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Aim: The specific aim of the study was to assess the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on nursing faculty experiences.Background: Academic nursing experiences were disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is concern that the resulting stress threatens nursing faculty emotional well-being and reason to burnout.Method: A descriptive, quantitative study was conducted;exploring faculty academic and clinical roles during the COVID-19 pandemic by using structured, self designed, open-ended questionnaire to 401 institutionally attached nursing health professionals. The questionnaire includes various domains including Safety and Health, Challenges for teaching, clinical practise, supervision perception of institutional support provided;faculty burnout, satisfaction, and well-being.Results: Overall satisfaction with the working environment in the institutions with respect to total teaching experience showed a significant statistical. Participants perceived support from academic institutions and increased need to provide emotional support to students.Conclusion: Nursing faculty are essential to the profession. Nursing faculty require proactive and sustained institutional and personal support to provide exceptional ongoing education, build resilience, and support students.
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Since the discovery and betterment of vaccines for human diseases, Anti-Vaccine rhetoric and resistance have been prevalent in social circles. These sentiments adversely affect the effectiveness of preventing the contraction of deadly contagious diseases, such as COVID-19. With the advent of social media platforms, the expression of anti-vaccine stances has a far greater reach in society. In this paper, we tackle the task of COVID-19 vaccine stance detection to gauge people's receptiveness towards vaccines and subsequently understand the effectiveness of the vaccination drives. © 2021 Copyright for this paper by its authors.
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Religious and faith-based communities can play a significant role in building a resilient society during and after a pandemic. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), religious institutions, faith-based organizations, and faith communities can provide important healthcare information to a community's most vulnerable population through their service networks. Currently, India ranks second in terms of the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases. In March 2020, India adopted a travel restriction for visitors from outside India, followed by a nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of the disease. During this time, many religious institutions and faith-based communities provided aid to needy people, such as wage workers and migrant laborers who did not have jobs to support themselves. Against this backdrop, this paper examines the role of two well-known Hindu faith-based organizations in Lucknow-Brahma Kumaris and Sri Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama in providing various tangible and intangible services to the citizens. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.
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This study aimed to elicit the critical factors influencing Indian domestic vacationers' travel intention for leisure vacation destination choice amidst COVID-19. The study proposed a new model based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), expanding it by adding contextual variables like perceived risk, perceived knowledge of COVID-19, and information search behaviour. The study used a quantitative approach using online social media platforms and emails of 312 respondents to analyze and test the hypotheses using IBM SPSS and AMOS tools. The results indicated that physical and functional risk negatively influenced attitude;whereas, psychological risk negatively influenced travel intention. Perceived knowledge of COVID-19 significantly influenced travel intention. Attitude strongly mediated subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and perceived knowledge of COVID-19 to travel intention. This explains the strong implications for travel destination marketers for marketing safer destination choices to vacationers. © 2022, Associated Management Consultants Pvt. Ltd.. All rights reserved.
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Molnupiravir, a broad-spectrum antiviral is an isopropyl ester prodrug of beta-D-N4-hydroxycytidine. Molnupiravir targets RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase enzyme of the viruses. A new stability-indicating HPLC-method was developed to determine related substances and assay of molnupiravir. Separation was achieved by using Shim-pack GWS C18 column. The method was validated according to current ICH requirements. The calibration plot gave a linear relationship for all known analytes over the concentration range from LOQ to 200%. LOD and LOQ for all known analytes were found in 0.05-0.08 microg mL-1 and 0.12-0.20 microg mL-1, respectively, the mean recovery was found to be 97.79-102.44 %. Study showed that the method, results of robustness, solution stability studies are precise and within the acceptable limits. Molnupiravir was found to degrade in acid, alkali, and oxidative conditions, and was stable in thermal, moisture, and photolytic degradation condition. The method is simple, accurate, precise, and reproducible for routine purity analysis of drug-samples.Copyright © 2022 Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association. All rights reserved.
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) might have originated from the recombination of a Pangolin-CoV-like virus with a Bat-CoV-RaTG13-like virus and then transmitted to a human at Wuhan city of China. On February 11, 2020, the WHO announced a name for the new coronavirus disease as COVID-19. Finally, the WHO declared the novel coron-avirus outbreak a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Within a few months, SARS-CoV-2 had spread across the world to 220 countries, areas or territories. The main objective of this work is to review the existing knowledge about COVID-19, its updated status, available treatment procedures and future challenges. The available literature based on the COVID-19 was thoroughly reviewed and concise, evidence-based information was explored for the public interest. Various authentic databases like PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar together with the official sites of some Govt. Organizations were carefully searched for all relevant information about the current status of COVID-19, including the published research on coronavirus. More than 68 million people are already infected, including around 20% severely ill, with almost 1.5 million casualties due to this virus which is expected to infect approximately 70% population worldwide. Currently, maximum confirmed cases and death are reported in the USA. The epicentre of the pandemic was initially shifted from China to Europe, then to the USA, Brazil and now India. In between, the understanding of pathogenesis and mode of transmission has been developed;repurposing drugs are being validated and the development of a new vaccine is underway. The study concludes that there is no established treatment available for COVID-19, although 26 clinical and 139 preclinical trials are un-derway to develop vaccines globally. Although three vaccines are at the advanced stage of develop-ment, their efficacy and adverse effects are yet to be validated and recorded. Recently, the Pfizer vaccine has been started for vaccination in emergency cases in England and Bahrain, and the United States of America will start it soon. Meanwhile, prevention, rigorous global containment and quarantine efforts are practiced worldwide to control its spread.Copyright © 2021 Bentham Science Publishers.
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Objective: The objective of this study was to describe the threaten situation in the COVID-19 scenario and to know the benefits, drawbacks, opportunities, and challenges of trend work from home. It will be a golden opportunity for people who work from home in an organized way to enjoy with family and earn money together. Background: In past decades, lots of changes of working methods have occurred. These revolutionary changes are very useful and it is a need of time. Methods: This is a narrative review of literature compiling the findings of literature from searches of computerized databases, textbooks, and discussion with community. Discussion: The collected data from the literature review are presented into themes to get clear scenes and ideas. Some recommendations are discussed to use it in a proper way. Conclusion: This study identifies elements that affect workers' physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being while working from home, and it lays the groundwork for thinking about how to best support a pleasant work from home experience. As per ideas establish a routine, be organized, have a sufficient workspace, boost your productive work, be responsible, avoid lot of multitasking, enhance communication and network, be balanced, study remote research possibilities, and learn from issues. © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications. All rights reserved.
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The purpose of this analysis is to double-check the phrasing in order to make it simpler for experts and scientists to comprehend the impact of the coronavirus on the tourism industry and develop solutions to this problem. This study looks at how and why the pandemic has affected people's freedoms by analyzing the events and worries that have arisen as a result of the virus's spread. By doing so, the study pinpoints personality traits, societal norms, and unproven assumptions that the tourist sector needs to challenge and change. The report also examines the severe difficulties encountered by the travel industry throughout the Coronavirus phases and analyses some issues with the proposed remedy based on Salesforce technology. This document summarizes the nature and scope of the coronavirus, its effects on the tourism sector, and suggestions for analyzing those effects and mitigating some of them through the use of Salesforce's 'Travel Log Analysis.' © 2022 IEEE.
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There is always a need of 24 hours monitoring system for the growing number of patients being in home cared due to reasons like aging, diabetes, covid-19, disabilities. The personal vital monitoring of an individual can be considered as a valuable resource for assisting them. The increase in the number of patients has also led to a decrease in the relative number of health workers per patient, which results in ignored or delay in diagnostics. This paper tries to focus on bringing a good patient monitoring system for assisting patients according to their vitals and their regular activities. This monitoring system uses IoT which is connected to a raspberry pi 4 for processing. In this monitoring system data is being collected from various sensors to analyze the heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature. To monitor patients activities - video input through the camera is used and processing the input is done by using raspberry pi 4. This process helps to analysis the patient health based on both the vitals and the activities, also provides feedback according to the collected data. The system also helps to reduce the ratio of the number of patients to the number of doctors which is reducing unnecessary visit, readmission, cost as well giving signaling live alerts. So the project is to develop a device that monitors a patient's regular activity and vitals and assists the patient without any supervision and to assist them according to their vitals. © 2022 IEEE.
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Background The frequent lockdown in Nepal during COVID-19 pandemic had brought various kinds of complexities such as stress among college students. This situation had created uncertainty of future academic career of undergraduate students in medical colleges. Some previously published literature showed gaming as a coping mechanism against stress. Objective To assess the gaming behavior of Medical college students during lockdown in COVID-19 pandemic. Method A cross-sectional study was conducted during lockdown period of July to August 2020. A total of 412 college students were enrolled. Online Google forms were shared to all the eligible students through email, viber and messenger with the help of class representative. Collected data were analyzed in SPSS version 20.0. Result The prevalence of gaming disorder was 8.5% among 260 internet gaming users. About 69.2% of the participants reported that their gaming behavior had increased due to stress of COVID-19 pandemic. Gender and spending more time online per day showed significant associations with greater scores on the internet gaming disorder. Conclusion During lockdown period of COVID-19 pandemic, the gaming behavior of medical college students has increased. Copyright © 2020, Kathmandu University. All rights reserved.
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Introduction: Legionella pneumophila is an opportunistic pathogen that is a key contributor to drinking water-associated disease outbreaks in the United States. Prolonged water stagnation periods in building plumbing systems due to low occupancy, especially during building shutdowns, breaks, and holidays, can lead to water quality deterioration and (re)colonization of buildings with L. pneumophila. Water monitoring in buildings typically relies on grab samples with small datasets. Methods: In this study, a larger dataset was created by sampling a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)-certified data-rich commercial building for L. pneumophila and physical-chemical water quality during the COVID-19 pandemic after reduced building occupancy. A proxy for human occupancy rates using WIFI logins was recorded throughout the study period. Results: L. pneumophila was observed in grab samples taken throughout the building, where concentrations generally increased with greater distances from the building point of entry to locations throughout the building. Factors conducive to microbial growth were identified in the building including fluctuations in water temperatures, lack of chlorine residual, a low water heater setpoint, colonized water-saving fixtures, prolonged stagnation throughout the building;especially in an expansion tank designed to reduce pressure issues during demand fluctuations, and the presence of oversized softener tanks with ion exchange resin that contributed to chlorine residual removal as well as colonization of the resin with L. pneumophila. Discussion: Flushing and thermal disinfection alone did not resolve the problem, and replacement of the expansion tank ultimately resolved the L. pneumophila issue. As ad-hoc approaches are logistically- and time-intensive, more proactive approaches are needed for informing preventative and corrective actions for reducing the risk of exposure to opportunistic pathogens in the building plumbing. Copyright © 2023 Joshi, Richard, Levya, Harrison, Saetta, Sharma, Crane, Mushro, Dieter, Morgan, Heida, Welco, Boyer, Westerhoff and Hamilton.
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Purpose: The paper revisits the correlation between the stock and bond market. Theoretically, these two asset classes should have a negative correlation. However, there are times when the negative correlation does not hold, and the paper attempts to identify the macro/micro factors leading to this anomaly. Methodology: The study would use secondary data from various websites (SEBI, NSE, BSE, FIMMDA) for the past two decades and employ various statistical tests - such as Pearson's Correlation, Spearman's Correlation and Regression Analysis to ascertain the extent of correlation between equities market and bond market in India. Findings: The paper would validate the negative correlation and test the relationship during times of financial crisis - like the 2008 global melt-down and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Implications: The study would help develop a better understanding of equities and bond markets' performance in different economic conditions - especially during black swan events like the present global pandemic. Originality: The Study would also focus on events/situations when the traditionally accepted relationship between equity market and bond market transforms.
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Health systems and their trends are continually evolving with advanced research on new tools and techniques. Since every health system has its limitations, there is a requirement for the integration of different medical systems to better serve mankind. In this direction, a practitioner of modern medicine should take into consideration traditional medicine practices, while the traditional medicine practitioner should also integrate the beneficial strategies of modern medicine. In spite of different approaches, the aim of all these medical systems is the same, which is to serve mankind by treating various health problems. Although traditional medicine has the potential to treat a variety of diseases, its acceptance by the global community is less than that of modern medicine due to inadequate scientific validation of its therapeutic benefits. In recent years, many new diseases have emerged, perhaps due to changes in geography, environment, weather conditions, and soil composition. A complete treatment of such diseases is a challenge for all medical practitioners, whether belonging to modern or traditional medicine. Therefore, an in-depth multidisciplinary research is needed to find an effective therapeutic strategy by connecting modern and traditional medical systems with biomedical sciences. In this direction, biotechnology can play an important role in developing a diagnostic method and treatment protocol. The present review provides an overview of the available Ayurvedic treatment options and future possibilities in which biotechnology may assist as a service provider. Copyright © 2023 Bentham Science Publishers.
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One of the best measures to enforce in epidemiological scenarios, such as the present COVID-19 epidemic, is the usage of masks. For a while, this will be a regular part of life, notably in public places. In order to deal with these unusual circumstances where people who wear mask are being watched, there is a need for an effective face identification technology. In order to precisely identify people wearing masks, we provide a deep learning algorithm based on YOLO architecture in this study. Unlike traditional CNNs, the proposed system uses a convergence layer to record numerous facial emotions while also using a number of convolutional filters to construct the faces for masked images. The presented design has numerous layers, including convolutional, max pooling, dropout, and softmax, and is both straightforward and effective. On the publicly accessible Real-World Masked Face Dataset, we assess the effectiveness of masked-faces detection (RWMFD). The investigational outcomes demonstrate an accurateness of 99.9%, demonstrating the effectiveness of our proposed methodology in classifying individuals wanting to wear facemasks. © 2022 IEEE.
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This Research Full Paper aims to understand student experiences on global virtual teams in depth by exploring the challenges that students face, how they approach them, and how they assess their response to overcoming these challenges. During the COVID-19 pandemic, intercultural learning opportunities such as study abroad were limited, and many universities implemented global virtual team projects as an alternative approach to developing intercultural skills. Prior research of these programs has focused on identifying best practices, challenges, and learning outcomes, but has provided few insights into students' experiences in these projects. To explore these experiences, we collected written reflections from 65 students participating in global virtual team projects in the middle and at the end of the semester. We analyzed these data using a thematic analysis approach. We identified three main types of challenges that students experienced: group cohesion, communication, and project management. Students approached these challenges by making changes at the personal and the team level. Most notably, students tended to take a positive view of their approaches to addressing the challenges by suggesting that they found a solution, had a positive learning experience, or identified skills they wanted to improve in future projects. The results of this study can inform the design of global virtual project courses and encourage conversations about team conflict and how to address it while working in virtual cross-cultural environments. © 2022 IEEE.
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Background. In 2021, there were approximately 1300 people on a given day who have experienced homelessness within the city of Detroit, Michigan. Sheltered beds within the 24 homeless shelters in the city were drastically cut in half during the COVID-19 pandemic due to concerns of overcrowding perpetuating SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks. We aimed to describe the outreach efforts made by Street Medicine Organizations (SMO) of Detroit during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, highlighting infection prevention and control strategies, and promotion of COVID-19 vaccinations amongst the unsheltered homeless. Methods. Health promotion interventions were directed at individuals who were unsheltered (defined as those living on the streets of Detroit, encampment sites and abandoned buildings). Education, which was provided through in-person sessions, as well as targeted COVID-19 informational pamphlets were distributed with every street-based run. Hygiene kits, which included masks, hand sanitizer and gloves were distributed thrice weekly at shelters and encampment sites. Since access to hand hygiene was drastically limited, the SMO constructed 10 hand washing stations throughout the city. COVID-19 vaccination in people experiencing homelessness started in April 2021. Results. SMO prioritized a 60 square mile range within the city of Detroit, providing care to approximately 500 persons over the months of April 2020 to April 2021. Demographics for this population varied;age ranged from 23 to 76 years old, sex was 70% males, race were 67% Black, 29% White and 4% Hispanic. More than 2000 hygiene kits were distributed throughout this period. Ninety-one individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness were provided the COVID-19 vaccine in April 2021. Conclusion. Individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness face unique challenges to accessing timely medical care, which has been further exacerbated during the pandemic. These individuals have limited or no access to necessary measures needed to prevent the spread and severity of diseases of SARS-CoV-2. We describe a focused and effective approach to preventing infection among these individuals as a model for organizations nationally.
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Due to the coronavirus's enormous spread and effect, a robotic arm system is designed such that doctors can perform contact-less surgery to minimize risk to their health. Modern robotic aided surgery frequently employs remote operation. The surgeon sits beside the console, guided by visual feedback, and utilises an input control panel to direct the slave robotic equipment doing the procedure. The study discusses a potential surgical robotic system that can be used in surgery. The first robotic arm, out of two, is capable of performing various operations: marking, incision and gluing, using a unique concept of multi-gripper introduced in this paper. The second one has an end-effector that is used for removing a specific part of the body. A camera like endoscopy micro usb camera is used to provide visual assistance to the surgeon. Designing is carried out on AutoCAD, and the components are 3D printed to construct the robot. Robotic arm is operated using a control panel consisting of joysticks and potentiometers. Wireless communication is achieved through NodeMCUs, which are used for interfacing actuators and sensors. This multi gripper will help in saving time as switching to different grippers is not needed for various operations. The robotic system design performs the operation efficiently, resulting in less blood loss and quicker recovery time while allowing the surgeon to control it remotely. © 2022 IEEE.
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Background: The psychological impact of breast cancer diagnosis and management are well known, and the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated this distressing experience for these patients. Objective(s): We aimed to assess the supportive care outcomes and level of psychological distress experienced by breast cancer patients in our regional survivorship clinic during the COVID pandemic, in comparison to a pre-pandemic population. We also sought to determine whether using telehealth during the pandemic was preferred by oncology patients. Method(s): All 49 patients who attended the breast cancer survivorship clinic in 2019, and 50 patients who attended in 2021, were included in this study. Deidentified data was collected from the end of treatment care plan.We also collected self-reported scores on The National Comprehensive CancerNetwork Distress Thermometer (DT). Patients with a self-reported DT score >4 were asked to complete the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale questionnaire as a secondary assessment of depression and anxiety. Result(s): Breast cancer patients in the 2021 pandemic cohort recorded higher levels of distress (4.2/10) on the Distress Thermometer compared to the 2019 pre-pandemic cohort (2.4/10) (p = 0.0007). In the pandemic cohort, 38% of breast cancer patients reported a K10 score >16 indicating a moderate-to-high or threefold population risk of having a current anxiety or depressive disorder, compared with 12% of the patients in the pre-pandemic cohort. Patients in the prepandemic group most commonly identified physical concerns including fatigue (61%), poor sleep (43%), pain (33%) and neuropathy (31%). The key concerns of patients in the 2021 group were fatigue, anxiety, depression and fear of recurrence. This study demonstrated the use of supportive care tools to identify breast cancer patients who are vulnerable to increased psychological distress during the COVID pandemic. It also highlights the need to address the limited access to psychological support services for cancer patients in Gippsland.
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Objectives: The current pandemic has disproportionately affected the mental health of already-vulnerable young people: youth of color, immigrant, LGBTQ+, and refugee populations, and others who traditionally experience healthcare inequities. Financial hardships, systemic discrimination, cultural stigma, and lack of skilled practitioners are among the numerous global barriers to youth mental health and culturally competent care. Importantly, vulnerable populations have particularly limited access to mental health care, yet most continue to attend some form of school in person or virtually. Child and adolescent psychiatrists are uniquely positioned to transform these barriers by partnering with schools to provide culturally sensitive mental health services. Method(s): After the panel introduction, a brief review of the impact of COVID-19 and systemic discrimination on the mental health of youth will be presented by Kristie Ladegard, MD, and Anna Ordonez, MD, MAS (8 minutes). Presenters (18 minutes each) will discuss their specific school-based mental health service (SBMHS) initiatives and outcomes, including unique vulnerabilities, stigmas, and barriers that their patient populations face: Kristie Ladegard, MD, "Culturally Informed Training: Lessons from Denver School-Based Clinics";Brandon Johnson, MD, "Addressing LGBTQ+-Related Mental Health in Schools";Mina Fazel, MD, "Lessons in Belonging: Tools to Help Refugee Children in Schools";and Jane Ripperger-Suhler, MD, and Puja Patel, PhD, "Reaching At-Risk Youth by Telehealth in Texas: Experience From the Texas Child Health Access Through Telemedicine Program." Shashank Joshi, MD, and Dr. Ordonez, as our discussants, will review each program's cultural dimensions and identify persistent challenges and their solutions (20 minutes), followed by panel questions and answers (20 minutes). Result(s): Models of SBMHS varied in their approach to cultural engagement, health promotion, school partnership, and treatment modalities. All demonstrated successful outcomes with youth who traditionally experience healthcare inequities. Conclusion(s): Providing culturally competent mental health care in school settings is essential to improving health equity to vulnerable and underserved communities. Child and adolescent psychiatrists must lead the way in advocating for culturally competent and evidence-based methods that increase global access to mental health treatment for all youth across the world. DEI, SC, CUL Copyright © 2022
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COVID-19 Infection also called as coronavirus disease is a newly discovered surging viral illness which is caused due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2. Wuhan, China found its 1st case in December 2019. Since then, the disease has expanded across the world, which resulted into a pandemic that lead to the strain being kept on putting on global systems for health care across. Diabetes mellitus patients are a group that has been significantly affected by the epidemic. We performed a search on the online database PubMed to identify the relevant articles based on our eligibility criteria. There were a total of 18 papers, all of which identified the relation of diabetes mellitus with COVID-19 severity or mortality or both. Hence all of these studies were included. The aim of the research is to use this narrative review to summarise the data and evidence about Diabetes Mellitus and related COVID-19 mortality and severity.