The Delphi technique is a research methodology which has traditionally been used to gain consensus among experts on complex issues characterised by uncertainty. Pioneered by the Rand Corporation in the 1950s for military applications, it has since been widely adopted across various fields, including nursing, health and social sciences and information systems on an array of multifaceted real-world issues

Shift work is associated with many adverse effects on health and, in particular, affects sleep. In nurses, one of the most common forms of insomnia is shift work sleep disorder. Traditional face-to-face cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia is often impractical for shift-working nurses due to irregular work schedules. Digital therapy presents a promising alternative to provide nurses with access

Increasing physical activity is recommended as a cornerstone of self-management strategies for diabetes prevention and management. While evidence supporting the effectiveness of various interventions to enhance physical activity in individuals with type 2 diabetes is expanding, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the most effective intervention.

Multidisciplinary transitional care interventions promote care coordination after hospital discharge and address (older) patients' complex care needs related to their physical, nutritional, and/or psychosocial status.

Given uncertain illness trajectories faced by older adults with frailty and risk of decline and poor outcomes, intervention development for readiness to engage with advance care planning may confer benefits. However, evidence in this area remains limited.

Nurses play an important role in providing palliative care. However, few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of nurse-led primary palliative care.

Adults recovering from hospitalization for acute or critical illnesses often face new or worsening physical and cognitive impairments, which can impact their driving abilities and safety. The purpose of this review is to synthesize evidence on driving behaviors and outcomes in the six months following hospitalization for acute or critical illness to guide patient care, provider recommendations, and

Colorectal cancer ranks third in global incidence and second in cancer-related mortality worldwide. Despite persistent challenges across the care continuum, nurses play a pivotal role in optimizing patient outcomes through tailored interventions. However, robust evidence on the clinical efficacy and optimal delivery of nurse-led interventions remains limited.

To investigate the effect of different frequencies of ventilator circuit changes on the occurrence of ventilation-associated pneumonia using network meta-analysis.

Patients with advanced cancer often have to make difficult end-of-life decisions, which are closely associated with their access to anticipated care after loss of mental capacity. Advance care planning, an approach of discussing, documenting, and deciding on end-of-life preferences, helps with better decision-making. However, despite being recommended for oncology care, its efficacy for patients with

In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a widely utilized assisted reproductive technology, but its success rates remain suboptimal due to various physiological and psychological factors. Acupuncture, as a complementary therapy, has been proposed to improve reproductive outcomes and alleviate associated pain and anxiety.

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting increase the healthcare burden and lead to adverse clinical outcomes in cancer patients. Although many risk prediction models for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting have been developed, their methodological quality and applicability remain uncertain.

Although there is a growing focus on the mental well-being of licensed clinicians, there remains a scarcity of comprehensive evidence concerning the mental well-being of personal support workers (broadly defined as direct care workers), a vital segment of the healthcare workforce, particularly for aging populations. This review aims to identify, summarize, and synthesize the literature on work-related

The intersection of aging and digitalization is a distinctive feature of this new era. While digitalization brings convenience, it also forces older people to use tools that did not exist during their formative or working years. Understanding digital exclusion in older adults, the primary demographic affected, is essential to better support integration into the digital society, particularly in enhancing

Reminiscence therapies are beneficial for people who have dementia or mild cognitive impairment and are widely used among older adults in service institutions and community health care. However, it is not clear which reminiscence therapy delivery format is the most effective.

To evaluate the effects of a nurse-led individualized mHealth nutrition intervention on nutritional status, nutritional intake, cognitive beliefs related to nutritional behavior, weight loss, blood parameters, gastrointestinal symptoms, and quality of life in post-discharged gastric cancer patients following gastrectomy.

To review and analyse randomised-controlled trials and controlled clinical trials on the effect of horticultural activities on alleviating depressive symptoms in community-dwelling adults.

The use of socially assistive robots in dementia care is growing, aimed at improving patient well-being and alleviating caregiver burden. Refining the utilisation of robotic assistance in individuals with dementia is critical, drawing on feedback and insights from caregivers. While numerous qualitative studies have examined how caregivers view and interact with socially assistive robots, a comprehensive

Cognitive impairment is a central feature of depression. Exercise training has enormous potential as a nonpharmacological intervention to improve cognition in depressed individuals.

Providing developmentally appropriate cancer services for adolescents and young adults is a challenge for the health sector. Current service approaches are fragmented and diverse, with amalgamation of adolescents and young adults' perspectives lacking in the literature. Whilst there has been progress in delivering care focused on adolescents and young adults, contemporary evidence is warranted to understand

The growing need to provide culturally competent nursing care has increased the importance of implementing and evaluating cultural competence interventions in healthcare settings. Previous research showed that increasing healthcare professionals' cultural competence can reduce racism and inequalities and enhance their ability to navigate cultural diversity. Whilst some evidence shows that educational

Adolescent human papillomavirus vaccine uptake in Ireland dropped to 50–60 % between 2016 and 2021. Healthcare professionals play a vital role in increasing the uptake of human papillomavirus vaccine among adolescents. This is the first study that sought to identify the key opportunities for healthcare professionals to get adolescent vaccination uptake to optimal rate.

Pressure injuries (PIs) are a major global health challenge. As PI-related healthcare costs continue to rise and patient safety is increasingly impacted, nurses are actively working to design and implement effective prevention strategies, particularly focusing on skin care, to prevent PIs in high-risk patients. Recent advances in incorporating plant-based topical agents into comprehensive care bundles

Green Care Farms are an alternative long-term care setting for people with dementia. Organizing daily life around a shared household and integrating nature and animals, they emphasize resident participation and activation. Such a radically different care environment not only affects residents, but also nursing staff who provide the care.

Organisational and individual factors cause strain in the daily lives of nurses and other healthcare professionals, who have a high prevalence of stress-related disorders. Accordingly, there is a strong need for integrated occupational health promotion interventions that include both work-directed and person-directed interventions. The psychosocial safety climate is seen as an overarching occupational

Whilst insulin therapy errors are commonly reported in hospital and can cause significant negative outcomes for people with diabetes, there is no standardised approach to identifying when and why these errors occur within complex inpatient settings.

Poor adherence to clinical practice guidelines among healthcare workers could have negative impacts on the effectiveness of care, patient health outcomes, and healthcare costs. Social norm feedback can be an essential means of achieving the intended intervention goals by providing information to the intervention target regarding the values, attitudes, or behaviors of the reference group or individual

Multicomponent exercise has robust evidence supporting their effectiveness in preventing pre-frailty/frailty. However, a generalizable model for managing frailty through exercise in real-world settings is still not well defined. A promising approach is to incorporate exercise into daily life. We have developed a lifestyle-integrated multicomponent exercise program supported by a mHealth platform. The

Frailty can lead to increased adverse health outcomes in older adults. Risk prediction models for frailty have benefits in guiding the prevention. Studies have increasingly focused on the development of risk prediction models for frailty in older adults. The quality and clinical applicability of these models remain unknown.

Heart failure is a debilitating, progressive condition that poses significant challenges for patients and their caregivers. Successful coping with the disease relies on the concerted efforts of patients and caregivers. However, previous reviews on this topic have focused on the coping experiences of patients or informal caregivers separately, without considering the dynamic interaction between them

The World Health Assembly has called for a Global Action Plan to address health inequities imposed upon Indigenous peoples. In seeking equity, Aboriginal peoples and allies have called for truth-telling about colonisation and its relation to healthcare. Australian healthcare, largely based on the biomedical model, is inadequate in terms of design, delivery, and access for Aboriginal peoples. Healthcare

Head nurses face challenging job content while executing their roles as nurses, managers and leaders. However, no European compilation for portraying head nurses' job content within a hospital setting is available.

Limited studies have investigated the attitudes of Chinese adults toward the role of nurse prescribing, particularly based on population-based cross-sectional research.

A diverse range of formal systems have been implemented in high income countries to ensure safe nurse staffing. Evidence reviews indicate that no one best model exists and recommends optimising existing systems. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and a global nursing workforce crisis, healthcare systems and the nursing profession face a challenging future. Nurse staffing systems must be fit for purpose

Nursing shortages and increased workforce turnover have significantly increased nurses' workloads, thus increasing the risk of burnout and stress, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. A systematic review published in 2019 suggested that resilience could act as a buffer to adversity; however, the factors associated with resilience during and after this global pandemic have not been identified

This meta-synthesis explored system and organizational-level barriers and facilitators for women in nursing from ethnically minoritized backgrounds that impact their advancement in healthcare leadership. This topic is important because nursing accounts for a significant proportion of the global health workforce, and women represent the majority of the nursing profession, yet, women nurses are underrepresented

Hearing loss is prevalent in older adults, which can negatively impact health. However, providing strategies for managing hearing loss is often not prioritized and it is not well understood whether interventions providing older adults with information to improve living with hearing loss can impact health.

Breastfeeding has been widely studied as a factor that improves maternal and newborn health outcomes. Immediate or early skin-to-skin contact interventions have been proposed in health care services to increase breastfeeding or exclusive breastfeeding rates following caesarean births although the findings are inconclusive.

Spouses often assume the role of primary informal caregivers for ageing partners. Spousal caregivers are more likely than other family members to experience negative psychological outcomes due to their unique identities. However, little is known as to whether psychoeducation interventions can support them in the caregiving process.

Newly diagnosed HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) often face significant psychological stress, resulting in a high prevalence of issues such as anxiety and depression. Sense of coherence, an internal strength factor, is known to offer protective effect against health challenges. However, interventions specifically designed to enhance sense of coherence in this population remain limited.

Traditional gamified interventions and serious games have been widely employed by therapists and researchers working with people with autism spectrum disorder. Recent studies have also indicated a trend towards technology-based gamification for training behavioral and social skills in autistic people. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of these gamified interventions in enhancing social interaction and

Fatigue is a common symptom in kidney failure and impacts on health-related quality of life. Educational interventions involving energy conservation strategies have effectively reduced fatigue in people with other chronic diseases.