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Implementing Health‐Related Quality of Life Assessment in Pediatric Oncology: A Feasibility Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background There is growing interest in embedding health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment and patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) within clinical cancer care. This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of implementing an electronic PROM (ePROM) platform to measure HRQoL in children with cancer ...
Mikaela Doig, Sophie Jessop, Jordan R. Hansford, Hien Le, Matthew O'Connor, Peter Gorayski, Andrew Cunningham, Amanda Hutchinson, Victoria Bedford, Eva Bezak, Nayana Parange, Kelly Skelton, Timothy Price, Michala Short   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring of child-specific activities in ambulatory children with and without developmental disabilities

BMC Pediatrics
Background Pediatric healthcare professionals facilitate children to enhance and maintain a physically active lifestyle. Activity monitors (AM) can help pediatric healthcare professionals assess physical activity in everyday life.
Barbara Engels, Manon A. T. Bloemen, Richard Felius, Karlijn Damen, Eline A. M. Bolster, Harriët Wittink, Raoul H. H. Engelbert, Jan Willem Gorter   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Effectiveness of a Community-Based Playgroup in Inspiring Positive Changes in the Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours of Children and their Parents: A Qualitative Case Study

Australian Journal of Environmental Education
The ideal period for implementing environmental education or education for sustainability is during the early childhood years. The educational context of playgroups can be a platform for both children and their parents to learn together and together ...
Zoe Mintoff, Peter Andersen, Jane Warren, Sue Elliott, Carolan Nicholson, Helen Byfield-Fleming, Fiona Barber   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Upacicalcet: A Novel Intravenous Calcimimetic Agent for Patients Undergoing Hemodialysis With Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is a common complication in patients receiving maintenance dialysis, driven by calcium and phosphate metabolism disturbances. Calcimimetics are central to the management of SHPT by enhancing calcium‐sensing receptor sensitivity and reducing parathyroid hormone secretion.
Fumihiko Koiwa, Daisuke Honda, Seigo Akari, Tadao Akizawa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives of Physiotherapists on Immune Functioning in Oncological Rehabilitation in the Netherlands: Insights from a Qualitative Study

Applied Sciences
Oncology physiotherapists frequently provide care for patients experiencing severe immunosuppression. Exercise immunology, the science that studies the effects of exercise on the immune system, is a rapidly evolving field with direct relevance to ...
Anne M. S. de Hoop, Karin Jäger, Jaap J. Dronkers, Cindy Veenhof, Jelle P. Ruurda, Cyrille A. M. Krul, Raymond H. H. Pieters, Karin Valkenet   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Schools essay competition: What does ‘sustainable living’ mean to you?

Envigogika, 2013
The Living Rainforest, a UK-based charity, has announced its 2014 global essay competition for schoolchildren. The initiative invites schoolchildren in two entry categories – primary (age 7-11) and secondary (age 11-17) –  to outline their ideas for ...
Editorial office
doaj   +1 more source

Exceptional Spaces for Sustainable Living: The Regulation of One Planet Developments in the Open Countryside

Planning Theory & Practice, 2019
This paper explores the ‘regime of practices’ that are put in place when novel forms of sustainable living in the countryside are proposed that nevertheless contrast with established planning rationalities of urban containment and countryside protection.
Neil Harris
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Learning for a Change: Exploring the Relationship Between Education and Sustainable Development [PDF]

, 2007
Whether we view sustainable development as our greatest challenge or a subversive litany, every phase of education is now being urged to declare its support for education for sustainable development (ESD).
Argyris, C., Argyris, C., Darnton, A., Festinger, L., Paul Vare, van Matre, S., Vare, P., William Scott   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Adjunctive Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Refractory Adult‐Onset Still's Disease Complicated by Secondary Macrophage Activation Syndrome: A Single‐Center Experience

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adult‐onset Still's disease (AOSD) complicated by macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) carries substantial mortality. The role of therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) remains uncertain. Methods We retrospectively analyzed patients with AOSD‐MAS treated with TPE at a single‐center.
Masataka Ueda, Tomohiro Saito, Masahide Mizobuchi, Tomoki Shimomura, Saki Kawamori, Mitsuru Kawanishi, Natsuko Hattori, Jo Sugiyama, Satoshi Tsubata, Hanami Horiguchi, Kazuki Abe, Nao Iida, Yuki Kajio, Nao Oguro, Ryo Yanai, Hirokazu Honda   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Walking for Sustainable Living

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2013
AbstractThere is an obvious but less stated link between walkability and sustainability. This study aims to highlight this link. Walkable communities help to cut greenhouse gas and other emissions by requiring less driving, improve residents’ health by providing more opportunities for exercise, reduce crime by facilitating social interaction, support ...
openaire   +3 more sources