Ita Daryanti Saragih

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Kaohsiung Medical University

Objectives This study aimed to investigate and review the effects of mirror therapy on upper limb function, including improvements in shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist, and hand function, as well as coordination between the upper extremities, in patients with stroke. Data sources Six databases, CINAHL Plus with Full Text, Cochrane Central Register o...

Work‐related stress, a major contributor to physical and mental health issues of nurses, has a direct impact on patient safety and nurses' well‐being. However, few studies have investigated the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in reducing psychological distress in nurses. Systematic search of six databases including CINAHL Plus with Fu...

Purpose Pain is a frequent post‐stroke health concern, and several non‐pharmacological interventions are commonly employed to manage it. However, few reviews have examined the effectiveness of such interventions, making it difficult to draw conclusions about their usefulness. Furthermore, subgroup analysis based on post‐stroke pain level or interve...

Purpose: This meta-analysis aimed to quantify the effect of serious games over conventional therapy on upper-limb activity, balance, gait, fatigue, and cognitive functions in people with multiple sclerosis. Materials and methods: Search strategies were developed for PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, and Scopus. Studies were selected if participants...

Background Person‐centered care emphasizes the importance of valuing and supporting the humanness of a person living with dementia as compared to focusing heavily on disease symptom management and treatment. The state of the evidence and outcomes from person‐centered care is unclear and is an important knowledge gap to address informed evidence‐bas...

Purpose As future physicians, medical students have experienced tremendous pressure during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which is associated with a high risk of depression and anxiety. We aimed to investigate an overview of the prevalence of anxiety and depression among medical students in various countries during the global COVID-19 pandemic, and...

Objectives This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effectiveness and safety of vagus nerve stimulation as an add‐on treatment to rehabilitate people with post‐stroke motor function impairments and activity limitations.

Aims and Objectives To synthesise and appraise the evidence of the efficacy of serious games in reducing chronic pain among older adults. Background Chronic pain in older adults generally results in a substantial handicap due to decreased mobility, exercise avoidance and various concerns that affect their overall quality of life. While serious gam...

The Philippines has an increasingly aging population thereby increasing the demand for healthcare and support from families. Studies showed that the family is the main caregiver of elderly parents/adults as dictated by the Filipino culture of filial piety and respectful behavior towards older people. However, this caring culture is now slowly decli...

Purpose Nurses increasingly use mindfulness as an effective mental health intervention to reduce psychological distress. The effectiveness of mindfulness‐based interventions remains inconclusive, which may lead to implementation of interventions in an inefficient or ineffective manner. This study aimed to examine the effects of mindfulness‐based in...

Background Mindfulness‐based interventions are becoming increasingly popular and are effective in lowering depressive symptoms and caregiver burden. However, the overall efficacy of therapies in stress and anxiety management is unreported, and no study to date has performed a subgroup analysis to investigate the intervention dose response of outcom...

Background Nurses’ primary role in clinical settings for persons living with dementia is to lessen the strain of dementia on daily life, monitor comorbidities, and manage medications. However, no comprehensive literature review has investigated the effectiveness of nurse-led interventions for persons living with dementia. Objective The purpose of...

Introduction Transitional care interventions have emerged as a promising method of ensuring treatment continuity and health care coordination when patients are discharged from hospital to home. However, few studies have investigated the frequency and duration of interventions and the effects of interventions on physical function. Therefore, this st...

Aim: This study aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the learning outcomes of the interprofessional education (IPE) model for healthcare students. Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is an important teaching and learning model that involves two or more professions engaging or working together to improve the knowledge of healthcare stu...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the efficacy of non-pharmacological, interactive, and emotional art therapy interventions for patients with mild neurocognitive disorder (mild NCD) or major neurocognitive disorder (MNCD). Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis assessed English-language literature published from January 1,...

Background: Videoconferencing has been proposed as an innovative telerehabilitation approach for stroke survivors, demand for which is growing. Aim: To evaluate the efficacy of a videoconferencing intervention for stroke survivors. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods: We conducted a systematic review of the literature in the...

Several studies have reported the effects of robotic arms on improving upper limb function in patients with stroke. However, previous studies have reported inconsistent findings that may lead to incorrect applications of robotic arm use. Six databases were searched for relevant randomized controlled trials. Meta‐analyses were performed for upper li...

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of problem-based learning (PBL) in nursing students, including recently reported trials. Design Meta-analysis was performed to obtain summary conclusions on the influence of PBL on nursing students' learning outcomes. Data sources Academic Search Complete, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PubMe...

Purpose: A stroke survivor who is discharged to home care faces many challenges during the transition from the hospital to home, including managing their care at home and engaging in rehabilitation and recovery. Case management was developed to ease the transition from hospital to home and help people with stroke cope with their care management ch...

Background: Robot-assisted therapy (RAT) could address an unmet need to relieve the strain on healthcare providers and intensify treatment in the context of an increasing stroke incidence. A comprehensive meta-analysis could provide firmer data about the topic by considering methodology limitations discovered in previous reviews and providing more...

Purpose: The use of technology-assisted interventions in dementia care contributes to increased communication, reduced burden on the caregivers, improved health outcomes, and improved expense management. Technology-assisted interventions can be provided remotely to monitor, improve, and enable home care, benefiting the health of both patients and...

Background An increase in dementia prevalence has been accompanied by increasing interest in new rehabilitation methods, such as serious games. Serious games hold the potential to postpone functional and cognitive declines in people with dementia by increasing their independence and engagement; however, the efficacy of serious games remains underex...

Purpose: During COVID-19, stigmatization and violence against and between professional healthcare workers worldwide are increasing. Understanding the prevalence of such stigmatization and violence is needed for gaining a complete picture of this issue. Therefore, the purpose of this review was to update estimates of the prevalence of stigmatizatio...

Background: Telehealth-assisted interventions have been used as secondary prevention measures in cardiac rehabilitation, especially for the delivery of information between healthcare service providers and patients. However, as the application of this intervention modality broadens, investigation of its effects in secondary prevention of cardiovasc...

Aims and objectives: To identify the efficacy of non-pharmacological interventions designed to reduce pain in people with dementia. Background: Pain is prevalent among patients with dementia but frequently remains untreated. Although non-pharmacological interventions have been used to reduce pain in people with dementia, the efficacy of these in...

Older adults hospitalized due to COVID-19 infection are at high risk of fatality. Additional fatalities such as obesity and comorbidity tend to rapidly develop into progressive clinical deterioration. Therefore, a complex survival prognosis is urgently needed to save more older adults. This study aims to systematically examine obesity and comorbidi...

Introduction Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a major cause of death and disability worldwide. Brain damage is associated with physical and psychological difficulties among TBI survivors. Diverse face-to-face and telehealth programs exist to help survivors cope with these burdens. However, the effectiveness of telehealth interventions among...

Purpose: Interventions delivered using telehealth modalities are becoming standard practice with patient populations around the world, partly because of innovation necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and partly due to improved infrastructure and comfort of providers, patients, and families, through technology. Though increasingly utilized, the e...

Virus Corona (COVID-19) merupakan masalah yang sedang banyak dibicarakan dan terjadi di lebih dari 200 negara di dunia. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis tingkat kecemasan dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kecemasan pasien COVID-19. Jenis penelitian ini adalah penelitian kuantitatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan time series den...

Introduction: Reminiscence therapy is an alternative to pharmaceutical intervention provided during long-term care, especially for individuals with dementia. However, the effects of reminiscence therapy in dementia care remain inconclusive. Aim: The goal of this study is to examine the effects of reminiscence therapy implementation in people wit...

Background Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) has been used to improve cognitive function and reduce negative emotions. However, the efficacy of CST among the dementia population remains inconclusive. Aim To analyse the efficacy of the CST among people with dementia. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods A systematic literature se...

Animal-assisted interventions (AAIs) are non-pharmacological, cost-effective interventions developed to improve outcomes in patients with dementia; however, the effects remain inconclusive. The purpose of this study was to analyze the efficacy of AAIs for people with dementia. A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed of English-language...

Introduction: Taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a daily necessity for people living with HIV but these individuals experience multiple barriers and challenges to medication adherence. Interventions to support medication adherence have yielded effects in the expected direction, but the extent to which telehealth or virtually delivered interven...

Introduction: Telehealth interventions to advance adolescent sexual health have evolved and are being used to promote adolescent sexual health knowledge and healthy sexual behaviors. However, as this area of intervention modality expands, there is a need to pause and examine the effects of telehealth interventions on adolescent sexual health outco...

Background Stroke is one of the most common causes of disability worldwide. In recent years, diverse telehealth programmes for stroke survivors have suggested that this mode of rehabilitation could improve stroke survivors’ abilities to perform activities of daily living (ADLs) and maintain balance. Although increasingly utilised in clinical and co...

Objective – Adherence to iron and folic acid supplementation represents a significant factor contributing to the prevention and treatment of anaemia in pregnancy. However, limited studies have systematically investigated iron and folic acid supplementation adherence among pregnant mothers using a global perspective. We aimed to systematically ident...

Background Studies have identified that nurse-led telephone health coaching benefited the continuity of care in patients with heart failure. However, the effect of nurse-led telephone health coaching remains inconclusive among the previous studies. Aim This review aimed to determine the effects of nurse-led telecoaching among patients with heart f...

Aims and objectives: Research examining the effectiveness of resistance band exercises for improving physical and psychological dimensions among frail older adults has been inconsistent. We aimed to examine the effects of resistance band exercises for improving outcomes in frail older adults. Background: To provide robust evidence regarding the...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which has caused the coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, continues to spread rapidly worldwide and is associated with high rates of mortality among older adults, those with comorbidities, and those in poor physiological states. This paper aimed to systematically identify t...

Background Healthcare workers are at high risk of developing mental health issues during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, there is a need for a full picture of mental health problems with comprehensive analysis among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective This review aimed to systematically identify th...

Abstract Background Case management has been developed and suggested as a method for improving the quality of dementia care by optimising care service and delivery using a feasible and cost-effective approach. However, the effects of case management for improving dementia care remain inconclusive. Aim To analyse the efficacy of case management int...

Background The role of robotic care has been studied because it may be a care option applicable to dementia care. However, the effects of robotic care in dementia care are still inconclusive. Aim To explore the span of the effects of robotic care intervention among patients with dementia. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Methods This...

The purpose of this study was to systematically examine the association between dementia and mortality among older adults with COVID-19. To do so, we conducted a search of 7 databases for relevant full-text articles. A cohort study and case-control study were included. A meta-analysis was performed to synthesize the pooled odds ratio with a random-...