Understanding Daily Care Experience Preferences Across the Lifespan of Older Adults: Application of Natural Language Processing.

Introduction: Older adults are a heterogeneous group, and their care experience preferences are likely to be diverse and individualized. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify categories of older adults' care experience preferences and to examine similarities and differences across different age groups.

Methods: The initial categories of older adults' care experience preferences were identified through a qualitative review of narrative text (n = 3134) in the ADVault data set.

Exploring Research Trends on Digital Health in Nursing Science in Korea: A Topic Modeling Approach.

Digital health technology is utilized in contemporary nursing practice and education. This review explored the scope of digital health applications and major trends in nursing research involving digital health in Korea using topic modeling. Our analysis of data using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model identified four distinct research topics: nursing education using digital technologies (35.

Determinants of clinical nurses' patient safety competence: a systematic review protocol.

Introduction: Patient safety has become a fundamental element of healthcare quality. However, despite the ongoing efforts of various organisations, patient safety issues remain a problem in the healthcare system. Given the crucial role of nurses in the healthcare process, improving patient safety competence among clinical nurses is important.

An Integrative Review of the Feasibility and Effects of the Use of Location-Tracking Devices by Persons Living With Cognitive Impairment.

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the effects of location-tracking devices on persons living with cognitive impairment, investigate facilitators of and barriers to using the devices, and provide future directions for the use of the devices.

Methods: An integrative review was conducted using 5 databases: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, CINAHL, and Scopus. From the 1429 initially identified studies, 10 were included in the review.

Mothering children at a paediatric intensive care unit with strict visiting hours: A qualitative study.

Background: Although a child- and family-centred care (CFCC) philosophy has been emphasized and adopted for decades in paediatric critical care settings in several countries, numerous issues from parents' perspectives regarding the philosophy remain unresolved. To facilitate the full translation of CFCC into clinical practice, health care professionals need an in-depth understanding of family experiences. Real-life mothering experiences, including maternal roles and identities, remain largely unknown at paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the Republic of Korea, where family visitation, presence, and participation are restricted.

PET-validated EEG-machine learning algorithm predicts brain amyloid pathology in pre-dementia Alzheimer's disease.

Developing reliable biomarkers is important for screening Alzheimer's disease (AD) and monitoring its progression. Although EEG is non-invasive direct measurement of brain neural activity and has potentials for various neurologic disorders, vulnerability to noise, difficulty in clinical interpretation and quantification of signal information have limited its clinical application. There have been many research about machine learning (ML) adoption with EEG, but the accuracy of detecting AD is not so high or not validated with Aβ PET scan.

Perinatal women's experiences of childbirth and parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative descriptive study.

In this study, we described perinatal women's experiences of childbirth and parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic, guided by the qualitative descriptive methodology. We interviewed 14 women who gave birth during the pandemic. Data were analyzed using inductive qualitative content analysis.

Operation of national coordinating service for interhospital transfer from emergency departments: experience and implications from Korea.

Background: Since 2014, Korea has been operating the National Emergency Medical Situation Room (NEMSR) to provide regional emergency departments (EDs) with coordination services for the interhospital transfer of critically ill patients. The present study aimed to describe the NEMSR's experience and interhospital transfer pattern from EDs nationwide, and investigate the factors related to delayed transfers or transfers that could not be arranged by the NEMSR.

Methods: This study was a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of the NEMSR's coordination registry from 2017 to 2019.

Withdrawal of antihypertensive medication in young to middle-aged adults: a prospective, single-group, intervention study.

Background: Although antihypertensive drug therapy is commonly believed to be a life-long therapy, several recent guidelines have suggested that antihypertensive medications can be gradually reduced or discontinued for some patients whose blood pressure (BP) is well-controlled for an extended period. Thus, this pilot study aimed to describe the success rate of antihypertensive drug discontinuation over 6 months among young and middle-aged patients with hypertension.

Methods: This was a prospective, single-group, intervention study.

Characteristics of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Subtypes in Children Classified Using Quantitative Electroencephalography.

Purpose: This study used quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG) to investigate the characteristics of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) subtypes in children.

Patients And Methods: There were 69 subjects (42 with ADHD and 27 neurotypical (NT)) in this study. A semi-structured interview was conducted with each participant for psychiatric diagnostic evaluation.

Pathophysiological insight into transient global amnesia from quantitative electroencephalography.

Transient global amnesia (TGA) is recognized as a benign memory disorder, with characteristic clinical and imaging features. However, the pathophysiology of TGA remains elusive. This study aims to elucidate the pathophysiological changes underlying TGA by exploring the brain activities.

Quantitative Electroencephalogram Standardization: A Sex- and Age-Differentiated Normative Database.

We describe the utility of a standardized index (Z-score) in quantitative EEG (QEEG) capable of when referenced to a resting-state, sex- and age-differentiated QEEG normative database (ISB-NormDB). Our ISB-NormDB comprises data for 1,289 subjects (553 males, 736 females) ages 4.5 to 81 years that met strict normative data criteria.

A qualitative study of the sleep ecology of infants under 2 years old and their mothers in South Korea.

Objectives/design: Infancy is a crucial period for establishing an individual's sleep pattern, and it is a common period during which infants and mothers experience sleep problems. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the sleep ecology of infants under 2 years of age and their mothers.

Setting/participants: The study participants were 20 mothers with infants aged 3-19 months living in South Korea.

Machine Learning to Predict Brain Amyloid Pathology in Pre-dementia Alzheimer's Disease Using QEEG Features and Genetic Algorithm Heuristic.

The use of positron emission tomography (PET) as the initial or sole biomarker of β-amyloid (Aβ) brain pathology may inhibit Alzheimer's disease (AD) drug development and clinical use due to cost, access, and tolerability. We developed a qEEG-ML algorithm to predict Aβ pathology among subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) patients, and validated it using Aβ PET. We compared QEEG data between patients with MCI and those with SCD with and without PET-confirmed beta-amyloid plaque.

Effects of school-based "We Fit" weight control programme in adolescents.

Aim: This study examined the effects of a 12-week school-based "We Fit" weight control programme.

Design: A nonequivalent control group was used, with a non-synchronized pretest-posttest design.

Methods: In total, 109 Korean high school adolescents participated.

Effects of the Mental Health and Welfare Law revision on schizophrenia patients in Korea: an interrupted time series analysis.

Background: High rates of involuntary hospitalization and long lengths of stay have been problematic in Korea. To address these problems, the Mental Health and Welfare Law was revised in 2016, mainly to protect patient rights by managing involuntary admissions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the revised Mental Health and Welfare Law on deinstitutionalization by using routinely collected data from hospital admissions and continuity of mental health service use after hospital discharge as proxy measures of deinstitutionalization.

Predictive Risk Models for Wound Infection-Related Hospitalization or ED Visits in Home Health Care Using Machine-Learning Algorithms.

Objective: Wound infection is prevalent in home healthcare (HHC) and often leads to hospitalizations. However, none of the previous studies of wounds in HHC have used data from clinical notes. Therefore, the authors created a more accurate description of a patient's condition by extracting risk factors from clinical notes to build predictive models to identify a patient's risk of wound infection in HHC.

A meta-analysis on predictors of turnover intention of hospital nurses in South Korea (2000-2020).

Aims: To identify the predictors of Registered Nurses' turnover intention and analyse the effect sizes.

Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis of previous research, conducted to comprehensively identify the predictors of turnover intention.

Methods: In total, 417 studies from 1 January 2000 to 30 April 2020 that investigated predictors of turnover intention of South Korean nurses were reviewed.

How do caregivers of children with congenital heart diseases access and navigate the healthcare system in Ethiopia?

Background: Surgery can correct congenital heart defects, but disease management in low- and middle-income countries can be challenging and complex due to a lack of referral system, financial resources, human resources, and infrastructure for surgical and post-operative care. This study investigates the experiences of caregivers of children with CHD accessing the health care system and pediatric cardiac surgery.

Methods: A qualitative study was conducted at a teaching hospital in Ethiopia.