Adaptive Quizzing in nursing education: A narrative review of its potential and considerations in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.

Objective: This review aims to explore the integration and effectiveness of Adaptive Quizzing (AQ) in nursing education, highlighting its potential to enhance learning outcomes and student engagement with a particular focus on associate degree nurses.

Background: In the dynamic landscape of healthcare education, the need for innovative teaching methodologies is increasingly crucial. Adaptive Quizzing (AQ) offers personalized learning experiences that cater to individual student needs, which is essential for mastering complex healthcare material and preparing for licensure examinations.

Factors influencing inpatient bowel preparation: a scoping review.

Background And Aim: Inpatients undergoing colonoscopy experience a higher-than-average rate of inadequate bowel preparation (compared to outpatients) leading to canceled procedures, increased stress on the patient, increased time in hospital, and increased cost to the healthcare system. The aim of this scoping review was to identify research surrounding inpatient bowel preparation and to identify modifiable and non-modifiable factors that influence the adequacy of bowel preparation in hospitalized patients undergoing colonoscopy and establish areas where nursing interventions may help improve overall bowel preparation rates.

Methods: An initial search of MEDLINE, CINAHL, Scopus, and Embase was undertaken to identify seed articles, followed by a structured search using keywords and subject headings.

Addressing the effectiveness of health literacy programs within the Gulf Corporation Council: an integrative review.

Health literacy is an increasingly required need to help individuals, families and communities manage their health and health conditions. It is linked with better self-adherence to treatments, use of resources, access to care and overall reduced costs in healthcare. In the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, various health literacy programs are implemented across states to address people's unique and complex healthcare needs.

Quality of life in assisted living facilities for seniors: A descriptive exploratory study.

Introduction: Promoting individuals' health across different life spans has always been key to a holistic nursing practice. Seniors are a diverse population who go through many physical and mental changes as they age. During the last decade, assisted living facilities (ALFs) have dramatically increased in numbers to provide care and living services in a home-like environment.

Undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of active learning strategies: A focus group study.

Background: Active learning strategies have been identified as promoting critical thinking, strengthening clinical reasoning, and supporting the transfer of theoretical knowledge to practice amongst nursing students.

Aim: This study aimed to understand the undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of the active learning strategies being used in the classroom and to identify critical elements within their learning spaces which contribute to their learning.

Design: Qualitative, focus group study.

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence: Strategies for Mental Health Nurses in Optimizing Psychiatric Patient Care.

This narrative review explores the transformative impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on mental health nursing, particularly in enhancing psychiatric patient care. AI technologies present new strategies for early detection, risk assessment, and improving treatment adherence in mental health. They also facilitate remote patient monitoring, bridge geographical gaps, and support clinical decision-making.

Satisfaction and self-confidence among nursing students with simulation learning during COVID-19.

Aim: This survey aimed to investigate nursing students' satisfaction and self-confidence in simulation in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with comparing these levels based on selected students' characteristics.

Design: A cross-sectional survey.

Targeting autophagy with tamoxifen in breast cancer: From molecular mechanisms to targeted therapy.

Background: Tamoxifen (TAM) is often recommended as a first-line treatment for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer (BC). However, TAM resistance continues to be a medical challenge for BC with hormone receptor positivity. The function of macro-autophagy and autophagy has recently been identified to be altered in BC, which suggests a potential mechanism for TAM resistance.

What are the barriers to sustaining a safe sleep program for infants within hospital settings: An integrative review of the literature.

Problem: Safe sleep programs have been existing since the concept was first defined in 1969. The need for health care providers to model safe sleep practices is essential for successful adherence; however, barriers to promoting safe sleep practices hinder healthcare providers' ability to implement safe sleep in hospital settings.

Aim: To determine the barriers to promoting safe sleep practices amongst healthcare workers in the hospital setting.

The Experience of Palliative Care Nurses in Qatar During the Time of COVID-19: A Qualitative Study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a source of significant confusion and fear for healthcare workers as they try to maintain some sense of normalcy within their daily practices. One of the many areas affected by this pandemic has been palliative care. Palliative care nurses were thrust into a world of chaos as they faced increasing numbers of patients who were in the process of dying.

Assessment of Knowledge, Perception, Experience and Phobia toward Corticosteroids Use among the General Public in the Era of COVID-19: A Multinational Study.

Background: Corticosteroids play a significant role in managing the vast majority of inflammatory and immunologic conditions. To date, population-based studies on knowledge and attitudes concerning corticosteroids are scarce. This study aims to comprehensively assess knowledge, perception, experience and phobia toward corticosteroid use among the general population in the era of COVID-19.

The Stigmatizing Attitudes of Syrian University Students Toward Schizophrenia.

Background:  Stigma is frequently considered an obstacle to schizophrenia treatment and recovery. However, little is known regarding the stigma experienced by persons with schizophrenia among Syrian college students.

Methods: A total of 963 students from Syrian colleges and universities participated in this study, using a questionnaire with a case vignette illustrating schizophrenia.

Amoebic Hepato-Pericardial Fistula Complicating Amoebic Liver Abscess Treated With Pericardiotomy: A Case Report.

Parasitic infections like amoebiasis are often asymptomatic in the tropics, but the invasive disease can cause an amoebic liver abscess. During pericardiocentesis, amoebiasis is more noticeable in left lobe abscesses with chocolate-like pus drainage. Here, we present an unusual amoebic liver abscess that erupted into the pericardial cavity via a diaphragmatic fistula.

Strategic Clinical Network Teams Improve Effectiveness, Team and Leadership Processes and Inputs: Theory-Based Longitudinal Survey.

Strategic Clinical Networks (SCNs) in Alberta include multidisciplinary teams that work toward health system innovation and improvement; however, what contributes to team effectiveness is unclear. This theory-informed longitudinal survey (n = 826) evaluated team effectiveness within SCNs and predictors of effectiveness. Satisfaction, inter-team relationships and seven predictors including team inputs and team and leadership processes improved over two years.

Muslim women's attitudes toward infant feeding in Qatar: An exploration using the Iowa infant feeding attitude scale.

Background: Maternal attitude toward infant feeding is an important determinant of breastfeeding. The Islamic faith encourages breastfeeding, yet many Muslim women do not breastfeed as per the World Health Organization recommendations. In the Middle East, research has not addressed attitudes toward infant feeding among Muslim women.

COVID-19 perceived stigma among survivors: A cross-sectional study of prevalence and predictors.

Background And Objectives: Perceived stigma related to infectious diseases is of public health importance and can adversely impact patients' physical and mental health. This study aims to identify the level of perceived stigma among COVID-19 survivors in Qatar and investigate its predictors.

Methods: An analytical cross-sectional design was employed.

Psychometric evaluation of the acute care nurses' job satisfaction scale-revised.

Aim: The aim of this study was to validate a job satisfaction scale among acute care nurses in the context of Qatar.

Design: Cross-sectional correlational survey.

Methods: A convenience sampling technique was used to recruit 295 acute care nurses between June 2021-September 2021.

Intention and motivation to pursue higher education among registered nurses and midwives: a cross-sectional study during COVID-19.

Objectives: To determine the intention and motivation of nurses and midwives to pursue their higher education considering several factors.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional study were a 16-item online survey was distributed using a convenience sampling method to approximately 12,000 nurses and midwives between May - July 2021.

Results: A total of 513 eligible nurses and midwives participated in the study.

The Impact of Ethnicity on the Response to Eltrombopag in Patients With Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) in Qatar: A Single Institution Experience.

Background: Eltrombopag olamine (ELT) is a synthetic nonpeptide with a low molecular weight that has been investigated in various phase-3 studies and shown to be efficacious at a typical dose of 50 mg. Varied ethnic groups have reported different responses to ELT.

Aim: The aim is to examine the efficacy of ELT in Asian and Arab patients with immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) from the Indian subcontinent by starting with (12.

Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes Toward Patients With Mental Illness: A Cross-Sectional Study in Qatar.

Background: Negative attitudes toward mental illness by Health Care Professionals (HCP) have been reported in many countries across the world. Stigmatizing attitudes by HCP can have adverse consequences on people with mental illness from delays in seeking help to decreased quality of care provided. Assessing such attitudes is an essential step in understanding such stigma and, if needed, developing and testing appropriate and culturally adapted interventions to reduce it.

Undergraduate nursing and medical students' perceptions of food security and access to healthy food in Qatar: a photovoice study.

The present study explored nursing and medical students' perceptions of food security, their access to healthy food and the circumstances that affect their access to healthy food in Qatar. The photovoice method was adopted in the present study. Students submitted their photos pertaining to food security and their access to healthy food in Qatar.

Stigma towards health care providers taking care of COVID-19 patients: A multi-country study.

Background: Health care providers (HCPs) have always been a common target of stigmatization during widespread infections and COVID-19 is not an exception.

Aim: This study aims to investigate the prevalence of stigmatization during the COVID-19 pandemic among HCPs in seven different countries using the Stigma COVID-19 Healthcare Providers tool (S19-HCPs).

Design: Cross-sectional.

Primary care physicians' knowledge of travel vaccine and malaria chemoprophylaxis and associated predictors in Qatar.

Background: In an era of globalization, travel-related illnesses have become a focus of public ‎health concern, especially in the Arab region where travel health services are insufficient and ‎not well-established. This study was conducted to assess travel vaccine and ‎malaria chemoprophylaxis knowledge and associated predictors among primary care physicians‎ (PCPs) in ‎Qatar.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study.

Professional Self-Concept and Self-Confidence for Nurses Dealing with COVID-19 Patients.

Purpose: To identify the impact of dealing with COVID-19 patients in clinical areas on nurses' professional self-concept and self-confidence.

Background: Professional self-concept is considered a critical factor in the recruitment/retention process in nursing, nursing shortage, career satisfaction, and academic achievements. Professional self-confidence is also a crucial determinant in staff satisfaction, reducing turnover, and increasing work engagement.

The Impact of Changes in Work Arrangements During COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lifestyle of Qatar's Working Population.

Objectives: To explore the impact of changing work arrangements during COVID-19 on diet, physical activity, body weight, and sleep of Qatar's working population.

Methods: A web-based survey targeting working adults who were residing in Qatar during the period of home confinement was conducted.

Results: About 47% of 1061 participants reported weight gain.