A discourse analysis of health provider interactions with parents who are reluctant to vaccinate

ObjectiveVaccine hesitancy is a persistent barrier to vaccination uptake, and health professionals report interactions with such parents to be difficult. Using discourse analytic techniques, we examine the foundation of a therapeutic relationship: the display of empathy and attempts to build rapport, in consultations between immunisation specialists and vaccine reluctant parents.MethodsConsultations between consenting clinicians and parents in two Specialist Immunisation Clinics in Australia were recorded. Twelve conversations between the clinicians and parents were analysed using interactional sociolinguistic (IS) discourse analytic methods.ResultsThis paper takes a case study approach by citing two interactions that exemplify the interactional work of the consultants as they strive to engender mutual understanding and goodwill, noting examples of discursive choices that demonstrate empathy and the building of rapport.ConclusionAwareness of discourse strategies that interweave relational and clinical goals enable a more nuanced understanding of communication skills that support a guiding partnership in vaccine related decisions with parents.Practical implicationsThrough highlighting the strategic interactional work that displays empathy and builds rapport, we can inform educational approaches and build a repertoire of communication choices that strengthen the communication skills of health professionals.     

补阳还五汤加伸筋草治疗脑梗死后痉挛型偏瘫疗效研究

目的:探讨补阳还五汤重用伸筋草治疗脑梗死后痉挛型偏瘫的作用。方法:收集脑梗死后痉挛型偏瘫患者共88例,分为两组,对照组44例,西医治疗加康复训练和补阳还五汤治疗; 研究组44例,西医治疗加康复训练及补阳还五汤重用伸筋草治疗。比较治疗前后患者患侧上下肢肌张力、临床疗效、NIHSS、日常生活能力Barthel指数以及上下肢运动功能和不良反应发生率。结果:治疗后,两组患者患侧上下肢肌张力≤1级者占比均升高,且研究组中≤1级者占比均高于对照组,组间比较有统计学意义(P<0.05)。两组临床疗效等级分布和总有效率比较,差异有统计学意义(P<0.05)。治疗后两组患者NIHSS评分均降低,且研究组NIHSS评分低于对照组,治疗后两组患者Barthel指数和患侧上下肢FMA评分均升高,且研究组均高于对照组,组间比较有统计学意义(P<0.05)。两组不良反应发生率比较,差异无统计学意义(P>0.05)。结论:补阳还五汤重用伸筋草能够显著降低患者患侧上下肢肌张力,改善临床疗效和神经功能缺损,提高患者日常生活能力和患侧运动功能,且安全性良好。     

阿尔茨海默氏病和帕金森氏病对老年人认知功能及日常生活能力的影响分析

目的探讨阿尔茨海默氏病(AD)和帕金森氏病(PD)对老年人认知功能及日常生活能力的影响。方法对2000～2003年就诊于我院的53例AD、68例PD和60例正常人应用简易智力量表(MMSE)和日常生活能力量表(ADL)进行分析。结果AD组与对照组相比MMSE总分及各因子分、ADL总分及各单项分均有显著性差异(P<0.01):PD组与对照组相比除MMSE的记忆力和语言因子分以及ADL第13项目(打电话)外,其余均有显著性差异(P<0.05):AD组与PD组相比除ADL第7项(穿衣)外均有显著性差异(P<0.05)。结论AD和PD对老年人的认知功能和日常生活能力均有显著的影响,两者相比,AD对老年人的影响更严重、更广泛。     

共情护理对女性抑郁症脑电生物反馈治疗患者治疗依从性及生活功能的影响

目的探讨共情护理对女性抑郁症脑电生物反馈治疗患者治疗依从性及生活功能的影响。方法选择2018年1月至2019年6月于我院行脑电生物反馈治疗的女性抑郁症患者98例,根据护理方法不同分为对照组(49例,常规护理)与观察组(49例,共情护理)。比较两组的治疗依从性和生活功能。结果干预后,观察组用药、自我观察、临床护理依从性均高于对照组(P <0.05)。干预后,观察组的躯体功能、心理功能、社会功能、物质生活评分高于对照组(P <0.05)。结论共情护理可提高女性抑郁症脑电生物反馈治疗患者的治疗依从性和生活功能,促进患者恢复。     

基于CIPP评价模式构建高校护理学教师教学能力评价指标体系

目的构建高校护理学教师教学能力评价指标体系。 方法通过文献回顾、质性访谈、专家会议等方法,基于CIPP初步构建指标条目池,采用德尔菲法进行两轮咨询确定最终指标体系。 采用Epidata 3.0 录入数据,使用SPSS 23.0软件进行数据分析。结果两轮咨询问卷有效回收率分别为90%、100%,提出建议专家比率分别为83.33%、16.67%;两轮咨询专家权威系数均为0.892;一级、二级指标第一轮咨询协调系数分别为0.216、0.215,第二轮协调系数分别为0.262、0.279。高校护理学教师教学能力评价指标体系包含4个一级指标和30个二级指标。结论基于CIPP评价模式构建的高校护理学教师教学能力评价指标体系科学性较强,有利于综合评价高校护理学教师教学能力,促进教师提升教学能力。     

输卵管妊娠保留输卵管手术后综合疗法的宫内妊娠探讨

对输卵管妊娠52例有生育要求者，其中28例行切开输卵管壶腹部取胚胎术，10例行输卵管峡部破裂口修补术，7例行输卵管伞部成形术，5例行输卵管峡部端端吻合术，2例行输卵管子宫角部植入术。术后给MTX与中药等综合治疗2～5个月，对其中45例行输卵管通畅检查，双侧输卵管通畅4O例，通畅率为88.9％；有41例宫内妊娠，妊娠率为78.9％，另有1例再次异位妊娠。提示：对有生育要求的输卵管妊娠尽量根据输卵管的不同情况采用相应的手术方法，并应用有效的术后综合措施，对保留患者的生育功能和提高妊娠率有重要意义。     

植入前遗传学诊断"知情同意"的影响因素与对策

植入前遗传学诊断（Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis PGD）是辅助生育技术与分子生物学技术相结合而发展的孕前遗传学诊断技术,在植入子宫前淘汰了遗传异常的胚胎,是产前诊断技术的重大进展.但是,由于技术本身存在着一定局限性和不确定性,同时,受到病人认知能力等因素的影响,由此引发了系列伦理学争议.在进行PGD前,一个明了、详尽的患者知情同意过程是必须的.包括通俗全面告知PGD有关信息、手术和检测的局限性和可能结果;充分告知通过PGD所获得的利益和风险.在此基础上针对不同的遗传病检测签署详细的书面知情同意书.     

Autonomic arousal explains social cognitive abilities in high-functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder

Empirical research into behavioural profiles and autonomic responsivity in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) is highly variable and inconsistent. Two preliminary studies of children with ASDs suggest that there may be subgroups of ASDs depending on their resting arousal levels, and that these subgroups show different profiles of autonomic responsivity. The aim of the present study was to determine whether (i) adults with high-functioning ASDs may be separated into subgroups according to variation in resting arousal; and (ii) these ASD arousal subgroups differ in their behavioural profiles for basic emotion recognition, judgements of trustworthiness, and cognitive and affective empathy. Thirty high-functioning adults with ASDs and 34 non-clinical controls participated. Resting arousal was determined as the average skin conductance (SCL) across a 2 min resting period. There was a subgroup of ASD adults with significantly lower resting SCL. These individuals demonstrated poorer emotion recognition, tended to judge faces more negatively, and had atypical relationships between SCL and affective empathy. In contrast, low cognitive empathy was a feature of all ASD adults. These findings have important implications for clinical interventions and future studies investigating autonomic functioning in ASDs.     

Neural responses to perceiving suffering in humans and animals

The human ability to perceive and understand others' suffering is critical to reinforcing and maintaining our social bonds. What is not clear, however, is the extent to which this generalizes to nonhuman entities. Anecdotal evidence indicates that people may engage in empathy-like processes when observing suffering nonhuman entities, but psychological research suggests that we more readily empathize with those to whom we are closer and more similar. In this research, we examined neural responses in participants while they were presented with pictures of human versus dog suffering. We found that viewing human and animal suffering led to large overlapping regions of activation previously implicated in empathic responding to suffering, including the anterior cingulate gyrus and anterior insula. Direct comparisons of viewing human and animal suffering also revealed differences such that human suffering yielded significantly greater medial prefrontal activation, consistent with high-level theory of mind, whereas animal suffering yielded significantly greater parietal and inferior frontal activation, consistent with more semantic evaluation and perceptual simulation.