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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Framing behaviour change for sustainable agriculture: Themes, approaches, and future directions

Farming System
Despite the growing demand for behaviour change research and the benefit of understanding how human behaviour influences use cases and the adoption of agricultural innovations, research on how behaviour change occurs and the state of knowledge in the ...
Kingsley Ofosu-Ampong, Wuletawu Abera, Anna Müller, Samuel Adjei-Nsiah, Richard Boateng, Bryan Acheampong   +5 more
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Lattice Gauge Theory and (Quasi)-Conformal Technicolor

, 2010
QCD with 2 flavours of massless colour-sextet quarks is studied as a theory which might exhibit a range of scales over which the running coupling constant evolves very slowly (walks).
Kogut, J. B., Sinclair, D. K.
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Improving health behaviours and outcomes: An intervention to support engagement in physical activity [PDF]

, 2017
The purpose of this case study is to offer reflections on the personal experiences, processes of behavioural change; and subsequent outcomes of designing and implementing a collaborative exercise psychology intervention.
Houghton, L, Knowles, ZR
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Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
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Shedding light on research participation effects in behaviour change trials: a qualitative study examining research participant experiences

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background The sequence of events in a behaviour change trial involves interactions between research participants and the trial process. Taking part in such a study has the potential to influence the behaviour of the participant, and if it does, this can
Virginia MacNeill, Marian Foley, Alan Quirk, Jim McCambridge   +3 more
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Building school-based social capital through 'We Act - Together for Health' - a quasi-experimental study [PDF]

, 2018
Background Social capital has been found to be positively associated with various health and well-being outcomes amongst children. Less is known about how social capital may be generated and specifically in relation to children in the school setting ...
Bonde, Ane H., Maindal, Helle T., Morgan, Antony, Sabinsky, Marianne, Stjernqvist, Nanna W., Tetens, Inge, Thyregod, Camilla, Trolle, Ellen   +7 more
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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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Co-producing an intervention to reduce sedentary behaviour in community-dwelling older adults aged ≥ 75 informed by behaviour change theory

BMC Geriatrics
Background Older adults are the fastest-growing and most sedentary group in society. With sedentary behaviour associated with negative health outcomes, reducing sedentary time may improve overall well-being. Adults aged ≥ 75 years are underrepresented in
Ragy Tadrous, Anne Forster, Amanda Farrin, Peter A. Coventry, Andrew Clegg   +4 more
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