bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Development and psychometric testing of the family caregiver self-efficacy scale for patients in the early post-coronary artery bypass grafting
Authors: Zhou Shiqi , Zhang Yinghong , Liu Yuting , Yang Qi , Peng Pan , Geng Li , Hu Liu 
Published: February 2025

Background and objectives
Family caregiver self-efficacy plays an important role in improving the health and quality of life of patients in the early post-coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). However, there is a lack of targeted self-efficacy assessment tool for caregivers of patients. Thus, the purpose of this study was to develop a Family Caregiver Self-Efficacy Scale for patients in the early post-CABG (FCSES-EPCABG) and to test its reliability and validity.

Methods
Based on self-efficacy theory, the initial scale was formed by the literature review, semi-structured interviews, Delphi expert consultation, and pre-survey. Through the convenience sampling method, 133 caregivers who met the selection criteria were chosen for the questionnaire survey at Wuhan Asian Heart Hospital from January 2024 to May 2024. The aim was to test the reliability and validity of the scale.

Results
The final scale contained five dimensions of wound care, medication management, cardiac rehabilitation management, social support, and self-care, with a total of 22 items. The item-level content validity index ranged from 0.889 to 1.000, the scale-level content validity index/average was 0.985, and the content validity ratio ranged from 0.778 to 1.000. The exploratory factor analysis showed that the cumulative variance contribution rate of the five dimensions was 69.433%. In the criterion-related validity analysis, the total score of the FCSES-EPCABG was positively correlated with the total score of the General Self-Efficacy Scale (r = 0.762, P<0.001). The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the scale was 0.919, the half reliability was 0.779, and the test-retest reliability was 0.936.

Conclusion
The FCSES-EPCABG has satisfactory reliability and validity, which is suitable for evaluating the self-efficacy of family caregivers of patients in the early post-CABG.
Effects of mobile application interventions on quality of life in patients with cancer: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors: Zhang Yuying , Zhang Yuhan , Li Wansheng , Hou Xiaoya , Zhang Peili 
Published: February 2025

Background
Cancer is a public health burden that seriously affects patients’ daily quality of life. Mobile applications are increasingly being used in the field of health promotion, but the intervention effect of mobile apps on the quality of life of cancer patients is still inconsistent.

Methods
We will use key words and medical subject headings to search for randomized controlled trials in nine databases until January 10, 2024. The quality of the studies will be assessed using the risk of bias tool recommended in the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool, and a pooled analysis of data will be conducted using random effects models to assess the impact of mobile application interventions on pain and quality of life in cancer patients.

Results
We will publish our findings in a peer-reviewed journal.

Conclusion
We will draw conclusions based on the outcomes of the systematic review and meta-analysis.

Prospero registration number
CRD42024497649.
Optimisation of the preparation phase for orthopaedic surgery: Study protocol for a student-led multimodal prehabilitation feasibility trial (BoneFit)
Authors: Ingle Lee , Snook Joanna , Smith Lois , Oliver Ben , Bray James , Wells Liz , Moorhouse Jaswinder , Dixon Lili , Simpson Phillip , Osman Selen , Saxton John , Rajendran Aarthi , Gopalakrishnan Ganesh , Symes Tom 
Published: February 2025

Background
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, a surgical backlog for total hip replacement (THR) and total knee replacement (TKR) surgery remains in the United Kingdom. Multimodal prehabilitation pathways (encompassing exercise, nutritional support and psychological wellbeing) can be utilised to ‘optimise” physical and mental resilience prior to the challenge of surgical intervention. BoneFit is an open-label, non-randomised feasibility trial to determine the recruitment and attendance/adherence rates, delivery and implementation challenges, fidelity, acceptability, and safety of a student-led multimodal prehabilitation intervention in people listed for THR/TKR surgery. We will also determine participant and clinician views of the intervention, and identify any challenges and enablers of inter-institutional partnership working.

Methods
Individuals listed for THR/TKR surgery aged between 18 to 75 years will be assigned to an intervention (n = 25) or usual-care control group (n = 25). The primary outcome measures will be feasibility of delivering the BoneFit intervention. Physical, psychological, quality of life and clinical outcomes will be assessed at three major time-points; T1 (baseline; 2 months from surgery), T2 (2–10 days from surgery), and T3 (3 months following surgery). We aim to show that the trial is feasible and that we can identify a signal of efficacy based on clinical outcomes collected compared to controls. The study was ethically approved by the Health Research Authority (London Bridge Research Ethics Committee: REC reference: 24/PR/0092) in March 2024.

Discussion
The development of a multimodal prehabilitation pathway could improve the physical and mental resilience of individuals awaiting orthopaedic surgery. We aim to determine if this translates to faster discharge and reduced complication rates, thus helping boost surgical throughput and potentially easing surgical backlog. It is likely that the concept of ‘waiting’ lists for surgery should be challenged, rather, individuals should be encouraged to use the time available to ‘prepare’ for surgery.

Trial registration
Registration details
ClinicalTrials.gov registration number: NCT06341920.
“I don’t see a reason why we should be hidden from view”: Views of a convenience sample of people living with HIV on sharing HIV status data in routinely collected health and care databases in England
Authors: Ford Elizabeth , Goddard Katie , Smith Michael , Vera Jaime 
Published: February 2025

Introduction
People living with HIV (PLWH) now have near-normal life-expectancy, but still experience stigma, and HIV status is treated as sensitive health information. When UK healthcare patient data is curated into anonymised datasets for research, HIV diagnostic codes are stripped out. As PLWH age, we must research how HIV affects conditions of ageing, but cannot do so in current NHS research datasets. We aimed to elicit views on HIV status being shared in NHS datasets, and identify appropriate safeguards.

Methods
We conducted three focus groups with a convenience sample of PLWH recruited through HIV charities, presenting information on data governance, data-sharing, patient privacy, law, and research areas envisaged for HIV and ageing. Each focus group involved two presentations, a question session, and facilitated breakout discussion groups. Discussions were audio-recorded, transcribed and analysed thematically.

Results
37 PLWH (age range 23-58y) took part. The overarching theme was around trust, both the loss of trust experienced by participants due to previous negative or discriminatory experiences, and the need to slowly build trust in data-sharing initiatives. Further themes showed that participants were supportive of data being used for research and health care improvements, but needed a guarantee that their privacy would be protected. A loss of trust in systems and organisations using the data, suspicion of data users’ agendas, and worry about increased discrimination and stigmatisation made them cautious about data sharing. To rebuild trust participants wanted to see transparent security protocols, accountability for following these, and communication about data flows and uses, as well as awareness training about HIV, and clear involvement of PLWH as full stakeholders on project teams and decision-making panels.

Conclusions
PLWH were cautiously in favour of their data being shared for research into HIV, where this could be undertaken with high levels of security, and the close involvement of PLWH to set research agendas and avoid increased stigma.
Variability of whole and peak match physical performance in highly trained female academy soccer players: A multi-club analysis
Authors: Myhill Naomi , Weaving Dan , Dalton Barron Nick , Hudson Andy , Barrett Steve , Emmonds Stacey 
Published: February 2025

Objective
Quantify between-match, -player and -team variability and compare whole- and peak-match locomotor characteristics between positions in elite female academy soccer.

Method
Foot-mounted inertial measurement unit data were collected from 11 Women’s Super League Academy teams (n = 257 players; 171 matches). Differences between positions and variability were analysed using partial least squares correlation analysis (PLSCA) and linear mixed effects. Two latent variables were computed as composite scores of either whole match or peak intensity variables from the PLSCA.

Results
Between-match variability of whole- and peak-match locomotor characteristics were similar (2 to 24% vs 0.2 to 22%). Between-team and -player variability was higher for whole- than peak-match locomotor characteristics (1 to 20% vs 0.1 to 3%, 8 to 112% vs 0.3 to 77%). From 30 pairwise comparisons, there were two large effect size (ES) differences (p < 0.001), WM had greater whole and peak match composite intensity than CDM. There were 10 moderate ES differences (p < 0.05), with WM greater than CD and CAM, F greater than CD and CDM and WD greater than CDM. All other comparisons were non-significant, trivial or small.

Conclusion
Whole- and peak- match locomotor characteristics are similar across all outfield positions in elite female academy soccer. Between-match variability was greater for sprint distance than all other locomotor characteristics. Low variability between teams for peak locomotor characteristics means practitioners can be confident using peak reference values from this study and use them to evaluate training drill intensities of tactical-technical drills.
School amalgamation and wellbeing for LGBTQ+ students: A scoping review protocol
Authors: Slattery Luke , Bradshaw Daragh , Jay Sarah , O’Donnell Aisling T. , Fenton Lynn 
Published: February 2025

Introduction
School amalgamations, or the merging of two or more pre-existing schools, are typically conducted in response to resource constraints. While merging existing schools can be financially beneficial, the wellbeing of marginalised students, such as those who identify as LGBTQ+ , may be at risk. Evidence on the impact that school amalgamation may have for LGBTQ+ students’ wellbeing has not been consolidated in a review. The proposed scoping review aims to identify empirical studies which measure the impact of school amalgamation on the wellbeing of LGBTQ+ students, to document the methodologies they use, and to identify challenges faced by LGBTQ+ students in amalgamated schools.

Methods
This review will be conducted in line with the JBI Manual for Evidence Synthesis and PCC framework. Searches will be conducted in multidisciplinary databases and relevant citations exported to Covidence. Articles will be screened against inclusion and exclusion criteria by two independent reviewers.

Results
Relevant studies will be charted and synthesised for inclusion in the final scoping review. Particular attention will be given to the scope of existing literature relating to the review question, methodological trends, and areas for further study.
A formative evaluation: co-designing tools to prepare vulnerable young people for participating in technology development
Authors: Mildenberger Tabea , Schmidt Marc , Zorn Isabel 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Participatory processes are key for designing technology solutions but challenging since target groups rarely have technological expertise. They are, however, experts in their lives. Vulnerable young people are even more challenged when asked to participate. A toolkit approach can introduce non-tech-savvy individuals to digital technology. This paper presents the process of (co-)designing a toolkit for vulnerable young people and social workers. The evaluation provides insights into what components are needed to prepare for participatory technology development. The toolkit can be seen as a mobile laboratory that supports technology development and builds on considerations from other research and design processes. The toolkit was (co-)designed in two phases. An initial version based on other prototypes and the state of the art was evaluated according to feedback from social work professionals. The revised version was evaluated by both professionals and vulnerable young people, leading to refinement and final redesign. The final toolkit, focusing on the smart home domain, was evaluated through participant observation and qualitative content analysis. The results show how feedback, inductively derived in four categories, led to the design of the toolkit with three modules relevant to engaging vulnerable young people in technology design: experience, understand and co-design.
Democratizing publishing in communication/media studies: a case study of Communication, Culture & Critique
Authors: Ng Eve , Click Melissa A. 
Published: February 2025

Abstract

Purpose
The pervasive inequalities in communication/media studies publishing include a significant underrepresentation of scholars in the Global South, as authors and as members of editorial boards in the field’s top-ranked journals. However, to date, there has been little published work on the implementation of strategies to address these disparities.

Design/methodology/approach
This paper presents discussion in this regard for the journal Communication, Culture & Critique (CCC), for which the authors served as editor-in-chief and associate editor.

Findings
During a four year (2021–2024) term, CCC undertook measures to diversify its board, and increased the proportion of Global South scholars, although Global North scholars remain a large majority. The journal also published several special issues focused on media/cultures of the Global South, which featured a larger proportion of authors with Global South citizenship and location than regular issue articles did; however, articles in Global South-themed issues may be garnering fewer citations than other articles in the journal. A pre-submission mentoring initiative launched in 2022 received almost all its submissions from scholars at Global North universities, and may reinforce Western academic norms. CCC’s rejection data also shows the disproportionate disadvantage of Global South submitters, although CCC does compare favorably to other Oxford University Press social science journals in the diversity of authors’ reported gender, race, and ethnicity.

Practical implications
The broader structural character of the disparities we found should be addressed by journals, publishers, and professional associations.

Social implications
The mixed outcomes of CCC’s efforts point to the persistence of structural challenges that require broader coordinated efforts to address more effectively.

Originality/value
This is the first study to provide a detailed account of how one journal sought to democratize its editorial board and increase the publication of Global South scholars.
Explikationen als Mittel der Verstehens-sicherung in Arzt-Patienten-Gesprächen in der Onkologie
Authors: Fedorovskaya Victoria , Imo Wolfgang 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
So far, much research has been done on practices of explaining and their functions both in informal and institutional settings. Explanations are used to ensure shared understanding and to provide for intersubjectivity. While explanations are typically larger structures, there also exists a small form, the explication, which is mainly used to clarify items on a word level. Originating in philosophy, where explications are the format used to give an exact meaning of a technical term, they are also used regularly in everyday settings. Here, they work in both directions, as explications in everyday terms of a technical expression or as explications of an everyday expression in terms of a technical one. On the basis of German and Russian oncological doctor-patient-interactions, all instances of explications are extracted and classified into different formal and functional groups.
Verantwortungsvolle Kreditvergabe in der novellierten Verbraucherkreditrichtlinie
Authors: Rüsing Christian 
Published: February 2025

Zusammenfassung
Art. 18 der novellierten Verbraucherkreditrichtlinie enthält im Vergleich zur bislang geltenden Richtlinie aus dem Jahr 2008 deutlich umfangreichere Bestimmungen zur Kreditwürdigkeitsprüfung. Sie sind stark an die Vorgaben für Immobiliardarlehensverträge aus der Wohnimmobilienkreditrichtlinie angenähert worden. Inwieweit Kreditgeber ihre Verfahren anpassen müssen, ist wegen der weitgehend unbestimmten Vorgaben noch offen. Das betrifft insbesondere Anbieter von Kleinstkrediten wie bei „Buy now, pay later“-Modellen. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die neuen unionsrechtlichen Vorgaben und geht vor allem der Frage nach, welche Umsetzungsspielräume bei nationalen Gesetzgebern und Kreditgebern verbleiben.
Grafija, pravopis i jezična analiza
Authors: Tomelić Ćurlin Marijana , Bočina Marina 
Published: February 2025

U jednom od najstarijih arhiva u Republici Hrvatskoj u Nadbiskupskom arhivu u Splitu (Arhiv ustanova ve- zanih uz splitsku katedralu) čuva se vrijedna građa koja svjedoči o bogatoj kulturnoj i pisanoj baštini jednoga naroda. Među tom građom nalaze se i Štenja iz splitske katedrale – životopisi svetaca i druge liturgijske knjige, stara zbirka od 33 knjižice. Veliki dio tih knjižica čine štenja (Štenja svetaca), to jest kratki životopisi svetaca koji su se čitali prilikom liturgijskih obreda i bili u uporabi svećenstva u katedrali. Cijela je zbirka nastajala u dugom periodu (od 1678. pa sve do 1908. godine), a Štenja svetaca (njih 11) datiraju iz 18. stoljeća. Tijek jezičnih mijenja najbolje se očituje na temelju povijesnih spisa, dokumenata, bilješki i književnih djela te ostalih tekstova koji mogu pomoći pri jezičnoj analizi. U ovom će se radu jezično analizirati štenje pod brojem 4 s naslovom Poçimÿe stenÿe od çudnovatoga prikaɀanÿa prihodechiega Duha Sfetoga meù Apostole, i Vçenike Isukarstove. Iako kod većega broja zapisanih štenja autor nije poznat, to u ovom tekstu nije slučaj. Autor se potpisao (Paulus Covacich Presbyter) te naveo godinu kada je tekst nastao (MDCCLXXII). Nakon sažetih podataka o samome zapisu, donijet će se pojedine značajke vezane za grafiju, pravopis i jezik toga teksta.Iako je čakavština u Splitu u 18. stoljeću već odavno zamrla i prepustila mjesto štokavskom jezičnom izrazu, pretpostavka je da bi se ipak ponegdje u tekstu mogle osjetiti i čakavske jezične crte koje će posvjedočiti o postojanju splitske čakavske riči, odnosno da bi se u podlozi ovoga teksta mogao osjetiti čakavski (stariji) jezični sloj. Zbog velike rasprostranjenosti štokavskoga narječja koje je uslijedilo i „zavladalo” čakavskim prostorom, jasno je da će u tekstu u pojedinim segmentima gramatičke odrednice zasigurno svjedočiti i o vrlo jakom štokavskom (novijem) jezičnom sloju. Neizostavno će biti i preklapanje tih dvaju slojeva, kako na kojoj jezičnoj razini. Zasigurno će biti zanimljivo to jezičnom analizom dokazati. Na temelju detaljnje analize (fonološke, morfološke, sintaktičke i leksičke) te pregleda grafije i pravopisa zadanoga štenja iz 18. stoljeća, pokazat će se prisustvo različitih jezičnih slojeva, odnosno prisustvo čakavskih (starijih) i štokavskih (novijih) jezičnih odrednica. Tekst ove knjižice ima iznimnu povijesnu, jezičnu, dokumentarnu i znanstvenu vrijednost i zasigurno će, kao takav, posvjedočiti o bogatoj splitskoj pisanoj baštini.
The challenges of treating HIV-infected adolescents
Authors: Bakeera-Kitaka Sabrina 
Published: February 2025

Adolescents and young people represent a growing share of people living with HIV worldwide. In 2020 alone, 410,000 [194,000-690,000] young people between the ages of 10 to 24 were newly infected with HIV, of whom 150,000 [44,000-310,000] were adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19. To compound this, most recent data indicate that only 25 per cent of adolescent girls and 17 per cent of adolescent boys aged 15-19 in Eastern and Southern Africa – the region most affected by HIV – have been tested for HIV in the past 12 months and received the result of the last test. The testing rates in West and Central Africa and South Asia are even lower. If current trends continue, hundreds of thousands more will become HIV-positive in the coming years, and without knowing their status, adolescents will miss out on life-saving treatment. Additionally, a large population of children infected with HIV perinatally over the last decade are growing into adolescence.
Upper airway obstruction in a Nigerian girl with Diphtheria: Could blind nasotracheal intubation be the minimally invasive alternative treatment in a resource-constrained setting?
Authors: Hamza Abdulhakeem , Adebayo Bosede , Zakari Ayuba , Abdullahi Adamu 
Published: February 2025

Managing upper airway obstruction in patients with diphtheria can be challenging. In a resource-constrained setting with no Intensive Care Units, blind nasotracheal intubation could be lifesaving. We report an eight-year-old girl who presented with a sore throat, fever, neck swelling and severe pallor. Following the commencement of blood transfusion, she developed respiratory distress associated with restlessness, stridor and gasping for air. Emergency nasotracheal intubation resulted in resolution of the respiratory distress and other symptoms. While evaluating a child with diphtheria, the sudden emergence of restlessness and respiratory distress may signal upper airway obstruction. Urgent blind nasotracheal intubation may be lifesaving.
Ocean Microseisms Recorded by the Cuban Seismic Network: Time Variation, Spectral Features, and Source Directionality Characteristics
Authors: Poveda Brossard Viana , Nishida Kiwamu , Enescu Bogdan , Takagi Ryota 
Published: February 2025

Abstract
Ocean microseisms, caused by ocean gravity waves, dominate the ambient seismic wavefield from 1 to 20 s. Microseisms can be categorized as primary microseisms (PM) from 10 to 20 s and secondary microseisms (SM) from 1 to 10 s. Although the observations were well established, the characteristics of ocean microseisms in Cuba have never been explored, and those in semi-enclosed seas have been investigated to a limited extent compared with open oceans. Therefore, we analyzed broadband seismic data at 13 stations in Cuba from 2020 to 2021 to reveal the excitation. First, we revealed the main spectral features for the peaks of PM and SM. Second, we estimated the location of the sources that contribute to generating SM at three period ranges: 1–2 s, 2–4 s, and 4–8 s. For this purpose, we conducted polarization analysis at each seismic station, focusing on both Rayleigh and P waves. Our results reveal a broad SM peak with a dominant period between 2.9 and 4.1 s at all stations. A more stable PM peak was found at 15.6 s. We found a weak seasonal variation of microseism activity; relatively stronger SM occurred during the dry season. We identified directional incident Rayleigh waves at periods of 1–2 s and 2–4 s, with no seasonal variation in the source locations at most of the stations and distributed source directions at periods of 4–8 s. Conversely, seasonality in P-wave sources at periods of 4–8 s is strong for most of the Cuban stations: sources originating from the north and south, corresponding to the local winter of the northern and southern hemispheres, respectively. These findings contribute to a better understanding of microseisms at locations of weak ocean microseism sources.