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Editor’s Welcome 编辑的欢迎

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-13 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73276

Joyce Guo, Uma S. Sreedhar

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Balancing Asclepius and Hygeia: A personal reflection on health literacy and the “addictionogenic” modern world 平衡 "阿斯克勒庇俄斯 "与 "健康"：对健康知识和 "成瘾 "现代世界的个人思考

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73281

D. Sellman

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Contemporary management of abdominal stab wound with retained knife – A practical guide 当代腹部留刀刺伤的处理-实用指南

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73282

Victor Kong

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The upstream social determinants of asthma in New Zealand – A public health essay 新西兰哮喘的上游社会决定因素-一篇公共卫生论文

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73279

Andrew Heaps

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The review process from a biostatistics perspective 从生物统计学的角度进行综述

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/ddtm9685

C. Cameron, A. Samaranayaka, Robin Turner

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Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic: the ethics of coercive vaccination policies – where should we draw the line? 2019冠状病毒病大流行的教训:强制性疫苗接种政策的伦理问题——我们应该在哪里划一条界限?

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73284

Yan Ting Alarica Tay

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Health literacy in Aotearoa New Zealand – what every medical student needs to do 新西兰奥特罗阿的健康素养——每个医科学生都需要做的事情

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73277

Carla White, S. Reid, Papaarangi Reid

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Narrative review: The role of nature, plants, and art in post‐operative outcomes 叙述性回顾:自然、植物和艺术在术后预后中的作用

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73286

Michaela Rektorysova

{"title":"Narrative review: The role of nature, plants, and art in post‐operative outcomes","authors":"Michaela Rektorysova","doi":"10.57129/001c.73286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57129/001c.73286","url":null,"abstract":"BACKGROUND Recovery from surgery is a stressful experience for patients, both physically and psychologically. Previous research has shown that in- creased stress has effects on post-operative outcomes. Non-pharmacological therapies, such as experiencing nature, may be potential avenues to further improve patient care. METHODS PubMed and Google Scholar were searched for the terms “nature,” “plants,” “surgery,” “post-operative outcomes,” and “pain.” RESULTS There were very limited numbers of studies looking into the effect of plants, nature, and art on post-operative outcomes. Those that did exist were relatively low quality in design. Nevertheless, exposure to plants was associated with a slightly reduced systolic blood pressure and reduced self-reported stress levels and pain intensity. Similarly, a retrospective study found that patients in rooms with views of nature consumed less analgesia on days three to five post-operatively, and had a slightly shorter hospital stay. Views of artwork were associated with increased mobilization distance on day one post-operatively, but this association disappeared from day two onwards. Some evidence exists that nature and images of nature can improve pain tolerance in university students, but this may not generalize well to the clinical population. CONCLUSION There is limited evidence to support the thesis that the view of plants, nature, or art can improve post-operative outcomes. The papers identified in this review were of low quality with limited statistical power. However, enabling access to nature and art could be an avenue for non-pharmacological improvement of patient outcomes, and high-quality studies are warranted.","PeriodicalId":279048,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Medical Student Journal","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121991972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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You are the content you consume: Level of informative content of the most commonly viewed dysphagia videos on YouTube 你就是你所消费的内容:YouTube上最常观看的吞咽困难视频的信息内容水平

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73283

Aideen Farragher, Eimear Quinn, Ó. Gilheaney

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Hauora Maaori o ngaa karu: Maaori ocular health review

New Zealand Medical Student Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.57129/001c.73288

Isaac Samuels, Renata Watene

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