Health Sciences: Articles and Publications
Authors: Stacy M. Stellflug, Nancy K. Lowe
Publication: Journal of Nursing Mearsurement
Background/Purpose: Rural healthcare provider’s willingness to implement pediatric resuscitation may be impeded by comfort level. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support Skill Self-Efficacy Inventory (PALS-SSEI).
Author(s): Daniel J. Becker, Kelly A. Speer, Alexis M. Brown, M. Brock Fenton, Alex D. Washburne, Sonia Altizer, Daniel G. Streicker, Raina K. Plowright, Vladimir E. Chizhikov, Nancy B. Simmons, Dmitriy V. Volokhov
Publication: Molecular Ecology
Background/Purpose: Most emerging pathogens can infect multiple species, underscoring the importance of understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors that allow some hosts to harbor greater infection prevalence and share pathogens with other species. However, our understanding of pathogen jumps is primarily based around viruses, despite bacteria accounting for the greatest proportion of zoonoses.
Do health risk assessments change the eating habits at the workplace?
Author(s): Mariana Carrera, Syeda A. Hasan, Silvia Prina
Publication: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Background/Purpose: We test whether cholesterol screenings provided through a health risk assessment affect the eating behavior of hospital employees at the workplace cafeteria.
Functional properties of helicobacter pylori vaca toxin M1 and M2 variants
Author(s): Rhonda R. Caston, Johanna C. Sierra, Nora J. Foegeding, Mandy D. Truelock, Anne M. Campbell, Arwen E. Frick-Cheng, Diane Bimczok, Keith T. Wilson, Mark S. McClain, Timothy L. Cover
Publication: Infection and Immunity
Background/Purpose: In this study, we generated H. pylori strains producing chimeric proteins in which VacA m1 segments of a parental strain were replaced by corresponding m2 sequences.
Ensuring and sustaining a pandemic workforce
Author(s): Erin P. Fraher, Patricia Pittman, Bianca K. Frogner, Joanne Spetz, Jean Moore, Angela J. Beck, David Armstrong, Peter I. Buerhaus
Publication: The New England Journal of Medicine
Background/Purpose: Current efforts to fight the Covid-19 pandemic aim to slow viral spread and increase testing, protect health care workers from infection, and obtain ventilators and other equipment to prepare for a surge of critically ill patients. But additional actions are needed to rapidly increase health workforce capacity and to replenish it when personnel are quarantined or need time off to rest or care for sick family members.
Subjective and objective sleep differ in male and female collegiate athletes
Author(s): Jason R. Carter, Brett M. Gervais, Janelle L. Adomeit, Ian M. Greenlund
Publication: Sleep Health
Background/Purpose: Despite the importance of sleep for athletic performance, there is a lack of normative sleep data and sex comparisons in collegiate athletes. The primary purpose of our study was to assess the prevalence of insufficient sleep in collegiate athletes, with a secondary aim to compare male and female athletes.
Cardiovascular disease in women across the lifespan: the importance of sleep
Author(s): Stacie L. Daugherty, Jason R. Carter, Ghada Bourjeily
Publication: Journal of Women's Health
Background/Purpose: The proposed pathways linking sleep disturbances and adverse cardiovascular outcomes in women are numerous and the complex interaction between them is not well understood. Future research focused on understanding the scope of sleep disorders in women, defining the underlying mechanisms, and testing interventions to improve sleep are critical for improving the cardiovascular health of all women.
The UCLA PTSD reaction index for DSM-5 brief form: a screening tool for trauma-exposed youths
Author(s): Benjamin Rolon-Arroyo, Benjamin Oosterhoff, Christopher M. Layne, Alan M. Steinberg, Robert S. Pynoos, Julie B. Kaplow
Publication: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Background/Purpose: Children and adolescents who experience potentially traumatic events are at risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although psychometrically sound measures are now available to assess these youths, brief tools are currently needed for screening purposes.
No longer an island: a social network intervention engaging black men through CBPR
Author(s): Amy E. Harley, David Frazer, Tyler Weber, Terron C. Edwards, Nicole Carnegie
Publication: American Journal of Men's Health
Background/Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess outcomes from a multilevel social network intervention to promote the health of Black men. Through a community–academic collaboration and using a participatory research approach, we implemented the intervention over 4 years in a 110-block area of an urban neighborhood. The project aimed to implement a neighborhood peer outreach and leadership network to strengthen social support of Black men and increase community and family engagement.
The origin of extracellular DNA in bacterial biofilm infections in vivo
Author(s): Maria Alhede, Morten Alhede, Klaus Qvortrup, Kasper Norskov Kragh, Peter Ostrup Jensen, Philip Shook Stewart, Thomas Bjarnsholt
Publication: Pathogens and Disease
Background/Purpose: Extracellular DNA (eDNA) plays an important role in both the aggregation of bacteria and in the interaction of the resulting biofilms with polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) during an inflammatory response. Here, transmission electron and confocal scanning laser microscopy were used to examine the interaction between biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and PMNs in a murine implant model and in lung tissue from chronically infected cystic fibrosis patients.
Risk factors for chronic biofilm-related infection associated with implanted medical devices
Author(s): Philip S. Stewart, Thomas Bjarnsholt
Publication: Clinical Microbiology and Infection
Background/Purpose: Why do some patients develop chronic infection associated with an implanted device, but most do not? Objectives The literature on patient-specific risk factors for chronic infections associated with five types of implants was surveyed to glean clues about the etiology of these infections.
Implications of the rapid growth of the nurse practitioner workforce in the US
Author(s): David I. Auerbach, Peter I. Buerhaus, Douglas O. Staiger
Publication: Health Affairs
Background/Purpose: Concerns about physician shortages have led policy makers in the US public and private sectors to advocate for the greater use of nurse practitioners (NPs). We examined recent changes in demographic, employment, and earnings characteristics of NPs and the implications of those changes.
Author(s): Diane Bimczok, John Graves
Publication: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
Background/Purpose: Journal clubs are widely used as an educational tool in graduate life science programs. In journal clubs, students are assigned to read specific journal articles to achieve a broad knowledge in their field of study and to gain competence in reading and assessing scientific publications.
Historical trends in concerns about social issues across four decades among US adolescents
Author(s): Benjamin Oosterhoff, Laura Wray-Lake, Cara A. Palmer, Julie B. Kaplow
Publication: Journal of Research on Adolescence
Background/Purpose: This study examined adolescents’ concerns about social issues and how these concerns have changed over historical time.
Macroimmunology: the drivers and consequences of spatial patterns in wildlife immune defense
Author(s): Daniel J. Becker, Gregory F. Albery, Maureen K. Kessler, Tamika J. Lunn, Caylee A. Falvo, Gabor A. Czirjak, Lynn B. Martin, Raina K. Plowright
Publication: Journal of Animal Ecology
Background/Purpose: The prevalence and intensity of parasites in wild hosts varies across space and is a key determinant of infection risk in humans, domestic animals and threatened wildlife. Because the immune system serves as the primary barrier to infection, replication and transmission following exposure, we here consider the environmental drivers of immunity.
Do uncivil nursing students become uncivil nurses? A national survey of faculty
Author(s): Susan Luparell, Kristi Frisbee
Publication: Nursing Education Perspectives
Background/Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine what knowledge faculty have of poorly behaving nursing students who also behaved poorly in subsequent practice.
Author(s): Vanessa W. Simonds, Dedra Buchwald
Publication: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Background/Purpose: This study explores potential American Indian research participants’ understanding and perceptions of an example consent document, focusing on possible improvements to better serve the requirements of the revised Common Rule.
Author(s): S. Schwarzer, G.A. James, Darla Goeres, T. Bjarnsholt, K. Vickery, S.L. Percival, P. Stoodley, G. Schultz, S.O. Jensen, M. Malone
Publication: Journal of Infection
Background/Purpose: This study sought to evaluate the evidence for commonly employed topical agents used in wounds for the purpose of treating chronic infections caused by biofilm.
Author(s): Alison J. Peel, Konstans Wells, John Giles, Victoria Boyd, Amy Burroughs, Daniel Edson, Gary Crameri, Michelle L. Baker, Hume Field, Lin-Fa Wang, Hamish McCallum, Raina K. Plowright, Nicholas Clark
Publication: Emerging Microbes & Infections
Background/Purpose: Within host-parasite communities, viral co-circulation and co-infections of hosts are the norm, yet studies of significant emerging zoonoses tend to focus on a single parasite species within the host. Using a multiplexed paramyxovirus bead-based PCR on urine samples from Australian flying foxes, we show that multi-viral shedding from flying fox populations is common.