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AIMS: To investigate the association between professionalism and social media competence among Chinese mainland nursing undergraduates. DESIGN: This study employed a cross-sectional descriptive correlation design. PARTICIPANTS: From June to July 2021, 797 nursing students from four nursing colleges in Jiangsu Province, China, were chosen using stratified cluster sampling. METHODS: The questionnaire included the Chinese version of the Nursing Professionalism Scale and the Social Media Competency Scale. The association between professionalism and social media competency was examined using Pearson's correlation analysis. RESULTS: The professionalism of nursing undergraduates (average scores:70.44 ± 8.82) was at a medium level. Social media self-efficacy, performance expectancy, facilitating conditions and social influence (3.76 ± 0.75, 3.87 ± 0.60, 3.53 ± 0.69, 3.41 ± 0.76) were at a medium-high level, while social media experience and effort expectancy (3.03 ± 0.72, 2.60 ± 0.59) were at medium and low levels. Among nursing undergraduates, professionalism was related to social media competence, among which, professionalism was positively correlated with social media self-efficacy (r = 0.40, p < 0.01), social media experience (r = 0.50, p < 0.01), performance expectancy (r = 0.34, p < 0.01), facilitating conditions (r = 0.41, p < 0.01), but negatively correlated with effort expectancy (r = -0.10, p < 0.01). CONCLUSION: The professionalism of nursing undergraduates is related to social media. The scores of social media self-efficacy, social media experience, performance expectancy and facilitating conditions of nursing students with high professionalism were higher than those of nursing students with low professionalism. IMPACT: This study suggests that developing a course on health communication on social media can help nursing students improve their professionalism. PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: Participants completed a survey via the online survey platform Wenjuangxing.
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Objective To investigate the clinical effect of thymosin combined with liver gland peptide drugs in the treatment of primary liver cancer.Methods 138 cases of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) were seleted as the research subjects,and they were divided into observation group (n=69) and control group (n=69) according to the number table method.The control group was treated with simple hepatoprotective drugs,the observation group was treated with thymosin on the basis of the control group.The clinical curative effect of the two groups,quality of life improvements were observed.Results In the observation group,the total effective rate was 81.16%,which in the control group was 43.47%,the difference was statistically significant between the two groups (χ2=8.362,P<0.05).The rate of life quality improvement of the observation group was 60.86%,which of the control group was 23.18%,there was statistically significant difference between the two groups (χ2=9.726,P<0.05).Conclusion The primary HCC patients treaed with thymosin combined with hepatoprotective drugs can effectively improve the patients' life quality,with good clinical curative effect,and it is worth clinical promotion and application.
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Objective To observe the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) plus oxygenmedicine (OM) on the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax in the hippocampal CA 1 area in cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury (CI/RI) rats. Methods Thirty SD rats were randomized into sham-operation,model,EA,OM,EA+OM groups (n=6/group). CI/RI model was established by using modified Pulsinelli 4 vessel occlusion and reperfusion. EA (100 Hz,3.5 mA) was applied to "Baihui" (GV 20) and "Zusanli" (ST 36) 30 min,once daily for 4 days. Rats of OM and EA+OM groups were put into a box filled with oxygen and atomized herbal medicines containing Bingpian (Borneolum),Shexiang (Moschus),Huangjing (Rhizoma Polygonati),Shouwu (Radix Polygoni Multiflori),etc. for 30 min,once daily for 4 days. Bcl-2 and Bax expression of the hippocampal CA 1 area was detected by immunohistochemistry. Results Compared with sham group,the numbers of Bcl-2 immunoreaction (IR) and Bax IR positive cells,and the immunoactivity of Bcl-2 IR and Bax IR positive products in the hippocampal CA 1 area were increased significantly in model group (P0.05). Conclusion EA and OM and EA+OM can effectively regulate the expression of Bcl-2 and Bax in the hippocampal CA 1 area in CI/RI rats,and the effects of EA+OM are significantly superior to those of simple EA and simple OM,which may contribute to their effect in improving cerebral ischemia.