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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Acceptability of self-sampling and self-testing for infections: a rapid systematic review on public users’ views

BMC Public Health
Background Self-sampling and self-testing have been increasingly used for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and quickly became widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aleksandra J. Borek, Caity Roleston, Runa Lazzarino, Mineli Cooray, Gail Hayward, Nia Roberts, Edward Blandford, Tom Fowler, Sarah Tonkin-Crine   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of Resistance Intradialytic Exercise Compared to Aerobic Intradialytic Exercise for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida, Gisela Cristiane Miyamoto, Daniel da Costa Torres, Ian Setubal Reis Chaves, Jonas do Carmo Paschoalin, Braúlio Lima Nascimento, Luciana Dias Chiavegato   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnostic outcomes between home sleep apnoea testing and in-laboratory polysomnography: systematic review [PDF]

, 2022
Introduction Paediatric sleep-disordered breathing is a relatively common condition that has significant neurocognitive and medical implications for children.
Rahman, E., Rotimi, O., Webb, R.
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Patients’ experience of self-testing measuring total white cell count and C reactive protein during treatment at home with antibiotics: a qualitative study

BMJ Open
Objective To explore patients’ experiences and preferences of self-testing using white cell count point-of-care test (POCT) and C reactive protein POCT during antibiotic treatment at home.Setting A University Hospital in the Region of Zealand (DK ...
Lothar Wiese, Amalie Schousboe
doaj   +1 more source

Reaching hard-to-reach men through home-based couple HIV testing among pregnant women and their male partners in western Kenya: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Globally only 79% of adults living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) know their status and men in sub-Saharan Africa are considered a particularly hard-to-reach population for HIV testing.
Daisy Krakowiak, Pamela Makabong’o, Marielle Goyette, John Kinuthia, Alfred Onyango Osoti, Victor Asila, Molly Ann Gone, Jennifer Mark, Carey Farquhar   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unsupervised Functional Capacity Testing at Home: A Systematic Review

Sports Medicine - Open
Background Physical functioning is closely linked to disability and mortality in older people. An important aspect of physical functioning is functional capacity, which can be measured with wearable technology.
Debbie de Graaf, Alex J. van ’t Hul, Stella M. M. Thissen, Nienke M. de Vries, Bastiaan R. Bloem   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Calpain small subunit homodimerization is robust and calcium‐independent

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Calpains dimerize via penta‐EF‐hand (PEF) domains. Using single‐molecule force spectroscopy, we measured the strength and kinetics of PEF–PEF homodimer binding. The interaction is robust, shows a transient conformational step before dissociation, and remains largely insensitive to Ca2+.
Nesha May O. Andoy, Trina Dykstra‐MacPherson, Mathias A. Bell, Peter L. Davies, Ruby May A. Sullan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

"My Preference would be to be at Home": Patients' Experiences of their Hospice at Home Care [PDF]

, 2014
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A specialist 'Hospice at Home' (HaH) service commenced in 2006 in Mid West Ireland whereby participants received palliative care from a specialist team in their own home.
Armstrong, Claire, Armstrong, C, Taylor, Ann, McKay, EA, Taylor, A, McKay, Elizabeth   +5 more
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