1.Effect of family resilience on ischemic stroke patients:a hermeneutic phenomenological study
Yanqiu LU ; Li YAN ; Ning XIAO ; Gege HE ; Xinhua ZENG
Modern Clinical Nursing 2024;23(5):44-50
Objective To investigate the influence of family resilience on patients with ischemic stroke and provide references for promoting positive handling of patients and the family adaptation.Methods Objective sampling was employed to conduct the semi-structured interviews among 20 patients with ischemic stroke in a Grade ⅢA hospital in Hunan Province between June and September 2021.The data acquired from the interviews were analysed and summarised following Colaizzi analysis method.Results A total of three themes with 10 dimensions were extracted,including promoting post-traumatic growth of patients with 3 dimensions(accepting and attaching importance to the disease to develop a right recognition of the disease,enhancing the will to combat the disease and increasing rehabilitative awareness to develop a healthy life style,cultivating spiritual believes to increase the sense of adversity;stabilising family function and providing emotional support with 4 dimensions in creating safe and satisfactory family settings,facilitating active communications among family members to jointly make decisions fighting against the disease,optimising the roles of family members,and fortifying the cohesion among family members;and proving spiritual comfort and material support with 3 dimensions of providing mutual support among family members to reduce the costs of treatment,improving family intimacy and adaptive support to reduce negative emotions,and seeking support from society to reduce financial burdens.Conclusions Family resilience brings influences to the patients with ischemic stroke from multiple perspectives.It can promote post-traumatic growth,stabilise family functions,provide emotional support,and provide spiritual consolation as well as financial support.Therefore,healthcare workers should enhance the family resilience and ensure the role of family functions to promote an early recovery of patients.
2.Study on Mechanism of Linggan Wuwei Jiangxintang in Treating Acute Lung Injury
Quanwu DAI ; Yi LIU ; Gege ZENG ; Jiawei HE ; Zhenyang HUANG
Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae 2023;29(24):95-103
ObjectiveTo explore the action mechanism of Linggan Wuwei Jiangxintang on the treatment of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced acute lung injury (ALI) in mice. MethodTraditional Chinese Medicine Systems Pharmacology Database and Analysis Platform (TCMSP), GeneCards, DisGeNET, and Herb databases were combined with clinical data from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) to screen the key targets of Linggan Wuwei Jiangxintang in the treatment of ALI. The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed to screen the core targets, and gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analyses were performed. The mouse ALI model was established by LPS induction to verify the effect and key targets of Linggan Wuwei Jiangxintang on the treatment of ALI. The expression levels of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), nuclear transcription factor-κB p65 (NF-κB p65), and phosphorylated NF-κB p65 (NF-κB p-p65) in lung tissue were detected by Western blot. ResultThe analysis showed that the treatment of ALI with Linggan Wuwei Jiangxintang was related to 10 core targets such as interleukin-6 (IL-6), tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), and JUN, involving TNF signaling pathway, Toll-like receptor signaling pathway, NF-κB signaling pathway, etc. The animal experimental results show that Linggan Wuwei Jiangxintang can reduce lung injury, improve the pathological state of ALI mice, significantly reduce the expression of TNF-α and IL-6 in serum, increase the activity of total superoxide dismutase (T-SOD) and catalase (CAT) in lung tissue, and reduce the expression levels of JUN, TLR4, NF-κB p65, and NF-κB p-p65 proteins in lung tissue. ConclusionLinggan Wuwei Jiangxintang can inhibit LPS-induced inflammation and oxidative damage in ALI mice, and its mechanism may be related to the inhibition of TLR4/NF-κB signaling pathway and the reduction of inflammatory factors such as TNF-α and IL-6.