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Psychosocial functioning in individuals with advanced oesophago-gastric cancer: a mixed methods systematic review

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Oesophago-gastric cancer is an aggressive disease with a high rate of recurrence and mortality across the disease trajectory. Reduced psychosocial functioning has been evidenced amongst those with advanced disease, however little is known ...
Cara Ghiglieri, Martin Dempster, Sam Wright, Lisa Graham-Wisener   +3 more
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Psychometric validation of the death literacy index and benchmarking of death literacy level in a representative uk population sample

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Death literacy includes the knowledge and skills that people need to gain access to, understand, and make informed choices about end of life and death care options.
Lisa Graham-Wisener, Paul Toner, Rosemary Leonard, Jenny M. Groarke   +3 more
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Health-related Quality of Life Measurement [PDF]

Journal of Young Pharmacists, 2012
Measurements are very important in all activities so as to differentiate and rank among themselves. Health care services are generally administered by professionals but are received by patients and so they may have different perceptions. Doctors who are providers of health care are almost satisfied with the clinical outcomes.
Muragundi, PM, Tumkur, AM, Shetty, RK, Naik, AN   +3 more
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Physicians’ perceptions and preferences for implementing venous thromboembolism (VTE) clinical practice guidelines: a qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF)

Archives of Public Health, 2022
Background Venous thromboembolism is a primary cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalised patients. Clinical practice guidelines were developed to prevent venous thromboembolism events.
Juliana Abboud, Abir Abdel Rahman, Niaz Shaikh, Martin Dempster, Pauline Adair   +4 more
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The role of companion animals in advanced cancer: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background There is evidence that a companion animal (CA) or ‘pet’ can be helpful during the management of chronic illness. However, the psychological effects of CAs and the mechanism by which they can be beneficial to individuals managing life-limiting ...
William R. G. McGhee, Martin Dempster, Lisa Graham-Wisener   +2 more
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An explorative analysis of the differences in levels of happiness between cancer patients, informal caregivers and the general population

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background Although cancer patients experience distressing symptoms and health-related changes in their quality of life, they may report positive emotional states.
Mayara Goulart de Camargos, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva, Marco Antônio de Oliveira, Paula de Souza Ferreira, Vinicius Tolentino Nardoto de Almeida, Sandra de Andrade Cadamuro, Carla Simone Leite de Almeida, Carlos Eduardo Paiva   +7 more
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Understanding public attitudes to death talk and advance care planning in Northern Ireland using health behaviour change theory: a qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Objectives Advance care planning is a key preparatory step in ensuring high-quality palliative and end of life care, and should be considered as a process, beginning with community-level conversations among lay persons. There is, however, indication that
L. Graham-Wisener, A. Nelson, A. Byrne, I. Islam, C. Harrison, J. Geddis, E. Berry   +6 more
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Association of smoking with poor health-related quality of life among health-profession students in China: A 31-university multilevel, multivariable analysis

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2022
Introduction While many studies have confirmed that smoking is causally associated with various diseases, some have found an association between smoking and human functional impairment. Relationships between smoking and poor healthrelated quality of life
Tingzhong Yang, Sihui Peng, Dan Wu, Ian R. H. Rockett   +3 more
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Prevention of health care associated venous thromboembolism through implementing VTE prevention clinical practice guidelines in hospitalized medical patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Implementation Science, 2020
Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Numerous VTE prevention clinical practice guidelines are available but not consistently implemented.
Juliana Abboud, Abir Abdel Rahman, Lara Kahale, Martin Dempster, Pauline Adair   +4 more
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“It’s a feeling of complete disconnection”: experiences of existential loneliness from youth to older adulthood

BMC Psychology, 2023
Background Existential loneliness is a feeling which stems from a sense of fundamental separation from others and the world. Although commonly mentioned in the loneliness literature, there is relatively little empirical work on this construct, and ...
Phoebe E. McKenna-Plumley, Rhiannon N. Turner, Keming Yang, Jenny M. Groarke   +3 more
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