A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Afghan Evacuee Resettlement Programme in Aotearoa New Zealand.

In 2021, following the Taliban's control of Afghanistan, Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) welcomed over 1,700 Afghan nationals at risk due to their association with NZ agencies. The New Settlers Family and Community Trust (NFACT) was contracted to provide tailored resettlement support. This study evaluated NFACT's Afghan evacuee resettlement programme using a mixed-methods approach, including a cross-sectional survey, interviews, and focus groups with Afghan evacuees and NFACT staff.

The global landscape of the evolving nurses' roles and core competency in primary healthcare: An expanding umbrella review.

Background: A transformative primary healthcare system that delivers effective, efficient and equitable care services is imperative to tackle the ever-emerging challenges to population health such as the surging major lifestyle risks, mental health issues, the burden of chronic care and novel infectious diseases. Nurses, as one of the major service stakeholders in this global agenda, needs to proactively seek role advancement and competency development in primary healthcare. This process can be facilitated by seeking a comprehensive understanding of the global landscape of nurses' roles and competencies in primary healthcare.

Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding trauma-informed care among nursing students in Eastern China: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Patients with a history of traumatic life events who enter the healthcare system are especially vulnerable, often posing greater challenges to care delivery. However, little is known about the capacity of nursing staff, especially nursing students, to deliver trauma-informed care (TIC).

Objective: This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of trauma-informed care among Chinese nursing students.

Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women Who Live With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Integrative Review.

Aims: To provide an understanding of the sexual and reproductive health issues for women who live with inflammatory bowel disease.

Design: Whittemore and Knaffle's integrative review.

Methods: Databases searched in this integrative review included: CINAHL Plus, Google Scholar, SCOPUS and Web of Science databases.

Integrated Islamic Doctrine to Promote Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence Among Southern Thai-Muslim Patients: Action Research Study.

Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) non-adherence has been found increasingly prevalent in Thailand. The Islamic belief system is seldom utilized to support ART adherence. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the feasibility of an integrated Islamic-based intervention program to promote ART adherence among Muslim patients with HIV/AIDS and inconsistent ART adherence in southern Thailand.

Perspectives of Young People on Social Media-Based Sexuality Education Using a Feminist Approach in China: A Qualitative Study.

The feminist approach to sexuality education challenges and changes power dynamics and inequalities embedded within sexuality, while social media serves as a tool for building online communities and raising awareness about feminist issues. Adopting a feminist approach to sexuality education, particularly through social media platforms, remains largely unexplored and underdeveloped. In China, where traditional sex education is often limited and stigmatized, sexuality has been influenced by a complex interplay of traditional gender norms, evolving social attitudes, and state intervention.

Family Caregivers' Perceptions and Experiences of Supporting Older People to Cope With Loneliness: A Qualitative Interview Study.

Loneliness has become a significant public health issue among community-dwelling older adults particularly those with multimorbidity. Family caregivers are crucial care resources for dependent older adults living in the community before transitioning to institutional services. However, understanding of their perceptions in supporting older adults with multimorbidity to cope with loneliness is limited.

Challenges and Implications for Menopausal Health and Help-Seeking Behaviors in Midlife Women From the United States and China in Light of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Web-Based Panel Surveys.

Background: The global population of women of menopausal age is quickly increasing. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an accelerated increase in the use of telehealth services, especially technological solutions targeting women's health. Understanding the factors behind midlife women's help-seeking behaviors amidst the pandemic will assist in the development of person-centered holistic telehealth solutions targeting menopausal and postreproductive health.

Barriers to and Recommendations for Equitable Access to Healthcare for Migrants and Refugees in Aotearoa, New Zealand: An Integrative Review.

The health system in Aotearoa New Zealand is predicated on equity in access to health services as a fundamental objective yet barriers to equitable access for migrant and refugees continue to exist. There is a paucity of studies that synthesise the experiences and realities of migrants, refugees and healthcare providers that hinder access to healthcare and provide recommendations to improve services. This review synthesised these barriers and recommendations, with an aim to improve equitable access to healthcare to migrants and refugees.

Experiences of Thai-Muslim patients regarding inconsistent antiretroviral therapy adherence: An exploratory descriptive qualitative study.

Background: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has played a crucial role in saving countless lives of patients with HIV/AIDS across the world. However, despite its effectiveness, ART adherence still falls short globally, and non-adherence remains the primary cause of treatment failure. In the rural areas of southern Thailand, where the population is predominantly conservative Muslims, there has been an observed increase in ART non-adherence.

Online social media poses opportunities and risks in autistic youth: implications for services from a qualitative study.

Background: Autistic people are vulnerable to developing mental health problems due to their difficulties in managing social situations and interpersonal relationships. The popular online social media (OSM) can be a potential solution to these concerns for their social lives as it allows non-face-to-face social interactions, however it remained unclear how this group is using these online platforms. This study explored their experiences of using online social media, and their perceived benefits and risks associated with this use.

Understanding workplace violence against medical staff in China: a retrospective review of publicly available reports.

Background: Workplace violence against medical staff in China is a widespread problem that has negative impacts on medical service delivery. The study aimed to contribute to the prevention of workplace violence against medical staff in China by identifying patterns of workplace violence, key risk factors, and the interplay of risk factors that result in workplace violence.

Methods: Ninety-seven publicly reported Chinese healthcare violent incidents from late 2013 to 2017 were retrospectively collected from the internet and analysed using content analysis.

Chinese late-life immigrants' loneliness and social isolation in host countries: An integrative review.

Aims And Objective: To synthesise current international empirical evidence on loneliness and social isolation in Chinese late-life immigrants.

Background: Loneliness causes adverse health consequences in Chinese late-life immigrants leading to increased utilisation of often increasingly limited healthcare resources. However, little is known about how Chinese late-life immigrants perceive and experience loneliness and social isolation in their host countries.

Primary Care Physicians' and Patients' Perspectives on Equity and Health Security of Infectious Disease Digital Surveillance.

Purpose: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic facilitated the rapid development of digital detection surveillance (DDS) for outbreaks. This qualitative study examined how DDS for infectious diseases (ID) was perceived and experienced by primary care physicians and patients in order to highlight ethical considerations for promoting patients' autonomy and health care rights.

Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted with a purposefully selected group of 16 primary care physicians and 24 of their patients.

Using Fa'afaletui to explore Samoan consumers' experience and interpretation of mental health person-centred care in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

This study applied a fa'afaletui cultural lens to an exploratory qualitative study examining Samoan families' experiences and engagement with a person-centred care model employed in specific mental health services in Aotearoa. Six semi-structured talanoa group discussions with families who had been previously or currently engaged with mental health services. In addition, a local stakeholder group was recruited to guide stages of the fa'afaletui.

Feeling a deep sense of loneliness: Chinese late-life immigrants in New Zealand.

Objectives: To explore Chinese late-life immigrants' perceptions of loneliness and social isolation.

Methods: A qualitative descriptive methodology underpinned this study. In-depth individual interviews were conducted in Mandarin with purposively recruited participants.

Nurses' attitudes towards hospitalized older adults in a tertiary care setting in Ghana.

Introduction: The increasing population of older adults and rapid increases in co-morbidities globally has necessitated the need for a healthcare delivery system that meets the multifaceted needs of the growing population of older adults. Concurrent with these rising complex health needs is the importance of positive, non-judgmental attitudes of health services providers towards older adults. Moreover, this is particularly important in the nursing profession, given nurses' significant and crucial roles in healthcare settings.

Family Participation to Promote Medication Adherence Among Thai-Muslim Older Adults With Hypertension: Action Research Study.

Introduction: Nonadherence to antihypertensive medications has been found increasingly prevalent in Thailand, yet the critical cultural resources of Islamic belief systems and family support are seldom mobilized to support adherence. Our study aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate an Islamic-based intervention program to promote medication adherence among Muslim older adults with uncontrolled hypertension in southern Thailand.

Method: An action research with codesign and family participation principles was utilized.

Collaborative Approaches to Promote Family Caregiving for Thai-Muslim Older Adults.

This action research study aimed to develop, implement and evaluate the feasibility of an Islamic-based intervention program that included three main Islamic tenets and concept of family collaboration to promote comprehensive homebound care for Thai-Muslim older adults in southern Thailand. Using action research cycles, interviews with five dyads of healthcare recipients (Thai-Muslim older adults and their family primary caregivers) and with seven Thai-Muslim healthcare professionals (five clinical nurses, a physician and a pharmacist) were undertaken alongside participant observations. Inadequate knowledge, insufficient skills, low family involvement, poor negotiation skills, and the need for better integration of Islamic doctrines were identified.

Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after COVID-19 lockdown: A qualitative study from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Aotearoa New Zealand, stringent lockdown measures lasting 7 weeks were introduced to manage community spread of the virus. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study examining how lockdown measures impacted upon the lives of nurses, midwives and personal care assistants caring for community-based patients during this time. The study involved nationwide surveys and in-depth interviews with 15 registered nurses employed in community settings, two community midwives and five personal care assistants.

Pathways and obstacles to social recovery following the elimination of SARS-CoV-2 from Aotearoa New Zealand: a qualitative cross-sectional study.

Background: Many public health experts have claimed that elimination strategies of pandemic response allow 'normal social life' to resume. Recognizing that social connections and feelings of normality are important for public health, this study examines whether, and for whom, that goal is realized, and identifies obstacles that may inhibit its achievement.

Methods: Thematic analysis of narratives obtained via a qualitative cross-sectional survey of a community cohort in Aotearoa | New Zealand.

Holding on and letting go: Views about filial piety among adult children living in New Zealand.

Aims And Objectives: The study aimed to explore the perspectives of adult children about late-life living and care arrangements for their ageing immigrant parents living in New Zealand.

Background: Older immigrants' well-being is closely associated with filial relations and is often reliant on families as a main source of social, financial and emotional support. Research among migrant Asian adults has reported mixed findings regarding intergenerational perspectives of filial practices.

Ethics, Integrity, and Retributions of Digital Detection Surveillance Systems for Infectious Diseases: Systematic Literature Review.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the importance of the deployment of digital detection surveillance systems to support early warning and monitoring of infectious diseases. These opportunities create a "double-edge sword," as the ethical governance of such approaches often lags behind technological achievements.

Objective: The aim was to investigate ethical issues identified from utilizing artificial intelligence-augmented surveillance or early warning systems to monitor and detect common or novel infectious disease outbreaks.

Meeting Maternal and Reproductive Health Needs in a Post-Disaster Setting: A Qualitative Case Study From Indonesia.

Meeting and planning for maternal and reproductive health (MRH) needs during post-disaster scenarios is paramount, however, not without considerable challenges. This study was aimed at understanding the provision of MRH services in Siosar, a relocation site for a population displaced by the volcanic eruption in 2013 of Mount Sinabung, Indonesia. A qualitative case study approach was used, and data were collected through focus group discussions and individual interviews with women of reproductive age, community leaders, health personnel, and policymakers.