Qian Liu

Wuhan University | WHU · School of Nursing

Aims: Patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) often experience reduced health-related quality of life (HRQOL), which may be attributable to the disease severity and psychological stress. While illness perception is speculated to be a potential pathway underlying these relationships, evidence supporting this mechanism remains limited. This stud...

Background Psychological distress is common among patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and has considerable adverse impacts on disease progression and health outcomes. Mindfulness-based intervention is a promising complementary approach to address patients’ psychological needs and promote holistic well-being. Objective This study aims to ex...

Background Virtual simulation and face-to-face simulation are effective for clinical judgment training. Rare studies have tried to improve clinical judgment ability by applying virtual simulation and face-to-face simulation together. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of an integrated non-immersive virtual simulation and high-fidelity face-to-...

Objective Many people with mental disorders are cared for by informed caregivers, but they usually have limited care-related training and lack caregiving capacity and support networks. In order to provide professional training and social support for informed caregivers, we designed the Caregivers-to-Caregivers Training Programme (C2C) and performed...

Background Due to the increasing burden of life-limiting illnesses, the need for palliative care has increased. Nurses’ palliative care competence is a vital factor in improving its accessibility. A reliable instrument is needed to measure nurses’ competence in providing palliative care. Objective Our aim was to translate and culturally adapt the...

Background: People frequently experience physical and psychological challenges (e.g., depression and anxiety) and high risk of poor prognosis after an acute coronary event. Mindfulness-based intervention holds promise as an effective approach to promoting health and well-being. Objectives: To explore the feasibility, acceptability, and potential...

Understanding the intention of community residents to seek help from mental health professionals (MHPs) is essential in targeting interventions that promote the prevention and treatment of depression. This study aimed to investigate the current status of Chinese community populations’ depression help-seeking intentions from MHPs and explore factors...

BACKGROUND Mindfulness-based intervention is a promising complementary approach to address patients’ psychological needs and promote holistic well-being. This study aimed to examine the effects of a social media-based Mindfulness psyCho-behAvioRal intErvention (MCARE) on health outcomes among patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). OBJECTIVE...

BACKGROUND Due to the increasing burden of life-limiting illnesses, palliative care has been demanded. Nurses’ palliative care competence is a vital factor in improving its accessibility. A reliable instrument is needed. Our aim was to translate and culturally adapt the Palliative Care Nursing Self-Competence scale (PCNSC) into Simplified Chinese (...

Background Mental illness is a major burden of disease worldwide. Community Mental Health Services (CMHS) are key to achieving community-based recovery for people with mental illness. In China, even though the community management of patients with mental illness is improving, the barriers faced by Community Mental Health Workers (CMHWs) are unclear...

Aim: To investigate eHealth literacy about COVID-19 among older adults during the pandemic. Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic promoted the development of online healthcare. Higher demand for accessing information from the Internet was seen. Methods: This was a sequential explanatory mixed-method study, involving a su...

Background Suicide in college students is a major public health concern. Suicidal ideation (SI) is associated with childhood trauma, personality, dysfunctional attitudes and depressive symptoms, but how they interact to predict SI remains unclear. Methods Using cross-sectional design and convenience sampling method, a survey was conducted among 56...

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has become a leading societal concern. eHealth literacy is important in the prevention and control of this pandemic. The purpose of this study is to identify eHealth literacy of Chinese residents about the COVID-19 pandemic and factors influencing eHealth literacy. A total of 15 694 individuals click...

Background The Debriefing Experience Scale (DES) is a tool that is used to explore nursing students’ subjective experiences during a debriefing and to help determine best debriefing practices. A Chinese version of the scale has not been found; its development can enhance learning in simulation activites in Chinese healthcare education programs. Me...

Aim: To describe the prevalence of perceived self-competence in palliative care among emergent care nurses, and explore its predictors. Background: Emergent care nurses have a responsibility to develop palliative care competence to enhance the quality of life of dying patients and their families in the emergency department. Methods: With a con...

Background A low intention of professional help seeking hinders the effective treatment of depression. The factors are from the perspectives of the social, family, and individual; however, an understanding of how they interact to predict professional help-seeking intention (PHSI) is not clear. Objectives The objectives of the study was to investig...

Background People with suicidal ideation post suicide-related information on social media, and some may choose collective suicide. Sina Weibo is one of the most popular social media platforms in China, and “Zoufan” is one of the largest depression “Tree Holes.” To collect suicide warning information and prevent suicide behaviors, researchers conduc...

Aims This study aimed to describe the experiences of nurses and other health care workers who were infected with coronavirus disease 2019. Methods An empirical phenomenological approach was used. Sixteen participants were recruited in Wuhan using purposive and snowball sampling. Semistructured, in‐depth interviews were conducted by telephone in Fe...

“Zou Fan” is currently the largest “tree hole” on Weibo, where people having suicidal ideation often express their thoughts and use this channel to seek support. Therefore, early suicide monitoring and timely crisis intervention based on artificial intelligence technology are needed for this social media user group. This research was based on the k...

Background: The Debriefing Experience Scale (DES) is a tool that is used to explore nursing students’ subjective experiences during a debriefing. Information obtained from completed scales can be used to help determine best debriefing practices. No Chinese version of the scale has been found verifying reliability and validity. Methods: The Chinese...

Background Although simulated teaching was introduced to China in the 1990s, it remains underused in nursing education. Determining how Chinese nurse educators feel about using simulation in their institutions is very important for faculty training and has the potential to influence simulation implementation. Method This cross-sectional descriptiv...

Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 occurred in 2020 which resulted in high levels of psychological stress in both the general public and healthcare providers. Purpose: The study aimed to address the mental health status of people in China in the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak, and to identify differences among the general public, frontline,...

The aim of this assessment was to determine the information needs, resources, and resource preferences and self/family-management challenges of parents caring for a child with asthma in China. The acceptance of asthma and consolidated framework for implementation research guided the study. A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used. Seventy-one...

Few studies have comprehensively examined the effectiveness of simulation-based triage education on clinical reasoning of nursing students. This study evaluated the impact of a simulation-based triage exercise on nursing students’ self-reported clinical reasoning ability. Three cohorts of third-year nursing students were divided into intervention g...

Aims To investigate eHealth literacy and the psychological status of Chinese residents during the COVID‐19 pandemic and explore their interrelationship. Background The COVID‐19 outbreak has placed intense psychological pressure on community residents. Their psychological status may be affected by eHealth literacy due to home isolation during this...

Background Understanding parents’ experiences is a prerequisite to developing interventions that are sensitive to needs of children and families. In China, little is known about parental experiences of having a young child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). This phenomenological study aimed to describe parental experiences of having a young c...

Background In the early stages of the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hubei, China, the local health-care system was overwhelmed. Physicians and nurses who had no infectious disease expertise were recruited to provide care to patients with COVID-19. To our knowledge, no studies on their experiences of combating COVID-19 have been...

The focus on precision health in healthcare fits well with the recent shift from a traditional illness-focused model to a positive health approach. Precision health seeks to tailor treatment and supportive care to characteristics of individual patients in order to attain the best clinical outcome for that person. In order to achieve increasingly po...

Background: Simulation-based curriculum has been demonstrated as crucial to nursing education in the development of students' critical thinking and complex clinical skills during a resuscitation simulation. Few studies have comprehensively examined the effectiveness of a standardised simulation-based emergency and intensive care nursing curriculum...

Objective: Nurses, who are the largest group of committed health personnel, should be prepared to respond in a disaster. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a course to prepare undergraduate nursing students for disaster response. Methods: The course included a three-hour workshop providing overviews of disaster nursing, a one-hour case study...