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Service contents and recovery orientation of psychiatric home-visit nursing evaluated by users in Japan. 日本用户对精神科家访护理服务内容及康复取向的评价。

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01041

Yoshifumi Kido, Nozomi Setoya, Hiroko Takasuna, Hitoshi Kusachi, Yumi Hirahara, Shigemasa Katayama, Hisateru Tachimori, Akiko Funakoshi, Mami Kayama

{"title":"Service contents and recovery orientation of psychiatric home-visit nursing evaluated by users in Japan.","authors":"Yoshifumi Kido, Nozomi Setoya, Hiroko Takasuna, Hitoshi Kusachi, Yumi Hirahara, Shigemasa Katayama, Hisateru Tachimori, Akiko Funakoshi, Mami Kayama","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2023.01041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2023.01041","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to clarify the differences perceived by users of home-visit nursing care between providers from medical institutions and services from independent home-visit nursing stations, as well as to examine the recovery orientation from the perspectives of the users. We conducted a questionnaire survey of 32 home-visit nursing stations and 18 medical institutions. From these facilities, 10 users of psychiatric home-visit nursing services who were being treated for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were selected. With regard to the care that they thought was good, the home-visit nursing station users responded more often than users of home-visit nursing care provided by medical institutions regarding \"help with hobbies and fun\" and \"support to empower you\". Regarding what users wanted from home-visit nursing care, a statistically significant difference was found between users of home nursing stations who answered, \"I want the same person to come\", and users of home-visit nursing services provided by medical institutions, who answered, \"I want various people to come\". Brief INSPIRE-J score for study participants was 81.9 (standard deviation; SD 18.1) for users of home-visit nursing care services from medical institutions and 83.7 (SD 15.5) for home-visit nursing station users. It is conceivable that the care provided by psychiatric home-visit nursing services may have a greater potential for promoting recovery. However, since the characteristics of users and facilities may differ, future research is needed to clarify which recovery factors are effectively promoted by each service.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 3","pages":"136-141"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311670/pdf/ghm-5-3-136.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9743919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Comparison of the clinical competency of nurses trained in competency-based and object-based approaches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A cross-sectional study. 在刚果民主共和国，以能力为基础和以目标为基础的方法培训的护士临床能力的比较:一项横断面研究。

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01026

Toyomitsu Tamura, Désire Basuana Josue Bapitani, Gérard Ulyabo Kahombo, Yui Minagawa, Sadatoshi Matsuoka, Miyuki Oikawa, Yuriko Egami, Mari Honda, Mari Nagai

{"title":"Comparison of the clinical competency of nurses trained in competency-based and object-based approaches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: A cross-sectional study.","authors":"Toyomitsu Tamura, Désire Basuana Josue Bapitani, Gérard Ulyabo Kahombo, Yui Minagawa, Sadatoshi Matsuoka, Miyuki Oikawa, Yuriko Egami, Mari Honda, Mari Nagai","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2023.01026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2023.01026","url":null,"abstract":"In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the object-based approach (OBA) still remains mainstream in the basic nursing education program, despite the intention of the Ministry of Public Health to expand the competency-based approach (CBA) nationwide. This study aimed to compare the clinical competency of nurses trained with CBA and OBA. A cross-sectional, mixed study was conducted. We developed a self-assessment questionnaire consisting of an individual demographic information, a clinical competency assessment scale and the General Self-efficacy Scale. Nurses trained with CBA or OBA and currently working in health facilities with two to five years of clinical experience were purposively selected from ten cities across nine provinces in the DRC. We also conducted key informant interviews with the clinical supervisors at health facilities. In a comparison of 160 nurses trained with CBA and 153 with OBA, 3 competency domains (\"establishing professional communication\", \"making decisions about health problems\", and \"performing nursing interventions\") of the 5 domains required for nurses had significantly higher scores in the CBA group. The key informant interviews supported these results while revealing various issues in the basic nursing education program. The results support the strategic direction of the Ministry of Public Health in the DRC to expand CBA. Collaboration among education institutions, health facilities, and administrative bodies is crucial for clinical nurses to fully engage their competencies for the population. Other low- and middle-income countries with scarce resources can refer to the developed and implemented competency assessment method applied in this study.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 3","pages":"142-150"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311675/pdf/ghm-5-3-142.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9737085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A retrospective analysis of coping competence among community health centers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China: Coping strategies for future public health emergency events. 2019冠状病毒病大流行期间上海市社区卫生中心应对能力的回顾性分析:未来突发公共卫生事件的应对策略

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01042

Yan Lin, Xiao-Hua Ge, Ping Liu, Jie Zhang, Li-Ping Jiang

{"title":"A retrospective analysis of coping competence among community health centers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China: Coping strategies for future public health emergency events.","authors":"Yan Lin, Xiao-Hua Ge, Ping Liu, Jie Zhang, Li-Ping Jiang","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2023.01042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2023.01042","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to investigate the coping competence of 12 community health centers through nursing workforce, emergency preparation, emergency response training, and emergency support in a district of Shanghai during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2022 to propose coping strategies and implication for Future Public Health Emergency Events for community health centers. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on June 2022, and 12 community health centers (servicing a population of 104,472.67 ± 41,421.18, with 125 ± 36 health care providers per center) were then divided into group A (n = 5, medical care ratio ≥ 1:1) and group B (n = 7, medical care ratio < 1:1) according to collected data, and the nursing human resources management and coping competence of the centers with COVID-19 of both groups were retrospectively analyzed. Nursing shortages were obvious across all 12 centers. Certain deficiencies in the coping competence of community health centers with emergencies must be addressed (possession rate < 70% in both groups, p > 0.05). Community health centers need to enhance hospital-to-hospital collaboration and the ability to transport emergency staff to the post promptly during outbreaks. Emergency coping assessments, emergency drills at different levels, and mental health support need to be implemented regularly among community health centers, and effective donation management should be pursued as well. We expect that this study could support efforts by leaders of community health centers to conclude coping strategies including increasing nursing workforce, optimizing human recourse management, and identifying areas of improvement of centers for emergency coping during public health events.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 3","pages":"151-157"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311669/pdf/ghm-5-3-151.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9743916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Parental loneliness, perceptions of parenting, and psychosocial factors among parents having new children during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19大流行期间新生儿父母的父母孤独感、育儿观念和社会心理因素

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01033

Satomi Nomura, Namiko Kisugi, Kazue Endo, Takahide Omori

{"title":"Parental loneliness, perceptions of parenting, and psychosocial factors among parents having new children during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Satomi Nomura, Namiko Kisugi, Kazue Endo, Takahide Omori","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2023.01033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2023.01033","url":null,"abstract":"Individuals who had new children during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic became parents in challenging situations, starting from pregnancy and continuing to after birth. This study aimed to clarify the characteristics of parental loneliness, perceptions of parenting, and psychosocial factors among parents having new children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The participants comprised a first-child group (523 parents; those who had their first child) and a second-child group (621 parents; those who had their second or subsequent child). We used web-based questionnaires to explore parental loneliness, perceptions of parenting, and psychosocial factors (distress, parental burnout, well-being, marital satisfaction, and social isolation). Participants answered the questionnaires in November 2022, during the eighth COVID-19 wave in Japan. We compared the groups and subgroups according to parental sex and determined the relationship between variables. The parents in the first-child group felt lonelier than the parents in the second-child group (p < 0.05), and their loneliness was correlated with psychosocial factors. Significantly, more mothers in the second-child group answered \"agree\" to negative perceptions of parenting than mothers in the first-child group. Additionally, parenting difficulties were correlated with a negative perception of parenting and parental burnout in both groups. Furthermore, providing parental support may improve parenting and promote parents' health.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 3","pages":"158-168"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311677/pdf/ghm-5-3-158.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9737087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A 15-year follow-up report of an elderly diabetic foot with multiple recurrences leading to toe amputation and thoughts on the model of care for diabetic foot ulcer. 1例老年糖尿病足多次复发致足趾截肢15年随访报告及对糖尿病足溃疡护理模式的思考

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01040

Qing Jia, Yue Ming, Jiaojiao Bai, Fei Miao, Wen Qin

{"title":"A 15-year follow-up report of an elderly diabetic foot with multiple recurrences leading to toe amputation and thoughts on the model of care for diabetic foot ulcer.","authors":"Qing Jia, Yue Ming, Jiaojiao Bai, Fei Miao, Wen Qin","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2023.01040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2023.01040","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is one of the most serious complications of diabetes. Elderly diabetic patients are a high prevalence of diabetic foot ulcers, and their high recurrence, disability, and mortality rates impose a heavy economic burden on families and society. This paper reports a case of an elderly patient with a diabetic foot ulcer who was admitted in April 2007 and discharged after recovery from comprehensive diabetic foot treatment. Due to intermittent foot care and lack of home care, the patient's foot ulcers recurred after repeated healing during home rehabilitation, eventually resulting in the amputation of the right bunion. After the patient was discharged from the hospital with an amputated toe, the whole-process seamless management model of \"hospital - community - family\" was implemented. The hospital provides specialized foot support and guidance, and the community is responsible for daily disease management and referrals. The family is responsible for the implementation of home rehabilitation programs, and family caregivers need to identify and provide feedback on foot abnormalities promptly. As of May 2022, the patient had not experienced ulcer recurrence. This paper reports the whole process of \"ulcer development → ulcer healing → ulcer recurrence healing → toe amputation → continuous care management\" experienced by the patient in 15 years, aiming to reflect on the significance of the whole-process seamless foot care management model of \"hospital-community-family\" for diabetic foot ulcer rehabilitation through the case.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 3","pages":"184-187"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311673/pdf/ghm-5-3-184.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9743918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Current situation and clinical burden of pediatricians for children with eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19大流行期间儿科医生治疗饮食失调儿童的现状和临床负担

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-04-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2022.01034

Yuki Mizumoto, Yoshinori Sasaki, Hikaru Sunakawa, Shuichi Tanese, Rena Shinohara, Toshinari Kurokouchi, Kaori Sugimoto, Manao Seto, Masahiro Ishida, Kotoe Itagaki, Yukino Yoshida, Saori Namekata, Momoka Takahashi, Ikuhiro Harada, Shoko Sasaki, Kiyoshi Saito, Yusuke Toguchi, Yuki Hakosima, Kumi Inazaki, Yuta Yoshimura, Masahide Usami

{"title":"Current situation and clinical burden of pediatricians for children with eating disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Yuki Mizumoto, Yoshinori Sasaki, Hikaru Sunakawa, Shuichi Tanese, Rena Shinohara, Toshinari Kurokouchi, Kaori Sugimoto, Manao Seto, Masahiro Ishida, Kotoe Itagaki, Yukino Yoshida, Saori Namekata, Momoka Takahashi, Ikuhiro Harada, Shoko Sasaki, Kiyoshi Saito, Yusuke Toguchi, Yuki Hakosima, Kumi Inazaki, Yuta Yoshimura, Masahide Usami","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2022.01034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2022.01034","url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic, the incidence of eating disorders (ED) has increased not only in Japan but also worldwide. This online survey for pediatricians showed that caregivers tend to visit specific pediatric institutions or child psychiatry departments when children under junior high school age develop eating disorders. There are few pediatric institutions regarding treatment acceptance for children with ED. Of the 34 respondents, 16 (47.1%) answered that the number of visits for children with eating disorders had \"stayed the same\", one answered it had \"decreased\" and 17 (50.0%) answered it had \"increased\" or \"increased very much\". In addition, 28 of the 34 respondents (82.3%) experienced difficulties with psychotherapy for children with ED. For treating children with ED, pediatricians usually conducted physical examination and have some clinical burden. ED are increasing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Because children with severe ED need to be hospitalized, child and adolescent psychiatric wards are overcrowded and some children with other mental disorders can't be admitted.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 2","pages":"122-124"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130541/pdf/ghm-5-2-122.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9399370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evolving partnership: A National Center for Global Health and Medicine Resilient Training Model for clinical research professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic. 不断发展的伙伴关系:COVID-19大流行期间临床研究专业人员的国家全球卫生和医学中心弹性培训模式。

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-04-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01004

Sifa Marie Joelle Muchanga, Mieko Hamana, Marlinang Diarta Siburian, Maria Ruriko Umano, Nattha Kerdsakundee, Maria Rejane Umano, Masato Ichikawa, Tatsuo Iiyama

{"title":"Evolving partnership: A National Center for Global Health and Medicine Resilient Training Model for clinical research professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic.","authors":"Sifa Marie Joelle Muchanga, Mieko Hamana, Marlinang Diarta Siburian, Maria Ruriko Umano, Nattha Kerdsakundee, Maria Rejane Umano, Masato Ichikawa, Tatsuo Iiyama","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2023.01004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2023.01004","url":null,"abstract":"The clinical trial industry has encountered challenging circumstances in which the increasing number of trials outpaces the number of trial specialists. For instance, there has been an unprecedented demand for clinical trials following the Covid-19 pandemic, which has worsened the global shortage of qualified personnel. It is therefore imperative to produce more qualified clinical trial professionals. An adaptive and collaborative training model was implemented by the National Center for Global Health and Medicine through the Department of International Trials. This aimed at building capacity among health workers in developing countries and providing them with the skills to be able to conduct all phases of the clinical trial from protocol design to publication of results. It also seeks to foster collaboration and partnership between local health workers and international experts. Since 2016, we have implemented a Japan-led training program, and since 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a shift from a single Train-the-trainer model (ToT) to a mixed model, the Evolving Partnership Training (ePT). In this model, we applied four different methods: train-the-trainer, needs-oriented training, open symposiums, and advanced learning. The total number of training participants increased exponentially from a total of 41 between 2016-2020 to 2,810 in 2021. Our experience has proven that despite the constraint of the pandemic, the ePT is a viable approach compared to a single method for providing quality training and increasing the number of participants.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 2","pages":"118-121"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130547/pdf/ghm-5-2-118.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9768457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Status of and perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination after lifting of the dynamic zero-COVID policy in China. 解除动态零冠政策后中国COVID-19疫苗接种现状与展望

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-04-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2022.01063

Mo Zhang, Yan Wang, Tao Zhang, Jing Zhou, Yang Deng, Ling Wang, Yan Du

{"title":"Status of and perspectives on COVID-19 vaccination after lifting of the dynamic zero-COVID policy in China.","authors":"Mo Zhang, Yan Wang, Tao Zhang, Jing Zhou, Yang Deng, Ling Wang, Yan Du","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2022.01063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2022.01063","url":null,"abstract":"On December 7, 2022, China's National Health Commission issued the Ten New Covid Rules lifting the dynamic zero-COVID policy. In the interim, vaccination campaigns continue to be promoted. We assessed the potential impacts on the status, perceptions, and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines via an online self-administered questionnaire. Among 1,170 participants, 1,142 (97.6%) participants were vaccinated against COVID-19, and 51.8% (591/1,142) have already received the booster. More than half of the participants who were vaccinated were ages 31 to 50 (51.8%). Participants believed the following strategies could improve the vaccination rate: timely feedback of the vaccination data (such as safety, efficacy, and other issues of public concern) from authoritative media (95.6%), increasing the number of vaccination sites and availability of vaccines and using more convenient methods of making appointment (95.2%), recommendations from friends and relatives (94.8%), and presenting the qualifications of the staff performing vaccination (89.1%). More measures, including targeted measures for different age groups and timely feedback on the vaccination data including safety and efficacy from authoritative media, are likely to help improve vaccination rates.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 2","pages":"112-117"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130544/pdf/ghm-5-2-112.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9399365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An overview of the reclassification of COVID-19 of the Infectious Diseases Control Law in Japan. 日本《传染病防治法》对COVID-19重新分类概述

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-04-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2023.01023

Kanako Kitahara, Yoshihiro Nishikawa, Hirokazu Yokoyama, Yoshinobu Kikuchi, Masami Sakoi

{"title":"An overview of the reclassification of COVID-19 of the Infectious Diseases Control Law in Japan.","authors":"Kanako Kitahara, Yoshihiro Nishikawa, Hirokazu Yokoyama, Yoshinobu Kikuchi, Masami Sakoi","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2023.01023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2023.01023","url":null,"abstract":"Japan's responses to COVID-19 have been conducted based on the Act on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases (the Infectious Diseases Control Law) and the Act on Special Measures against Novel Influenza, etc. (the Act on Special Measures), as COVID-19 is classified as the category of \"the Novel Influenza etc.\" under the Infectious Diseases Control Law. The government's Novel Coronavirus Response Headquarters decided to reclassify COVID-19 as a Category V infectious disease under the Infectious Diseases Control Law in May 2023 since the disease has become less lethal. Accordingly, the countermeasures such as surveillance and medical care are going to be reviewed, and COVID-19 prevention actions will depend on personal choices (Prior to the review in May, mask usage will be changed from 13 March). However, this does not mean that infection control measures are no longer necessary; it is recommended that such measures be taken in certain settings in order to prevent the elderly and those who at a high risk of severe illness from being infected, even after the disease is classified as Category V.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 2","pages":"70-74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130540/pdf/ghm-5-2-70.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9400115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Association between SARS-CoV-2 anti-spike antibody titers and the development of post-COVID conditions: A retrospective observational study. SARS-CoV-2抗刺突抗体滴度与covid后病情发展的关系:一项回顾性观察研究

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Global health & medicine Pub Date : 2023-04-30 DOI: 10.35772/ghm.2022.01070

Yusuke Miyazato, Shinya Tsuzuki, Akihiro Matsunaga, Shinichiro Morioka, Mari Terada, Sho Saito, Noriko Iwamoto, Satoshi Kutsuna, Yukihito Ishizaka, Norio Ohmagari

{"title":"Association between SARS-CoV-2 anti-spike antibody titers and the development of post-COVID conditions: A retrospective observational study.","authors":"Yusuke Miyazato, Shinya Tsuzuki, Akihiro Matsunaga, Shinichiro Morioka, Mari Terada, Sho Saito, Noriko Iwamoto, Satoshi Kutsuna, Yukihito Ishizaka, Norio Ohmagari","doi":"10.35772/ghm.2022.01070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35772/ghm.2022.01070","url":null,"abstract":"The symptoms that persist after an acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are referred to as post- COVID conditions. Although the cause of post-COVID conditions remains unclear, the host immune response to SARS-CoV-2 may be involved. Hence, we aimed to investigate the effect of serum antibody titers against SARS-CoV-2 on the development of post-COVID conditions. We conducted a retrospective observational study of COVID-19-recovered individuals who attended the clinic at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine between January 2020 and April 2021. Serum SARS-CoV-2 anti-spike antibody titers were measured and a questionnaire survey was used to collect information on the presence of post-COVID conditions and demographic characteristics of the participants. Participants were then divided into two groups: high peak antibody titer group [≥ 0.759 OD450 value], and low peak antibody titer group [< 0.759 OD450 value] and compared their frequency of post-COVID conditions. Of 526 individuals attending the clinic, 457 (86.9%) responded to the questionnaire. We analyzed the data of 227 (49.7%) participants with measurements of serum antibody titers during the peak period. The incidence of depressed mood was significantly higher in the group with higher antibody titers (odds ratio: 2.34, 95% CI: 1.17-4.67, p = 0.016). There was no significant difference in the frequency of the remaining symptoms between the two groups. Among post-COVID conditions, the depressed mood was more frequent in the group with high serum antibody titers which suggests a difference in pathogenesis between depressive mood and other post-COVID conditions that requires further investigation.","PeriodicalId":12556,"journal":{"name":"Global health & medicine","volume":"5 2","pages":"106-111"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10130543/pdf/ghm-5-2-106.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9768456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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