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Drawing upon value theory, this study investigates both the enabling and disabling features of marketplaces for consumers in the disability market. Analysis of longitudinal qualitative data collected before and after the introduction of a new disability service provision scheme in Australia offer empirical evidence of such marketplaces that are both creating and destroying value for people with disability and their carers. In some instances, value creation and destruction can co-occur for individual consumers. These empirical insights lead to a theoretical conceptualisation of the marketplace as not being wholly disabling, but rather consisting of disabling and enabling factors. Understanding these factors allows service providers and policy makers to make adjustments in view of maximising value creation and minimising value destruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a critical refugee studies orientation, our article redefines care within the context of myriad forms of state violence impacting Southeast Asian post-war refugee communities. Research reveals how harm is compounded at every step of Southeast Asian refugee journeys: war, forced displacement, resettlement, family separation, inherited health conditions, and generational trauma. How do we reckon with refugee trauma without conceding to it as an unchangeable fact of our lives? What knowledge might we gain by attending to the everyday work of survival in refugee communities? To answer these questions, the authors conceptualize care through (a) abolitionist organizing, (b) queer kinship and affective labor, (c) historiographic caretaking, and (d) refugee reunion.

Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how care operates as a politics, an ethics, and a set of practices through which tenants survive—and ultimately seek to transform—the structural violence of capitalist housing systems. Situated in US cities with abiding associations with Blackness and indigeneity, papers in the Symposium examine housing movements that take care as the starting point. As we discuss in this introduction to the Symposium, in such movements, care operates as connective tissue across households and modes of difference; challenges relations of racial capitalism and settler colonialism that underlie dominant understandings of who deserves and can demand care; and drives calls for public care and experiments with non-propertised forms of ownership. Housing systems are care infrastructures, making housing movements a vital place for care work.

Background Aim Methods Results Conclusion Implications for nursing policy After natural disasters, the urgent need for survival and rescue operations for those trapped in the rubble results in a heightened demand for healthcare services. Nurses are pivotal in addressing the consequences of such calamities. Nurses operating in critical conditions encounter numerous challenges, including safety issues and ethical quandaries. The ethical considerations primarily revolve around the limitations, duties, and modified norms of care administered by nurses during disasters, presenting both significant and complex challenges.The study was designed to elucidate the nature and essence of nurses' care experiences and to offer an in‐depth depiction of the ethical dilemmas while attending to individuals injured in the earthquake.A descriptive phenomenological design was used in this research. A total of 16 nurses who worked for at least 7 days in field hospitals in any of the earthquake regions after the 2023 earthquake in Turkey participated in the research. The research was conducted between March 13 and March 20, 2023. Data were collected by face‐to‐face interview method with a semistructured form. The steps of Colaizzi's phenomenological method were used to analyze the qualitative data.The study involved a group of 16 Turkish nurses, aged between 20 and 36 years. Through data analysis, four primary themes, 14 subthemes, and 25 codes were identified. The principal themes derived from the interviews included “humanitarian duties,” “non‐adherence to ethical principles,” “respect for the injured,” and “medical errors.”In this intricate process, it becomes paramount to enhance support for nurses in the domains of management, education, and psychosocial assistance, thereby nurturing their individual and professional acumen, commitment, and ethical sensitivity. Refining the guidelines and professional standards that encapsulate the principles to be adhered to by nurses in disaster scenarios, coupled with providing comprehensive training in both medical and ethical competencies, represents a significant avenue for advancement. Focused training on crisis management will enable nurses to render ethically informed decisions and bolster their professional proficiency.Natural disasters, including earthquakes, pose significant ethical challenges for healthcare professionals, especially nurses who play a pivotal role in delivering care during these emergencies. Issues such as resource allocation and triage, the duty of care and ensuring continuity of care, informed consent and communication, cultural sensitivity, and providing psychosocial support are critical ethical considerations for nursing policies in earthquake situations. Addressing these ethical issues in nursing policies related to earthquakes is crucial for maintaining the integrity of healthcare delivery, preserving public trust, and ensuring the well‐being of both the injured and healthcare providers during times of crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of creative writing groups, this paper explores how the affective experience of vulnerability as a basis for driving more reciprocal and interdependent caring relations involves articulating orientations towards individuality and orientations towards relationality. I examine this experience of vulnerability as an ambivalent embodied condition shaped by sociocultural norms and expectations by drawing on Goffman’s theorisation of frontstage and backstage identities. I suggest that vulnerability is experienced differently between the level of frontstage identity (as writer-listeners) and the more intimate level of backstage identity. Throughout my writing, I embody the story I tell by interweaving experiences of vulnerability in the collective context of creative writing workshops and in the co-writing experience of the academic review process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background Aim Methods Findings Discussion Conclusions Implications for nursing policy Missed care has negative consequences for patients, directly affecting the quality of nursing care and patient safety.This study investigated the effect of missed care on the nursing image perceived by patients and their trust relationships with nurses.This descriptive and correlational study was conducted in all inpatient wards of a hospital in southern Türkiye. The sample consisted of 200 patients. Data were collected using a patient information form, the MISSCARE Survey‐Patient, the Nursing Image Scale (NIS), and the Trust in Nurses Scale (TNS). The data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (for Windows 25.0). The study adhered to the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) guidelines.Participants had a mean MISSCARE Survey‐Patient, TNS, and NIS score of 2.09 ± 0.53, 23.48 ± 5.01, and 71.52 ± 6.75, respectively. There was a moderate negative correlation between MISSCARE Survey‐Patient and TNS scores. There was a weak negative correlation between MISSCARE Survey‐Patient and NIS scores. Moreover, there was a strong positive correlation between NIS and TNS scores.MISSCARE Survey‐Patient total scores vary due to the imbalance in the number of nurses and the complexity of their tasks. Poor quality of care and incomplete care undermine the image of nursing and negatively affect the trust relationship between patients and nurses.Nursing image and trust in nurses decreases as patient–nurse communication and basic care interventions are skipped.Inadequate care can have a detrimental effect on the nursing image and erode patient–nurse trust relationships. Therefore, there is a pressing need for ongoing review and enhancement of nursing education, policy, and practice to elevate the quality of care provided. Further research utilizing objective staff measures and outcome assessments, along with gathering primary data directly from patients, is essential to substantiate the assertion that missed care significantly influences patient outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the idea of ‘analytical leapfrogging’ by considering how and why we can sometimes be tempted to jump over or ignore a more formal analytical phase in our research. It does this by discussing a vignette presented in a conference session relating to preliminary research on everyday mobilities, care and children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The paper offers some critical reflections on the implications of refracting early project ideas through our own lived experiences and the significance of our analytical histories in shaping the work that we do. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: It is very important to provide the correct nursing care for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), but the level of critical care needs in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage is not clear. The purpose of this study is to establish a risk model based on the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of ICH patients, to help identify the critical care needs of ICH patients. Methods: The clinical data of ICH patients from January 2018 to September 2023 were analyzed retrospectively. The full cohort was used to derive the clinical prediction model and the model was internally validated with bootstrapping. Discrimination and calibration were assessed using the area under curve (AUC) and the Hosmer-Lemeshow tests, respectively. Results: 611 patients with ICH were included for model development. 61.21% (374/611) ICH patients had received critical care interventions. The influencing factors included in the model were Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score, intraventricular hemorrhage, past blood pressure control, systolic blood pressure on admission and bleeding volume. The model's goodness-of-fit was evaluated, which yielded a high area under the curve (AUC) value of 0.943, indicating a good fit. For the purpose of model validation, a cohort of 260 patients with ICH was utilized. The model demonstrated a Youden's index of 0.750, with a sensitivity of 90.56% and a specificity of 78.22%. Conclusion: GCS, systolic blood pressure, intraventricular hemorrhage, bleeding volume and past blood pressure control are the main factors affecting the critical care needs of patients with ICH. This study has deduced a clinical predictive model with good discrimination and calibration to provide scoring criteria for clinical health care providers to accurately evaluate and identify the critical care needs of ICH patients, to improve the rational integration and allocation of medical resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relevance of civil society participation is well established in literature on environmental politics. However, the ability to join initiatives or movements actively fighting for a socially just future within biophysical limits is not equally distributed within societies. The configuration of spatial and temporal infrastructures in cities shapes how individuals interact with each other and the environment, thereby reproducing or alleviating intersectional inequalities. We connect literature on care, the commons, feminist time politics, and insurgent planning to discuss spatio-temporal infrastructures that promote space and time for care and participation. Building on feminist critiques of disembedded and disembodied cities, we draw upon examples from European cities to formulate an ‘educated dream’ about what an ecofeminist city could look like. In discussing different forms of scaling (up, out, deep) and bottom-linked transformation, we propose tangible steps towards the realisation of such a concrete utopia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite its deadly nature, extreme heat has received fragmented and scattered responses in cities, often overlooking the crucial social and equity components. Dominant adaptation approaches have paid little attention to chronic socio-economic vulnerabilities to heat stress, resulting in a lack of strategic planning to address them. Building upon critical urban studies and adaptation scholarship, this article examines how the dynamics of urban climate adaptation in the Global North have sidestepped the root causes of heat vulnerability and their (re)production in past, present and future practices of uneven urban development and planning under austerity. We investigate this empirically in attending to the framing of adaptation, the instruments used and the biases they introduce in Montreal (Canada), as well the perception from planners and community groups regarding their agency in responding to extreme heat. We contribute to the literature in analysing how the urban governance of adaptation in urban planning tends to silence the social production of vulnerabilities by three intersecting processes: the biases of instruments used, the unacknowledged legacies of uneven urban development, and the lacking recognition and support for community organisations caring practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Inspired by interviews conducted with scientists who primarily use participatory research forms, the article develops the concept of epistemic caring as a proposal for a participatory research practice that is sensitive for epistemological difference and the associated consequences. Based on the observation that participatory research has so far hardly been able to produce an equal co-constitution of knowledge, the article points out epistemological pitfalls that exist in it and analyses two specific concepts as examples of the risk of problematic epistemological and hegemonic tendencies sneaking into this kind of research practice with harmful consequences for the non-academic participants, that is: empowerment and participation/co-production. Following the recent debate on care in the Environmental Humanities and Karen Barad’s methodological thoughts on diffraction, the article reconceptualizes participatory research as a matter of care consisting of multiple care relations in order to be able to grasp the complex epistemic entaglements and intra-dependencies contained within it. Conceiving these relationships between academic and non-academic participants as an ecology of care themself helps to understand that they are fundamentally precarious and transformative and thus inherently ethical. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how relationships of care, trust and hope might be fostered in a social innovation design course at a South African university of technology. Rather than shy away from the challenges of our uncertain world, the paper proposes feminist pedagogical strategies that seek to nurture students’ capacity for trust and hope, rather than overwhelm and despair, through carefully curated collaborative-collage-making processes. By interweaving Bracha Ettinger’s theory of matrixial trans-subjectivity and Karen Barad’s agential realism, the generative role that arts-based practices offer social innovation design pedagogies is made explicit. The paper will show how collaborative artworking activated a co-affective encounter in which students and myself, rather than drowning in overwhelm, discovered new educational imaginaries and Hope-full renewals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the ethical issues of the inclusion of workers with disabilities in the workplace with a cross-fertilization approach between organization studies, the ethics of care, and a movement from the field of architecture and design that is called Universal Design (UD). It explores how organizations can use UD to develop more inclusive workplaces, first by applying UD principles to workspaces and second by showing how UD implies an integrative understanding of inclusion from the workspace to the workplace. Moreover, this paper discusses the ethical challenges and complexities that this design practice faces in regard to its applicability to diverse organizations and industries. Finally, this paper demonstrates that inclusion requires abandoning any notion of a perfect, productive body and, therefore, recognizing our shared vulnerability and fundamental interdependence in the workplace. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the politics of care that undergird state and private initiatives that seek to assist overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Dubai. In addition to their precarious work conditions in the city, levels of debt are believed to be on the rise even among those categorized as professional, skilled, and semiskilled. These workers thus become the ideal subjects of financial literacy training programs aiming to turn them into “financially mature” individuals free from debt and capable of becoming future entrepreneurs if and when they return to the Philippines. This article highlights the ways in which financial literacy education, despite being framed as an act of care, can still work to obscure the specific political economic and structural conditions that produce and maintain debt among Filipino migrant workers in Dubai. Following Raghuram (2016), I “trouble care” to shed light on the “hidden geographies” of migrant worker debt and the challenges and complexities that need to be taken into account in caring for them. This article seeks to empirically and theoretically contribute to discussions on how debt can be viewed and used to constitute and shape future migrant solidarities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Aim Design Data Sources Results Conclusion Practice Implications Patient Contributions To identify and assess the state of knowledge regarding compassion‐based interventions and outcomes, targeted to the organisational level, that aim to improve health professionals' well‐being.Systematic review.Using the PICO model, the clinical question and search strategy were structured. The searches were performed on 20 September 2022 and 26 December 2023 in the Scopus, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycINFO and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global databases. Content analysis was applied to analyse data, and the PRISMA and SWiM guidelines were followed for reporting.Thirty‐eight studies, mostly from the United Kingdom and the United States, met the inclusion criteria and were quality assessed and analysed. Compassion‐based interventions that target the organisational level are quite new, thus representing a burgeoning initiative. In this review, many included quantitative studies revealed significant methodological challenges in effectively measuring organisational compassion (interpersonal relationships, organisational culture and retention/turnover). However, the review findings overall indicate that interpersonal connections between colleagues that foster a sense of community, through shared experiences, mindfulness and (self‐)compassion practices and social activities, may be a protective factor for well‐being. Further, the review emphasises the crucial role of management support in catalysing organisational changes to improve health professionals' well‐being.Evidence strongly suggests that fostering human interconnectedness among health professionals is associated with enhanced well‐being. Further rigorous studies are needed to validate these findings, clarify the organisational cultural aspects of compassion and develop an effective outcome measurement tool for organisational compassion.Organisational compassion‐based interventions may help foster a culture of compassion within organisations, enhance health professionals' capacity for compassion and benefit both their well‐being and the quality of care provided to patients and relatives.This review is part of a larger project about compassion and includes two patient representatives (mothers of children with cancer) in the research team. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how gratitude influences the practice of British television production workers. It does so through a case study which asked television production workers to consider their work through the prism of gratitude: were they grateful for their work? Using semi-structured interviews, the data revealed that yes, workers were grateful but still identified many punitive working practices. These practices have simultaneously been identified by the industry itself, and there is an improvement discourse through the equity, diversity and inclusivity agendas. I argue here that equity, diversity and inclusivity measures are ineffective – as they have been proven to be elsewhere – because they do not consider the feeling(s), such as gratitude, of working in television. In failing to make this a consideration, equity, diversity and inclusivity work cannot address the inequalities it is there to resolve. This is because understanding the felt experience illuminates the fuller encounter of working in a particular environment. This includes the potential inhibition that gratitude can catalyse through indebtedness. In understanding what these feelings catalyse when cooperating in what they know to be an unfair system, equity, diversity and inclusivity work can be progressed beyond a model predicated on assimilation, to something that achieves substantive change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The reproduction of the American home hinges on a clear public/private distinction, wherein the private sphere is traditionally viewed as domestic — a space for interpersonal care and social reproduction, distinct from the abstract political culture of the public. Due to American legal and cultural norms maintaining this division, the mainstream LGBTQ rights movement has privileged privacy as a portal of legitimation, often to the detriment of poor, queer people of color without access to private property. Amid residential segregation, mass incarceration, and welfare reform, queer people of color must reshape and repurpose both public and commercial space to collectively affirm their erotic desires and care for each other through "communal intimacies," the spatial‐kinship practices that decouple care from the domestic, create a pathway for the transfer of libidinal pleasures, and act as a foundation for envisioning and enacting a world of belonging and transformation despite gentrification. Through cultural analysis of John Leguizamo's performance of the "Manny the Fanny" character from his 1991 show Mambo Mouth and Sean Baker's 2015 film Tangerine, this article illustrates novel forms of homemaking that blur the boundaries denoting the public/private spatial divide inherent in neoliberal property regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discourses of well-being can direct attention beyond individual bodies, toward mental health and wider social relationships. Paradoxically, these discourses are also applied in contexts where living well is understood in terms of individual responsibility and agency, entangled with the neoliberal optimization of health. Anthropologists have recently argued that it is now crucial to move beyond the conceptualization of well-being as pertaining primarily to individuals. Such a conceptualization, though welcome, can have undesirable practical and political consequences. In this review, I show how well-being intersects with recent work in the anthropology of ethics, how it is embodied and emplaced, and how it is closely intertwined with (rather than simply opposed to) suffering. Furthermore, while experienced as embodied, well-being is deeply affected by the suffering of others—and not only human others. As such, it could fruitfully be understood as a form of affective common. In contexts of complex environmental challenges and changes, inequality, and conflict, I suggest that studies of well-being call for a focus on experience beyond the individual: an affective enlargement entwining forms of care, maintenance, and repair. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I juxtapose Heidegger's account of care with Fink's account of play. The aim of this juxtaposition is to show how Fink's account of human play sheds light on a modality of being that disrupts the futurism that characterizes the caring temporality of Dasein. In sections II and III, I argue that future projection plays a pivotal role in Heidegger's analysis of human existence. In section IV, I discuss Fink's critical reflections on the futurism of human existence. I examine how our care for our own being can have a limiting effect on how we relate to the world. In section V, I discuss some key features of human play that allow us to think of it as an eventful activity that opens up a more flexible relation to the world. In the final section, I discuss how Fink's account of play overcomes some of the issues raised in relation to Heidegger's prioritization of the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we advance the good farmer literature by assessing how farmers' understanding of what it is to be a good farmer is formed in relation to a less visible (enclosed) species (poultry). Findings demonstrate how the materialities of poultry bodies lead to similar practices across the three sites. These practices reflect the small size and rapid growth of poultry bodies and illustrate the multiple senses: visual, olfactory and tactile, which are encompassed in skilled role performance. The differing 'rules of the game' between the countries lead to distinctive 'moral capitals' attached to antimicrobial use, including stigma (Sweden), care‐full farming (France) and moral obligation (Vietnam). We argue that although cultural capital is not accrued in the same way as for more visible species, farmers mobilise their social capital to express cultural capital. Farmers clearly respond to changing 'rules of the game' in the form of government regulations, developing normative expectations. Deployment of the 'good farmer' concept in Sweden demonstrates the potential to mobilise cultural capital through benchmarking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'emprise est la réduction de l'autre au statut d'objet, l'anéantissement de sa subjectivité par le déni de ses besoins et désirs, au profit des siens propres. Elle passe par l'appropriation de l'autre, sa dépossession et sa domination. Exercée au sein du couple, elle se traduit par d'importantes violences psychologiques, parfois supplées de violences physiques et sexuelles qui participent à rendre la victime dépendante et dépourvue d'estime d'elle-même. L'emprise représente donc un enjeu majeur dans la lutte contre les violences conjugales dont les professionnels de soin, de la justice et du social doivent se saisir. Notion complexe, elle s'explique par divers mécanismes criminologiques et victimologiques. Certaines caractéristiques du fonctionnement psychologique, certains troubles psychiques et traits de la personnalité constituent des facteurs de risque à exercer l'emprise ou à en être victime. La qualité de la relation aux figures d'attachement, l'image de soi, l'accès à la mentalisation, le rapport aux émotions sont autant de facteurs représentant à la fois l'étiologie et les axes de prise en soin des victimes et auteurs d'emprise. Ici, nous proposons des pistes claires et concrètes pour comprendre le profil des victimes et auteurs d'emprise afin d'adapter au plus juste notre positionnement et la prise en charge, l'objectif étant d'offrir à nos patients la perspective d'un mode de relation à l'autre sain, et la possibilité pour les victimes de sortir de ce cycle destructeur. Nous pouvons tous, soignants, travailleurs sociaux et professionnels de la justice, contribuer, en synergie et en collaboration, au processus de reconstruction des victimes et à la prévention de la récidive des auteurs. Psychological domination is the reduction of the other person to the status of an object, the annihilation of their subjectivity by denying their needs and desires in favor of the dominator's own. It involves appropriating, dispossessing and dominating the other person. When it occurs within a couple, it takes the form of significant psychological violence, sometimes supplemented by physical and sexual violence which creates a strong dependency and affects the victim's self-esteem. Psychological control is therefore a major issue in the fight against domestic violence which healthcare, legal and social professionals must address. This complex concept can be explained by various criminological and victimological mechanisms. Certain characteristics of psychological functioning, psychological disorders and personality traits constitute risk factors that enable exercising such control or becoming a victim. The quality of the relationship with attachment figures, self-image, access to mentalization, and the relationship with emotions are all factors representing both the etiology and avenues of psychological care for victims and perpetrators of control. In this article, we propose clear and concrete guidelines for understanding the profile of both victims and perpetrators of psychological domination so that we can adapt our perspectives and treatment as accurately as possible. Our goal is to offer our patients the prospect of a healthy relationship with others, and the possibility for victims to break free from this destructive cycle. All of us – caregivers, social workers, and legal professionals – can work in synergy and collaboration to help victims rebuild their lives and prevent perpetrators from repeating their offenses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Enhancing long-term support for post-stroke cognitive impairment is a top research priority. Addressing current gaps in UK post-stroke cognitive care provision requires a pragmatic and scalable intervention that can be integrated within the existing stroke care pathway. This study aimed to develop consensus on an initial set of core features for a UK-based monitoring and psychoeducational intervention for cognitive changes after stroke. Methods: An expert panel of UK healthcare professionals and researchers participated in an online modified Delphi survey. Candidate intervention features were identified from clinical guidelines, existing literature, research team/collaborator expertise, and PPI group lived experience. Survey participants indicated whether they agreed/disagreed/had no opinion about including each candidate feature in the intervention and free-text responses were invited. We analysed responses for consensus (≥ 75% agreement) using descriptive statistics, with items not reaching consensus carried into subsequent rounds. Template analysis was used to identify similarities/differences in viewpoints for items that did not reach consensus. Results: Three survey rounds were completed by 36, 29 and 26 participants, respectively. Participants agreed reviews should include a stroke-specific cognitive screen (97% agree) and assessment of other psychological changes (low mood, anxiety, fatigue: 94%, 90%, 89% agree, respectively). They agreed stroke survivors should be offered at least one review, regardless of their cognitive profile in hospital. They agreed on the importance of various cognition-focused psychoeducation topics, and formal (100% agree) and informal (79% agree) training for those conducting reviews. Consensus was not reached on the review mode (in person/remote options: 67% agree), offering reviews one-year post-discharge to patients without acute cognitive impairments (68% disagree), or including a dementia screen (63% disagree) and/or neuropsychological assessment battery (58% disagree). However, there were similarities in participant viewpoints. For example, participants emphasised the importance of onwards referral where clinically indicated. Conclusions: The UK-based post-stroke monitoring and psychoeducation intervention was originally conceptualised as a cognitive care pathway, but expert participants agreed on the importance of simultaneously addressing related psychological changes (e.g. low mood, anxiety). There was clear consensus on a minimum set of intervention features. Recommendations outlined here may usefully inform local service improvements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we analyse the motherhood and care experiences of women researchers in Spain to understand the ways in which they manage the work-care conflict in the scientific-academic field and how it impacts their employment and psycho-social wellbeing. To do this, we conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with researchers at all levels of the academic career affiliated with 23 Spanish universities and research centres. The results show that academic mothers experience overload, stress and guilt in facing the double mandate of being "good mothers" and "good professionals". The results also indicate that they feel forced to sacrifice selfcare to more comfortably meet their professional and domestic responsibilities, and to choose between two lesser evils: postponing or giving up motherhood or lowering their professional ambitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I propose that caring/careful practices of becoming-supervisors are practices of response-ability within neoliberalized academia. These practices, based on a feminist ontology of reciprocity, active co-presence, sensitivity and receptive openness, created a friendly atmosphere where students’ feelings and needs were taken into account and enabled their academic development in a rationalist-individualist competitive context. I present interviews with 15 doctoral students at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) regarding their relationship with their becoming-supervisors. The analysis showed that students’ perceptions of assemblage-professors’ caring/careful practices included: post-human treatment, facilitating the research, mentoring, and sheltering. Caring/careful practices allowed the students to be inspired and build trusting relationships. However, care is complex and is co-opted by the neoliberal system, which means that a complete transformation of the academic culture is necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Many studies have reported the use of preoperative oral carbohydrates (CHO) in children, but the results are inconsistent. The aim of this meta-analysis is to assess the effectiveness and safety of oral CHO administration in children prior to surgery, with the goal of offering a dependable reference for clinical nursing practices and surgical interventions. Methods: Two authors searched PubMed, Clinical trials, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, China national knowledge infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang and Weipu databases for randomized controlled trial (RCT) on the effects of preoperative oral CHO in children up to April 12, 2024. We used RevMan 5.4 software for data analysis. Results: Nine RCTs involving a total of 1279 children were included. The meta-analysis showed that there was statistical difference in the pH of gastric juice (MD = 1.54, 95%CI: 1.40–1.67, p <.001), intraoperative sedation score (MD = 0.62, 95%CI: 0.27–0.97, p <.001), and the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (OR = 0.40, 95%CI: 0.20–0.80, p =.009) between the CHO and control groups. There was no statistical difference in the RGV (MD = −0.23, 95%CI: −0.47–0.01, p =.06) and the postoperative blood glucose level (MD = −0.91, 95%CI: −5.03–3.21, p =.67) between the CHO and control groups. Egger regression analysis showed that there were no publication biases amongst the synthesized outcomes (all p >.05). Conclusion: The administration of oral CHO to children before surgery is safe and practicable. There is a need for additional, well-conducted studies with more participants to further elucidate the role of preoperative CHO administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) and dysmenorrhea (DM) are common gynecological problems. Objective: To systematically review the needs, quality of life (QOL), and effectiveness of self‐management strategies among young women (12–25 years) with DM or HMB. Search Strategy: Relevant terms were searched through PubMed, EBSCO, Google Scholar, ProQuest, and Ovid between 2010 and 2022. Selection Criteria: Qualitative and quantitative studies published in peer‐reviewed journals, females aged 12–25, exploring DM or HMB, reporting supportive care needs, quality of life, self‐treatment strategies, and/or treatment‐seeking behavior. Data Collection and Analysis: Abstracts were reviewed for eligibility by two researchers. Included studies were extracted and assessed for quality independently by two authors, with discrepancies resolved through consensus or the involvement of a third researcher. Data extracted included study details, menstrual history, symptoms, self‐care strategies, and quality of life. The Joanna Briggs Institute checklists were used for quality assessment. Main Results: The search returned 285 190 studies, of which 55 were eligible for inclusion. Prevalence rates of HMB and DM were in the ranges 4%–63% and 42%–94%, respectively. Over 80% of young women with DM and HMB experienced physical and psychological problems, including pelvic pain, sleep issues, mood disturbance, diarrhea, and nausea. Academic performance and daily activities were severely affected. Most (>62%) named their mothers as their primary source of information, and friends as the secondary source (10%–65%). Few studies explored needs, but they could be inferred and fell under school‐related and social needs. QOL was poorer in those who had DM than those who did not. Pain was the most common issue that drove young women to find treatment. More than 70% used medication to reduce pain. More than half chose home remedies (e.g., heat therapy, massages, herbal tea, hot drinks). No studies provided information about the efficacy and dosage of medication and herbal remedies. Conclusions: HMB and DM have a large impact on daily living, with large areas of unmet need. Limited access to information impairs the management of symptoms and consequent QOL. Synopsis: Heavy menstrual bleeding and dysmenorrhea significantly affect daily life, leaving numerous unmet needs. Insufficient information hinders symptom management, leading to compromised quality of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: There is an increased interest in the role artists can play in care for older people. This momentum comes with the need to closer investigate the nature of boundary work of creative professionals in arts and health projects. Methods: We conducted a responsive evaluation to provide a thick description of the boundary work involved in ENCOUNTER#9, an intergenerational arts project taking place within an older person care setting. Results: Boundary work proved to be rewarding, yet messy and unruly. Although the lead artist had carefully planned and prepared the project and gained a broad commitment, not everything went according to plan. This led to friction and all involved put effort into adjusting goals and expectations. Conclusion: We add to the conceptualisation of boundary work in arts and health by showing that it takes place on different levels: personal, relational, organisational and public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Due to the tireless work of scholars, activists, and educators, consent has become the primary criterion for evaluating whether sexual encounters fall short of our ethical norms. This centralization has largely been a policy triumph, allowing the law to cover sexual misconduct such as date rape, marital rape, stealthing, and nonconsensually rough sex. The rise of hybrid concepts (e.g. enthusiastic consent) suggests that consent may not fully cover the range of sexual norms worth exploring. I draw on work in the ethic of care as a supplement to consent in understanding sexual norms. Including a dimension of care advances on previous writing in three ways. First, it helps respond to concerns raised by second wave feminists regarding the impossibility of consent within a society suffused with rape culture. Second, care also provides a vocabulary that allows us to articulate why some sexual interactions leave the participants and the surrounding community with the moral intuition that something wrong has gone on, despite being formally consensual. Finally, including care helps reorient sexual norms towards what we ought to do and away from what we ought to avoid, thereby recentering sexual joy in our normative framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores how Vietnamese former combatants navigate and contest the infrastructure of care and recognition (or lack thereof) for veterans, their families, and the war dead in postwar Vietnam. It examines efforts by veterans to establish their socio-political standing through acts of claim-making, including spiritual care for the dead. We argue that through these acts of claim-making, veterans forge an alternative modality of veteranhood based not simply on state-recognised war contributions, but also on moral commitments to social justice and care for the fallen and their bereaved families in the postwar period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. Studies have shown that the application of motorcycles in the pre- hospital emergency services in an urban environment improves the time index and the quality of services. The present study aimed to evaluate the performance of the services provided by motorlance in the Tabriz metropolis between 2018-2021. Methods. In this cross-sectional study conducted in the Tabriz pre-hospital emergency center, the recorded data about the patients using motorlance between 2018-2021 were collected and examined. The collected variables included the age, sex, chief complaint of the patients, vital signs of the patients, and final result of the mission in the pre- hospital setting. Two important indices of reaction time and response time in all the missions were evaluated. Results. A total of 9866 motorlance missions were completed during the study period. The mean reaction time was 68.24±62.91 seconds, and the mean response time was 641.70±304.48 seconds. Examination of the patients' chief complaint revealed that the lowest reaction time was for patients with abdominal pain (mean 44.90), and the lowest response time was for patients with cardiopulmonary arrest (mean 550.52). Conclusion. It was concluded that the timing indicators of motorlance missions were within the acceptable range for ambulances. Practical Implications. It was found necessary to increase the number of motorlance in metropolitan cities and employ experienced and knowledgeable personnel in motorlance in order to improve the existing situation and the quality of services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background. Skin-to-skin contact (SSC) plays a significant role in the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding and maintaining and improving the health of infants. The goal of this research was to study the start time and duration of SSC in the labor rooms or operating rooms of the hospitals in Khorasan Razavi province. Methods. This descriptive study has been done on 714 newborn babies in labor rooms and ORs of governmental hospitals in Khorasan Razavi province from 1399 to 1401 through convenience sampling method. A midwife who did not have any role in the delivery process kept a record of the time of the SSC and its duration after the delivery. In the next stage, probable reasons for not having SSC, the connection of the start time of SSC and its duration with the start time and duration of breastfeeding were studied. Results. Based on the results of the study, 65% of the cases had SSC after the delivery in labor rooms under study . The mean start time of the SSC was 5.06±12.30 minutes, and the mean duration of the SSC after the birth was 9.28±13.66 minutes. Non-cooperation of the mother (61.38%), the fear of non- sterile environment (8.62%) and hastening the delivery process by the professionals involved (3.79%) were the most common reasons for not having SSC. Conclusion. In 35% of cases, there was no SSC after birth. Starting the contact early after birth can increase the success rate of breastfeeding. Practical Implications. According to the results of our study, skin-to-skin contact in our maternity hospitals is not done in one-third of the cases, which is necessary after the birth of babies. Babies who received skin-to-skin contact started breastfeeding earlier and held the breast longer, indicating that skin-to-skin contact facilitates the initiation of breastfeeding and increases its duration. The non-cooperation of the mother is the most common reason for not having skin-to-skin contact. Therefore, providing the necessary information and training to mothers about the importance of skin-to-skin contact in maintaining the health of babies, facilitating the initiation of breastfeeding, and changing the attitudes and behaviors of mothers seems necessary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Nutrition and adequate dietary intake during pregnancy strongly influence the health and well-being of the mother, as well as the physical and cognitive development of the unborn child. While previous studies have documented factors associated with the dietary behaviour of pregnant women in Ethiopia, a comprehensive overview is missing. Objective: The aim of this study was to close this research gap. Methodology: We conducted a mapping review, including 37 studies published between 2000 and 2022 in our analysis. Dietary behaviour refers to all phenomena related to food choice, eating behaviour and dietary intake. We used an innovative approach by integrating a socio-ecological framework with UNICEF's conceptual framework on maternal and child nutrition, which specifies multidimensional individual, underlying and enabling determinants associated with the nutritional status of women. Importantly, we integrated a focus on care for women and healthy environments. Results: A total of 68 factors were identified as influencing the dietary behaviour of pregnant women, with a focus on the intra- (31/68) and interpersonal (21/68) levels, while factors at the community (11/68) and the institutional levels (5/68) were scarce. Few studies investigated socio-cultural aspects, such as gender roles, decision-making power and workload of women, psychological factors and eating practices related to food taboos. None of the studies explored the influence of resources at the institutional level. Conclusions: This attests that the focus in maternal nutrition is still placed on the individual responsibility of women, instead of addressing the structural conditions that would enable women to access resources such as land, education and nutrition information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Achieving more effective and equitable environmental conservation practices and policies involves shifting from a human‐centric, top‐down perspective of environmental conservation to a perspective that respects and cares for all living and non‐living beings.Many Indigenous Peoples from around the globe embody approaches to environmental care that are rooted in values such as responsibility, respect and reciprocity (a.k.a. relational values), which, through meaningful engagement and support of Indigenous self‐determination, can guide Western society towards a fundamental shift in perspective, practices and relationships.We conducted interviews and sharing circles with 40 individuals from 12 Indigenous communities across Canada to describe: (1) the values, teachings and customs that are inherent to the way Indigenous Peoples relate to and care for the Land, (2) how these values and practices have changed over time and (3) ways to create environmental initiatives that are rooted in Indigenous values.Generally, participants emphasized the critical link between people and place, and how this leads to environmental practices rooted in values such as respect, reciprocity, humility and responsibility. They also reflected on the negative impacts of colonialism, environmental change and modernization on their connections to the Land and opportunities to practice these values, but highlighted that cultural revitalization efforts have started to restore traditional values and practices. To create environmental initiatives that are rooted in important values, research participants called for building better relationships both with nature and with each other through nature.Ultimately, uplifting Indigenous values systems and, specifically, the ways Indigenous Peoples relate to and care for the natural world stands to heal our relationship with the Land and safeguard it into the future. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

To what degree is explicit care/work policy taught in family courses in Canada's leading research-intensive universities? We analyze family courses in sociology departments and in political studies and women's/gender studies programs in Canada's 15 R1 universities to make a contribution to the scholarship of teaching and learning. This national scan marks a methodological innovation from curriculum studies that generally adopt a single-program or single-site focus. From a Canadian universe of 74 family courses, we identify 15 whose formal course calendar description explicitly addresses care/work family policy (measures to reconcile caring for young children with employment, through early learning and childcare, parental leaves, and child benefits). Sociology predominates among courses where family policy is taught, yet care/work policy content is not common. Given growing concerns about the care crisis and the care deficit in Canada, the low profile of care/work family policy content in family courses is significant. This study sheds light on the value of national postsecondary education curricular reviews and suggests that family curriculum renewal is warranted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This interview with Dr. Joan V. Gallos, 2023 recipient of the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award from the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS), explores the four components of what Gallos considers the "soul of teaching"—insights she wished she had understood when she began her teaching career more than 50 years ago. Her four insights advise educators to: (1) work with what they've got—and own it!, (2) fail in the right way (think progress, not perfection), (3) dive into the magic at the heart of teaching and learning, and (4) relax and take your time: becoming the best educator you can be is a journey of never arriving. The interview is presented to encourage others to both find the soul of their teaching and guide their individual and collective discovery of the connection, authenticity, and magic at the heart of all teaching and learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Postoperative pneumonia is a common but serious complication in patients with lung cancer. This meta-analysis aims to evaluate the effect of respiratory exercise on reducing postoperative pneumonia in patients with lung cancer and to provide a reliable basis for clinical treatment and nursing of patients with lung cancer. Methods: Two reviewers searched PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, China Knowledge Network, Wanfang, and Weipu databases. We searched for the randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in Chinese or English on the breathing exercises in patients with lung cancer up to January 30, 2024. The quality of the literature was evaluated with the Cochrane Risk of Bias Tool 2 (ROB 2). RevMan 5.3 software was used for meta-analysis. Results: Eleven RCTs with 1429 patients with lung cancer were included, and 710 patients received breathing exercises. The meta-analysis results showed that breathing exercises could significantly reduce the incidence of postoperative pneumonia [RR = 0.35, 95%CI (0.25, 0.51)], improve the FEV1 [MD = − 0.49, 95%CI (− 0.73, − 0.24)], FVC [MD = − 0.59, 95%CI (− 0.83, − 0.35)] in patients with lung cancer (all P < 0.05). There were significant differences in the incidence of pneumonia for patients undergoing breathing exercises with single exercise time ≥ 15 min (RR = 0.37, 95%CI 0.24 ~ 0.62), breathing exercises for 1 week (RR = 0.29, 95%CI 0.16 ~ 0.55) or for 2 weeks (RR = 0.48, 95%CI 0.28 ~ 0.85) and breathing exercises > 4 times (RR = 0.36, 95%CI 0.23 ~ 0.57) per day (all P < 0.05). Conclusion: Breathing exercises have shown the capacity to augment pulmonary function in patients with lung cancer, concurrently mitigating the risk of postoperative pneumonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Aims Background Design and Methods Results Conclusion Relevance for Clinical Practice Trial Registration To identify the barriers and enablers of effective transitions of care between the emergency department and primary care providers.Successful patient care transitions from the emergency department to primary care providers are important because this process has implications for the quality, patient safety, and cost of patient care. Failure in follow‐up consultations with primary care can result in representations to the emergency department, which can impact negative emergency department operational issues throughout the entire hospital.An integrative systematic review was reported according to PRISMA guidelines. The reviewers followed a systematic review protocol registered with PROSPERO (CRD42022316165). A search strategy was applied to extract articles from included databases: CINAHL, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Scopus, ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health databases. Articles were assessed using a predetermined eligibility criterion. Quality assessment and a narrative synthesis were conducted.Of the 1200 articles screened, 25 studies were included. Four additional articles were identified from reference lists. The range of study designs included: four qualitative, three mixed methods and 22 quantitative studies. A total of 291,012 patients were represented. Successful care transition was enhanced by access to insurance, ease of payment methods, effective communication, prior booked primary care provider appointments and access to transportation. Many patients experienced financial toxicity, and the shortfall between fees charged and rebates provided was found to influence primary care provider follow‐up compliance.Future recommendations to provide safe and effective transitions of care would be to optimise supported self‐management for patients and deliver timely and clear communication with standardised discharge documentation to be shared between the emergency department and primary care providers.There is no one‐size‐fits‐all approach to delivering safe care transitions between emergency department and primary care providers, and future research should target high‐risk groups.Prospero: CRD42022316165 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building on qualitative interviews, this article brings into view how New Delhi university students organized improvised forms of Covid relief during the Delta coronavirus wave in the spring of 2021. Responding to a lack of care due to state negligence and a breakdown of public and private healthcare infrastructure, students coordinated access to crucial resources such as masks, other personal protective equipment and even oxygen through the use of social media, existing social networks, and practices developed in earlier moments of organizing. Using the lenses of improvisation, rehearsal and repair, this article documents how students improvised informal Covid relief. Conceptually, the article offers the framework of transposition to look at how improvisational capacity in a social network was shifted from one crisis to the next. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent trends in marriage include delaying marriage, the rise of singlehood, and romantic or companionate marriage. In studying these developments, including in Indonesia, anthropologists have largely focused on urban, educated, middle class youth, where ideals of romantic love and couple-focused fulfilment are evident. To broaden this perspective, this article focuses on the experiences of young, lower-class, low-income newlyweds. Drawing on diverse ethnographic life stories from Indonesia (metropolitan Java, rural West Sumatra, and coastal Papua), we show that marital ideas and practices stressed broader family expectations and social legitimacy, social and economic forms of care, and interdependence with extended kin. They did not generally express middle class romantic and companionate notions of love or marriage. These accounts highlight the salience of everyday material, social and economic aspects of care in marriage that have received less consideration recently due to the anthropological interest in romance, intimacy, and care as loving attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThis article presents findings from a qualitative study exploring parents’ struggles over their children’s education. Drawing on affective practice theory (Wetherell 2012) and feminist care ethics (Fisher and Tronto 1990), we offer insights into the affective practices of care driving parents’ educational activism. We detail how parents’ activism is rooted in both powerful feelings of parental responsibility and wider, more altruistic concerns. We argue that parents’ activism disrupts the binary between altruism and self-interest, indicating instead they can be mutually constitutive of collective action; a complex form of affective practice we designate altruistic self-interest. Our analysis suggests parental activism can be a force for progressive educational change in which care for intimates and care for others coincide, but also that educational authorities might adopt a more care-full approach when making key decisions affecting children, families and communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract\nPOINTS OF INTERESTDisabled persons are grossly overrepresented among incarcerated persons in U.S. prisons and likely to continue to grow as a group. Prisons are increasingly responsible for protecting the rights of incarcerated persons with disabilities, which includes the provision of accommodations and care. On the basis of thirteen qualitative interviews with persons with disabilities, personal care assistants, and others in a California state prison, the research subjects not only revealed the limits of disability rights in prison, but ways in which corrections officers used accommodations and personal assistance as means of harassing disabled inmates. Despite the failure of rights, persons with disabilities and their allies found ways to access care through mutual relationships and informal networks. This finding supports a disability justice perspective that argues that argues state-sponsored rights have failed specifically marginalized persons with disabilities, but also argues that disability emancipation can be found through peer-based mutual care.Persons with disabilities represent a large and growing population among incarcerated persons in the United States;Past studies overwhelmingly focus on the overrepresentation of persons with disabilities in prison rather than the experiences of persons with disabilities while incarcerated in prisons;A focus on the life of persons with disabilities in prison shows that the government often ignores the rights of disabled persons in prison. It also shows that persons with disabilities in prison and others work together to take care of each other;According to the law, persons with disabilities in prison have the same rights as other persons with disabilities in the U.S. This includes the right to things like wheelchairs or someone to help them with their daily needs;Sometimes, prison staff harass and punish persons with disabilities in prison by taking things like their wheelchair or someone who helps them away or forcing them to use these types of assistance when they do not want to;Persons with disabilities and their allies in prison engage in informal relations of care and personal assistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Despite Iceland's reputation as a gender equal country, men make up about 4% of nurses which is low in comparison with similar countries. To shed light on what determines the choice of nursing and on cooperation at work, interviews with ten female and seven male nurses were analysed with reflexive thematic analysis. Drawing on poststructuralist and feminist theories, focusing on power relations and gender in the workplace, the analysis revealed stereotypical gender differences. Choosing nursing was for the female nurses a “natural” channel for their talents, the males were conscious of crossing a line and prepared for stereotyping obstacles. A powerful hierarchy characterized daily work, female nurses described suppressing working situations and lack of support, males ranked themselves higher in respect and opportunities, prioritized their professional boundaries, self-care, and nursing competence, free of gender labels. This difference is an important and self-sustaining part of nurses’ image as powerless, deters young people from nursing education and leads to distance between genders in the workplace. The findings highlight the need to recognize and tackle stereotyping, which maintains inequality, prioritizing diversity instead is a task for educational and health systems, and the debate on gender equality in Iceland. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractThe ethics of care has regularly been described via contrast with deontological, consequentialist, and virtue theories of ethics. Often, such descriptions play care and justice against one another as potentially congruent but frequently competing social goods. This articulation of the field, which moves across major perspectives within moral and political philosophy, does not fully describe how ethics appears in some areas of humanities, particularly literary studies, where an ‘ethics of alterity’ has predominated for several decades. This ethics emphasizes a scene of encounter across difference, and an ethical responsibility to the other which has been narrativized via the scene of hospitality. This essay proposes that the ethics of care and the ethics of alterity share much—more than care ethics shares with other kinds of moral philosophy. But it also identifies differences which have made it easier to position alterity, rather than care, as a guiding ethos for literature, literary criticism, and literature education. Why is this so, and what would it mean for the ethics of care to be more central in literary study and literature education? Taking as an occasion a novel explicitly concerned with care-taking and care-giving, J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man (2005), the essay explores the prospects for a care-focused practice of literary studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]