Impact of Atopic Dermatitis on Adolescents and Families: A Mixed-Method Systematic Review.

Aims: To summarise the evidence regarding the impact of atopic dermatitis on adolescents and their families as well as their healthcare needs and to propose a nursing care plan based on the findings.

Design: Mixed-method systematic review.

Methods: Twenty-four studies were included, of which 19 were quantitative and 5 were qualitative.

Dysphagia Prevalence in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

The objective of this systematic review was to determine the prevalence of dysphagia and aspiration in people with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). A search of six electronic databases was performed from inception to April 2022. No context restrictions were set.

The Impact of Complex Trauma on Occupations and Daily Functioning in Childhood: A Scoping Review.

Aims: To explore the impact of complex trauma on occupations and daily functioning in childhood through empirical studies and asses the extent and state of available evidence.

Methods: The five-stage scoping review framework by Arksey and O'Malley and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR: Tricco et al.) were followed.

Stakeholders' perspectives and experiences of patient and public involvement (PPI) in clinical trials in maternal and neonatal healthcare: protocol for a qualitative evidence synthesis.

Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) has the potential to improve the relevance of trial outcomes and improve participant recruitment within clinical trials. However, the literature on PPI approaches, outcomes, and attitudes towards PPI in specific clinical research areas is limited. We are interested to know the current approaches to and views of PPI within maternal and neonatal clinical trials, from the perspective and experience of involved stakeholders.

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of palliative care in natural experiments: a systematic review.

Context: Investigators in palliative care rely heavily on routinely collected data, which carry risk of unobserved confounding and selection bias. 'Natural experiments' offer opportunities to generate credible causal treatment effect estimates from observational data.

Objectives: We aimed first to review studies that employed 'natural experiments' to evaluate palliative care, and second to consider implications for expanding use of these methods.

Nurses knowledge, attitudes and education needs towards acute pain management in hospital settings: A meta-analysis.

Background: Effective pain assessment and management is widely reported as sub optimal due to inadequate knowledge and negative attitudes among nurses.

Aim: To determine nurses' attitudes, knowledge and education needs towards acute pain management in acute hospital settings METHODS: PRISMA (2021) and guidelines from the University of York, CRD (2009) informed the design and conduct of this review. We included studies with registered nurses involved in direct adult patient care and acute pain management in hospital settings.

Defining and researching the concept of resilience in LGBT+ later life: Findings from a mixed study systematic review.

Within the literature, resilience is described as either a trait, an outcome or a process and no universal definition exists. A growing body of research shows that older LGBT+ adults show signs of resilience despite facing multiple inequalities that negatively impact their health and social wellbeing. The aim of this review was to examine how resilience is defined in LGBT+ ageing research and how it is studied.

Youths with asthma and their experiences of self-management education: A systematic review of qualitative evidence.

Aims: To identify and synthesize the available evidence of youths with asthma and their experience of self-management education.

Design: Systematic literature review of qualitative studies with meta-synthesis of findings.

Data Sources: We searched five databases, CINAHL Complete, Embase, MEDLINE (EBSCO) PsycINFO, ASSIA and the Global Index Medicus (formerly the WHOLIS).

Parental experiences with changes in maternity care during the Covid-19 pandemic: A mixed-studies systematic review.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, pregnant women were identified as a high-risk and vulnerable group. To reduce risk of transmission, maternity healthcare services were modified to limit exposure but maintain services for pregnant women. However, the change in hospital practice may have compromised quality maternal care standards.

Living with or beyond lymphoma: A rapid review of the unmet needs of lymphoma survivors.

Objective: To establish an understanding of the unmet needs of people living with or beyond a lymphoma diagnosis. Survivors of lymphoma are at increased risk of unmet needs due to cancer, treatment-related toxicities and extended survivorship. Despite the rapidly growing numbers of lymphoma survivors, their needs and research priorities are underserved and undervalued, therefore left largely unaddressed.

Assessment of workplace integration of migrant nurses and midwives within international health care settings: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to map the available evidence on the assessment of workplace integration of migrant nurses and midwives in international health care settings.

Introduction: Internationally, migrant nurses and midwives are an increasingly important resource in government strategy for addressing the current and predicted workforce shortages in health care. Much has been documented about the orientation stages of their transition to foreign workplaces but few sources have considered the workplace integration of this population.

Exercise-based dysphagia rehabilitation for adults with oesophageal cancer: a systematic review.

Background: Dysphagia is prevalent in oesophageal cancer with significant clinical and psychosocial complications. The purpose of this study was i) to examine the impact of exercise-based dysphagia rehabilitation on clinical and quality of life outcomes in this population and ii) to identify key rehabilitation components that may inform future research in this area.

Methods: Randomised control trials (RCT), non-RCTs, cohort studies and case series were included.

Community nurses' attitudes, knowledge and educational needs in relation to urinary continence, continence assessment and management: A systematic review.

Aims And Objectives: To identify, appraise and summarise the available evidence relating to community nurses' attitudes, knowledge and educational needs in relation to urinary continence.

Background: Community nurses play a pivotal role in identifying and supporting individuals who experience urinary continence issues. Gaps in nurses' continence-related education and knowledge may contribute to sub-optimal assessment and management across the continuum of care.

Initiating technology dependence to sustain a child's life: a systematic review of reasons.

Background: Decision-making in initiating life-sustaining health technology is complex and often conducted at time-critical junctures in clinical care. Many of these decisions have profound, often irreversible, consequences for the child and family, as well as potential benefits for functioning, health and quality of life. Yet little is known about what influences these decisions.

Facilitators and barriers to stakeholder engagement in advance care planning for older adults in community settings: a hybrid systematic review protocol.

Poor stakeholder engagement in advance care planning (ACP) poses national and international challenges, preventing maximisation of its potential benefits. Conceptualisation of advance care planning as a health behaviour highlights the need to design innovative, evidence-based strategies that will facilitate meaningful end-of-life care decision-making. To review systematically and synthesise quantitative and qualitative evidence on barriers and facilitators to stakeholders` engagement in ACP for older adults (≥ 50 years old) in a community setting.

Challenges faced by student nurses and midwives in clinical learning environment - A systematic review and meta-synthesis.

Objectives: This systematic review aimed to offer insight and understanding, through synthesis of findings from studies that report on perspectives of student nurses/midwives, clinical instructors, clinical nurses/midwives on the challenges faced by student nurses/midwives in the clinical learning environment (CLE).

Design: All primary qualitative research studies published in the English language that reported on the views of student nurses/midwives, clinical instructors and clinical nurses/midwives on the challenges faced by student nurses/midwives in the CLE were included.

Data Sources: The electronic databases of Medline EBSCO (1946-), CINAHL (1970), Embase Ovid (1974-), ScielO, WHOLIS (2002-), ASSIA (1985-), Web of Science (1956-), PsycINFO (1800s-) and Maternal and Infant Care (1970-) were searched in November 2019.

Use of mHealth apps by nurses in the management of chronic wounds: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to explore the existing literature related to nurses' use of mHealth apps in the management of chronic wounds and chart if and how these apps are being evaluated.

Introduction: mHealth technology is increasingly used within health care facilities. There is now a variety of wound care apps available to support nurses delivering wound care.

A systematic review of the educational experiences and needs of children with cancer returning to school.

Aims: To critically review and synthesize empirical studies on childhood cancer survivors' experiences and needs on returning to school after treatment.

Design: A mixed-method systematic review.

Data Sources: A search of CINAHL, PsycINFO, EMBASE, MEDLINE, ERIC and Web of Science was conducted for studies published in English, Spanish and Portuguese languages between January 2010 and May 2020.

What do we mean by individual capacity strengthening for primary health care in low- and middle-income countries? A systematic scoping review to improve conceptual clarity.

Background: Capacity strengthening of primary health care workers is widely used as a means to strengthen health service delivery, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Despite the widespread recognition of the importance of capacity strengthening to improve access to quality health care, how the term 'capacity strengthening' is both used and measured varies substantially across the literature. This scoping review sought to identify the most common domains of individual capacity strengthening, as well as their most common forms of measurement, to generate a better understanding of what is meant by the term 'capacity strengthening' for primary health care workers.

Perspectives of partners of mothers who experience mental distress in the postnatal period: A systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis.

Objective: To offer insight and understanding on the perspectives of the partners of mothers who experience postnatal mental distress.

Background: Partners have an important role in identifying postnatal mental distress, supporting the mother, and encouraging help-seeking behaviours that may help reduce the associated long-term consequences on the mother and baby.

Design: A qualitative evidence synthesis.

Crossing borders: a systematic review identifying potential mechanisms of intergenerational trauma transmission in asylum-seeking and refugee families.

As displacement and forced migration continue to exhibit global growth trends, new and surviving generations of children are being born and spending their formative years in host countries. Refugee children who have not been exposed to traumatic events may still be at risk for adverse developmental and mental health outcomes via intergenerational trauma transmission. To identify and synthesize potential mechanisms of intergenerational trauma transmission in forcibly displaced families where parents have experienced direct war-related trauma exposure, but children have no history of direct trauma exposure.

Educating health and social care practitioners on the experiences and needs of older LGBT+ adults: Findings from a systematic review.

Aim(s): To report review findings into interventions used to educate the health and social care workforce on the experiences and needs of LGBT+ older adults.

Background: Research demonstrates that inequalities in outcomes on health and social well-being for LGBT+ older adults are perpetuated by the cumulative disadvantages from discrimination and social exclusion throughout the life course and a lack of culturally competent workforce.

Methods: A systematic search of peer-reviewed papers published before February 2020 was conducted in electronic databases.

Prevalence of tobacco smoking among European migrants residing in EU 15 countries: a quantitative systematic review protocol.

Objectives: The objective of this systematic review is to summarize the prevalence of tobacco smoking in European migrants residing in EU 15 countries.

Introduction: Most of the migration within the World Health Organization European Region is intracontinental. The prevalence of smoking varies greatly across the European Region.