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Depression in nursing home residents and its correlation with meaning of family involvement and depression of family
- Chia-Chun Wu, Hsiu-Hsin Tsai, Hsiu-Li Huang, Yi-Wen Wang, Chun-Hsia Huang, Chia-Yih Liu
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 35 / Issue 2 / February 2023
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- 11 March 2022, pp. 67-75
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This study aimed to investigate the relationship between depression in older nursing home residents and family caregivers’ (FCGs) depressive status and reasons for involvement with residents.
Design:This study employed a cross-sectional design.
Setting:Eight nursing homes in northern Taiwan.
Participants:A total of 139 older resident–FCG pairs were recruited.
Measurements:Depression was measured with the Geriatric Depression Scale-Short Form for nursing home residents and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale-Short Form for family members. Depression and demographic data were collected with face-to-face interviews. The meaning ascribed to caregivers’ nursing home visits was calibrated using the Family Meaning of Nursing-Home Visits scale. Multiple logistic regression was used to understand the factors related to residents’ depressive symptoms.
Results:Depressive symptoms were present in 58.3% of the nursing home residents (n = 81). Depressive status of family members (Chi-square = 1.46, p = 0.23) or family’s visiting frequency (Chi-square = 1.64, p = 0.44) did not differ between residents with or without depressive symptoms. Factors associated with an increased risk of residents having depressive symptoms were age, self-perceived health status, and having a caregiver motivated to visit to assuage their guilt.
Conclusions:Visiting a family member to assuage their guilt was the only caregiver variable associated with depressive symptoms for nursing home residents. This finding suggests that developing interventions to improve personal relationships between nursing home residents and family members might facilitate the emotional support of caregivers and psychological support for older nursing home residents in Taiwan.
Assessment of incident frailty hazard associated with depressive symptoms in a Taiwanese longitudinal study
- Che-Chia Chang, Chi-Shin Wu, Han-Yun Tseng, Chun-Yi Lee, I-Chien Wu, Chih-Cheng Hsu, Hsing-Yi Chang, Yen-Feng Chiu, Chao A. Hsiung
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- International Psychogeriatrics / Volume 34 / Issue 1 / January 2022
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- 19 July 2021, pp. 61-70
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To estimate the risks of depressive symptoms for developing frailty, accounting for baseline robust or pre-frailty status.
Design:An incident cohort study design.
Setting:Community dwellers aged 55 years and above from urban and rural areas in seven regions in Taiwan.
Participants:A total of 2,717 participants from the Healthy Aging Longitudinal Study in Taiwan (HALST) were included. Subjects with frailty at baseline were excluded. The average follow-up period was 5.9 years.
Measurements:Depressive symptoms were measured by the 20-item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale. Frailty was assessed using the Fried frailty measurement. Participants were stratified by baseline robust or pre-frailty status to reduce the confounding effects of the shared criteria between depressive symptoms and frailty. Overall and stratified survival analyses were conducted to assess risks of developing frailty as a result of baseline depressive symptoms.
Results:One hundred individuals (3.7%) had depressive symptoms at baseline. Twenty-seven individuals (27.0%) with depressive symptoms developed frailty, whereas only 305 out of the 2,617 participants (11.7%) without depressive symptoms developed frailty during the follow-up period. After adjusting for covariates, depressive symptoms were associated with a 2.6-fold (95% CI 1.6, 4.2) increased hazard of incident frailty. The patterns of increased hazard were also observed when further stratified by baseline robust or pre-frailty status.
Conclusions:Depressive symptoms increased the risk of developing frailty among the older Asian population. The impact of late-life depressive symptoms on physical health was notable. These findings also replicated results from Western populations. Future policies on geriatric public health need to focus more on treatment and intervention against geriatric depressive symptoms to prevent incident frailty among older population.
Modified Carbon Papers as Electrode Materials of all-Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
- Chih-Hsing Leu, Shu-Yuan Chuang, Kan-Lin Hsueh, Jia-Ming Huang, Chia-Chun Chung, Chun-Hsing Wu, Hsiao-Hsuan Hsu, Yi-Ray Chen, Wen-Sheng Chang
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 1492 / 2013
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The electrode materials for VRFB should possess higher electric conductivity, corrosion resistance and hydrophilic properties in sulfuric acid. The characteristics of the electrode materials affect the stability and the energy efficiency of VRFB. Carbon materials are the best suited for VRFB applications. In this study, the calcined treatment, acid treatment and ozone treatment were used to modify the surface of carbon papers. The redox reaction of [VO]2+/[VO2]+ on the modified carbon papers was evaluated by cyclic voltammetry (CV). The surface compositions of carbon materials were analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectrometry (XPS). The experimental results reveal that three oxidative methods enhance the redox reaction of [VO]2+/[VO2]+. The calcined treatments and acid treatments also enhanced hydrolysis reaction. The mole ratio of O/C apparently increased, but the binding energy of C1s and O1s were not chemically shifted in the acid treatment. The intensity of binding energy of O1s, between 532 eV and 534 eV, apparently increased in the ozone and calcined treatments. The Ox treated samples were more hydrophilic than the Oz treated samples. In the Ox treated samples, the decrease of Rct value indicates that was contributed from the redox reaction of [VO]2+/[VO2]+ and hydrolysis reaction. It does not completely benefit the energy efficiency of VRFB. The 5 x 5 cm2 modified carbon papers were used as electrode materials in the VRFB. The voltage efficiency, coulomb efficiency and energy efficiency reached 93 %, 90 % and 83 %, respectively, at a current density of 12 mA.cm-2 at 0.8-1.8 V.
Fluorescent Nanodiamond – A Novel Nanomaterial for In Vivo Applications
- Nitin Mohan, Bailin Zhang, Cheng-Chun Chang, Liling Yang, Chao-Sheng Chen, Chia-Yi Fang, Hsiao-Han Hsieh, Chun-Yi Cho, Yi-Chun Wu, Jui-Hsia Weng, Bon-chu Chung, Huan-Cheng Chang
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 1362 / 2011
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Fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) with a size in the range of 10 – 100 nm have been produced by ion irradiation and annealing, and isolated by differential centrifugation. Single particle spectroscopic characterization with confocal fluorescence microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy indicates that they are photostable and useful as an alternative to far-red fluorescent proteins for bioimaging applications. We demonstrate the application by performing in vivo imaging of bare and bioconjugated FND particles (100 nm in diameter) in C. elegans and zebrafishes and exploring the interactions between this novel nanomaterial and the model organisms. Our results indicate that FNDs can be delivered to the embryos of both organisms by microinjection and eventually into the hatched larvae in the next generation. No deleterious effects have been observed for the carbon-based nanoparticles in vivo. The high fluorescence brightness, excellent photostability, and nontoxic nature of the nanomaterial have allowed long-term imaging and tracking of embryogenesis in the organisms.
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Modified Measles in a Healthcare Worker After Return From Travel
- Nan-Yao Lee, Hsin-Chun Lee, Chia-Ming Chang, Chi-Jung Wu, Nai-Ying Ko, Wen-Chien Ko
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- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 29 / Issue 4 / April 2008
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Outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii Bacteremia Related to Contaminated Morphine Used for Patient-Controlled Analgesia
- Hsin-Chun Lee, Nan-Yao Lee, Chia-Ming Chang, Cheng-Yang Chou, Yi-Hui Wu, Li-Rong Wang, Nai-Ying Ko, Ching-Chuan Liu, Wen-Chien Ko
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- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 28 / Issue 10 / October 2007
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We investigated a cluster of postoperative febrile episodes and episodes of Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia in obstetrics and gynecology wards after an electrical blackout and loss of the water supply. The use of patient-controlled analgesia was the only independent risk factor associated with postoperative fever, and A. baumannii isolates recovered from the blood of patients who had received patient-controlled analgesia were genetically related to an isolate recovered from the diluted morphine solution used for this procedure. After inappropriate preparation of the morphine solution was identified and stopped, the outbreak ended.
Clinical and Economic Impact of Multidrug Resistance in Nosocomial Acinetobacter baumannii Bacteremia
- Nan-Yao Lee, Hsin-Chun Lee, Nai-Ying Ko, Chia-Ming Chang, Hsin-I Shih, Chi-Jung Wu, Wen-Chien Ko
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- Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 28 / Issue 6 / June 2007
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To investigate the impact of antimicrobial resistance on clinical and economic outcomes among hospitalized patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia.
Design.A retrospective, matched-cohort study.
Setting.A tertiary care university teaching hospital
Methods.A matched case-control (1:1) study was conducted to compare the differences in clinical and economic outcomes of patients with MDR A. baumannii bacteremia and patients with non-MDR A. baumannii bacteremia. Case patients were matched to control patients on the basis of sex, age, severity of underlying and acute illness, and length of hospital stay before onset of bacteremia.
Results.Forty-six (95.8%) of 48 cases with MDR A. baumannii bacteremia were eligible for the study and matched with appropriate controls. The sepsis-related mortality rate was 34.8% among cases and 13.0% among controls, for an attributable mortality rate of 21.8% (adjusted odds ratio, 4.1 [95% confidence interval, 1.1-15.7]; P = .036). After the onset of bacteremia, cases and controls had a significantly different length of hospital stay (54.2 vs 34.1 days; P = .006), hospitalization cost (US$9,349 vs US$4,865; P = .001 ), and antibiotic therapy cost (US$2,257 vs US$1,610; P = .014). Thus, bacteremia due to MDR A. baumannii resulted in 13.4 days of additional hospitalization and US$3,758 of additional costs, compared with bacteremia due to non-MDR A. baumannii.
Conclusions.Patients with MDR A. baumannii bacteremia had a higher mortality rate and incurred greater medical costs than patients with non-MDR A. baumannii bacteremia.
Reliability Study of a Fluorescent Blue Organic Light-Emitting Device
- Jiun-Haw Lee, Yu-Hsuan Ho, Tien-Chun Lin, Chia-Fang Wu
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- MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive / Volume 965 / 2006
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In this paper, we measured and analyzed the operation lifetime of a high efficiency blue OLED which consists of N,N' –Vdiphenyl -N,N'-bis(1-napthyl) -1,1'-biphenyl-4,4'- diamine (NPB) as the hole-transport layer (HTL), 4,4'-bis[2-(4-(N,N-diphenylamino)phenyl)vinyl]biphenyl (DPAVBi) doped in 9,10-bis(2';-naphthyl) anthracene (ADN) as the emitting layer (EML), and bis(10-hydroxyben-zo[h]quinolinato)beryllium (Bebq2) as the electron-transport layer (ETL). Due to the high electron mobility of the ETL (one order of magnitude higher than Alq3), the carrier balance is achieved and a blue OLED with a high external quantum efficiency of 8.32% is obtained. The device structure of our blue OLED device is ITO /HTL (40nm)/EML (45nm, 4% dopant)/ETL (15nm)/ LiF(1.2nm)/Al (100nm). In our operation lifetime measurement, we fixed the initial luminescence of the blue OLEDs at 12500, 10000, 7000, 5000 cd/m2 with a constant current driving. The resulting half-lifetime are 5.58, 16.56, 27, 109.819 hours, respectively. To estimate the half-lifetime of this device, we use a well-known relation in our fitting: L*t1/2n= constant where n is the acceleration coefficient, and t1/2 is the half-lifetime. In our blue OLED, the n value is 3.088. By using the equation, we can calculate that the estimated half lifetime at an initial luminance of 1000 cd/m2 achieves 15611 hours in our device. For further investigating the lifetime mechanism in our blue OLED, we fit all the luminance versus time curves obtained under different driving condition. We found that luminance is inversely proportional to the square of the time, rather than a typically stretched exponential decay which means the luminance decay is a second-order reaction in our blue OLED.