2.Recent advances in research on vine tea,a potential and functional herbal tea with dihydromyricetin and myricetin as major bioactive compounds
Zhang QILI ; Zhao YANFANG ; Zhang MEIYAN ; Zhang YALU ; Ji HONGFANG ; Shen LIANG
Journal of Pharmaceutical Analysis 2021;11(5):555-563
Vine tea has been used as an herbal tea by several ethnic minorities for hundreds of years in China.Flavonoids,a kind of indispensable component in a variety of nutraceutical,pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications,are identified to be the major metabolites and bioactive ingredients in vine tea.Interest-ingly,vine tea exhibits a wide range of significant bioactivities including anti-oxidant,anti-inflammatory,anti-tumor,antidiabetic,neuroprotective and other activities,but no toxicity.These bioactivities,to some extent,enrich the understanding about the role of vine tea in disease prevention and therapy.The health benefits of vine tea,particularly dihydromyricetin and myricetin,are widely investigated.However,there is currently no comprehensive review available on vine tea.Therefore,this report summarizes the most recent studies investigating bioactive constituents,pharmacological effects and possible mechanisms of vine tea,which will provide a better understanding about the health benefits and preclinical assessment of novel application of vine tea.
3.ICU nurses' needs analysis of employee assistance program
Jinlin FANG ; Hongfang YE ; Yan CHEN ; Lu CHEN ; Min LI ; Huanhuan ZHU ; Zheyun WANG ; Yuanyuan YAO ; Cuiling JI ; Jin TAO
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2021;37(24):1897-1901
Objective:To understand the current status of nurses' awareness and needs for the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), as to provide basis for the hospital to formulate EAP.Methods:Using the purpose sampling method, 352 ICU nurses from the Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital Affiliated of Nanjing University Medical School were selected as the research subjects from December 2019 to January 2020. Finally, 350 valid questionnaires were obtained. Use the EAP demand questionnaire to investigate the ICU nurses' awareness and demand for EAP.Results:Among the 350 nurses in the intensive unit, 214 cases (61.14%) had never understood EAP, only 8 (2.29%) had understood and experienced the EAP, and 332 cases (94.86%) believed that the hospital′s implementation of EAP was a benefit provided to nurses. The top two service requirements were: "Relief of work pressure" and "mental health consultation", and hope to receive mixed-mode EAP services; in ICU and CCU, nurses hope EAP can help resolve work-family conflicts; in EICU, they need to provide Specific job skills training services.Conclusions:ICU nurses have insufficient cognition of EAP and urgently need to obtain EAP implementation knowledge; at the same time, it is necessary to formulate an implementation plan that meets ICU nurses′ needs for EAP, that is, to relieve work pressure and carry out psychological counseling to ensure that EAP is launch successfully in ICU nurses.