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To explore the chain-mediating roles of negative emotions and caregiver readiness between self-efficacy and e-health literacy among caregivers of patients with lung cancer.
With the rise of Internet health services, caregivers of patients with lung cancer, who are one of the health decision makers, are encountering new challenges. In order to develop appropriate interventions, it is necessary to explore in depth the various influencing factors associated with them.
A cross-sectional survey.
A total of 293 caregivers of patients with lung cancer were recruited between November 2023 and April 2024 through a convenience sampling method. These participants completed the demographic data questionnaire, General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Caregivers Preparedness Scale (CPS), and eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS). Independent samples t-tests and a one-way ANOVA were employed to identify the primary influencing factors. Structural equation modelling was employed to detect the mediating effects of negative emotions and caregiver readiness.
The STROBE checklist was used for this study.
The total e-health literacy score of caregivers of patients with lung cancer was 29.65 ± 7.11, and there was a correlation between self-efficacy, negative emotions, caregiver readiness, and e-health literacy. The results of the path analysis showed that negative emotions and caregiver readiness had chain-mediating roles between self-efficacy and e-health literacy among caregivers of patients with lung cancer, with the total indirect effect accounting for 31.17% of the total effect.
Caregivers of patients with lung cancer exhibit moderate levels of e-health literacy. This research suggests that self-efficacy not only has a direct and positive influence on e-health literacy but may also amplify it by mediating the interplay between negative emotions and caregiver readiness.
Healthcare providers should be cognizant of the negative emotions and readiness displayed by family caregivers in the hospital setting to aid them in cultivating strong health literacy for more efficient management of illness care tasks.
Nurses at the hospitals assisted us in collecting data from family caregivers of patients with lung cancer, and the caregivers actively cooperated in completing the questionnaires.
This is a study assessing the effectiveness of staples versus sutures for closing incisions after total hip arthroplasty (THA). We searched all relevant literature up to July 2023, and after reading through the full text, we finally included 5 for analysis, with a total of 1084 cases who underwent total hip arthroplasty, of which 548 were closed with staples and 536 with sutures, and evaluated the risk of bias with the Cochrane Risk of Bias Assessment Tool, using the ratio of ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) to compare the effectiveness of staples and sutures in wound closure in total hip arthroplasty. The study found that the suture group was superior to the staple group in terms of superficial infection and incisional exudate; superficial infection (OR = 3.04, 95% CI: 1.14–8.07; p = 0.03, I 2 = 0%), incisional exudate (OR = 3.22, 95% CI: 1.84–5.65; p < 0.001, I 2 = 0%) and suture staples were superior to suture group in terms of closure time (WMD = −231.8 95% CI: −429.55 to −34.05; p = 0.02, I 2 = 100%). There was no remarkable distinction between the two groups in terms of deep infection, postoperative hospital, HWES score and patient's satisfaction, deep infection (OR = 1.24, 95% CI: 0.35–4.35; p = 0.74, I 2 = 0%), postoperative hospital (WMD = 2.50 95% CI: −2.25 to 7.25; p = 0.30, I 2 = 100%), HWES score (WMD = −0.38 95% CI: −0.52 to −0.24; p < 0.01, I 2 = 72%) and patient's satisfaction (WMD = −0.23 95% CI: −1.43 to 0.96; p = 0.70, I 2 = 94%); however, due to the small sample sizes of several studies included in this study, caution must be exercised when addressing their value.
To date, we have reviewed the synthesis literature critically through four databases: PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library and Web of Science. Eight relevant studies were examined after compliance with the criteria for inclusion and exclusion, as well as documentation quality evaluation. This report covered all randomised, controlled studies of total hip arthroplasty (THA) comparing the direct anterior approach (DAA) with the postero-lateral approach (PLA). The main result was surgical site infection rate. The secondary results were duration of the operation, length of the incision and VAS score after surgery. The results of the meta-analyses of wound infections in the present trial did not show any statistically significant difference in DAA versus PLA (between DAA and PLA) (OR = 1.42, 95%CI: 0.5 to 4.04, p = 0.51). Compared with PLA, DAA had shorter surgical incision (WMD = −3.2, 95%CI: −4.00 to −2.41; p < 0.001) and longer operative times(WMD = 14. 67, 95%CI: 9.24 to 20.09; p < 0.001). Postoperative VAS scores were markedly lower in DAA compared with PLA within 6 weeks of surgery (p < 0.05), with low heterogeneities(I 2 = 0). We found that DAA did not differ significantly from PLA in terms of the risk of wound infection for THA and that the surgical incisions was shorter and less postoperative pain after surgery, even though DAA surgery takes longer.
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