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Long term care for older people with dementia can adversely impact a family caregiver's life. A decrease in their quality of life may compromise the quality of care they provide to older people and their own quality of life. The samples include 76 family caregivers of older people with dementia in Thailand. Six questionnaires and the EuroQoL Five Dimensions Questionnaire were used in data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used in data analysis. The findings revealed that quality of life of family caregivers was at a high level. Experiences of close relationships between care dyads and perceived social support were positively related to family caregiver's quality of life, whereas perceived stress and burden were negatively related. Selleckchem BAY-3827 Perceived social support and experiences of close relationships might be predictors of family caregiver's quality of life. High quality of life level among Thai family caregivers of older people with dementia were influenced by high perceived social support and high experiences of close relationships. An intervention focusing on modifying such predicting factors may effectively help maintain quality of life of these family caregivers. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Objectives Dementia-friendly communities promote community coherence and reduce the risk of ageism in the community. This study examined the effects of a Virtual Reality (VR) educational program on participants' attitudes towards dementia and their sense of community related to supporting community-dwelling older adults. Methods We delivered an educational program using a virtual reality platform that provided a first-person perspective of people with dementia in the courtyards of two convenience stores in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Japan. We investigated attitudes towards dementia and participants' sense of community before and after the educational program. Results There were 42 study participants (average age = 48 years). The total scores of attitudes towards dementia and sense of community changed positively from pre- to postintervention (P = .004 and less then .001, respectively). Conclusion This educational program for understanding dementia could enhance people's support of community members living with dementia.One of the challenges of providing healthcare services is to enhance its value (for patients, staff and the service) by integrating the informal caregivers into the care process, both concretely managing their patient's health conditions and treatment (co-executing) and participating in the whole healthcare process (co-planning). This study aims at exploring the co-production contribution to the healthcare process, analysing whether and how it is related to higher caregivers' satisfaction with service care and reduced staff burnout, in the eyes of the staff. It also investigated two possible factors supporting caregivers in their role of co-producers, namely relationship among staff and informal caregivers related to knowledge sharing (i.e. an ability determinant supporting co-production) and related to role social conflict (i.e. a willingness determinant reducing co-production). Results of a structural equation model on a sample of 119 healthcare providers employed by neurorehabilitation centers in Italy with severe acquired brain injury confirmed that knowledge sharing positively related with caregivers' co-executing and co-planning. Also, social role conflict was negatively related with co-executing but positively with co-planning. Furthermore, co-planning resulted in being unrelated to both outcomes, whereas co-executing was associated with caregivers' satisfaction, as measured by staff perceptions. Overall, our data provided initial empirical evidence supporting the ability of the determinant's contribution in allowing informal caregivers to assume an active role in both co-production domains. Furthermore, as expected, the role of conflict willingness determinant was found to be a hindering factor for co-executing but, conversely, a trigger for co-planning. This result should be considered more carefully in future studies.Background and objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of humidified high-flow nasal cannula (HHHFNC) therapy, and compare it with the effect of nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (NCPAP) in neonates with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS). Method In this clinical study, consecutively admitted 27-32 weeks preterm infants with RDS who received surfactant through a brief intubation (INSURE method) were randomly assigned immediately after extubation to HHHFNC or NCPAP. Primary outcomes were oxygen saturation values and oxygen need at 6, 12 and 24 h after surfactant administration as well as duration of oxygen and respiratory support, need for intubation and mechanical ventilation and incidence of apnea. Secondary outcomes were duration of hospitalization and incidence of complications such as pneumothorax. Results Sixty-four infants met the inclusion criteria and were enrolled in the study, 32 per arm. Two cases in HHFNC group dropped due to congenital pneumonia/sepsis. No differences were seen between groups in primary and secondary outcomes except for arterial oxygen saturation values (SaO2) 24 h after surfactant administration that were significantly higher in the NCPAP group [95.97% ± 1.96% vs. 95.00% ± 1.80% (P = .04)] with similar oxygen needs. The treatment failure was observed in four (11.8%) infants of the NCPAP group compared to five (16.7%) cases of the HHHFNC group (P = .57). Conclusion Based on the results of the present study, the HHHFNC can be as effective as NCPAP to treat the neonates with RDS after surfactant administration.Aim The aim of this study was to investigate whether there are blood glucose fluctuations in gout patients with hyperuricemia and normal glucose tolerance, and the effect of urate-lowering therapy on blood glucose fluctuations. Methods Thirty patients with newly diagnosed gout, hyperuricemia and normal glucose tolerance were enrolled in our study. Continuous glucose monitoring system (CGMS) was used to detect the blood glucose fluctuations of these gout patients. Changes in blood glucose fluctuations after allopurinol therapy were also evaluated. Results Compared with the reference values of blood glucose fluctuation parameters in China, gout patients had greater glycemic fluctuations including higher mean amplitude of glucose excursions (MAGE) (4.65 vs 1.94 mmol/L, P less then .001), higher largest amplitude of blood glucose excursions (LAGE) (4.99 vs 3.72 mmol/L, P less then .001) and higher standard deviations of blood glucose (SDBG) (1.36 vs 0.79 mmol/L, P less then .001). MAGE was significantly correlated with uric acid (β = .