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Objective: To investigate the effects of combining traditional Chinese medicine acupoint sticking with sea salt hot compress on pain relief and promoting physical and mental comfort in infertile women undergoing Hysterosalpingo contrast sonography (HyCoSy). Methods: Infertile women admitted to Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University from October 2021 to December 2022 were selected and 150 of them were selected by random number table method as the main subjects of the study and divided into three groups. The control group received psychological soothing and music therapy. The hot compress group received a sea salt package hot compress at temperatures of 50-65°C in addition to psychological and music soothing. The combined group received an acupoint application of traditional Chinese medicine along with the hot compress and psychological soothing. Pain levels, assessed using the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS), were recorded at different stages of the HyCoSy procedure: cervical dilatation (T0), balloon intubation (T1), contrast medium injection (T2), 10 minutes after examination (T3), 30 minutes after examination (T4), 24 hours after examination (T5), 48 hours after examination (T6), and 1 week after examination (T7).Stacey salpingography adverse reaction grading method: Adverse reactions were evaluated using the grading method for adverse reactions in salpingography designed by Stacey, and adverse reactions were classified into 0 to 4 levels. Stacey grading was used to evaluate pain severity, and adverse reactions of the vagus nerve, anxiety status, and test comfort were also compared among the three groups. Results: Statistically significant differences in NRS scores were observed among the three groups of patients at various stages of the HyCoSy procedure (T0-T5) (P = .001, P = .001, P = .001, P = .001, P = .012,). The combined group showed a higher proportion of grade 1-2 pain (96%) compared to the control group (83%) and the hot compress group (90%), while the proportion of grade 3 pain (4%) was lower than that in the control group (17%) and the hot compress group (10%) (P < .001). There were no significant differences in anxiety scores before and 1 week after examination (P= .273, P = 1.000, P = .779). The Kolcaba comfort scores were significantly higher in the combined group (67.54±7.58) and the hot compress group (65.02±8.12) compared to the control group (58.96±7.53) (P < .001,). No complications, scalds, or severe skin allergies were reported in any of the three groups during the one-week follow-up. Conclusions: The combination of acupoint application with hot compress during HyCoSy resulted in reduced pain levels and improved physical and mental comfort in infertile women. This simple and safe approach can be effectively utilized in clinical practice to enhance the patient experience during the procedure.
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AIM: To determine the effectiveness of nurse-led discharge service for adult surgical inpatients. DESIGN: The report of this review was conducted by the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) statement checklist. METHODS: The PubMed, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, Cochrane Library (CENTRAL), MEDLINE and Embase as well as four Chinese databases including CNKI, Wanfang database, VIP database and CBM were searched for randomized controlled trials. Two reviewers independently extracted data and assessed risk of bias. And meta-analyses were conducted for the eligible studies by Review manager 5.4.1. RESULTS: A total of 1,649 participants were enrolled in 12 randomized controlled trials. The result of readmission rate and emergency visit of intervention group were lower than those of the control group; activities of daily living and quality of life in the intervention group were higher than that of the control group. There was no statistical difference in the length of stay between the two groups.
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Patient Discharge , Quality of Life , Activities of Daily Living , Humans , Inpatients , Nurse's Role , Randomized Controlled Trials as TopicABSTRACT
The scaling law for ferroelectric stripe domains is investigated in free-standing BaTiO3 and PbTiO3 thin films via phase-field simulations. The results agree with the Kittel law, where the square of the domain width is found to be proportional to the thin film thickness. After being rescaled by the corresponding domain wall thickness, the generalized scaling law is also demonstrated, with the dimensionless scaling constant M estimated to be â¼3.3 in two ferroelectric materials. Moreover, we predict the effect of the exchange constant which is incorporated in Ginzburg-Landau theory on the equilibrium domain width and the critical thickness of the ferroelectric thin films.
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Online social networking communities may exhibit highly complex and adaptive collective behaviors. Since emotions play such an important role in human decision making, how online networks modulate human collective mood states has become a matter of considerable interest. In spite of the increasing societal importance of online social networks, it is unknown whether assortative mixing of psychological states takes place in situations where social ties are mediated solely by online networking services in the absence of physical contact. Here, we show that the general happiness, or subjective well-being (SWB), of Twitter users, as measured from a 6-month record of their individual tweets, is indeed assortative across the Twitter social network. Our results imply that online social networks may be equally subject to the social mechanisms that cause assortative mixing in real social networks and that such assortative mixing takes place at the level of SWB. Given the increasing prevalence of online social networks, their propensity to connect users with similar levels of SWB may be an important factor in how positive and negative sentiments are maintained and spread through human society. Future research may focus on how event-specific mood states can propagate and influence user behavior in "real life."
