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A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Clinical Effectiveness of Surveillance Imaging in Children With Medulloblastoma and Ependymoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd, Melissa Taylor, Helen Fulbright, Bob Phillips   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding and addressing factors affecting carers’ mental health during end-of-life caregiving: synopsis of meta synthesis of literature and stakeholder collaboration

Health and Social Care Delivery Research
Background Family carers provide crucial support to patients nearing end of life. This can affect carers’ own mental health negatively. It is important to understand what factors may affect carers’ mental health and convey this information to ...
Gunn Grande, Christine Rowland, Tracey Shield, Kerin Bayliss, Jackie Flynn, Danielle Harris, Alison Wearden, Morag Farquhar, Maria Panagioti, Alexander Hodkinson, Margaret Booth, David Cotterill, Lesley Goodburn, Cedric Knipe, Penny Bee   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Informal carer's knowledge of traumatic brain injury questionnaire: Initial development and validation

Nursing Open, 2021
Aim To develop and psychometrically test the instrument for measuring the knowledge of traumatic brain injury of informal carers. Design Instrument development.
Amena Awadh Bamatraf, Mei Chan Chong, Mazlina Mazlan, Chong Chin Che, Rista Fauziningtyas, Nursalam Nursalam   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prognostic Impact of Treatment Modalities, Including Targeted Compartmental Radio‐Immunotherapy, in a Cohort of Neuroblastoma Patients With CNS Metastases at Relapse

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez, Anna Felip‐Badia, Marina Caballero‐Bellon, Nazaret Sanchez‐Sierra, Alicia Castañeda, Moira Garraus, Maite Gorostegui, Margarida Simão‐Rafael, Juan Pablo Muñoz, Marta Perez‐Somarriba, Salvador Mañe, Mariana Cecilia Planells, Sara Perez‐Jaume, Jaume Mora   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychological wellbeing among carers of children and adolescents with physical disabilities in North-Eastern Tanzania—a cross-sectional survey study

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionCaring for physically disabled children, particularly in contexts where resources are often insufficient or absent, exposes primary carers to significant psychological strain.
Elia Asanterabi Swai, Elia Asanterabi Swai, Elia Asanterabi Swai, Haleluya Imanueli Moshi, Haleluya Imanueli Moshi, Sia Emmanueli Msuya, Sia Emmanueli Msuya, Sia Emmanueli Msuya, Ann Sörlin, Klas-Göran Sahlen, Marie Lindkvist   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exemplar models and support for older carers and carers of people with dementia: informing commissioning: Executive Summary [PDF]

, 2018
In May 2017 NHS England commissioned a project to support its Commitment to Carers programme. The focus of the work was to scope exemplar models of support for older carers, and for carers of people with dementia (of any age). The work took place between
Henwood, Melanie, Larkin, Mary, Milne, Alisoun   +2 more
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A qualitative study exploring why adults with intellectual disabilities and obesity want to lose weight and views of their carers [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Obesity is more prevalent in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) compared to the general population. Motivations for weight loss may influence engagement with weight management programmes and have only been studied in adults without ...
Bleazard, L., Hankey, C. R., Harris, L., Jones, N., Melville, C. A.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Why carers matter [PDF]

BMJ, 2018
Helen Cowan’s husband is quadriplegic and she helps care for him at home.
openaire   +2 more sources

Pathogenic Germline PALB2 and RAD50 Variants in Patients With Relapsed Ewing Sarcoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Approximately 10% of patients with Ewing sarcoma (EwS) have pathogenic germline variants. Here, we report two cases: first, a novel germline pathogenic variant in partner and localizer of BRCA2 (PALB2) in a patient with a late EwS relapse. Its impact on homologous recombination is demonstrated, and breast cancer risk is discussed.
Molly Mack, A. Carolina Tufino, Mohd Azrin Jamalruddin, Sreya Dey, Yinghong Pan, Elina Mukherjee, Jessica D. Daley, Julia Meade, Mahmoud Aarabi, Lisa Maurer, James Cooper, Kara A. Bernstein, Kelly M. Bailey   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interventions to support the mental health of family carers of children with brain injury in low and middle income countries: a scoping review

Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
AimTo review the international evidence base on interventions to support the mental health of family carers of children with brain injuries in low and middle income countries (LMIC).MethodsSearches were conducted with five electronic databases (Pubmed ...
M. A. Linden, R. Leonard, L. Ewing-Cobbs, K. C. Davis, L. Schrieff-Brown   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source