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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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‘We wanted to change that particular part of the world': the role of academics in the career development field, learning from the career of Tony Watts [PDF]

, 2014
This article uses a career case-study with Tony Watts to explore the interface of an academic career with policy and practice. It finds that, in Tony’s case, public engagement was driven by a social and political mission.
Hooley, Tristram
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The Engaged Academic: Academic Intellectuals and the Psychiatric Survivor Movement [PDF]

Social Movement Studies, 2013
This paper considers some political and ethical issues associated with the ‘academic intellectual’ who researches social movements. It identifies some of the ‘lived contradictions’ such a role encounters and analyses some approaches to addressing these contradictions. In general, it concerns the ‘politico-ethical stance’ of the academic intellectual in
Cresswell, Mark, Spandler, Helen
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
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The Role of Academic and Individual Factors in the Academic Engagement of Dental Students in Babol, Northern Iran: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach [PDF]

Strides in Development of Medical Education
Background: Academic engagement in medical education, particularly within the field of dentistry, is a topic of considerable interest to both academic staff and policymakers.
Ava Azarnoush, Zeinab Gholamnia Shirvani, Effat Khodadadi, Hemmat Gholinia Ahangar   +3 more
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Plecstatin inhibits hepatocellular carcinoma tumorigenesis and invasion through cytolinker plectin

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The ruthenium‐based metallodrug plecstatin exerts its anticancer effect in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) primarily through selective targeting of plectin. By disrupting plectin‐mediated cytoskeletal organization, plecstatin inhibits anchorage‐dependent growth, cell polarization, and tumor cell dissemination.
Zuzana Outla, Jan Kosla, Magdalena Prechova, Lukas Frick, Patricia Bortel, Yasmin Borutzki, Andrea Bileck, Christopher Gerner, Samuel M. Meier‐Menches, Selma Osmanagic‐Myers, Martin Gregor   +10 more
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Academic Engagement Concept and its Affecting Factors in Medical Education: A Review Study [PDF]

Strides in Development of Medical Education, 2015
Background & Objective: One of factors influencing students academic achievement is academic engagement The aim of this study was to perform a comprehensive investigation on conceptual dimensions of academic engagement and the factors affecting it ...
Abbas Heydari, Mostafa Rad, Mohammad Reza Ghasemi   +2 more
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Role of Life Quality in School and Academic Self-Concept on Academic Engagement in Salas babajani fifth and Sixth Grade Students [PDF]

رویکردهای نوین آموزشی, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of the life quality in school and academic self-concept on their academic engagement in Salasbabajani fifth and sixth grade students. The research method was descriptive correlational (path analysis). The
A. Zahed Babolan, Gh. Karimianpour, A. Dashti   +2 more
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Documenting Uncertain Times: Postgraduate Transitions of the Academically Adrift Cohort [PDF]

, 2012
Based on surveys, analyzes the relationship between college students' academic engagement and growth and life outcomes two years after graduation, including employment, income, student loans, credit card debt, parental assistance, and civic ...
Esther Cho, Jeannie Kim
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Academic performance & student engagement in level 1 physics undergraduates

, 2009
At the beginning of academic year 2007-08, staff in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Glasgow started to implement a number of substantial changes to the administration of the level 1 physics undergraduate class.
, Biggs J, Casey M M, Cook A, Crosling G, Dixon R, Dougiamas M Taylor P, Gibbs G, M M Casey, S McVitie, The Scottish Government, University of Glasgow Prospectus   +11 more
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