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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The psychological problems of hemodialysis (HD) patients are prominent, and benefit finding (BF) have been proven beneficial to physical and mental health, fewer researchers explored BF in HD patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the current status of BF in patients with chronic kidney disease and to analyze the factors influencing it in order to provide a reference for subsequent interventions. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was done on 246 HD patients by convenience sampling in the hemodialysis center of a 3 A hospital in Shanghai from March to September 2019. The measures include General Information Questionnaire, Benefit Finding Scale, Perceived Social Support Scale, General Self-efficacy Scale, and Simplified Coping Style scale. RESULTS: The median (interquartile range, IQR) score of BF was 66 (IQR = 19) and it was lower compared with other chronic diseases. Significant differences in BF scores were found between different age groups, HD duration categories, and understanding degrees of HD. Taking BF as the dependent variable, the results of multiple linear regression analysis showed that age, duration of HD, family support, other support, positive coping, and self-efficacy entered the regression equation to explain 43.8% of the total variation. Social support played an indirect effect in the relationship between positive coping and BF, accounting for 54.1% of the total effect. CONCLUSION: The BF of HD patients is worrisome and affected by many factors. Medical staff could pay attention to the positive psychology of HD patients, and construct individualized interventions according to the influencing factors to improve their BF level and achieve physical and mental health.
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Adaptation, Psychological , Renal Insufficiency, Chronic , Humans , Cross-Sectional Studies , China/epidemiology , Renal Dialysis/psychology , Renal Insufficiency, Chronic/therapyABSTRACT
Background: The extensive application of hospital information systems in the current information-driven era suggests that nursing education should focus on information education. Methods: The newly developed hospital information system was used and evaluated by 544 students to explore the feasibility and necessity of such applications for teaching. Results: Overall, 97.1% of the students expressed satisfaction, and 96.0% supported simulated information education for nursing. The usability was good, with the system receiving a usability score of 72.625 ± 13.0907. The junior students had a higher score than the sophomores regarding system availability, and the difference was statistically significant. Conclusions: Students generally had a high degree of satisfaction with the simulated information nursing education system and highly approved of the teaching method. However, the system needs to be upgraded.
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Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate , Students, Nursing , Humans , Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/methods , Computer Simulation , Clinical CompetenceABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: Serum p53 protein overexpression was detected in population exposed to traffic exhaust gas to study the relation between traffic exhaust gas and the increased risk in p53 gene mutation. METHODS: Serum p53 protein expression was measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Relationship between different types of job and serum p53 protein overexpression were studied by pearson Chi-square tests. RESULTS: Results on serum p53 protein overexpression on jobs outside of office (5.74%) were not significantly higher than jobs inside the office. However, it suggested that traffic police men (12.12%) working outside of office, with whose length of service longer than 30 years had a significant overexpression of serum p53 protein than the others (5.36%) whose length of service was less than 30 years (P < 0.05, OR = 2.43, 95% CI: 1.11 - 5.33). Overexpression rate of p53 protein appeared to be 6.89% in the group whose average weekly exposure hours were more than 40 hours, which was significant higher than the group whose exposed hours were less than 40 hours (P < 0.05, OR = 1.71, 95% CI: 1.03 - 2.81). CONCLUSION: The result suggested that traffic exhaust gas was likely to cause mutation of p53 gene and increasing the incidence of lung cancer.
