Feasibility assessment on the independent selection of dialysis methods in ESRD patient after 3-month blood purification:A blood purification center observation study in the Xinjia... by ZHUANG Jing, Reziwanguli Abudula, JIANG-Hong

“…Objective To investigate mastering of the patients with SRD(ESRD)with dialysis treatment of over 3 months about knowledge and advantages or shortcomings of the two dialysis therapies in our dialysis center, and evaluate the intention and feasibility of their independent selection of dialysis methods.Methods With convenient sampling,146 patients with ESRD,who started to conduct regular peritoneal dialysis in People’s Hospital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region between January 2016 to December 2017,were selected and divided into the hemodialysis group(HD group,85 patients)and the peritoneal dialysis group(PD group,61 patients)according to their dialysis methods.A retrospect survey questionnaire was made to learn about demographic data,influencing factors of selection of the two dialysis modes and urine decrease during dialysis,and to analyze the intention and feasibility of the patients’ new selection of long-term dialysis.Results The HD patients most selected this dialysis mode(92.94%)mainly according to their physician’s introduction before dialysis,while the PD patients who independently selected PD had a big proportion(55.74%).There was statistically significant difference between the two groups(P<0.05).After three months of dialysis,over 70% of the patients learned about the knowledge and features of the two dialysis modes,but 90.59% patients in the HD group did not yet master the PD knowledge,with statistically significant difference between the two groups(P<0.05).The emergent dialysis records in the HD group were more than those in the PD group(P<0.05).24-hour urine volume before dialysis had no difference between the two groups,after 3 months of treatment the proportion of patients with decrease urine volume in the HD group was higher than that in the PD group(P<0.05).With 3 months of treatment and education,there were 41.18 and 19.67% patients in the HD and PD groups,respectively,who were willing to adjust their dialysis method.Conclusions Lack of sufficient knowledge about dialysis is the main factor affecting ESRD patient`s independent selection of dialysis methods.besides that,more experience of emergent dialysis also plays a vital role in their selection.Both 3-month experience of dialysis and the changes of urine volume in the course of different dialysis therapies contribute to accumulation of the knowledge and the practice of two dialysis methods.This makes it possible for ESRD patients to have the ability to select dialysis mode independently,and make them select suitable dialysis method based on their own specific conditions.…”
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Percutaneous Cryoablation of Renal Tumors: Initial Indian Experience by Ujjwal Gorsi, Rishabh Jain, Akash Bansal, Naveen Kalra, Mandeep Kang, Sreedhara B. Chaluvashetty, Ravimohan Suryanarayan Mavuduru, Santosh Kumar, Shrawan K. Singh, Manavjit Singh Sandhu

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HS-SocialRec: A Study on Boosting Social Recommendations with Hard Negative Sampling in LightGCN by Ziping Sheng, Lai Wei

“…Subsequently, a graph fusion mechanism is used to aggregate user representations from the social graph and the user–item bipartite graph. Comparative experiments on two real datasets and ten baseline models are conducted, and the results show that the proposed method has certain performance advantages over other state-of-the-art recommendation models.…”
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Design of a fully autonomous oil sampling collection robot system for substation oil-filled equipment by Shaotong Pei, Haichao Sun, Weiqi Wang, Bing Xiao, Hengjiang Zhu, Mianxiao Wu, Bo Lan

“…The effectiveness of the proposed method is verified through comparative experiments. …”
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UNDERSTANDING EDUCATORS’ EXPERIENCE AND ATTITUDE TO GAMIFIED LEARNING APPLICATIONS by Anastasiia V. Tokarieva, Inna V. Сhyzhykova

“…At the same time, 16,7% are satisfied with the traditional methods and 4,2% feel it risky to use new teaching methods; 5) among the main obstacles to wider application of GLAs in practice are the absence of knowledge about GLAs, the low level of digital skills and technical challenges. …”
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Experience of being a family caregiver in childhood cancer by Talitha Carneiro de Oliveira Silva, Viviane Farias Barros, Edilene Curvelo Hora

“…In order to collect data it was used an open interview containing the main question: What has it been like to treat children with cancer? The sample consisted of 19 caregivers. The method of content analysis proposed was chosen and, as a result, four categories were obtained. …”
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Predictors of stress among nucleic acid sampling support nurses (NASSNs) during the COVID-19 pandemic by Ping Feng, Liyan Gu, Xiaoying Lu, Min Hu, Yanqiu Weng, Wenyao Chen

“…Material and methods Totally 388 NASSNs were recruited through cluster random sampling for the research. …”
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Technology-mediated education: The lived experiences of nurse educators by A. Sunnasy, M.M. van der Heever

“…Method: Descriptive phenomenology underpinned by the views of Edmund Husserl was used to explore the experiences of nurse educators regarding technology-mediated education. …”
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Psychiatric trainees’ experiences of workplace violence: qualitative analysis by Lauren Fowler, Alisha Vara, Lillian Ng

“… Aims and method We aimed to explore experiences of workplace violence in a New Zealand sample of psychiatric trainees and to identify barriers to achieving safe practice and ways of enhancing workplace safety. …”
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Study protocol for the Rainbow Austrian Longitudinal Family (RALF) study: a longitudinal, multi-method, multi-rater investigation of risk and resilience factors in Austrian LGBTQ+ ... by Betty Geidel, Magdalena Siegel, David Steyrl, Abbie E. Goldberg, Guy Bodenmann, Martina Zemp

“…Its main goal is to comprehensively investigate general and minority-specific factors that affect the well-being of LGBTQ+ parent family members in Austria. Methods RALF is a three-wave, longitudinal study over two years that examines risk and resilience factors at the individual, couple, and family level using a multi-method, multi-rater approach. …”
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A Method for Identifying Landslide-Prone Areas Using Multiple Factors and Adaptive Probability Thresholds: A Case Study in Northern Tongren, Longwu River Basin, Qinghai Province by Jiawen Bao, Xiaojun Luo, Yueling Shi, Mingyue Hou, Jichao Lv, Guoxiang Liu

“…To address these limitations, this study proposes a novel method for identifying landslide-prone areas by integrating multi-factor analysis with adaptive probability thresholds. …”
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Perception and Experience of Online Learning During COVID-19 by Adeyinka Tella

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Sociological Research of Single Parenthood: Experiences of Divorced Mothers by Gorana Bandalović, Zorana Šuljug Vučica, Marta Tanfara

“…The paper presents the results of a sociological study conducted in 2021 using a semi-structured interview method on a sample of ten divorced women. The data obtained show that, although participants frequently cited their spouse’s infidelity as the primary reason for divorce, the post-divorce period was perceived as challenging and stressful for most of them. …”
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Perception of animal welfare issues during Chinese transport and slaughter of livestock by a sample of stakeholders in the industry. by Xiaofei Li, Sarah Zito, Michelle Sinclair, Clive J C Phillips

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HACCP and antibiotic resistance in dairy products: The Armenian experience by Lilit Malkhasyan, Susanna Mirzabekyan, Haykush Batikyan, Astghik Pepoyan

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Physically abused women's experiences and expectations of medical practitioners by M.S. Jansen van Rensburg, F.J. van Staden

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Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety among Non-native Teachers of English: A Sample from Turkey by Gökhan Öztürk

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Stylistic transformations of the actor's performance in contemporary global experiences by Wissam Ibrahim Rahim, Sarim Dakhil Ahmed

“…As for the second chapter (theoretical framework) (methods of acting in delusional and non-delusional theatre), the chapter was divided into two sections, the second section (contemporary performance experiences), and then the researcher arrived at the indicators produced by the theoretical framework. …”
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Approaches to designing the educational experience of students in higher education by Kirill A. Bogatyrev

“…Materials and methods. The sample consisted of 86 teachers and 1185 students from leading Russian universities. …”
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An uncertain uphill battle – experiences and consequences of living with lipedema by Johan Dahlberg, Elisabet Nylander, Margareta Persson, Alexander Shayesteh

“…Purpose To describe and analyse experiences of living with lipedema. Methods: Individual, semi-structured interviews with a purposive sample of 12 women diagnosed with lipedema and analysed by qualitative content analysis utilizing an inductive approach. …”
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