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The HIT Network for Children and Adolescents With CNS Tumors Facilitates Improvements of Diagnostic Assessments, Multimodal Treatments, Individual Counseling, and Research in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The HIT network was established in 2000 to create a population‐based structure aiming to improve survival rates and reduce late effects for children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors by conducting comprehensive clinical trials.
Stefan Rutkowski   +59 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exchanges in a Virtual Environment for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support: Social Network Analysis

open access: yesJMIR Diabetes, 2021
BackgroundDiabetes remains a major health problem in the United States, affecting an estimated 10.5% of the population. Diabetes self-management interventions improve diabetes knowledge, self-management behaviors, and clinical outcomes.
Pérez-Aldana, Carlos A   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The co-evolution of emotional well-being with weak and strong friendship ties

open access: yes, 2017
Social ties are strongly related to well-being. But what characterizes this relationship? This study investigates social mechanisms explaining how social ties affect well-being through social integration and social influence, and how well-being affects ...
Boda, Zsofia   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Social support for South Asian Muslim parents with life-limiting illness living in Scotland:a multiperspective qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Objective: To explore experiences of social support needs among South Asian Muslim patients with life-limiting illness, living in Scotland, who are parents of young children.
Gaveras, Eleni Margareta   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Unheard and Under‐Supported: Health‐Related Quality of Life in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Sickle Cell Disease

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is an autosomal recessive hemoglobinopathy affecting millions of individuals worldwide. The clinical expression and psychosocial burden of SCD vary widely across geographical, cultural, and healthcare system contexts, underscoring the need for setting‐specific approaches to assessment.
Desiré Fantasia   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

SOCIAL NETWORKS THAT SUPPORT WOMEN DURING BREASTFEEDING

open access: yesCogitare Enfermagem, 2015
This was an integrative literature review, with the aim to describe the social networks that support women during breastfeeding. The search took place in January 2014 with the following inclusion criteria: articles written in Portuguese, English and ...
Cândida Caniçali Primo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social support networks among street-dwellers in Temuco, Chile

open access: yesCultura-Hombre-Sociedad, 2015
The homeless have come to constitute a form of urban life that activates its own resources and environment. The aim of this study was to characterize the social networks which provide sociocultural support to the homeless.
Héctor Parada Hernández
doaj   +1 more source

Social Support Networks Among Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Previous research using predominantly adult populations has found that social support is positively correlated with an individual’s quality of overall health and wellbeing.
Hapke, Laura
core   +1 more source

Formalising the multidimensional nature of social networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Individuals interact with conspecifics in a number of behavioural contexts or dimensions. Here, we formalise this by considering a social network between n individuals interacting in b behavioural dimensions as a nxnxb multidimensional object.
Barrett, Louise   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

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