2026 August - 36 articles
Background: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly integrated into nursing education, yet structured AI literacy training and ethical guidance remain limited. Consequently, nursing students often rely on informal learning, resulti...
Background: The World Health Organization recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life, with continued breastfeeding alongside complementary feeding up to two years or beyond. However, many mothers are unable to meet their brea...
Background and Objectives: Digitalization studies often emphasize perceived benefits while overlooking professionals who cannot determine whether digital tools are useful. This study quantified digital hesitancy among anesthesia and intensive-care pr...
Background/Objectives: Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease associated with a significant impairment in patients’ quality of life (QoL). However, evidence on QoL assessment in HS remains fragmented, with heteroge...
Background: Family caregivers play a central role in supporting people with colorectal cancer (CRC) and often manage complex physical, emotional, and practical demands. However, evidence regarding their experiences and supportive care needs in Kazakh...
Background: Modifiable lifestyle behaviours, including physical activity and smoking, are important determinants of health and may influence the mental well-being of nursing professionals. However, evidence simultaneously examining these factors and...
Background/Objectives: Chronic pain is a prevalent and complex condition associated with substantial physical, psychological, and social burden. Behavioural activation (BA), a structured psychological intervention originally developed for depression,...
Background/Objectives: Healthy macrovascular and microvascular circulation is essential for wound prevention and healing in high-risk feet. While validated methods of assessing lower limb macrocirculation exist, microcirculation assessment often reli...
Background/Objectives: Young people’s mental health is increasingly discussed using diagnostic terms. However, limited knowledge exists about how young people describe distress and support needs. This study explored how young people with self-r...
Background: Falls are the most common hospital-acquired adverse event, leading to extended hospitalization, loss of independence, disability, and premature death. Routine fall risk assessments are time-consuming, even with limited factors. An AI-deri...
Background: Over recent decades, Latin America has undergone significant population aging, accompanied by persistent inequalities that adversely affect healthcare access, particularly among Indigenous populations. This scoping review aimed to map and...
Background/Objectives: As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into healthcare, AI literacy and critical thinking disposition are recognized as important competencies for nursing students in rapidly changing clinical environme...
Background/Objective: Family caregivers of individuals with serious mental illness and substance use disorders experience substantial psychological burden. However, emerging evidence suggests many develop resilience and post-traumatic growth despite...
Background: Health innovation education often lacks focus on local realities and practitioner-led approaches. An international Canada-Brazil academic partnership was developed to address this gap within Brazil’s Unified Health System. Objective...
Background: Early childhood caregivers are exposed to intensive caregiving demands and have a high risk of depression. Guided by the family stress process model and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), this cross-sectional study examined whether...
Background/Objectives: Healthcare staff, especially nurses, face high occupational stress, yet objective biological indicators that complement self-report are not well established. We examined whether metabolic, hormonal and physiological markers act...
Background: Burnout, defined by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment, is a major occupational health concern among healthcare professionals. Burnout has been linked to depression, anxiety, and medical errors, b...
Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) remain a major patient safety issue, and hand hygiene (HH) is a key preventive measure. Technologies providing immediate visual feedback may support HH training by allowing objective assessment of h...
Background: Thai obstetric nurses follow WHO gestational weight gain (GWG) guidelines to prevent gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). However, these Western-derived guidelines misclassify approximately 16% of Thai pregnant women, who carry excess met...
Background/Objective: Perioperative nursing care encompasses a diverse patient population with varying needs, anatomical and physiological characteristics, and differing levels of vulnerability, demanding specialized knowledge and skills. This study...
Background: Informed consent is an essential ethical and legal process that safeguards patient autonomy, integrity, and rights in healthcare. Although it has traditionally been associated with medical practice, the expanding scope of nursing practice...
Aim/Objective: To evaluate undergraduate nursing students’ perceptions of the educational design, debriefing quality, satisfaction, and self-confidence associated with a leadership-focused high-fidelity simulation scenario involving the managem...
Introduction: The current shortage in the global nursing workforce underscores the importance of understanding factors associated with career choice and professional retention. This study aimed to identify background profiles among Hungarian Bachelor...
Background/Objectives: Postpartum depressive symptoms are a major maternal mental health concern associated with adverse outcomes for mothers and infants. Although biological, psychological, and social factors have been associated with postpartum dep...
Background/Objectives: Nursing informatics (NI) competence is becoming increasingly essential for nursing students; however, previous research has largely relied on quantitative surveys and provided limited insights into why positive attitudes may no...
Introduction/Objective: Advanced practice nurses (APNs) play an increasingly important role in healthcare systems by expanding access to high-quality, patient-centred care. However, public understanding of the APNs’ role remains limited, partic...
Background: Quality perinatal health care depends considerably on health workforce competency. Improving Maternal and Child Health Nurse (MCHN) competency is urgently needed in low–middle-income countries, especially to manage key perinatal con...
Background/Objectives: The purpose of this nursing-led quality-improvement initiative was to strengthen organizational culture, support staff well-being, and improve patient safety by implementing an evidence-based collaboration model that redefined...
Background/Objectives: Nurses working in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Units (AICUs) face high job demands that may negatively affect their well-being and increase turnover intention. In healthcare systems experiencing workforce shortages, such as R...
Objectives: Prospective anthropometric data on how women above and below the Asian-specific BMI ≥ 23 kg/m2 cut-off differ across the maternal continuum remain limited. Because these data were collected in 2017–2018, before Thailand’s 2...
Background/Objectives: While there is an existing body of quantitative data on the psychological and mental burden of suicide-bereaved parents, further qualitative research is needed to explore suicide-bereaved mothers’ living experiences in sp...
Background: Environmental hygiene in operating rooms is essential for infection prevention, but visual inspection alone may not reliably identify missed cleaning. Aim: To assess the feasibility of fluorescent gel marker monitoring with ultraviolet li...
Background/Objective: The Behavioral and Mental Wellness in Indigenous Communities (BMWIC) education program was created to address mental health (MH) resource gaps in the Fort Belknap Community (FBC). Designed to enhance MH literacy, task-shifting c...
Background: Cardiac arrest is a life-threatening event that requires early recognition and timely intervention. In-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) may be preceded by clinical deterioration, making competent monitoring, escalation, and resuscitation re...
Background/Objectives: We conducted a virtual exchange program (VEP) to facilitate discussions on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among nursing students in Belgium, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand and to assess the improvements in internation...
Background: Competencies, such as knowledge, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning skills, are the essential individual characteristics required for effectively carrying out nursing duties. The acquisition and assessment of these competencies amo...
