Journal ArticleJournal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · August 2023
Study objectivesTo describe changes in sleep quality and associated sleep symptoms as women begin menopausal transition compared with premenopausal controls.MethodsIn a repeated-measures design, we analyzed data collected every 2-6 months ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of women's health (2002) · July 2022
Background: Validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) has not been established for midlife women before menopause, and evidence suggests that two-factor or three-factor models may be more informative than the PSQI global score der ...
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Journal ArticleNursing outlook · May 2021
BackgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted the education and clinical training of nursing students. Clinical sites shut out students over low equipment supplies, physical distancing requirements, and redeployment of staff.Purp ...
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Journal ArticleNursing outlook · March 2021
BackgroundSustained partnerships that strengthen and expand nursing's contribution to the integration of academic nursing into clinical practice holds the promise of improving Academic Health Systems (AHS).PurposeThe purpose of this paper ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of affective disorders · February 2020
BackgroundIt is unclear if the relationship between depression and physical health problems in women is related to age, reproductive stage, obesity or socio-demographic risk factors.MethodsLongitudinal data were obtained every 6 months fo ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of family nursing · February 2019
Health care providers, policy makers, and investigators are dependent upon the quality and accuracy of published research findings to inform and guide future practice and research in their field. Systematic reviews, the synthesis of outcomes across studies ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cardiovasc Nurs · 2017
OBJECTIVE: We present the design and feasibility testing for the "Digital Drag and Drop Pillbox" (D-3 Pillbox), a skill-based educational approach that engages patients and providers, measures performance, and generates reports of medication management ski ...
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Journal ArticleCrit Care Nurse · February 2016
Poor education-related discharge preparedness for patients with heart failure is believed to be a major cause of avoidable rehospitalizations. Technology-based applications offer innovative educational approaches that may improve educational readiness for ...
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Journal ArticleQualitative health research · November 2014
Although family home care problems are frequently described in the health care literature, the ways in which families and other informal caregivers manage those problems are not often addressed. We conducted a descriptive analysis of interviews in which sp ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for nurses in professional development · November 2013
In clinical practice, nurses are expected to understand and implement the science that supports patient care, yet they fall short of goals to implement evidence in practice. One reason is difficulty in interpreting research results. Interpretation requires ...
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Journal ArticleApplied nursing research : ANR · August 2013
Dementia caregiving can be burdensome with many challenges, especially for spousal caregivers who are elderly and may have limited resources and chronic conditions of their own. However, it can also be an opportunity for growth and transcendence. Thematic ...
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Journal ArticleJ Nurs Scholarsh · March 2012
PURPOSE: To describe the development of an academic-health services partnership undertaken to improve use of evidence in clinical practice. APPROACH: Academic health science schools and health service settings share common elements of their missions: to ed ...
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Journal ArticleHealth care for women international · January 2012
During midlife years, women are at risk of increasing body weight and waist circumference. We evaluated changes in weight and waist circumference from enrollment to 2 years later and examined the influence of physical activity level on those changes among ...
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Journal ArticleHealth care for women international · December 2011
We examined the influence of demographic characteristics and physical activity on body mass index (BMI) in multiethnic midlife women. A sample of 236 African, European, and Mexican/Central Americans aged 40-50 completed the initial, 1-year, and 2-year asse ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · July 2011
Nursing faculty members are responsible for assuring competence and safety in the preparation of prelicensure students who are preparing to deliver care in diverse settings. The growing complexity of care and the rapid expansion of knowledge have challenge ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of family nursing · May 2011
The caregiving literature provides compelling evidence that caregiving burden and depressive symptoms are linked with stressful care relationships, however, relational difficulties around caregiving are seldom described in the literature. This article pres ...
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Journal ArticlePolicy, politics & nursing practice · November 2010
Health policy makers, providers, clinicians, and social scientists are among those who have identified racial and ethnic diversification of the health care workforce as one strategy for solving the seemingly intractable problem of health disparities in the ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of midwifery & women's health · July 2010
IntroductionAs part of a longitudinal study of midlife women, the aim of this investigation was to describe the intensity of menopausal symptoms in relation to the level of perceived stress in a woman's life and her attitudes toward menopause and ...
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Journal ArticlePublic health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · January 2010
There are differences of intent and impact between short-term and long-term engagement of U.S. academic institutions with communities of need in developing nations. Global health programs that produce long-term transformative change rather than transient r ...
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Journal ArticleAcad Med · December 2009
With advancements of medical technology and improved diagnostic and treatment options, children with severe birth defects who would otherwise have no chance of surviving post birth survive to go home every day. The average lifespan in the United States has ...
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Journal ArticleIllness Crisis and Loss · January 1, 2009
The world knows Florence S. Wald as "the mother of the American hospice movement." I knew her in her later life as a mentor and friend. This may not seem unusual, as Florence was a warm and generous human being who continued her professional involvements l ...
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Journal ArticleResearch Practitioner · September 2008
Improving our ability to translate research findings from discovery into clinical practice is a priority if we are to benefit from scientific discovery. The academic research unit serves as a catalyst for investigator-initiated and industry-initiated clini ...
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Journal ArticleAcad Med · April 2008
Evidence is accumulating that the United States is falling behind in its potential to translate biomedical advances into practical applications for the population. Societal forces, increased awareness of health disparities, and the direction of clinical an ...
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Journal ArticleMenopause (New York, N.Y.) · July 2007
ObjectiveTo examine how women in their 40s understand "middle age" in the context of sociocultural ideas about the life course.DesignIn-depth interviews were conducted with a subset of 53 volunteers (19 European American, 17 African Ameri ...
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Journal ArticleMaturitas · September 2006
ObjectivesDescribe changes and examine the association between depressive symptoms, physical activity, body mass index (BMI), and perceived health among Latina (n=81) and White (n=151) women in the first year of the late-premenopausal stage.Me ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of National Black Nurses' Association : JNBNA · December 2005
The transition into menopause is an experience that is unique to every woman. This experience can encompass anything from an occasional hot flash to complete and utter distress. Considerable attention is being paid to African-American women as they transit ...
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Journal ArticleBiological research for nursing · October 2004
BACKGROUND: Thirty caregiving wives participated in a study of caregiving distress and negative mood (depressive symptoms) by making diary entries on stressful caregiving situations and collecting saliva samples 4 times a day. At the end of the 7-day study ...
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Journal ArticlePediatric nursing · January 2004
Parents caring for a child with a chronic condition must attend to a myriad of day-to-day management responsibilities and activities. Part I of this two-part series (in the previous issue of Pediatric Nursing) reviewed both the adult and pediatric family c ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of National Black Nurses' Association : JNBNA · December 2003
Health disparities continue to exist between communities of color and the poor and the health of the nation as a whole. Highly competent and culturally sensitive nurse researchers are needed to contribute to the elimination of disparities. There is however ...
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Journal ArticlePediatric nursing · November 2003
Parents caring for a child with a chronic condition must attend to a myriad of day-to-day management responsibilities and activities. This two-part series examines parental roles and responsibilities in detail. Part I will review both the adult and pediatr ...
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Journal ArticleFamily process · January 2003
Family context is thought to influence chronic disease management but few studies have longitudinally examined these relationships. Research on families and chronic illness has focused almost exclusively on European American families. In this prospective s ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses · March 2002
BackgroundDespite increasing survival for adults with congenital heart disease, little is known about hospitalization for young adult patients with this disease and for their families. Because of the complexity of the disease and its management du ...
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Journal ArticleInternational journal of nursing studies · January 2002
The paper presents data on families of a person with schizophrenia in rural Thailand, using the resiliency model of family stress, adjustment, and adaptation. The aim is to assess the impact of family factors on psychological morbidity of the mothers and r ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Family Nursing · January 1, 2002
The purpose of this review of 73 articles reporting family research was to identify major areas of inquiry and to draw conclusions about what is known about families in which a member has a chronic illness. The review identified two distinct clusters of re ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of women's health & gender-based medicine · January 2001
This report examines the impact of individualized, population-based recruitment and retention approaches on the development of a subject pool, enrollment, and retention at 12 months of healthy, community-based women in three ethnic groups: African American ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners · December 2000
PurposeTo critically examine the current literature on nursing faculty practice, using the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Guidelines for Evaluation of Faculty Practice, and to examine faculty practice models' strengt ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of family practice · June 2000
The management of patients with chronic disease constitutes the largest single cost to the health care system in the United States. New approaches and methods are needed to reduce preventable complications and to enhance the health and well-being of patien ...
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Journal ArticleDiabetes care · March 2000
ObjectiveTo determine the relationship between the characteristics of families involved in disease management and the self-care practices of Hispanic and European-American (EA) patients with type 2 diabetes.Research design and methodsA to ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of nursing care quality · January 2000
In our modification of a quality of care framework, we blended the labels of both models with respect to structure, labeling it structure/inputs. We then specified the types of characteristics in each of the 12 cells that can guide the evaluation of the ar ...
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Journal ArticleBehavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) · January 2000
The number of indicators of chronic disease management is large and no practical framework is available to guide selection for use in intervention programs. In addition, it is often difficult to integrate multiple disease management indicators into a compr ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Family Nursing · January 1, 2000
This article critically analyzes the conceptual frameworks commonly used to study family caregivers who have a family member with a severe mental illness. Those frameworks that are commonly in use present significant limitations to the study of the family ...
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Journal ArticleFamily process · January 2000
The management of type 2 diabetes requires major life style changes. How patients and family members resolve disagreements about disease management affects how well the disease is managed over time. Our goal was to identify differences in how couples resol ...
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Journal ArticleClinical excellence for nurse practitioners : the international journal of NPACE · March 1999
As part of a larger project, a nurse-managed primary care clinic (Valencia Pediatric and Family Practice) sought to implement a nursing information system for the purposes of (1) patient record keeping, (2) capturing advanced practice nursing interventions ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Family Nursing · January 1, 1999
With advances in medical and surgical management of congenital heart disease (CHD), it is becoming more common for patients to survive into adulthood. This article reviews family management of CHD over the life course of the disease and presents the findin ...
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Journal ArticleThe Diabetes educator · September 1998
Four broad groups of factors have been linked with self-management behavior in type 2 diabetes over time: (1) characteristics of patients, (2) amount and management of stress, (3) characteristics of providers and provider-patient relationships, and (4) cha ...
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Journal ArticleCardiology in the young · July 1998
Advances in diagnosis, medical management and surgical intervention have improved the longevity and quality of life for children with congenital heart disease. Despite this, research studies specifically examining the psychosocial concerns of adolescents a ...
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Journal ArticleThe Western journal of medicine · May 1998
California's health care industry includes workers prepared in many ways to perform many jobs. One significant group of health care workers prepared to provide care that often overlaps with physician-generated services is known as "nonphysician providers." ...
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Journal ArticleHeart & lung : the journal of critical care · May 1997
ObjectiveTo provide a better understanding of parents' experiences as their children with congenital heart disease mature through adolescence and young adulthood.DesignA qualitative pilot study.SettingThe physician practices of t ...
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Journal ArticleDeath studies · May 1997
To contribute to a better understanding of the utility of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90R; L. Derogatis, 1983) with bereaved samples, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted on SCL-90R responses of 97 parents 2 years after the death of their ...
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Journal ArticleThe Western journal of medicine · October 1996
Barriers exist that prevent nurse practitioners from using their primary health care knowledge and skills. We present the incidence of and specific barriers experienced by nurse practitioner respondents in California, the state with the largest number of n ...
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Journal ArticleFamilies, Systems and Health · January 1, 1996
This study examined coping in parent-adolescent dyads among adolescents who have had surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. Single, separate interviews were conducted with eight parents and their adolescent children. The interviews were transcribed ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of community health nursing · January 1995
An increased understanding of the frequency and troublesomeness of symptoms for family members who are caring for a victim of Alzheimer's disease (AD) would be helpful for nurses in working with these families. This article reports on the changes of these ...
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Journal ArticleFamily Systems Medicine · January 1, 1995
This study reports the recollected stories of eight parents regarding their experiences of having an infant diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. The qualitative research design incorporated interactive interviews and thematic data analysis, using grou ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners · March 1994
Current health care delivery systems in the United States have led to high cost, uneven quality, less than universal coverage, undue emphasis on a medical/clinical model, and scant attention to primary care and prevention. In the context of health care ref ...
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Journal ArticleNursing research · March 1993
The purposes of this study were to describe the prevalence of fatigue, examine the association between fatigue and doctor visits, and identify correlates of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). On average, a high degree of fatigue was reported to occur ev ...
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Journal ArticleHeart & lung : the journal of critical care · March 1993
ObjectiveTo determine the efficacy of a psychoeducational nursing intervention in patients who receive coronary artery bypass graft and valve repair surgery.DesignA cluster-randomized controlled trial design.SettingTwo hospitals ...
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Journal ArticleFamily and Community Health · July 1992
75 adult cardiac surgery patients and their primary family caregivers were assigned to a treatment group in which they received telephone calls by nurses at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 wks following hospital discharge designed to monitor and assist patients with ...
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Journal ArticleApplied nursing research : ANR · May 1992
In this secondary analysis, the influence of mood states and self-efficacy beliefs on recovery of general activities 8 weeks after cardiac surgery were investigated. Study data were taken from a randomized clinical trial with 156 subjects who were either i ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of advanced nursing · January 1992
The authors present 10 precepts that address the successes, as well as complexities and shortcomings, found in family nursing research as it has been conducted over the past decade. Problems with methodology, data collection and aggregation, random variabl ...
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Journal ArticleCanadian journal of cardiovascular nursing = Journal canadien en soins infirmiers cardio-vasculaires · April 1991
Cardiovascular disease, like many other life-style-related health problems, is argued to have its origins related in part to health practices first learned in the family. Further, empirical work has shown that the responses of family members to the onset o ...
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Journal ArticleImage--the journal of nursing scholarship · January 1991
The absence of critical dialogue regarding what constitutes family nursing prevents the further development of the specialty area of family nursing. In this essay, the author issues nine challenges faced by those who would contribute to the development of ...
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Journal ArticlePublic health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · December 1990
During a six-month period, on four separate occasions, six licensed day-care centers had cultures taken from environmental surfaces as well as the hands of children and teachers. Fecal coliforms were recovered from 64 (9.5%) of the 675 surfaces sampled. Re ...
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Journal ArticleHeart & lung : the journal of critical care · November 1990
As part of a randomized clinical trial of in-hospital and postdischarge nursing interventions designed to facilitate the individual patient's recovery and improve the family's functioning after cardiac surgery, we followed 67 patient-spouse pairs for 6 mon ...
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Journal ArticleHeart & lung : the journal of critical care · September 1990
Health problems and related patient management during early recovery after cardiac surgery are not well documented. As part of a larger study of recovery from cardiac surgery 75 patient-care giver pairs received telephone calls from nurses at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 ...
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Journal ArticleCancer nursing · June 1990
One part of a study on the effects of childhood cancer on families focused on the emotional reactions of school-age siblings. The authors identify themes in the siblings' feelings taken from transcripts of interviews with them. Responses were categorized a ...
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Journal ArticleHeart and Lung: Journal of Critical Care · January 1, 1990
Health problems and related patient management during early recovery after cardiac surgery are not well documented. As part of a larger study of recovery from cardiac surgery 75 patient-care giver pairs received telephone calls from nurses at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 ...
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Journal ArticleProgress in cardiovascular nursing · July 1989
This article addresses the use of the telephone in collection of research data. First, the authors review the benefits and limitations of data collection by telephone as they are discussed in the literature. Collection of data by telephone has been favorab ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of advanced nursing · September 1988
To enhance individual and family health during recovery from heart surgery, this study employed nursing interventions based on self-efficacy and family stress theory during the hospitalization period and for 3 months thereafter. The effectiveness of the in ...
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Journal ArticleHeart & lung : the journal of critical care · March 1988
A sudden and life-threatening illness requiring hospitalization and admission to the coronary care unit (CCU) can result in serious disorganization for the patient's family. This disorganization can become obvious to staff when family members are too anxio ...
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Journal ArticleNursing research · March 1988
Forty-five mothers and 30 fathers, representing 58 families, completed the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised, a measure of current psychological and somatic symptoms, 24 months after the death of a child with cancer. The mean scores from six symptom dimensions ...
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Journal ArticleHeart & lung : the journal of critical care · July 1985
The selection of a particular treatment for CAD was found to be related to the severity of illness, patients who were more severely disabled by angina elected surgical treatment after vessel blockage was documented by angiography. Differential access to tr ...
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Journal ArticleThe Nursing clinics of North America · March 1984
Based on the findings of this study of couples after coronary artery bypass surgery, there are numerous stresses and unmet needs that might be addressed by hospital-based nurses. The study demonstrated that, as a group, the spouses of the bypass patients r ...
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