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Animal‐Assisted Activities With Therapy Dogs in Pediatric Oncology: A Multicenter Survey of the Current Status, Implementation, and Challenges in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Animal‐assisted activities (AAAs) with therapy dogs have shown positive effects on patient well‐being and quality of life in various areas of medicine, including pediatric oncology. However, research on this topic is limited. The aim of this study is to present the current status of AAA in pediatric oncology in Germany, Austria, and
Jan‐Marius Wedig, Birgit Burkhardt, Christof M. Kramm, Kira Ostermann, Sarah C. Goretzki, Uta Dirksen, Nico Kurpiers, Michael M. Schündeln   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

On Hierarchical Composite Endpoints in Pediatric Cancer Supportive Care: Illustrative Examples From Two Multi‐Center Phase‐III Randomized Clinical Trials

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric supportive care clinical trials often involve multiple clinically important outcomes, complicating trial interpretation. Hierarchical composite endpoints (HCEs) provide a framework to integrate key outcomes according to clinical importance.
Willem H. Collier, Mark Zobeck, Adam J. Esbenshade, Christopher C. Dvorak, Lillian Sung, David Freyer, Sarah Alexander, Etan Orgel, Nicole J. Ullrich, Zach Prudowsky, Brian Fisher, Caitlin W. Elgarten   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chimpanzee extractive foraging with excavating tools: Experimental modeling of the origins of human technology.

PLoS ONE, 2019
It is hypothesized that tool-assisted excavation of plant underground storage organs (USOs) played an adaptive role in hominin evolution and was also once considered a uniquely human behavior.
Alba Motes-Rodrigo, Parandis Majlesi, Travis Rayne Pickering, Matthias Laska, Helene Axelsen, Tanya C Minchin, Claudio Tennie, R Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar   +7 more
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A Population‐Based Study on Childhood Aplastic Anemia—Incidence, Outcomes, and Health‐Related Quality of Life

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Childhood aplastic anemia (AA) is a rare disease, and both the disease itself and its treatment cause significant morbidity. We aimed to determine the contemporary incidence of childhood AA in Finland, to compare the clinical characteristics of AA against inherited bone marrow failure syndromes (IBMFS) and refractory cytopenia of ...
Lauri‐Matti Kulmala, Riitta Niinimäki, Tytti Pokka, Anu Huurre, Liisa Järvelä, Sauli Palmu, Tuuli Pöyhönen, Pauliina Utriainen, Henri Aarnivala   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The development of a dietary nutrient density educational tool and the investigation of its acceptance by Chinese residents from Henan province

BMC Public Health
Objectives Helping residents select nutrient-dense foods is a strategy to improve their diet quality. However, communication based on the nutrient-dense foods as a positive attribute has not been widely used in nutritional education.
Junya Zhai, Xu Zhang, Pipasha Khatun, Saiqi Wang, Minghua Cong, Rui Liang, Fangfang Yao, Huan Liu, Jin Qin, Lijun Guo, Yongxia Kong, Hongbo Wu, Baihui Ma   +12 more
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Validation of the brief screening of Social Network Addiction Risk

Acta Psychologica
Introduction: This study aims to develop a valid and reliable tool to evaluate social network behavior in young adults. Methods: To validate the Brief screening for Social Network Addiction Risk (BSNA), data from 776 Italian young adults (64.3 % of women)
Francesca Favieri, Giuseppe Forte, Marco Savastano, Maria Casagrande   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Chemotherapy in Pediatric Myoepithelial Carcinoma: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Myoepithelial carcinoma (MEC) in pediatric patients is a rare and aggressive malignancy characterized by heterogeneous morphology and variable molecular features. The optimal role of chemotherapy remains unclear. We conducted a systematic review according to PRISMA 2020 guidelines to evaluate chemotherapy in pediatric and young‐adult patients ...
Marco Salvi, Maria Carmen Affinita, Giulia Fichera, Luisa Santoro, Angela Scagnellato, Calogero Virgone, Elena Poli, Gianni Bisogno   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determining Parental Factors for Clinical Trial Attrition in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Despite high enrollment rates on Children's Oncology Group (COG) protocols, attrition after initial consent is challenging, introducing bias and prolonging trial completion. While adult oncology literature has identified predictors of withdrawal, little is known about caregiver decision‐making for child participation in ...
Kimberly L. Stathas, Jakob Q. Weiss, Kellee N. Parker, Cathy Lee‐Miller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of self-care tooling and phylogenetic modeling reveal parrot tool use is not rare

iScience
Summary: Putatively rare behaviors like tool use are difficult to study because absence of evidence can arise from a species’ inability to produce the behavior or from insufficient research.
Amalia P.M. Bastos, Scott Claessens, Ximena J. Nelson, David Welch, Quentin D. Atkinson, Alex H. Taylor   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why Don't All Animals Use Tools? [PDF]

Animal Behavior and Cognition
Tools give humans superpowers, so why don’t all animals use them? Though technology is ubiquitous in our own species, we remain unable to predict when, why, and among whom tool use will arise elsewhere in the animal kingdom.
Michael Haslam, Abigail Desmond
doaj   +1 more source