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Government document citations in top nursing journals: A bibliometric analysis
Authors: Dudash Andrew , Woods Stephen , Phillips Kathleen 
Published: December 2024

AbstractIntroductionCitation analysis studies the use of citations found in various types of publications, including the use of government information, and can provide insight into research utilisation in nursing literature.MethodUsing citation analysis, this study examines the use, prevalence and jurisdiction of government information use among seven nursing research journals based on ranking criteria. Government information citations were identified across three types of articles: editorials, reviews and research articles.ResultsNearly two‐thirds of the articles in this study cite some form of government information, and the average percentage of government citations is 5.38 of all citations. Government information was identified from national governments, inter‐governmental organizations and state and regional governments.DiscussionUnderstanding the use, prevalence and jurisdiction of government information informs health information professionals allowing them to engage with nursing students and researchers about this important type of information and the types of articles that use government information.ConclusionNursing researchers frequently cite government information in their work. This has implications for librarians, nursing researchers and health professionals. Understanding the intersection of government information and nursing research should inform future practice in evidence‐based nursing research and nursing education.
Exploring Migrant Mothers' Utilisation of Oral Health‐Related Information: A Qualitative Interview Study in the Swedish Context
Authors: Shmarina Elena , Stensson Malin , Jacobsson Brittmarie 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTObjectiveTo explore, as a part of oral health literacy conceptual content, how migrant mothers utilise oral health‐related information to maintain and promote oral health in their children.Materials and MethodsIn‐depth interviews were conducted with seven migrant mothers of children up to 10 years old resettled in Kalmar County, Sweden. The mothers had entered Sweden from 2015 onwards, and their native language was Somalian, Dari or Arabic. The participants were encouraged to describe their experiences seeking oral health information and oral health in general and dental health services. The interviews were analysed by qualitative content analysis with coding in categories, followed by formulating a main category.ResultsThe findings revealed a main category—combining different ways of information utilisation. The main category captures the essence of the migrant mothers' various ways of using oral health‐related information in the Swedish context to maintain and promote oral health in their children. The main category draws upon four sub‐categories that emerged from the analysis: cognitive processing, decision‐making competencies, adapting to social norms and practical application.ConclusionsThe results provide an important insight into migrant mothers' approach to utilisation of oral health‐related information. This approach distinguished being rational and making logical connections, believing in their capacity to know what is right for their children and acting based on these beliefs, as well as adapting to prevailing social norms and applying information in specific use. This knowledge can be used to support parental oral health actions and conduct further research in this area.
The role of volunteer guardians as a key actor in providing social protection for unaccompanied minors in Italy
Authors: Peris Cancio Lluis Francesc 
Published: December 2024

AbstractThis article analyses the impact of the volunteer guardian role, as stipulated in Italy's Law no. 47/2017, on the reception of unaccompanied minors. The research, spanning 50 months from March 2018 to May 2019, focused on the metropolitan area of Rome. A combination of methodological tools, including participant observation, questionnaires, qualitative interviews, and focus groups, was employed to ensure comprehensive data collection. The research findings delineate the responsibilities of volunteer guardians, encompassing legal representation, educational support, and networking within the established system. Furthermore, the results integrate the perspectives of social workers and minors regarding the guardian's evolving role and elucidate the nature of relationships formed between these stakeholders. The involvement of multiple decision‐makers in the child's life, including voluntary guardians, social workers, foster care professionals, and juvenile judges, results in a diverse allocation of responsibilities and roles. These are continuously negotiated as part of a shared responsibility with a variable geometry.
Nursing Students' Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs About Testicular Cancer and Testicular Self‐Examination
Authors: Ursavaş Figen Erol , Kaya Çiğdem , Işeri Özge 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTWhat are the levels of knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of nursing students regarding testicular cancer and testicular self‐examination (TSE)? Is there a significant difference between male and female nursing students in terms of their knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about testicular cancer and TSE? Testicular cancer is the most common cancer affecting young men, yet awareness and knowledge about the disease and early detection methods, such as TSE, remain insufficient among men. Nurses play a critical role in raising awareness and addressing gaps in knowledge about testicular cancer and TSE. This study aims to assess nursing students' knowledge, attitudes and health beliefs concerning testicular cancer and TSE, as well as the factors influencing these outcomes. Nursing students are the future of the nursing profession, and it is essential to address any gaps in their knowledge during their training to ensure they are well‐prepared for their roles in patient education and care. This study employed a descriptive, correlational and multicentred design. The sample consisted of 524 nursing students. The inclusion criteria were being enrolled in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th year of a nursing program. Data were collected through an online survey using Google Forms. Statistical analysis was conducted using chi‐squared tests, independent t‐tests, correlation coefficients, and multiple linear regression to examine the relationships between the variables. The study revealed that both female and male nursing students had low average knowledge scores concerning testicular cancer and TSE. However, a significant gender difference was observed in previous awareness of testicular cancer, with females demonstrating higher levels of awareness compared to their male counterparts. Among the independent variables included in the model, perceived benefits and health motivation had a significant positive effect on male students' knowledge about testicular cancer (β = 0.039, p = 0.018), while perceived barriers had a significant negative effect (β = −0.064, p = 0.002). These variables were statistically significant predictors of male students' knowledge about testicular cancer. The study determined that nursing students' knowledge and attitudes regarding testicular cancer and TSE were low. Among the subscales of the Health Beliefs Scale, the highest mean score was observed for the ‘seriousness’ subscale, while the lowest was for the ‘health motivation’ subscale. Due to the structure of the scale, it was only applicable to male students, which prevented the assessment of female students' beliefs and influencing factors, representing a significant limitation of this research. To ensure nursing students graduate with sufficient knowledge about testicular cancer and TSE, it is recommended to integrate educational and awareness initiatives, such as projects, seminars and public service announcements, into undergraduate nursing curricula.
Survival of Partial Coverage Restorations on Posterior Teeth—A Scoping Review
Authors: Prott L. S. , Klein P. , Spitznagel F. A. , Blatz M. B. , Pieralli S. , Gierthmuehlen P. C. 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTObjectiveTo investigate the nature and availability of evidence on the clinical performance of posterior partial coverage restorations (PCR) fabricated from different ceramic materials, outcome definitions, measurement methods, study drop‐outs and follow ups.OverviewA systematic literature search (inception‐February 2024) was performed through MEDLINE, Scopus, CENTRAL, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the International Clinical Trials Registry Platform to identify clinical studies with a focus on posterior PCRs (onlays, occlusal veneers and partial crowns) with a minimum follow‐up of 1 year. Thirteen of 31 included studies were randomized controlled trials (RCT) and 18 non‐randomized studies of intervention (NRS). Six RCTs compared two different ceramic materials and might be suitable for meta‐analysis. Differences in study design, definition of survival, evaluation methods, and statistical models for survival analysis were identified as reasons for expected heterogeneity among studies. The most common reasons for restoration failures were ceramic fractures and retention loss.ConclusionThe evidence informing the effect of PCRs varied in definitions of survival and failure, complication classifications, and workflow approaches. RCTs addressing clinical performance of PCRs comparing different ceramic materials are available for conducting systematic reviews and meta‐analyses.
Non‐Destructive Prediction Approach for Pomelo Granulation Rate Using MRI Technology
Authors: Jie Dengfei , Li Zhihong , Wu Shuang , Tian Botao , Wang Ping , He Jincheng , Wei Xuan 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTPomelo is prone to juice sac granulation during ripening and storage, resulting in decreased moisture content, hard flesh, and bland flavor, which affects market value and consumer experience. Due to the complexity of the causes of juice sac granulation, coupled with the thick peel of pomelo, the detection means of pomelo is lacking and difficult to detect. In order to solve the shortcomings of the traditional granulation rate calculation, which has an error and cannot realize non‐destructive detection. This study proposes a non‐destructive detection of pomelo juice sac granulation and the calculation of granulation rate based on the nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology combined with the computer vision technology. Based on the strong analytical power of the MRI technology for moisture and the change of moisture in the granulated juice sac of pomelo, in this study, the cross section of pomelo was scanned by MRI scanner to obtain the corresponding MRI images. The MRI images of the cross section of pomelo were segmented using the threshold segmentation method to realize the calculation of the percentage of granulated pulp. The experimental results show that the segmentation threshold T1 = 102 can effectively segment the pulp from the peel, and the segmentation threshold T2 = 175 can effectively segment the granulated pulp from the normal pulp. The granulation rate of pomelo pulp can be calculated by calculating the ratio of the granulated pulp area to the total pulp area. Therefore, based on the MRI technology can be used for the detection of the granulation rate of pomelo juice sac, which provides a certain reference value for the subsequent non‐destructive detection of the internal quality of large melons and fruits.
Development of a perceived nutrition care competencies scale for Japanese dietetic students: A cross‐sectional survey
Authors: Yamamoto Sayaka , Yoshimoto Yuko S. , Yoshii Kengo , Shimizu Ryo , Ohnishi Ritsuko , Takahashi Hiroko , Kawakami Takayo 
Published: December 2024

AbstractBackgroundThere are currently few appropriate instruments for assessing nutrition care competencies in clinical practice. This study aimed to develop a perceived nutrition care competencies (PNCC) scale for dietetic students and test its validity. Factors that influence PNCC scores were examined through a cross‐sectional study.MethodologyThis cross‐sectional survey involved 501 dietetic students (mean age of 21.4 years, 428 females) and employed a web‐based questionnaire between September 2022 and February 2023. A scale derived from previous research was used to assess nutrition management practices and basic dietetic competencies. Questionnaire data were analysed using exploratory factor analysis.ResultsExploratory factor analysis identified five factors: nutritional status assessment and preparation for intervention, communication skills for nutritional support, nutritional diagnosis and recording, supplementation suggestions and coordination and dietitian orientation and attitude. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that field practice increased the ‘nutrition diagnosis and recording’ scores, and the subconcepts ‘nutrition diagnosis and recording’ and ‘suggestion and coordination of nutritional supplementation’ showed odds ratios (ORs) <1 for the ‘online role‐play among students’ experience. In addition, experience with face‐to‐face simulated patients increased the total scores (OR 2.46, 95% confidence interval 1.43–4.22, p = 0.001).ConclusionsThe PNCC scale demonstrated reliability and validity, offering a valuable measure of dietetics students' perceptions of their nutrition care practice competence. The findings highlight the need to increase the willingness of the students to work as dietitians and to incorporate realistic, safe learning experiences beyond on‐site practice to enhance nutrition management practice competency.
Hand Grip Strength Index, a Novel Tool in Risk‐Assessing Multi‐Ethnic End‐Stage Kidney Disease Patients Treated by Haemodialysis
Authors: Nguyen Mai , Davenport Andrew 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTIntroductionIncreasing numbers of elderly co‐morbid patients with end‐stage kidney disease (ESKD) are now offered haemodialysis. Simple, rapid screening tools are required to risk‐assess patients, highlighting those requiring nutritional or other support and advising on prognosis. As such, we assessed a newly introduced tool, the hand grip strength index (HGS index), a comparison of measured to predicted HGS.MethodsWe reviewed ESKD dialysis patients dialysing under the care of an inner‐city tertiary dialysis centre who had contemporaneous HGS measurements, and body composition measured by multifrequency bioelectrical impedance analysis, followed for ≤ 9 years, censoring for transplantation.ResultsResults from 1023 patients, 63.2% male, 48.2% White and 46.5% diabetic, with a dialysis vintage of 21.2 (7.2–61.0) months, were analysed. Mortality was significantly greater for those in the lowest HGS index quartile using Kaplan–Meier analysis (p < 0.001). On multivariable step‐backward Cox regression analysis, mortality was independently significantly associated (p < 0.001) with increasing age (hazard ratio [HR] 1.04 95% confidence interval (CI) [1.029–1.045]), higher co‐morbidity score (HR 1.24 [1.142–1.347]) and post‐dialysis extracellular water/total body water ratio (HR 1.15 [1.089–1.219]) and lower HGS index (HR −0.76 [0.991–0.998]), whereas sarcopenia and frailty were not retained in the model.ConclusionIncreasing numbers of elderly co‐morbid patients are being treated with dialysis, so simple screening tools are required to advise on prognosis and highlight patients who may need additional support, including nutrition. We found the HGS index to have prognostic value, along with the traditional risk factors of patient age and co‐morbidity.
Leveraging relatedness‐based measures in people with language disorders: A scoping review
Authors: Gaudet Logan A. , Rybka Lena , Mandonnet Emmanuel , Volle Emmanuelle , Barberis Marion , Jonkers Roel , Rofes Adrià 
Published: December 2024

AbstractUnderstanding lexico‐semantic processing is crucial for dissecting the complexities of language and its disorders. Relatedness‐based measures, or those which investigate the degree of relatedness in meaning between either task items or items produced by participants, offer the opportunity to harness novel computational and analytical techniques from cognitive network science. Recognizing the need to deepen our understanding of lexico‐semantic deficits through diverse experimental and analytical approaches, this review explores the use of such measures in research into language disorders. A comprehensive search of four electronic databases covering publications from the last 11 years (October 2013–September 2024) identified 38 original experimental studies employing relatedness‐based measures in populations with language disorders or other neurological conditions. Articles were examined for the types of tasks used, populations studied, item selection methods and analytical approaches. The predominant use of category fluency tasks emerged across studies, with a notable absence of relatedness judgement tasks or comparable paradigms. Commonly discussed populations included individuals with post‐stroke aphasia, mild cognitive impairment and schizophrenia. Analytical methods varied significantly, ranging from more traditional approaches of clustering and switching to more sophisticated computational techniques. Despite the evident utility of category fluency tasks in research and clinical settings, the review underscores a critical need to diversify experimental paradigms and probe lexico‐semantic processing in a more multifaceted manner. A broadened approach in future language disorder research should incorporate innovative analytical techniques, investigations of neural correlates and a wider array of tasks employing relatedness‐based measures already present in healthy populations.
Identification of Predictors of Shift Work Adaptation and Its Association With Immune, Hormonal and Metabolite Biomarkers
Authors: Harding Barbara N. , Espinosa Ana , Castaño‐Vinyals Gemma , Pozo Oscar J. , Skene Debra J. , Bustamante Mariona , Mata Maria , Aguilar Ruth , Dobaño Carlota , Wucher Valentin , Navarrete José Maria , Faro Patricia Such , Torrejón Antonio , Kogevinas Manolis , Papantoniou Kyriaki 
Published: December 2024

ABSTRACTWe explored predictors of shift work adaptation and how it relates to disease risk biomarker levels. These analyses included 38 male, rotating shift workers, sampled twice at the end of a 3‐week night shift and a 3‐week day shift rotation. Participants collected all 24‐h urine voids, wore activity sensors, and responded to questionnaires during each shift. Using cosinor analysis, we derived the main period of urinary 6‐sulfatoxymelatonin (aMT6s) production. Adaptation was defined as the overlap between the main aMT6s production period and sleep period assessed with actigraphy. We used linear models to identify predictors of adaptation to each shift and assessed associations between adaptation profiles and hormone, cytokine, and metabolite biomarker levels. The median duration of overlap (adaptation) was 3.85 h (IQR 2.59–5.03) in the night and 2.98 (IQR 2.17–4.11) in the day shift. In the night shift, a later chronotype (coeff: −1.16, 95% CI −1.87, −0.45) and increased light at night (coeff: −0.97, 95% CI −1.76, −0.18) were associated with poorer adaptation, while longer sleep duration was associated with better adaptation (coeff: 0.46, 95% CI 0.04, 0.88). In the day shift, later sleep onset was associated with worse adaptation (coeff: −0.06, 95% CI −0.12, −0.01), while longer sleep duration was associated with better adaptation (coeff: 0.54, 0.26, 0.81). Results suggest higher androgen and inflammatory marker levels and lower levels of several metabolite markers among less adapted individuals. Chronotype, sleep, and light at night were all associated with night or day shift adaptation. Given the small sample size, results should be viewed as exploratory, but may inform interventions to optimize adaptation of rotating shift workers.
The MetBase database has been merged into Astromat
Authors: Hezel Dominik C. , Lehnert Kerstin A. , Elangovan Premkumar , Ji Peng , Mays Jennifer , Koblitz Jörn 
Published: December 2024

AbstractMetBase has been the world's largest database for meteorite compositions, but has now passed this torch on to the Astromaterials Data System (Astromat), into which MetBase has recently been merged. This merger had been planned for some time and took almost 1 year to complete. Not only differences in the structure of the databases, in the content and organization of data and metadata, and in the terminology used but also incorporation of new data needed to be resolved to combine the data holdings of MetBase with the Astromat synthesis database. Astromat is NASA's primary archive for laboratory analyses of astromaterial samples and funded by NASA to provide services for the preservation and open access of data from astromaterials, including meteorites, in alignment with the FAIR principles. After merging MetBase into Astromat's synthesis database, this now provides the cosmochemical community the largest compilation of cosmochemical analytical data by far: over 2 million analytical data points. Astromat is also part of a bigger ecosystem of geo‐ and cosmochemcial databases, as its foundation is aligned with other large geochemical databases such as EarthChem and GEOROC. The visualization tools and the teaching tool from MetBase will be further developed and now exist as independent tools. We provide a brief history of the two databases and their journeys, an outlook toward the future, as well as lessons learned from this merger. We recommend that other cosmochemical databases try whenever possible to adopt the Astromat database schema as early as possible, or get in contact for alternative options. We believe MetBase now being a part of Astromat is a match made in heaven and hope Astromat will become a reliable and trusted service within the community.
From leprosy to ground zero: Imagining futures in a world of elimination
Authors: Staples James 
Published: December 2024

AbstractAchieving a target of zero—zero disease, zero disability, and zero discrimination—has become the dominant focus of campaigns to control or eliminate diseases, from HIV/AIDS to malaria to leprosy. Given the historical failure of most eradication programs over the last century, such teleological imaginings of disease‐free futures might seem overly utopian. But even if it were possible to eradicate such diseases in their entirety, would this be universally welcomed, even by those most affected by them? In this article, I compare the narratives of national and international bodies concerned with eliminating leprosy, in particular, with the more ambivalent narratives of those affected by the disease in India, the country where the disease is most prevalent. For the latter, the promise of elimination not only seems unrealistic, but represents a potential loss of identity. Imagining disease trajectories in less linear terms, I argue, might also nuance understanding of them.