Efficacy of preoperative pulmonary rehabilitation in lung cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials by Yalun Guo, Mengdie Pan, Meidi Xiong, Miao Liu, Na Zhu, Haoxu Dong, Chunhua Zhang

“…This updated analysis was performed to identify the clinical effects of preoperative pulmonary rehabilitation on physical rehabilitation (lung function, activity endurance, and dyspnea), psychological rehabilitation, quality of life, length of hospital stay, and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients with lung cancer. …”
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Experiences of health information-seeking behaviour in preoperative patients with lung cancer: a qualitative study in China by Wei Li, Lihua Huang, Jie Zhu, Jiayi Guo, Man Ye

“…Participants exhibited different psychological coping strategies and personalised health information needs in their information-seeking behaviour. …”
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Internet Addiction Effect on Quality of Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Farzaneh Noroozi, Soheil Hassanipour, Fatemeh Eftekharian, Kumars Eisapareh, Mohammad Hossein Kaveh

“…Furthermore, There was a negative significant relationship between Internet addiction and quality of life in the psychological (OR = 0.56, 95% CI: 0.32–0.99, p=0.04, I2 = 97.47%, p<0.001), physical (OR = 0.58, 95% CI: 0.39–0.86, p=0.007, I2 = 95.29%, p=0.001), and overall quality of life score (OR = 0.39, 95% CI: 0.27–0.55, p<0.001, I2 = 0.0%, p=0.746). …”
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Left ventromedial prefrontal cortex inhibitory rTMS as an anti-stress intervention in opioid use disorder: Trial design by Tabitha E. Moses, Danielle Lenz, Leslie H. Lundahl, Nicholas A. Mischel, Christine Rabinak, Mark K. Greenwald

“…Methods: We will examine effects of a psychological stressor combined with inhibitory (1Hz) left vmPFC rTMS in participants (N = 24) receiving opioid agonist treatment. …”
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Predicting bullying victimization among adolescents using the risk and protective factor framework: a large-scale machine learning approach by Ethan Low, Joshua Monsen, Lindsay Schow, Rachel Roberts, Lucy Collins, Hayden Johnson, Carl L. Hanson, Quinn Snell, E. Shannon Tass

“…Abstract Background Bullying, encompassing physical, psychological, social, or educational harm, affects approximately 1 in 20 United States teens aged 12-18. …”
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Life after prostate cancer diagnosis: protocol for a UK-wide patient-reported outcomes study by David H Brewster, Victoria Cairnduff, Eila Watson, Amy Downing, Adam W Glaser, Penny Wright, William Cross, Conan Donnelly, Anna Gavin, Carol Rivas, Richard Wagland, Peter Selby, Luke Hounsome, Therese Kearney, Rebecca Mottram, Majorie Allen, Oonagh McSorley, Hugh Butcher, Paul Kind, James W H Catto, Dyfed Huws, Emma McNair, Lauren Matheson, Johana Nayoan, Mike Horton, Jessica Corner, Julia Verne

“…Background Prostate cancer and its treatment may impact physically, psychologically and socially; affecting the health-related quality of life of men and their partners/spouses. …”
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Prevalence, influencing factors, and perspectives on bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating among university students in northern Morocco: A cross-sectional study by Karima Sammoud, Fadila Bousgheiri, Saloua Lemrabett, Imane Agdai, Ouissal Radouan, Meftaha Senhaji, Adil El Ammouri, Adil Najdi

“…Factors significantly associated with ED included medical history, treatment for anxiety/depression/addiction, sleep medication use, judicial history, psychological violence, sexual violence, and negative events during childhood/adolescence. …”
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Quantifying Stress and Relaxation: A New Measure of Heart Rate Variability as a Reliable Biomarker by Emese Rudics, András Buzás, Antónia Pálfi, Zoltán Szabó, Ádám Nagy, Emőke Adrienn Hompoth, József Dombi, Vilmos Bilicki, István Szendi, András Dér

“…The stress measurement methods used in practice (e.g., for psychological measures of stress) are often subjective, or in the case of biological markers (e.g., cortisol, amylase), they usually require a blood test. …”
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Features of the formation of an effective mechanism of public administration of health care institutions in the context of medical care for military personnel by N. V. Humenna, N. M. Kalyniuk

“…The feeling of support and security is important for servicemen, as it can have a positive impact on their psychological state and combat capability. When military personnel know that their health care needs and rights will be addressed and protected, they can be more relaxed and focus on their duties in combat. …”
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Lived experiences and perspectives of women who had undergone perinatal loss in Nairobi county, Kenya: a qualitative study by Emily Wanja Kaburu, Christopher O Aimakhu, Thomas Matenjwa Kamau, Michael Omondi Owor

“…Triangulation was then done per thematic area to allow for a deeper understanding of the experiences and perceptions of the study participants.Results The research identified 3 themes and 7 subthemes: (1) ‘Psychosocial challenges of perinatal loss’ with five subthemes;—‘Emotional trauma and grief’, ‘Multiple losses and reproductive pressure’, ‘Broken relationships,’ ‘Violence and abuse’ and ‘Familial stigmatization’. (2) ‘Healthcare experiences.’ (3) ‘Stigma and cultural influences’ with 2 subthemes ‘Societal stigmatisation’, and ‘Cultural perceptions and norms surrounding perinatal loss’.Conclusion Women who have experienced perinatal loss often suffer psychological torture, discrimination, abuse, stigma and trauma. …”
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Features of Professional Activity Reflection of the Olympiad “I Am a Professional” Participants by A. K. Belolutskaya, I. S. Krishtofik, V. A. Mkrtchyan

“…As a result, the following features of students’ reflection were revealed, such as: the contradictory nature of goal-setting and the determination of the necessary conditions and means when planning a lesson; the tendency to overestimate their professional strengths and not notice insufficiently formed competencies; the tendency to give exaggerated importance to the technical aspects; misunderstanding of the professional pedagogical language against the background of an intuitively adequate understanding of many pedagogical and psychological phenomena, etc. From a practical point of view, the results obtained make it possible to identify the area of professional deficiencies of pre-service teachers and set the focus for a closer examination and more thorough extensive study of evaluative, critical and other complex thinking skills, which provide a thorough professional reflection. …”
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Bibliometric Analysis of Digital Leadership Studies by Sena Erden Ayhün, İsmail Şimşir, Selma Kılıç Kırılmaz, Erdal Aydın

“…Some of the cluster names obtained as a result of co-citation analysis are "Digital Leadership and Virtual Team Management," "Coordination and Consensus in Multi-Agent Systems," "Digital Leadership Skills and Psychological Well-Being," which represent prominent and intensively studied themes in the field of digital leadership. …”
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BRICS Countries in Political Consciousness of Russian Citizens by S. Yu. Belokonev, T. V. Evgenieva, V. V. Titov, Z. R. Usmanova

“…Proceeding from the results of qualitative politico-sociological (a series of focused interviews) and politico-psychological (projective tests) studies held in 2016-2018 the authors conclude that the emotional component prevails in the structure of Russian citizens’ perception about of Brazil, India, China and South Africa. …”
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Borrowing, loss of income and related sociodemographic factors in post-traumatic stress disorder in COVID-19 patients: A cross-sectional study from a government hospital in Mumbai,... by Amit Bhondve, Shruti Vijay Tilak, Nived G. Sudarson, Shermeen Rajesh More, Prashant Harish Saraf, Shreyansh Dinesh Singh, Eeshwari Vinay Lele, Ritu Mohit Shah, Kavya Amitabh Shah, Diya Padam Mehra

“…Introduction: Socioeconomic and related demographic characteristics may contribute to psychological distress following hospitalization with COVID-19. …”
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INTERACTION IN AN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT WITH VIRTUAL AND AUGMENTED REALITY by Svitlana H. Lytvynova, Natalia V. Soroko

“…To achieve the purpose of our study and also to clarify the problem of determining the features of interaction models of participants in the educational process of a general education institution using virtual and augmented reality we used the following methods: systematic and comparative analysis of pedagogical, psychological, philosophical and sociological works, methodological and specialized literature; analysis of the pedagogical experience of using virtual and augmented reality in general school; synthesis and generalization to formulate the main points of the study; interpretation of the research results. …”
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Foreign Learning Platforms in Russian Education System: Potential Capacity Evaluation and Risks Forecasting by A. A. Onosov, E. V. Bryzgalina, N. E. Savina, S. V. Tumanov

“…The  categorical range of risks obtained includes content risks, social, economic  and political risks, psychological and pedagogical risks, management risks. …”
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Pancreatic resection with perioperative drug repurposing of propranolol and etodolac: trial protocol of the phase-II randomised placebo controlled PROSPER trial by Phillip Knebel, Thilo Hackert, Markus W Büchler, Ilse Rooman, Markus K Diener, Felix J Hüttner, André L Mihaljevic, Oliver Strobel, Gauthier Bouche, Johannes Hüsing

“…Therefore, a drug repurposing of betablockers and cyclooxygenase inhibitors seems reasonable to attenuate tumour-associated inflammation by inhibiting psychological, surgical and inflammatory stress responses. …”
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Development of the cultural tailoring score (CTS): a scoring instrument to assess cultural tailoring of health messaging by Claudia Parvanta, Kayleigh Murray, Samantha Boddupalli, Natalie Erasme, Rheese McNab, Vijay Prajapati, Arabel Severe, Aura Reyes, Richard Harner, Rhonda Holliday

“…It is based on research demonstrating the importance of: (1) Levels of engagement of the intended audience in the production, (2) use of understandable and culturally meaningful language, incorporation of (3) surface cultural cues and (4) deeper cultural constructs, (5) presence of a narrative to bind the information and cultural elements into a relatable story, and (6) factors associated with concrete psychological construal level (“now,” “here,” “you”).Methods We document a trial of the cultural tailoring score conducted by graduate students identifying as Filipino, Haitian, or Hispanic/Latinx reviewing 17 ads promoting COVID-19 vaccine that had been pretested during the pandemic for perceived effectiveness with convenience samples of these same ethnic groups.Results We achieved a combined Spearman’s Rank Correlation rho of 0.45 between the cultural tailoring score and perceived effectiveness ranking of all 17 ads (individual cultural groupings range from Spearman’s rho 0.45 to 0.90), suggesting that cultural components were moderately to strongly associated with perceived effectiveness. …”
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Sleep patterns and smartphone use among left-behind children: a latent class analysis and its association with depressive symptoms by Xue Han, Cheng-Han Li, Heng Miao, Su Xu, Wen-Jing Yan, Juan Chen, Juan Chen

“…This study uses an individual-centered approach to derive behavioral profiles associated with depressive symptoms.MethodsData from 131,586 left-behind children aged 8 to 18 years from the Chinese Psychological Health Guard for Children and Adolescents Project were analyzed. …”
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Impact of pediatric COVID-19 isolation on children’s well-being and caregiver mental health by Song I. Yang, Chi-Hyun Choi, Eun Joo Lee, Sun Hee Jee, Mi Seon Han

“…Conclusion Mandatory hospital isolation has a significantly negative psychological impact on children and caregivers during pandemics. …”
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