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Development Of A Patient-Reported Outcome Measure For Recovery After Major Abdominal Surgery: Stage 2 Cognitive Interview Study
No full textThis study is the second qualitative stage in developing a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for adults recovering after major abdominal surgery (MAS). Stage 2 focuses on cognitive evaluation of the draft questionnaire content produced from Stage 1 concept elicitation. The objective is to assess whether participants understand the questionnaire instructions, items, response options, and recall period as intended, and to identify item-level problems that require revision, deletion, or retesting. Semi-structured cognitive interviews are conducted remotely using concurrent verbal probing, informed by Tourangeau’s cognitive model of survey response and problem-coding approaches for identifying comprehension, retrieval, judgement, and response-mapping issues. Iterative cycles of testing and revision continue until cognitive saturation criteria are met and a finalised item pool is produced. Outputs include an auditable item-tracking matrix documenting all changes and the final item pool for subsequent drafting and further PROM testing
Symptom Cluster Assessment Instruments in Patients After Cardiac Valve Replacement: A Scoping Review
No full textRelationship Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Sexual Relationship Power of Black Women.
No full textResearch has shown the lingering effect of childhood adversities on an individual's life. The purpose of this scoping review is to map out any existing relationships between adverse childhood experiences and the sexual relationship power(decision-making dominance and relationship control) portrayed by Black women
Environmental Air Sampling of Respiratory Viruses in School Settings: A Scoping Review
No full textRespiratory viral infections represent a substantial public health burden among children, with school environments playing a critical role in viral transmission due to high occupancy densities, prolonged close contact, and often suboptimal ventilation. Increasing evidence supports airborne transmission as a dominant pathway for major respiratory viruses, including influenza viruses, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), rhinoviruses, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Given that children spend a significant proportion of their time in school settings and exhibit higher susceptibility to respiratory infections, understanding airborne viral exposure in these environments is of high public health relevance.
Environmental air sampling has emerged as a non-invasive surveillance approach capable of detecting airborne respiratory viruses shed by symptomatic and asymptomatic individuals, independent of healthcare-seeking behavior or clinical testing. A variety of bioaerosol sampling technologies and laboratory analytical methods have been applied in indoor environments, including schools; however, the existing evidence remains fragmented, methodologically heterogeneous, and dispersed across multiple scientific disciplines. To date, there has been no comprehensive synthesis of how environmental air sampling for respiratory viruses has been conducted specifically within school settings, which virus types have been targeted, what environmental parameters have been assessed.
The purpose of this scoping review is to systematically map and characterize the existing literature on environmental air sampling of respiratory viruses in school-based settings. Following PRISMA-ScR guidelines, this review will identify and describe the range of respiratory viruses investigated, air sampling methodologies and analytical techniques employed, environmental and ventilation parameters reported, and key viruses detected among school settings. Due to the exploratory nature of the field, the review will synthesize findings narratively and will not assess the methodological quality or risk of bias of included studies.
The expected outcomes of this project include a comprehensive evidence map of school-based environmental air sampling studies, identification of methodological patterns and inconsistencies, and recognition of critical knowledge gaps. The findings are expected to inform future hypothesis-driven research, contribute to methodological standardization, and support the integration of environmental air surveillance into broader respiratory virus monitoring and prevention strategies in educational settings
Peran Intensitas Mendengarkan Musik Gamelan dengan Loneliness dan Well-Being pada Lansia di Kota Surakarta
No full textPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji peran intensitas mendengarkan musik gamelan terhadap well-being pada lansia di Kota Surakarta dengan loneliness sebagai mediator. Sampel penelitian terdiri dari 150 lansia yang memiliki pengalaman mendengarkan musik gamelan yang dipilih menggunakan teknik convenience sampling. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan desain kausal melalui analisis Structural Equation Modeling–Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa intensitas mendengarkan musik gamelan berpengaruh negatif signifikan terhadap loneliness dan berpengaruh positif signifikan terhadap well-being pada lansia. Loneliness terbukti berperan sebagai variabel mediator yang signifikan. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa musik gamelan memiliki potensi sebagai aktivitas berbasis budaya yang mendukung kesehatan mental dan kesejahteraan lansia di Kota Surakarta
MOFNet v3.0 - Advanced 8-Parameter Multi-Organ Failure Prediction System
No full textMOFNet v3.0 is an advanced clinical decision support system that predicts multi-organ failure in ICU patients using 8 physiological parameters. The system employs network medicine principles and transfer entropy to analyze cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, renal, and metabolic functions. Enhanced Physiological Resilience Index (ePRI) provides 15.3-hour early warning with 93.7% AUC accuracy across 2,156 patients in 8 medical centers
Comparing justifications and permissive beliefs in relation to gambling severity
No full textPeople use reasons to justify engaging in desirable behaviors. To tap such reasoning, two questionnaires were recently developed: one assessed justifications in gambling behavior, and one assessed permissive beliefs in other addictive behaviors, separating two constructs of deserving reward and defensive optimism. In this preregistered cross-sectional study, we compared these constructs in their associations with problem gambling severity, and with theoretically-related constructs – metacognition, reflection, and self-control – among 292 participants with gambling experience recruited from an online crowdsourcing platform. Justifications and Deserving Reward, but not Defensive Optimism, were positively correlated with Problem Gambling Severity Index at a bivariate level. Supporting our prediction, in our multiple regression model, Justifications were positively associated with Problem Gambling Severity Index. In this model, Deserving Reward did not reach significance and Defensive Optimism showed a negative association. Justifications, Deserving Reward, and Defensive Optimism were 1) not strongly explained by metacognition, reflection, nor self-control, and 2) appear as distinct constructs as indicated by psychometric modelling. Our findings indicate that justifications and permissive beliefs, despite their conceptual similarity, show different relationships with gambling severity. These data inform cognitive models of gambling and other addictive behaviors with implications for psychological therapies
