BACKGROUND: Patient safety culture is a critical factor in improving the quality of home healthcare and preventing adverse events in patients receiving care in home health centres. However, the concept of patient safety culture in home healthcare centres is not clearly defined, and its dimensions and characteristics are still largely unknown. The aim of this scoping review is to provide a comprehensive overview of research on patient safety culture in home healthcare centres, identify related definitions and characteristics, and focus on key factors to fill the existing knowledge gaps.
METHODS: This review will follow Arksey and O\'Malley\'s methodological framework, updated by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), which comprises five stages: identifying the research question, identifying relevant studies, selecting the studies, charting the data, and collating, summarising and reporting the results. The inclusion criteria will be based on the Population, Concept and Context framework. A comprehensive search of PubMed, Embase, Scopus, ProQuest, Web of Science, Cochrane and grey literature sources, with no date restrictions, was conducted with the assistance of a qualified research librarian to include all relevant published study designs and ensure a thorough understanding of the topic. The search will be continuously updated until the study is completed. In addition, we will review the reference lists of the final included studies and their citations to find further relevant studies. Studies that are duplicates and those not written in Persian or English will be excluded. The selection of studies based on the eligibility criteria will carried out by two independent reviewers who will perform a title/abstract screening followed by a full-text screening. Data extraction will be conducted using a standardised form from the JBI. Descriptive and content analyses will be conducted to identify key concepts in the literature reviewed.
BACKGROUND: No ethical review is required for this study. Results will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at conferences.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this protocol is to investigate the risk factors, critical evaluation contents and preventive measures of high-output enterostomy.
METHODS: This scoping review will follow the Joanna Briggs Institute guidelines for scoping reviews. PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, the Chinese Biological Literature Database and the Cochrane Library will be searched for relevant literature published from January 2015 to January 2024. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluation and the Risk Of Bias In Non-randomised Studies of Interventions will be used to assess the reliability of the evidence.
BACKGROUND: As this scoping review involves database searches for literature analysis, informed consent and ethical approval from patients will not be required. The findings will provide essential decision-making information for researchers, clinicians and ostomy nursing staff. The results of the review will be presented at a scientific conference and published in a peer-reviewed journal.

BACKGROUND: Dancers are expected to navigate major challenges in their careers that might take a toll on their physical and mental health. To address underlying factors that might increase dancers\' mental and physical health difficulties, research suggests the systematic use of techniques to build mental skills that can reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors against the challenges dancers encounter. However, existing mental skills training interventions in dance present a lack of consistency in design, content and duration, making it difficult to provide evidence-based recommendations. Hence, dance researchers and practitioners would benefit from a mixed methods systematic review (MMSR) of the why, what and how of these interventions. Adopting tools such as the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) can aid this endeavour by describing replicable aspects of interventions, thus offering dance researchers suggestions on how to understand, appraise and report intervention characteristics and processes in dance. Therefore, this protocol outlines a MMSR that will employ TIDieR to identify and assess characteristics of mental skills interventions in dance.
METHODS: A systematic search will be undertaken in Psycinfo, Medline, Embase, Sportdiscus, Web of Science and the first 30 pages of GoogleScholar. Following the search, two reviewers will independently screen identified studies in Covidence. One reviewer will extract data using the TIDieR framework and the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) for quality appraisal, while a second reviewer will check a sample of extracted studies for accuracy. A convergent integrated synthesis will be conducted where quantitative and qualitative evidence will be integrated by qualitising the quantitative data into textual descriptions.
BACKGROUND: There is no requirement for ethical approval for this systematic review as no empirical data will be collected. The findings will be disseminated through a peer-reviewed publication in a scientific journal and presentations in several different forums (eg, a dance psychology network, at scientific and applied conferences).
UNASSIGNED: CRD42024537249.

OBJECTIVE: The use of cannabis-based medicine (CBM) as a therapeutic has surged in Australia over the past 5 years. Historically, the United Nations Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1961) prohibited cannabis use in Europe, the USA, the UK and Australia, leading to legislative resistance and limited preclinical data on CBM. Existing safety monitoring systems for CBM are poorly structured and do not integrate well into the workflows of busy health professionals. As a result, postmarketing surveillance is inconsistent. This review aims to evaluate international systems for monitoring CBM side effects and adverse events.
METHODS: To undertake a scoping review with a systematic approach, we used the Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome (PICO) framework to develop keyword elements, and two search queries to maximise search sensitivity and specificity.
METHODS: Search queries were entered into Embase and Scopus for peer-reviewed literature, and additional searches for grey literature were conducted on 23 June 2023.
METHODS: We included 54 full-text articles in the review: 39 from peer-reviewed searches, 8 from grey literature and 7 from citations of relevant texts.
METHODS: Our search yielded two main forms of monitoring systems: databases and registries. Out of the 24 monitoring systems identified, there were 10 databases and 14 registries, with databases often created by regulatory authorities. Systems differed in methods of causality assessment, level of detail collected, terminology and affiliations.
RESULTS: Within the monitoring systems with enough published data for analysis, all except one remain active at the time of this review. VigiBase is the largest centralised monitoring system, receiving international case reports, however data heterogeneity persists.
CONCLUSIONS: Our study emphasises the need for a centralised, consistent and accessible system for the postmarketing surveillance of side effects and adverse events associated with medicinal cannabis use.

BACKGROUND: Digital textbooks (DTs), in which students read dozens of paragraph clips and systematise their level of knowledge through new questions, can be an alternative for digital natives to consider. Developing DTs is required when teaching digital natives at undergraduate nursing schools. A scoping review is required to understand the current status of DTs in nursing education.
METHODS: The preliminary search has been conducted to check whether the results produced by PubMed (NCBI) were published in English within 10 years and related to DTs. This study includes research targeting undergraduate nursing students. Literature will be further searched using Embase (Elsevier), Cochrane Library and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health (CINAHL) databases. This scoping review will also consider quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research methods, texts and opinion documents; review studies; and pilot tests. The chosen studies will first be extracted based on the scoping review data extraction section of Joanna Briggs Institute to identify their general characteristics. DTs will be analysed based on the e-textbook framework: information goods, technology and stakeholders.
BACKGROUND: The Institutional Review Board of Nambu University, South Korea, approved this study for review exemption (approval number: 1041478-2022-HR-009). The results of this study will be disseminated through research results to nursing education institutions and hospitals. OPEN SCIENCE FRAMEWORK: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/QS6WH.

BACKGROUND: The leishmaniases are among the group of neglected tropical diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality each year. Currently, the East Africa region has the highest visceral leishmaniasis burden in the world. Ethiopia is one of the East African countries that reports both visceral and cutaneous forms of the disease. As part of the Nairobi Declaration, Ethiopia showed commitment to the elimination of visceral leishmaniasis by 2030. In this endeavour, it is important to understand the scope of research conducted on leishmaniases in the country and identify where the research gaps exist. Determining the research landscape is vital in the plan towards leishmaniases control and elimination. It will help to reference conducted research, determine if systematic reviews are warranted and help prioritise future research directions.
METHODS: This protocol was developed with reference to the JBI Scoping Review Methodology Group\'s guidance on conducting scoping reviews and the PRISMA-ScR reporting guidelines for scoping reviews. The following databases will be searched: PubMed, Embase via Embase.com, Web of Science Core Collection, Cochrane CENTRAL, Global Index Medicus, ClinicalTrials.gov, the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry and PROSPERO. Locally published literature that may not be indexed in the above-mentioned systems will be identified through team members familiar with the setting. Each record will be dually and blindly reviewed in an abstract-title screen and full-text screen using inclusion-exclusion criteria. Included articles must contain an in-depth discussion of leishmaniasis in Ethiopia. Data extracted will consist of study themes, study types, and categories and subcategories each defined in the developed codebook, in addition to type of leishmania, year of publication, funding source and the number of citations. Results will be reported with summary statistics.
BACKGROUND: Individual consenting and ethical approvals are not applicable. We plan to disseminate our findings to the appropriate stakeholders.

BACKGROUND: The estimated prevalence of postpartum depression (PPD) worldwide, in China, and Shanghai is 17.2%, 18.0% and 23.2%, respectively. In 2021, Shanghai housed a population of 3.2 million childbearing-age migrant women, most of whom migrated to the city with their husbands for economic reasons. There is a general lack of help-seeking behaviour for mental disorders in China due to the perceived risk of social stigmatisation. In Shanghai, 70% of women did not seek professional help for perinatal mental health problems. We aim to gather information from multiple perspectives, such as the migrant women with PPD and perinatal depression (PND), their caregivers, health service providers and communities, to understand the help-seeking behaviour of postpartum migrant women with PPD or PND in China.
METHODS: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses framework for Scoping Reviews will guide this review. A bilingual research librarian developed a comprehensive search strategy to retrieve published and unpublished English and Chinese studies involving factors influencing women\'s PPD or PND help-seeking behaviour in China. This literature includes perceptions, views, patterns, acceptance and refusal, tendencies, probability, service accessibility and utilisation, and facts. We will search PubMed, Embase, Web of Science and CINAHL for English literature and CINKI for Chinese literature. Backward and forward snowball approaches will be used to identify additional relevant papers from the reference lists of selected papers. Two independent reviewers will screen the title and abstract and review the full text of selected papers to identify eligible articles for data extraction. We will build a Microsoft Access database to record the extracted data. The results will be presented in tables and a causal map to demonstrate the relationships between extracted variables and help-seeking behaviours for PPD and PND. A conceptual simulation model will be formulated based on the information from the literature to validate the logic of the relationships between variables, identify knowledge gaps and gain insights into potential intervention approaches. Experts and stakeholders will be invited to critique and comment on the results during group model building (GMB) workshops in Shanghai. These comments will be essential to validate the findings, receive feedback and obtain additional insights.
BACKGROUND: The literature review component of our study does not require ethical approval because the information and data collected will be obtained from publicly available sources and will not involve human subjects. Our collaborating research partner, International Peach Maternal Child Hospital, obtained the IRB approval (GKLW-A-2023-020-01) for screening and enrolling participants in GMB workshops. Stanford University received IRB approval under protocol number 67 419. The full review will be presented at a relevant conference and submitted to a peer-reviewed scientific journal for publication to report findings.

OBJECTIVE: To assess compliance with statutory requirements to register and report outcomes in interventional trials of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) for musculoskeletal disorders and to describe the trials\' clinical and design characteristics.
METHODS: A systematic review of published trials and trials submitted to public registries.
METHODS: The databases Medline, Cochrane Library and McMaster; six public clinical registries. All searches were done until 31 January 2023.
METHODS: Trials submitted to registries and completed before January 2021. Prospective interventional trials published in peer-reviewed journals.
METHODS: The first author searched for trials that had (1) posted trial results in a public registry, (2) presented results in a peer-reviewed publication and (3) submitted a pretrial protocol to a registry before publication. Other extracted variables included trial design, number of participants, funding source, follow-up duration and cell type.
RESULTS: In total 124 trials were found in registries and literature databases. Knee osteoarthritis was the most common indication. Of the 100 registry trials, 52 trials with in total 2 993 participants had neither posted results in the registry nor published results. Fifty-two of the registry trials submitted a protocol retrospectively. Forty-three of the 67 published trials (64%) had registered a pretrial protocol. Funding source was not associated with compliance with reporting requirements. A discrepancy between primary endpoints in the registry and publication was found in 16 of 25 trials. In 28% of trials, the treatment groups used adjuvant therapies. Only 39% of controlled trials were double-blinded.
CONCLUSIONS: A large proportion of trials failed to comply with statutory requirements for the registration and reporting of results, thereby increasing the risk of bias in outcome assessments. To improve confidence in the role of MSCs for musculoskeletal disorders, registries and medical journals should more rigorously enforce existing requirements for registration and reporting.

BACKGROUND: Social networks can affect health beliefs, behaviours and outcomes through various mechanisms, including social support, social influence and information diffusion. Social network analysis (SNA), an approach which emerged from the relational perspective in social theory, has been increasingly used in health research. This paper outlines the protocol for a scoping review of literature that uses social network analytical tools to examine the effects of social connections on individual non-communicable disease and health outcomes.
METHODS: This scoping review will be guided by Arksey and O\'Malley\'s framework for conducting scoping reviews. A search of the electronic databases, Ovid Medline, PsycINFO, EMBASE and CINAHL, will be conducted in April 2024 using terms related to SNA. Two reviewers will independently assess the titles and abstracts, then the full text, of identified studies to determine whether they meet inclusion criteria. Studies that use SNA as a tool to examine the effects of social networks on individual physical health, mental health, well-being, health behaviours, healthcare utilisation, or health-related engagement, knowledge, or trust will be included. Studies examining communicable disease prevention, transmission or outcomes will be excluded. Two reviewers will extract data from the included studies. Data will be presented in tables and figures, along with a narrative synthesis.
BACKGROUND: This scoping review will synthesise data from articles published in peer-reviewed journals. The results of this review will map the ways in which SNA has been used in non-communicable disease health research. It will identify areas of health research where SNA has been heavily used and where future systematic reviews may be needed, as well as areas of opportunity where SNA remains a lesser-used method in exploring the relationship between social connections and health outcomes.

BACKGROUND: With an increasing incidence and significant effects on patients, tinnitus has become a major disease burden. There is a dearth of therapies with established efficacy for tinnitus. Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (ta-VNS) is being investigated as a potential therapy for tinnitus, but the current body of evidence remains inconclusive due to conflicting results across different studies. As a result, this protocol aims to synthesise and update the evidence to clarify whether ta-VNS is effective and safe for alleviating tinnitus.
METHODS: To identify relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs), seven representative bibliographical databases will be searched from their inception to December 2023: PubMed, Embase (via OVID), Cochrane Library, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wangfang Database, Chinese BioMedical Literature Database, and Chongqing VIP Chinese Science and Technology Periodical Database. Publications in English or Chinese will be considered for inclusion. RCTs comparing ta-VNS with active treatments, no intervention, waitlist control or sham ta-VNS in adult patients with subjective tinnitus will be included. Studies on objective tinnitus will be excluded. Primary outcome is tinnitus symptom severity measured by validated scales. With all eligible trials included, when applicable, quantitative analysis via meta-analyses will be performed using RevMan V.5.4.1 software. Otherwise, a qualitative analysis will be conducted. The methodological quality of the included RCTs will be assessed using the Risk of Bias 2.0 tool. Sensitivity analyses, subgroup analysis and publication bias evaluation will also be performed. The Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation approach will be used to grade the certainty of the evidence.
BACKGROUND: Ethical approval is not required for this systematic review, as no primary data will be collected. The results will be reported and disseminated through publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
UNASSIGNED: CRD42022351917.