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College students are at elevated risk for developing mental health problems and face specific barriers around accessing evidence-based treatment. Web-based interventions that focus on mental health promotion and strengthening resilience represent one possible solution. Providing support to users has shown to reduce dropout in these interventions. Further research is needed to assess the efficacy and acceptability of these interventions and explore the viability of automating support.
This study investigated the feasibility of a new web-based resilience program based on positive psychology, provided with human or automated support, in a sample of college students.
A 3-armed closed pilot randomized controlled trial design was used. Participants were randomized to the intervention with human support (n=29), intervention with automated support (n=26), or waiting list (n=28) group. Primary outcomes were resilience and well-being, respectively measured by the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale and Pemberton Hapnational Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) 11866034; http//www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN11866034.
RR2-10.1016/j.invent.2019.100254.
RR2-10.1016/j.invent.2019.100254.
To compare sleep parameters produced by the Fitbit Charge 3 (Fitbit) and Actigraph GT9X accelerometer (Actigraph) to polysomnography in children and adolescents.
Participants (n = 56, ages 9.2 ± 3.3 years) wore a Fitbit and an Actigraph on their nondominant wrist concurrently with polysomnography during an overnight observation at a children's sleep laboratory. Total sleep time, sleep efficiency, wake after sleep onset, sleep onset, and sleep offset were extracted from the Fitabase and Actilife software packages, respectively, with the Sadeh algorithm. Bland-Altman plots were used to assess the agreement between wearable devices and polysomnography.
Seventy-nine percent of participants were diagnosed with OSA. Compared with polysomnography, the Fitbit and the Actigraph underestimated total sleep time by 6.1 minutes (absolute mean bias [AMB] = 27.7 minutes) and 31.5 minutes (AMB = 38.2 minutes), respectively. The Fitbit overestimated sleep efficiency by 3.0% (AMB = 6.3%), and the Actigraph underestimatedinstances better sleep estimates with polysomnography compared to the Actigraph. Findings support the use of multichannel devices to measure sleep in children and adolescents. Additional studies are needed in healthy children over several nights and in free-living settings.
Clinical trials show that antimicrobial-impregnated central venous catheters reduce catheter-related bloodstream infection in adults and children receiving intensive care, but there is insufficient evidence for use in newborn babies.
The objectives were (1) to determine clinical effectiveness by conducting a randomised controlled trial comparing antimicrobial-impregnated peripherally inserted central venous catheters with standard peripherally inserted central venous catheters for reducing bloodstream or cerebrospinal fluid infections (referred to as bloodstream infections); (2) to conduct an economic evaluation of the costs, cost-effectiveness and value of conducting additional research; and (3) to conduct a generalisability analysis of trial findings to neonatal care in the NHS.
Three separate studies were undertaken, each addressing one of the three objectives. click here (1) This was a multicentre, open-label, pragmatic randomised controlled trial; (2) an analysis was undertaken of hospital care costs, lifetimripherally inserted central venous catheters and alternative approaches for preventing bloodstream infections in neonatal care.
Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN81931394.
This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme and will be published in full in
; Vol. 24, No. 57. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.
This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment programme and will be published in full in Health Technology Assessment; Vol. 24, No. 57. See the NIHR Journals Library website for further project information.Occupational exposures to dust with elevated levels of respirable crystalline silica in artificial stone increase workers' risk for silicosis.
To examine the accuracy and efficiency of breast radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery of a novel 3-dimensional (3D) printing tissue compensator technology, the 3D-precise breast conformer, compared with a usual compensator and an unstructured compensator.
This novel device is patented in China (patent No. ZL2015 2 0259472.9). Thirty patients with breast cancer after breast-conserving surgery were randomly divided into 2 control groups (no compensator, NST group, and usual compensator, ST group) and 1 study group (3D-precise breast conformer, 3D-BCT group) (n = 10/group). Before radiotherapy, all patients were scanned in the same CT positioning conditions to prepare the treatment plans.
The 3D-BCT showed the best homogeneity index (HI) (0.08 ± 0.03) and conformity index (CI) (0.95 ± 0.03), while the NST group showed the worst HI (0.34 ± 0.07) and CI (0.78 ± 0.06), with the ST group between the 2 (HI 0.15 ± 0.05; CI 0.87 ± 0.04) (all P < 0.01). The common tissue compensation membrane could lead breast-conserving surgery.
Although microRNA-103a (miR-103a) dysfunction has been implicated in various cancers, its relevance to non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has not been clarified. This study was conducted to examine the molecular mechanism underlying the regulatory role of miR-103a in NSCLC.
Kaplan-Meier analysis was carried out to assess the relationship between overall survival of NSCLC patients and miR-103a expression. Reverse-transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction and western blot analyses were applied to evaluate the expression of relevant genes in tissues and cells. Sphere formation, MTS, flow cytometry, and Transwell assays were performed to characterize stemness. Dual luciferase reporter gene assays were used to clarify the binding relationship between miR-103a and ovarian tumor domain-containing ubiquitin aldehyde binding protein 1 (OTUB1). Finally, western blot analysis was used to assess the involvement of the Hippo pathway in NSCLC.
In NSCLC tissues and cells, miR-103a was expressed at low levels, whereas OTUB1 was expressed at high levels.