Virtual Reality as a Dietary Education Adjunct for Pediatric Patients With Obesity: A Pragmatic, Randomised Pilot Study.

Background: Pediatric obesity is associated with increased morbidity. One common therapy within multicomponent treatment for obesity is nutrition counselling and dietary education led by a Registered Dietitian (RD). Virtual reality (VR) improves engagement when used as an educational adjunct.

Women Physicians in Leadership Roles in Critical Care Medicine or Academic Medicine-A Systematic Literature Review.

Objective: To systematically review and synthesize the evidence surrounding factors impacting women rising to leadership positions in critical care medicine (CCM).

Data Sources: PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library from 2011 to 2024.

Study Selection: Articles included were cohort studies, surveys, and interviews addressing women physicians practicing in CCM and related fields of academic medicine.

Reckoning with the past: a qualitative analysis of medical students describing their formative experiences with weight bias.

Introduction: Most healthcare providers exhibit weight bias (i.e., negative assumptions, beliefs, or discriminatory acts toward someone based on their weight/body size) in their interactions with patients with obesity.

Patient-Reported Factors Impacting Memory and Cognition Among Women Currently or Previously Receiving Treatment for Breast Cancer.

Objectives Cognitive impairments associated with cancer and cancer treatments have yet to determine definitive causes, gold-standard assessments, or effective treatments to offset or mitigate symptoms. The purpose of the current study was to determine relationships between women with breast cancer and the negative memory impact of treatment and other factors. Materials and methods This online study included 171 participants receiving at least one type of treatment for breast cancer.

Rationale, formative research, and protocol for Calma, Conversa, y Cría: A pilot mindful parenting intervention with Latina women.

Background: Latina mothers' stress is associated with their children's health behaviors and risk for obesity; however, existing pediatric health promotion programs have not focused on maternal stress reduction.

Methods: Herein we describe a study design that will examine the acceptability and feasibility of Calma, Conversa, y Cría (CCC) a 6-week mindful parenting intervention designed to reduce stress. We present the results of qualitative research with Latina mothers and experts in Latinx health and mindfulness who provided culturally-relevant feedback on existing mindful parenting strategies to inform the development of CCC.

Stories Give Form to a Complex Reality: A Narrative Inquiry of DNP-Prepared APRNs During the COVID-19 Crisis.

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of healthcare, yet there is a gap in the literature concerning Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. To gather an authentic understanding of the DNP-prepared Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) experiences (stories) caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a qualitative narrative inquiry study.

Social media and dating app use are differentially related to same- and next-day disordered eating pathology in young men with loss of control eating.

Objective: To evaluate whether social networking site (SNS) and dating app use is associated with disordered eating in young men.

Methods: 42 men (18-35y) who reported ≥4 loss of control (LOC) eating episodes in the prior month completed a 14-day ecological momentary assessment (EMA) protocol. Five times throughout the day, participants responded to prompts regarding their dietary restraint, body dissatisfaction, and LOC eating.

Impressions of the Nursing Profession Among Nursing Students and New Graduates During the First Wave of COVID-19: A Qualitative Content Analysis.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining event for the next generation of the nursing workforce. Complex pandemic practice environments have raised concerns for the preparation and support of novice nurses, even as a multitude of nurses leave the profession.

Purpose: Researchers sought to examine nursing students' and new graduate nurses' impressions of the nursing profession in contrasting regions of New York State during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health and Well-Being of Intensive Care Unit Physicians: How to Ensure the Longevity of a Critical Specialty.

A second epidemic of burnout, fatigue, anxiety, and moral distress has emerged concurrently with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and critical care physicians are especially affected. This article reviews the history of burnout in health care workers, presents the signs and symptoms, discusses the specific impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intensive care unit caregivers, and attempts to identify potential strategies to combat the Great Resignation disproportionately affecting health care workers. The article also focuses on how the specialty can amplify the voices and highlight the leadership potential of underrepresented minorities, physicians with disabilities, and the aging physician population.

Loperamide-induced cardiogenic syncope: a case report of a life-threatening presentation of an over-the-counter drug.

Background: Loperamide at supratherapeutic doses can cause cardiac toxicity, presenting as cardiogenic shock, prolonged QT, malignant arrhythmias, or in severe cases sudden cardiac death. Surreptitious loperamide use is difficult to diagnose. We present an interesting case of loperamide use presenting with polymorphic ventricular tachycardia, cardiogenic shock.

Very low-dose recombinant Factor VIIa administration for cardiac surgical bleeding reduces red blood cell transfusions and renal risk: a matched cohort study.

Outcomes following administration of very-low-dose recombinant activated factor VIIa (vld-rFVIIa) for cardiac surgical bleeding remain debatable. We sought to determine the association of vld-rFVIIa and adverse surgical outcomes. Retrospective, cohort matching of patients undergoing cardiac surgery who received vld-rFVIIa (median 13.

The Future Capacity of the Nursing Workforce: COVID-19 Pandemic's Impacts on New Nurses and Nursing Students Toward the Profession.

Background: Nurses are concerned for their safety and conflicted about their career, because their duty to care for patients during the pandemic involved competing ethical obligations, including their own personal safety.

Purpose: The aim was to explore the impact of COVID-19 on new nurses and nursing students in terms of safety and interest in nursing specifically related to self-efficacy, geographic region case density, and frontline experience in health care.

Methods: New nurses and nursing students (N = 472) responded to an online survey examining self-efficacy, sense of safety, and interest in nursing.

Interest in Receiving Nutrition Information Through Social Media Among Food-Security Program Participants in Washington, DC.

Introduction: Effective communication approaches are necessary to reach food-security program participants. Accessing food-security programs has been especially challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social media can play an important role in reducing some communication barriers.

Well-Being and Cooking Behavior: Using the Positive Emotion, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, and Accomplishment (PERMA) Model as a Theoretical Framework.

The prevalence of psychosocial distress is increasing in the United States. At the same time, the American default lifestyle has steadily displaced household food production with industrial food production, despite increased cultural interest in cooking. An important focus of cooking research to date has been on cooking's association with nutrition and dietary quality.