study aim was to determine rates of readmissions and emergency department (ED) visits in CABG surgery patients within 30 days post-discharge. Reasons for and frequency of readmissions, and associated factors were examined.

Incorporation of constructivist assumptions into problem-based instruction: a literature review.

Objectives: The purpose of this literature review was to explore the use of distinct assumptions of constructivism when studying the impact of problem-based learning (PBL) on learners in undergraduate nursing programs.

Design: Content analysis research technique.

Data Sources: The literature review included information retrieved from sources selected via electronic databases, such as EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Sage Publications, SLACK Incorporation, Springhouse Corporation, and Digital Dissertations.

Assessment and instruction to promote higher order thinking in nursing students.

Objectives: The dearth of data on the role of assessment in higher education formed the two purposes of this study: first, to explore assessment strategies commonly used in nursing education by analyzing the curriculum documents of three baccalaureate nursing programs in Lebanon against Bloom's Taxonomy of learning, and second to unravel issues of instruction and assessment by categorizing data into teacher- and learner-centered strategies.

Design: Content analysis research technique applied to analyze the curriculum documents of three baccalaureate nursing programs in Beirut, Lebanon.

Method: After obtaining IRB approval and consent to access the curriculum documents of the programs, data were analyzed using the content analysis research technique.

Integration of clinical judgment in the nursing curriculum: challenges and perspectives.

The purpose of this qualitative, multiple-case study design was to better understand the influence of the nursing curriculum on clinical judgment development in baccalaureate nursing students and the capacity to provide safe nursing practice in health care settings. A sample of 20 preceptors for new graduate nurses were selected from three hospitals in Lebanon, and curriculum documents of three nursing programs provided data to determine the influence of curriculum on clinical judgment development. The preceptors' responses and curriculum data were triangulated, resulting in identification of strengths and weaknesses in the development of the clinical judgment ability of nursing students.

Response to a cardiac event in relation to cardiac knowledge and risk perception in a Lebanese sample: a cross sectional survey.

Background: Heart disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in many countries, including Lebanon. The continuing advances in the treatment of heart disease have improved patient outcomes significantly over the years. Nevertheless, prompt treatment remains essential to treatment success, which depends on the person's early recognition of cardiac symptoms and quick seeking of care.