Dwelling in the Emerging Now: A Humanbecoming Perspective of Feeling Listened To.

The purpose of this article is to explore Duarte-Quilao's newknowings on feeling listened to and to deepen understanding with the lens of the humanbecoming paradigm.

Listening and Presence Guiding Nursing Practice.

Listening and presence are crucial for establishing presence in nurse-patient relationships, and the nurse-patient relationship forms the basis of nursing practice. Nurses, through their presence, listen to expressions that form the basis of patients' stories and what is important. Active listening necessitates the use of various skills, including the elimination of preconceptions, reflecting on patients' words, clarifying statements, maintaining eye contact, effectively utilizing silence, and focusing on employing techniques for the development of trusting relationships.

Transcatheter vs. surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic stenosis and chronic kidney disease: a comprehensive meta-analysis.

Introduction: Aortic stenosis (AS) is treated with either transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) or Surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR). However, limited data exist to study the postoperative clinical outcomes in patients with AS and chronic kidney disease (CKD). The objective of this study is to compare TAVR and SAVR postoperative clinical outcomes in patients with AS and CKD.

Older Adults Show Altered Network Connectivity during Fairness Decisions with Similar and Dissimilar Partners.

Objectives: The ability to navigate diverse social contexts, such as interacting with different individuals, is crucial across the lifespan and has implications for fraud susceptibility. However, the neural mechanisms supporting social decisions in older adults within varied social contexts remain largely unknown. This study investigated how age and partner similarity modulate neural activation and network connectivity during fairness-related decision making and whether individual differences in behavioral sensitivity to fairness norm violations correlate with neural activities.

Trajectories of Immunosuppressive Medication Adherence Among Kidney Transplant Recipients: A 2-Year Prospective Cohort Study.

Background: Immunosuppressive medication (IM) adherence, a dynamic and time-dependent behavior, is typically suboptimal among kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) and severely impacts their prognosis. Longitudinal data regarding the temporal trajectories of medication adherence are important for devising targeted intervention strategies.

Objective: To identify the trajectories of IM adherence in KTRs over the 2 years post transplantation.

Curvilinear relations between insight-, cognition-, and skills-oriented technique use and outcome across treatments, or Goldilocks and the three psychotherapies.

Objective: A "Goldilocks" effect is when "just right" conditions are present for a phenomenon to occur. In psychotherapy research, the Goldilocks effect is when moderate intervention levels (not very low or high) correlate with more improvement than very high or very low levels. Finding curvilinear relations requires the wider range of what a specific intervention can take, which can be seen when examining technique and outcome across different treatments rather than within a single therapy orientation.

More than an Acquaintance Less than a Friend: Fringeships in Everyday Life.

Loneliness is a pressing global health crisis. A combination of close and not close ties (i.e.

Social Exclusion and Emotional Experience: The Impact of Mentalized Affectivity.

Social exclusion has been widely associated with feelings of anxiety, depressed mood, anger, and hostility. While a number of individual difference variables have been found to moderate the emotional effects of exclusion, no known research has been conducted on the impact of mentalized affectivity. Previous literature indicates that mentalized affectivity (MA), a sophisticated form of emotional regulation, may be effective in mitigating emotional experience post-exclusion.

Supersaturated Oxygen Delivery & Acute MI: Current Evidence, Practical Issues, and Future Research.

Introduction: Acute myocardial infarction is a significant global health issue, with a high mortality rate. Early intervention, specifically coronary angiography, has been shown to improve patient outcomes significantly. Recent technological advances have introduced novel therapeutic interventions like Supersaturated Oxygen (SSO2) Therapy, which promises enhanced recovery post-ischemia.

Multi-method assessment of attachment for middle childhood and early adolescence: links to parenting and parent attachment.

Despite advances in the measurement of parent-child attachment in middle childhood and early adolescence, most studies relied on a single measure to assess attachment and few studies tested the core assumption that parenting and parents' own attachment models are key factors associated with parent-child attachment security. We aimed to: (a) evaluate a multi-method approach to assessing attachment that included the Middle Childhood Attachment Coding System (MCAS), a behavioral measure of parent-child attachment; and (b) test a model linking parenting, parent attachment, and attachment security. Participants included 179 mother-child dyads with children aged 9-14 years.

The role of children in promoting stroke literacy across generations: A narrative review of the FAST Heroes initiative.

Background & Purpose: It has been highlighted that children can serve as effective messengers, helping to raise awareness to their parents, grandparents, and the broader community. Relying on this approach, the FAST Heroes program engages children as central agents of knowledge transfer, aiming to enhance stroke literacy among their families. The purpose of this review is to examine how children acquire stroke-related knowledge and subsequently facilitate its transfer to their families.

Reduced community-level social cohesion is associated with higher risk for financial exploitation.

Objectives: Understanding the psychosocial and community risk factors associated with financial exploitation is essential in developing prevention strategies. Although previous work has identified factors related to increased risk such as poor financial literacy, cognitive decline, and worse mental health, less is known about social factors, particularly those tied to our community and how they interact with our ability to form meaningful relationships.

Method: To investigate this issue, we used a previously published national sample of U.

Nurses' Best Friend? The Lived Experiences of Nurses Who Utilized Dog Therapy in the Workplace.

The aim of this work is to explore and understand the lived experience of nurses who chose to schedule visits with an Emotional Support Animal (ESA), i.e., a dog, during their working shift.

Subtle concentration changes in zinc hold the key to fibrillation of α-synuclein: an updated insight on the micronutrient's role in prevention of neurodegenerative disorders.

Misfolded proteins have been found to be at the core of an increasing number of cognitive ailments. α-synuclein, a resident chaperone of the neurosynaptic cleft has been implicated in a major share of these neurodegenerative diseases. Over the years, a daunting task for researchers has been the identification of the complex set of conditions which govern the Substantia nigra microenvironment for transformation of α-synuclein from a functional and grossly structureless chaperone to toxic cross-β fibrils.

Factors of treatment success in psychotherapy: a within-therapist analysis of early session processes.

While psychotherapy is generally effective, outcomes can vary significantly across patients, even when treated by the same therapist. This study employed a mixed-methods design to examine early indicators of treatment success by analyzing contrasting outcomes within individual therapists' caseloads. Treatment success was determined by patients achieving a clinically significant change on the Brief Symptom Inventory's Global Severity Index (BSI-GSI).

Demographic disparities in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.

This review comprehensively examines the complex influence of demographic factors on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), an increasingly common clinical syndrome. We examine the impact of age, sex, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status on HFpEF, investigating how these factors contribute to disparities in prevalence, risk profiles, diagnostic challenges, treatment responses, and clinical outcomes. Key findings highlight the significant role of age, with HFpEF incidence rising with advancing age advances and distinct pathophysiological mechanisms noted across age groups.

Delay Discounting and Risk Tolerance in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: Results From the Global OCD Study.

Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) features maladaptive decision making, previous research examining economic decision making in OCD has yielded inconsistent results. Here we examined whether unmedicated adults with OCD ( = 268) differ from healthy controls (HC; = 256) on two measures of decision making about potential rewards: 1) delay discounting, the tendency to prefer rewards sooner rather than later, even if the delayed reward is larger, and 2) risk tolerance, the willingness to gamble for uncertain rewards when the risk is known. Data were collected in Brazil, India, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the USA as part of the Global OCD study.

Modified Alliance-Focused Training with Doubling as an integrative approach to improve therapists' competencies in dealing with alliance ruptures and prevent negative outcomes in psychotherapy for depression: study protocol of a randomised controlled multicentre trial.

Introduction: Alliance ruptures constitute a high risk of premature treatment termination and poor psychotherapy outcome. The Alliance-Focused Training (AFT) is a promising transtheoretical approach to enhance therapists' skills in dealing with alliance ruptures.

Methods And Analysis: To evaluate the effectiveness of Modified AFT with doubling (MAFT-D), a randomised, patient and evaluator-blinded, multicentre trial was designed comparing MAFT-D (delivered to trainee therapists and supervisors) and psychotherapy training/treatment as usual (TAU) for therapists (n=120) and their patients with depressive disorders (n=240).

Negative news exposure does not affect risk or ambiguity aversion.

Introduction: Uncertain decisions can be risky (with known probabilities) or ambiguous (with unknown probabilities). Previous studies have found that negative affect can increase risk aversion and ambiguity aversion, but it is unknown if these effects generalize to more realistic negative stimuli. In real life, negative affect is frequently induced by exposure to news reports.

Trait reward sensitivity and behavioral motivation shape connectivity between the default mode network and the striatum during reward anticipation.

Individuals vary substantially in their responses to rewarding events and their motivation to pursue rewards. The ventral striatum (VS) plays a key role in reward anticipation, and connectivity between the VS and the default mode network (DMN)-a network associated with self-referential and evaluative processes-has been implicated in reward processing. However, the relationship between these neural mechanisms and reward-related individual differences remains unclear.

Machine learning approaches for improved understanding of factors associated with history of sport-related concussion.

Sport-related concussion (SRC), which accounts for a significant portion of all mild traumatic brain injuries in the United States, can adversely affect quality of life and long-term cognitive function. Identifying the persisting effects of concussion is vital for developing interventions that may reduce the risk of concussion recurrence and progressive neurodegeneration. Development of improved prognostic and therapeutic procedures might be achieved through an increased understanding of interrelationships among self-reported health and wellness status indicators, demographic and anthropometric data, and perceptual-motor performance metrics.

Ethical Considerations for the Advanced Practice Aesthetic Nurse.

In this article, I discuss ethical considerations for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) working in the field of aesthetics. I explore relevant issues in APRN aesthetic practice in relation to four major ethical principles of nursing (i.e.

Effect of Sound Preference on Loudness Tolerance and Preferred Listening Levels Using Personal Listening Devices.

This study examined the effect of sound preference on loudness tolerance (LTLs) and preferred listening levels (PLLs) using personal listening devices (PLDs). The implication of this relationship on hearing health promotion counseling and practices using PLDs is discussed. Participants were 50 individuals, aged 21 to 90 years, with normal hearing or hearing loss.

Atangs to kuwentos: The power of communal care as decolonial mental health praxis among Pilipinx Americans.

Pilipinx Americans (PAs) are situated at a unique intersection as descendants from colonized peoples living in the diaspora. They endure ongoing deleterious effects of colonization, including mental health (MH) disparities. Simultaneously, PAs live as settlers on Indigenous lands and need to interrogate any complicity in the ongoing colonization of First Nations from what is now called America.