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Care networks of home-dwelling older adults in the Netherlands: proof of concept of a network typology

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Studies on care networks of home-dwelling older adults often focus on network composition. However, looking at network mechanisms (negotiation, navigation and contagion) can be helpful to improve the support generated by the care network.
Wendy Kemper-Koebrugge, Marian Adriaansen, Miranda Laurant, Michel Wensing   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of DEMQOL-U and DEMQOL-PROXY-U: generation of preference-based indices from DEMQOL and DEMQOL-PROXY for use in economic evaluation. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Dementia is one of the most common and serious disorders in later life and the economic and personal cost of caring for people with dementia is immense. There is a need to be able to evaluate interventions in dementia using cost-effectiveness
Chua, K-C, M Knapp, Tait, R.; id_orcid, Lamping, D., Mulhern, B., Loftus, V., Knapp, M, Chua, KC, Chua, Kia-Chong; id_orcid, V Loftus (16171634), K-C Chua (16171631), R Romeo, S Smith (7655660), C Watchurst, D Rowen (12372013), Mulhern, B, R Howard, Smith, S., Brazier, J., Loftus, V, B Mulhern (13379154), Howard, R, J Brazier (12372016), R Romeo (13294005), Banerjee, S., Watchurst, C, Brazier, J, Sube Banerjee (4464202), Rowen, D, Rowen, D., R Tait, T Young (7742429), D Lamping (16171637), S Smith, Smith, S, Knapp, M., J Brazier, C Watchurst (16171628), Young, T., Banerjee, S, Lamping, D, Tait, R, Young, T, D Lamping, Howard, R., B Mulhern, T Young, V Loftus, M Knapp (7807856), Romeo, R, R Howard (13732888), Romeo, R., K-C Chua, R Tait (13658923), S Banerjee, Watchurst, C., D Rowen   +56 more
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Delineating managed land for reporting national greenhouse gas emissions and removals to the United Nations framework convention on climate change

Carbon Balance and Management, 2018
Land use and management activities have a substantial impact on carbon stocks and associated greenhouse gas emissions and removals. However, it is challenging to discriminate between anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic sources and sinks from land.
Stephen M. Ogle, Grant Domke, Werner A. Kurz, Marcelo T. Rocha, Ted Huffman, Amy Swan, James E. Smith, Christopher Woodall, Thelma Krug   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Validity of family child care providers' proxy reports on children's physical activity [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Interventions to promote physical activity (PA) in children attending family child care homes (FCCHs) require valid, yet practical, measurement tools.
Joschtel, Barbara, Trost, Stewart G., Rice, Kelly R.   +2 more
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Health-related quality of life profile of Indonesian children and its determinants: a community-based study

BMC Pediatrics, 2022
Background Assessing health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and its determinants in children may provide a comprehensive view of child health. The study aimed to assess the HRQOL in Indonesian children and its determinants.
Mei Neni Sitaresmi, Braghmandita Widya Indraswari, Nisrina Maulida Rozanti, Zena Sabilatuttaqiyya, Abdul Wahab   +4 more
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Does stage of illness influence recovery-focused outcomes after psychological treatment in bipolar disorder? A systematic review protocol

Systematic Reviews, 2019
Background There is great interest in the possibility that ‘stage of illness’ moderates treatment outcomes in bipolar disorder (BD). Much remains unknown about the construct of stage of illness, but there is evidence that effectiveness of psychosocial ...
Hailey Tremain, Kathryn Fletcher, Jan Scott, Carla McEnery, Michael Berk, Greg Murray   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The development and application of a proxy measure of alcohol-related traffic crashes for rural communities [PDF]

, 2011
Context: To date, no studies have adequately examined whether community-level, rather than individual-level, characteristics, are associated with high rates of alcohol-related traffic crashes (ARTC). Objective: This study aims to identify a proxy measure
Suzanne Czech, Robert Sanson-Fisher, Czech, Suzanne, Shakeshaft, Anthony, Courtney Breen, Anthony Shakeshaft, Sanson-Fisher, Robert, Breen, Courtney   +7 more
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Psychological, social and welfare interventions for psychological health and well-being of torture survivors [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Torture is widespread, with potentially broad and long-lasting impact across physical, psychological, social and other areas of life. Its complex and diverse effects interact with ethnicity, gender, and refugee experience.
Kellezi, B, Patel, N, Williams, ACDC
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Do community-based active case-finding interventions have indirect impacts on wider TB case detection and determinants of subsequent TB testing behaviour? A systematic review.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2021
Community-based active case-finding (ACF) may have important impacts on routine TB case-detection and subsequent patient-initiated diagnosis pathways, contributing "indirectly" to infectious diseases prevention and care. We investigated the impact of ACF
Helena R A Feasey, Rachael M Burke, Marriott Nliwasa, Lelia H Chaisson, Jonathan E Golub, Fahd Naufal, Adrienne E Shapiro, Maria Ruperez, Lily Telisinghe, Helen Ayles, Cecily Miller, Helen E D Burchett, Peter MacPherson, Elizabeth L Corbett   +13 more
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Validation of survey effort measures of grit and self-control in a sample of high school students.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Personality traits such as grit and self-control are important determinants of success in life outcomes. However, most measures of these traits, which rely on self-reports, might be biased when used for the purpose of evaluating education policies or ...
Gema Zamarro, Malachi Nichols, Angela L Duckworth, Sidney K D'Mello   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source