76-14.27) and multiple injuries (OR = 8.52; 95% CI, 1.03-70.47). Age over 25 was a protective factor. The study confirmed that being a foreigner and having head/face/neck injuries or multiple injuries are associated with violence against women.
  This study aimed to assess the post-contact risk of nurses who provide care for patients diagnosed with COVID-19.
 
  This investigation employed a quantitative-descriptive design. The study sample was comprised of the frontline nurses in the COVID-19 center hospitals in the northern part of Saudi Arabia. Snowball sampling was used, resulting in 80 frontline nurses. A survey using a self-administered questionnaire in a Google form was employed to collect the data, which was collected from May 20 through June 25, 2020.
 
  Some of the study participants were reported to have a history of both staying in the same household with each other (35%) and of traveling with a confirmed COVID-19 patient (20%). These participants were considered as community exposed to COVID-19. There were 8.8% who were classified as high risk due to failure in removing and replacing personal protective equipment (PPE); 6.3% were at high risk for not performing hand hygiene before and after touching COVID-19 patients, and 5% did not followves to acquiring the virus.
  To explore the Chinese nurses' knowledge and attitudes concerning advance care planning (ACP) and their engagement in ACP practice.
 
  Nurses' knowledge, attitude, and practice of ACP are important in promoting ACP in patients, but little is known about knowledge, attitudes, and practice of ACP among nurses in countries where there are no national policies or regulations on ACP.
 
  A descriptive study with a cross-sectional design.
 
  An online questionnaire survey was distributed to Chinese nurses who attended a national conference.
 
  A total of 531 nurses completed the survey and were included in the final analysis. No nurses answered all questions correctly, while 31 (5.8%) answered all the survey questions wrong. The participants were most knowledgeable about the item "Once ACP is made, the content of advance directives cannot be revoked" and were least knowledgeable about the item "ACP is valid only when the patients are well informed of the medical condition". The implementation of ACP was favored by 92.5% of participants, but only 3.4% of them had actually engaged in all 5 ACP practices listed in the survey. Experience of dealing with death was positively associated with nurses' knowledge concerning ACP. The number of dying patients cared for in the past 6months, school education of palliative care, knowledge of ACP, and age were related to engagement in the practice of ACP.
 
  Chinese nurses have supportive attitudes towards ACP, but they have limited knowledge and little practice in ACP.
 Chinese nurses have supportive attitudes towards ACP, but they have limited knowledge and little practice in ACP.
  This study evaluated the effectiveness of a smartphone-based self-care health diary based on the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills model, designed to enable transplant recipients to self-manage their health and increase their adherence to medical advice.
 
  Heart transplant recipients must take immunosuppressants to prevent rejection for the rest of their lives. As immunosuppressant drugs suppress the immune system, transplant recipients are like individuals battling chronic diseases and must be diligent about self-care to keep healthy.
 
  This was a quasi-experimental study using a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest non-synchronized design and mixed methods. The sample comprised of 56 patients, with 28 each in the experimental and control groups.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/g150.html  The control group was recruited from May 25-June 19, 2018, and the experimental group from September 1-13, 2018. Self-efficacy and self-care adherence were assessed via questionnaires; user experiences were assessed via interviews after the application was used for 4weeks.
 
  After four weeks of use, transplant recipients reported significantly higher self-efficacy (F=55.87, p<0.001) and self-care adherence (F=9.68, p=0.003). Five themes were derived for the user experiences (1) taking initiative for self-care, (2) utilizing a novel tool for self-care, (3) experiencing obstacles in ongoing self-care, (4) focusing on self-care adherence through the tool, and (5) expecting the application to serve as a personal medical assistant.
 
  The health diary application is expected to motivate heart transplant recipients to perform self-care and improve adherence to medical advice.
 The health diary application is expected to motivate heart transplant recipients to perform self-care and improve adherence to medical advice.The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of health promotion theories and their application to Stroke Awareness and Education. Stroke stands as one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity even though treatment is readily available. One of the major challenges in this area is that the effectiveness of treatment depends heavily on timely presentation to healthcare services. Unfortunately, many individuals do not seek help whilst experiencing symptoms or only do so after a significant delay. This paper explores the main health promotion theories related to this problematic health behaviour in relation to stroke.
  To investigate the degree to which psychological stress, self-reported pain scores, and pain sensitivity during an acute state of low back pain (LBP) predict the development of persistent LBP trajectories.
 
  Identifying which factors influence LBP trajectories is critical to understand why some individuals experience persistent LBP and to illuminate areas for nursing intervention.
 
  A secondary data analysis of a prospective study examining trajectories of LBP was conducted. The sample was comprised of 217 adults with acute-onset LBP recruited from the community and followed over 24weeks. Variables of interest included demographic data, perceived stress scores, self-reported pain scores, and somatosensory characteristics collected within the first 4weeks of LBP onset. The data were analyzed using non-parametric bivariate comparisons and a semi-parametric Cox proportional hazards model with interval-censoring.
 
  Individuals with higher psychological stress scores were less likely to experience pain resolution (Hazard ratio [HR]=0.