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Peer supporters' mental health and emotional wellbeing needs: Key factors and opportunities for co‐produced training
Authors: Kane Laura , Portman Robert M. , Eberhardt Judith , Walker Lauren , Proctor Emma‐Lily , Poulter Hannah , O'Neill Catherine 
Published: August 2023

AbstractIntroductionPeer supporters are a valuable asset to mental health and support services, but their own mental health needs are often overlooked in research and practice. This study explored peer supporters' perceived challenges of maintaining their mental health and emotional wellbeing and co‐produced training needs.MethodsA qualitative approach was used to explore factors affecting peer supporters' mental health and emotional wellbeing. Semi‐structured interviews and focus groups were conducted online with 11 peer supporters across North East England.ResultsA thematic analysis identified: ‘Lack of training and support’, ‘Role ambiguity’ and ‘Emotional labour’ as challenges experienced by peer supporters in relation to maintaining their mental health and emotional wellbeing. Peer supporters' own lived experiences had the potential to act as a barrier towards providing support to others. Conflict with peer ‘supportees’ sometimes negatively impacted on the peer supporter experience. Participant responses emphasised a need for person‐centred, co‐produced training.ConclusionThis work highlights the need for targeted training for peer supporters, including both role‐specific education and strategies to support their mental health and emotional wellbeing.Patient or Public ContributionParticipants were contacted and asked to provide feedback on finalised themes to ensure the analysis was congruent with their experiences, further enabling the future development of an emotional wellbeing training programme for peer supporters.
Butterfly biodiversity increases with prairie strips and conservation management in row crop agriculture
Authors: Kemmerling Lindsey R. , McCarthy Annabelle C. , Brown Cameron S. , Haddad Nick M. 
Published: August 2023

Abstract
Butterfly abundances are declining globally, with meta‐analysis showing a rate of −2% per year. Agriculture contributes to butterfly decline through habitat loss and degradation. Prairie strips—strips of farmland actively restored to native perennial vegetation—are a conservation practice with the potential to mitigate biodiversity loss, but their impact on butterfly biodiversity is not known.
Working within a 30‐year‐old experiment that varied land use intensity, from natural areas to croplands (maize–soy–wheat rotation), we introduced prairie strips to less intensely managed crop treatments. Treatments included conservation land, biologically based (organic) row crops with prairie strips, reduced input row crops with prairie strips, no‐till row crops and conventional row crops. We measured butterfly abundance and richness: (1) within prairie strips and (2) across the gradient of land use intensity at the plot level.
Butterfly abundance was higher within prairie strips than in all other treatments. Across the land use intensity gradient at the plot level, the conservation land treatment had the highest abundance, treatments with prairie strips had intermediate levels and no‐till and conventional treatments had the lowest abundances. Also across entire plots, butterfly richness increased as land use intensity decreased. Treatments with prairie strips, which also had reduced land use intensity, had distinct butterfly communities as they harboured several butterfly species that were not found in other row crop treatments.
In addition to the known effects of prairie strips on ecosystem services including erosion control and increased water quality, prairie strips can increase biodiversity in multifunctional landscapes.
Triglyceride‐glucose index is strongly associated with all‐cause mortality in elderly females with diabetic foot ulcers: A 9‐year follow‐up study
Authors: Huang Xiuxian , Han Jiaxia , Nong Yuechou , Sun Jingxia , Wang Qiu , Zhai Zhenwei , Mo Jiacheng , Huang Jianhao , Lu Wensheng 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis study aims to explore the association between the triglyceride‐glucose (TyG) index and all‐cause mortality in patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) through an ambispective cohort study. A total of 555 inpatients with DFUs were qualified to participate in the trial study from 2013 to 2022. Throughout a median 63‐month period, all subjects were followed up every 6 months. According to the three quantiles of the TyG index, participants were divided into three groups: low‐level (≤8.75, n = 185), moderate‐level (8.76–9.33, n = 185) and high‐level (≥9.34, n = 185). The association between the TyG index and all‐cause mortality in patients with DFUs was then assessed. During the follow‐up period, out of 555 patients with DFUs, 116 died (20.9%). After adjusting for confounding factors, the TyG index was positively associated with all‐cause mortality in patients with DFUs (HR = 1.733; 95% CI = 1.341–2.241; p < 0.001). Compared with the low‐level TyG index, the moderate‐level TyG index (HR = 1.685; 95% CI = 1.011–2.810; p = 0.045) and the high‐level TyG index (HR = 2.769; 95% CI = 1.678–4.568; p < 0.001) were positively correlated with all‐cause mortality in patients with DFUs. Additionally, in subgroup analysis, both females (HR = 1.905; 95% CI = 1.250–2.904; p = 0.003), males (HR = 1.729; 95% CI = 1.240–2.409; p = 0.001), younger (<65 years old) (HR = 1.467; 95% CI = 1.008–2.135; p = 0.046) and elderly (≥ 65) (HR = 1.933; 95% CI = 1.339–2.791; p < 0.001) showed a positive correlation between TyG index and all‐cause mortality rate in patients with DFUs. Furthermore, in the high‐level TyG index group compared, males (HR = 2.699; 95% CI = 1.457–4.998) and participants aged <65 years (HR = 2.031; 95% CI = 0.972–4.242), with the TyG index level increase by 1.0, the risk for all‐cause mortality increased 3.277‐fold in females (HR = 4.277; 95% CI = 1.645–11.124) and 1.909‐fold in elderly aged ≥65 years (HR = 2.909; 95% CI = 1.486–5.695), respectively. Kaplan–Meier survival curve analysis showed that the higher the TyG index level, the higher risk of all‐cause mortality in patients with DFUs (log‐rank, all p < 0.001). Briefly, this study implies a strong positive correlation between the TyG index and all‐cause mortality in patients with DFUs, especially in older women. Therefore, special attention should be paid to elderly females with DFUs because they have a higher TyG index level and risk of all‐cause mortality than other populations in daily clinical practice.
Touch‐free reactive flash sintering of dense strontium hexaferrite permanent magnet
Authors: Jalali Syed I. A. , Manchón‐Gordón Alejandro F. , Chacartegui Ricardo , Sánchez‐Jiménez Pedro E. , Blázquez Javier S. , Perejón Antonio , Raj Rishi , Pérez‐Maqueda Luis A. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThis work presents an extension of the touch‐free flash sintering technique. In the proposed technique, chemical reaction and sintering occur in a single step, without the use of electrodes, in the presence of electric and magnetic fields. We show that a dense, single‐phase strontium hexaferrite magnet can be produced from a mixture of commercial carbonate and oxide powders in a single step in a little more than a minute. This new technique implies significant reduction in energy and time consumption (primarily because of ultrafast processing) relative to conventional sintering.
Investigation of COVID‐19 vaccination among maintenance hemodialysis patients in Sichuan, China
Authors: He Li , Chen Lin , Zheng Haotian , Zhang Yingjun , Tang Sikai , Chen Hui 
Published: August 2023

AbstractAimTo investigate the current status of COVID‐19 vaccination in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients and its influencing factors.MethodsIn total, 585 patients undergoing regular hemodialysis in Sichuan Province of China from January to March 2022 were selected to complete a questionnaire survey on their knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding COVID‐19 vaccination. Independent t tests and logistic multivariate analysis were used to analyze the influencing factors of COVID‐19 vaccination in hemodialysis patients.ResultsThe survey showed that 37.44% of MHD patients had been vaccinated with the COVID‐19 vaccine. Being married was associated with COVID‐19 vaccination in patients with MHD (odds ratio [OR] = 1.969 95% CI 0 .870 ~ 4.453). MHD patients living in county areas have higher rates of COVID‐19 vaccination (OR = 0.572 95% CI 0.301 ~ 1.087). Family /relatives/friends who are healthcare workers are associated with COVID‐19 vaccination for MHD patients (OR = 1.840 95% CI 1.140 ~ 2.970). Other vaccination history within 5 years was a factor in COVID‐19 vaccination for MHD patients (OR = 5.592 95% CI 2.997 ~ 10.434). Attitude (OR = 0.885 95% CI 0.808 ~ 0.905), and practice (OR = 0.756 95% CI 0.697 ~ 0.819) scores on the COVID‐19 vaccination knowledge and practice questionnaire were related to the vaccination status of MHD patients.ConclusionsMHD patients had lower rates of COVID‐19 vaccination. Marital status, living environment, whether family/relatives/friends were medical workers, and the score of the COVID‐19 vaccine knowledge and practice questionnaire were the factors influencing their vaccination status. Clinical attention should be given to the adverse reactions of COVID‐19 vaccination in MHD patients to improve the awareness of primary medical staff on hemodialysis, and families and society should pay more attention to COVID‐19 vaccination in MHD patients.
The developing juvenile talus: Radiographic identification of distinct ontogenetic phases and structural trajectories
Authors: Reid Rebecca A. G. , Davies Catriona , Cunningham Craig 
Published: August 2023

AbstractTrabecular bone architecture in the developing skeleton is a widely researched area of bone biomechanics; however, despite its significance in weight‐bearing locomotion, the developing talus has received limited examination. This study investigates the talus with the purpose of identifying ontogenetic phases and developmental patterns that contribute to the growing understanding of the developing juvenile skeleton. Colour gradient mapping and radiographic absorptiometry were utilised to investigate 62 human tali from 38 individuals, ranging in age‐at‐death from 28 weeks intrauterine to 20 years of age. The perinatal talus exhibited a rudimentary pattern comparable to the structural organisation observed within the late adolescent talus. This early internal organisation is hypothesised to be related to the vascular pattern of the talus. After 2 years of age, the talus demonstrated refinement, where radiographic trajectories progressively developed into patterns consistent with adult trabecular organisation, which are linked to the forces associated with the bipedal gait, suggesting a strong influence of biomechanical forces on the development of the talus.
Adolescents' and parents' affect in relation to discrepant perceptions of parental warmth in daily life
Authors: Janssen Loes H. C. , Sloan Carlie J. , Verkuil Bart , Van Houtum Lisanne A. E. M. , Wever Mirjam. C. M. , Fosco Gregory M. , Elzinga Bernet M. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractThe current study aimed to evaluate how adolescents' and parents' perceptions of daily parenting—and their discrepancies—relate to daily parent and adolescent affect. Daily parental warmth and affect were assessed using electronic diaries in 150 American adolescent–parent dyads (61.3% females, Mage = 14.6, 83.3% White; 95.3% mothers, Mage = 43.4; 89.3% White) and in 80 Dutch adolescents with 79 mothers and 72 fathers (63.8% females, Mage = 15.9, 91.3% White; Mage = 49.0, 97.4% White). Results of preregistered models indicated that individuals' affect may be more important for perceptions of parenting than discrepancies between parent–adolescent reports of parenting for affect, stressing the need to be aware of this influence of affect on parenting reports in clinical and research settings.
The nurse faculty role: A lived experience of mentoring nurses while coping with anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Authors: Orth Stephanie J. , Evanson Tracy A. 
Published: August 2023

Accessible SummaryWhat is known on the subject?

Anxiety is common in women, nurses and nurse educators and can negatively impact overall mental well‐being and work–life satisfaction.

Anxiety increased during the COVID‐19 pandemic.

Hope is a personal resource that can be employed to help cope with anxiety.

Professional identity, ‘our why’, is important to recognize and revisit as a way to add value to daily work in anxious times.

What this paper adds to existing knowledge?

Compassion fatigue has contributed to burnout and turnover of nurses and nursing faculty.

Knowing our ‘why’ helps understand the motivation in our work.

Using hope as a personal resource, and sharing my lived experience, could be useful to other nursing faculty struggling with anxiety.

What are the implications for mental health nursing?

There is a need for mental health resources within healthcare and education systems to support nurses and nurse educators not only during the COVID‐19 pandemic but through future healthcare crises.

Support programmes and interventions need to be developed to sustain and retain both nurses and nursing faculty.

AbstractBackgroundProviding patient care and nurse education in today's healthcare environment is high‐stress, often resulting in high‐anxiety among both nurses and nurse educators. The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on nurse faculty is largely unexplored.AimsThe aim was to share the experience of living and work working with anxiety in the nurse faculty role during the COVID‐19 pandemic.Materials & MethodsThis is a lived experience narrative of one nurse faculty member.ResultsThrough daily purposeful self‐motivation and reflection, yoga, and brief outdoor respites, the author was able to strengthen professional identity, to see value in her work and to activate the personal resource of hope (Nursing Management, 52, 2021, 56; Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 93, 2020, 187).Discussion‘Nursing faculty are essential to the profession’ and likely experienced ‘emotional exhaustion’ during the pandemic (Nursing Education Perspectives, 42, 2021, 8) in their efforts to buoy students. It needs to be acknowledged that nursing faculty can experience anxiety, secondary trauma (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 2020, 8358) and compassion fatigue, through listening to students’ experiences and offering reinforcement during chaotic times.ConclusionLittle is known about what nursing faculty experienced as they attempted to support students (Nursing Education Perspectives, 42, 2021, 285). It is hoped that by sharing this lived experience, nurses and nurse faculty will understand how employing hope as a personal resource and re‐engaging with their professional identity will help them cope with the significant stresses that future healthcare pandemics or disasters may bring.
Growth performance, feed utilization, and resistance to acute crowding of post‐metamorphic stage black sea bass Centropristis striata reared at high stocking densities in a pilot recirculating nursery
Authors: Carroll Patrick M. , Watanabe Wade O. , Alam Md Shah 
Published: August 2023

AbstractA reliable and cost‐effective source of fingerlings is essential for the successful commercial aquaculture of black sea bass. This study aimed to determine the effects of nursery tank stocking densities on the growth performance, feed efficiency, survival, tolerance to shipping, and biochemical quality of juvenile black sea bass. In two experiments, different stocking densities were compared for black sea bass at different stages of development. In Experiment 1, intermediate stage juveniles (1.27 g mean wt) were stocked at densities of 4.5 and 6.5 fish per liter of tank volume. Growth performance and biochemical quality were similar between the two density treatments. In Experiment 2, early post‐metamorphic stage juveniles (mean wt. = 0.524 g) were compared using the same stocking densities. While the fish reared at 4.5 fish/L were slightly larger, there were no significant differences in growth performance or biochemical quality between the density treatments. After both experiments, the fingerlings from each density treatment showed high survival rates under acute crowding and simulated shipping conditions. The study demonstrates that high NT densities of 4.5 and 6.5 fish/L did not negatively impact the growth performance and quality of black sea bass fingerlings, providing transport‐ready fingerlings in a relatively short period.
A Novel Macro Perspective on Family Dynamics: The Contribution of Partnership Contexts of Births to Cohort Fertility Rates
Authors: Andersson Linus 
Published: August 2023

AbstractPartnering behavior is central to understanding fertility. Influential concepts, including singlehood, serial monogamy, and multiple‐partner fertility, are frequently used to analyze partnering and childbearing dynamics. These concepts are evoked to understand individual and population‐level patterns but are mainly analyzed at the individual level. We propose a measure for gauging the interplay between partnerships and childbearing at the population level, namely cohort fertility rates (CFR) as the sum of births under various partnership contexts. Surprisingly, demographers rarely measure and do not have a clear picture of the extent to which childbearing in different partnership contexts contributes to completed fertility. We analyze Finnish register data to decompose CFR into births across union status, union order, and reproductive partner order. Contrary to the discourse of partnering in the Nordics, births within first unions to first reproductive partners account for about two‐thirds of CFR. Births in higher‐order unions to first reproductive partners account for one‐fifth. Single births and births with higher‐order reproductive partners have a modest impact. This ranking holds across sex and educational level. We argue that the proposed measures offer a novel appraisal of population‐level implications of partnerships and childbearing dynamics and provide an opportunity to understand cross‐country variation in fertility patterns.
Seasonal variation of anti‐PD‐1 outcome in melanoma—Results from a Dutch patient cohort
Authors: Borgers J. S. W. , Burgers F. H. , Schina A. , Van Not O. J. , van den Eertwegh A. J. M. , Blank C. U. , Aarts M. J. B. , van den Berkmortel F. W. P. J. , de Groot J. W. B. , Hospers G. A. P. , Kapiteijn E. , Piersma D. , van Rijn R. S. , Boer A. M. Stevense‐den , van der Veldt A. A. M. , Vreugdenhil G. , Boers‐Sonderen M. J. , Wouters M. W. J. M. , Suijkerbuijk K. P. M. , van Thienen J. V. , Haanen J. B. A. G. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractDespite the improved survival rates of patients with advanced stage melanoma since the introduction of ICIs, many patients do not have (long‐term) benefit from these treatments. There is evidence that the exposome, an accumulation of host‐extrinsic factors including environmental influences, could impact ICI response. Recently, a survival benefit was observed in patients with BRAF wild‐type melanoma living in Denmark who initiated immunotherapy in summer as compared to winter. As the Netherlands lies in close geographical proximity to Denmark and has comparable seasonal differences, a Dutch validation cohort was established using data from our nationwide melanoma registry. In this study, we did not observe a similar seasonal difference in overall survival and are therefore unable to confirm the Danish findings. Validation of either the Dutch or Danish findings in (combined) patient cohorts from other countries would be necessary to determine whether this host‐extrinsic factor influences the response to ICI‐treatment.
Abandoned mine land program: Examining public participation in decision‐making
Authors: Kendrick Karsyn , Kim Younsung 
Published: August 2023

AbstractFor centuries, coal extraction and production provided low‐cost energy that powered the American economy. Currently, an estimated 5.5 million people in the Appalachian region live within one mile of an Abandoned Mine Land (AML) site. The site remediation has been funded and promoted by the AML program under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) of 1977, and public engagement has been required. However, little is known about the AML program and the public engagement requirement for site remediation decision‐making. Relying on State and Tribal Reclamation Plans and community surveys, we investigate how AML states and tribes engage the public and which barriers limit successful participation in the AML program. We found that AML states and tribes rely heavily on traditional methods of public engagement, such as public meetings, hearings, and comment periods, rather than nontraditional methods that could include more diverse stakeholders. We also found (1) lack of information on public participation opportunities and (2) unclear project selection and awards processes as key barriers limiting public engagement. Three recommendations specific to AML program are suggested.
Nonintegrability of the Painlevé IV equation in the Liouville–Arnold sense and Stokes phenomena
Authors: Stoyanova Tsvetana 
Published: August 2023

AbstractIn this paper we study the integrability of the Hamiltonian system associated with the fourth Painlevé equation. We prove that one two‐parametric family of this Hamiltonian system is not integrable in the sense of the Liouville–Arnold theorem. Computing explicitly the Stokes matrices and the formal invariants of the second variational equations, we deduce that the connected component of the unit element of the corresponding differential Galois group is not Abelian. Thus the Morales–Ramis–Simó theory leads to a nonintegrable result. Moreover, combining the new result with our previous one we establish that for all values of the parameters for which the equation has a particular rational solution the corresponding Hamiltonian system is not integrable by meromorphic first integrals which are rational in t.
Preliminary evaluation of reference intervals for a point‐of‐care viscoelastic coagulation monitor (VCM Vet) in healthy adult horses
Authors: Bishop Rebecca C. , Kemper Ann M. , Burges Julie W. , Jandrey Karl E. , Wilkins Pamela A. 
Published: August 2023

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate a point‐of‐care viscoelastic coagulation monitor (VCM Vet) for use in horses by assessing variability between devices and establish reference intervals (RIs) for healthy adult horses.DesignProspective observational study.SettingTwo university teaching hospitals.AnimalsHealthy adult horses (n = 68).InterventionsNone.Measurements and Main ResultsBlood collected by direct jugular venipuncture was applied directly from the syringe into 2 VCM Vet cassettes to establish coefficients of variation (CVs) and RIs for reported parameters of clotting time (CT), clot formation time (CFT), alpha angle, amplitude at 10 and 20 minutes, maximum clot firmness, and lysis index at 30 and 45 minutes. CVs for each parameter were within clinical tolerance. There was a significant difference in CT between institutions (P < 0.001). Differences in CV were found between institutions for CT (P = 0.003) and CFT (P = 0.01). Healthy horse RIs were calculated for the overall data set and each individual institution. Calculated RIs were as follows: CT, 255.6–1233.9 seconds; CFT, 89.4–581 seconds; alpha angle, 11.4–53.6°; maximum clot firmness, 18–37.7; lysis index at 30 minutes, 97.3%–102.1%; lysis index at 45 minutes, 80.8%–103.3%; amplitude at 10 minutes, 8.7–28.3; and amplitude at 20 minutes, 17.4–35.7.ConclusionsVCM Vet is a repeatable and practical option for rapid point‐of‐care assessment of hemostasis in horses but has a wide RI and is susceptible to variability. Establishment of institution‐specific RIs is recommended.