How health literacy relates to venous leg ulcer healing: A scoping review [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Background The level of personal health literacy of patients with venous leg ulcers is likely to affect their ability to self-manage their condition impacting on their adherence to treatment and influences healing and recovery outcomes.
Ayoub Bouguettaya +5 more
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Daily life after healing of a venous leg ulcer: A lifeworld phenomenological study [PDF]
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being, 2022 Purpose Venous leg ulcer is a recognized condition, affecting people globally. Ulcers mainly affect the elderly and recurrences are not uncommon. There is knowledge about life with venous leg ulcers, but the situation after healing is unexplored.
Marcus Rosenburg +3 more
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Patient Explanation of Adherence and Non-Adherence to Venous Leg Ulcer Treatment: A Qualitative Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 The aim of this study was to understand which factors influence patients’ adherence to venous leg ulcer treatment recommendations in primary care. We adopted a qualitative study design, conducting phone interviews with 31 people with venous leg ulcers in
Carolina D. Weller +3 more
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Egyptian Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, 2017 Introduction Chronic venous leg ulcers are very difficult to treat and take very long time to heal. Compression therapy remains the mainstay of venous ulcer conservative treatment. Aim The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of combined
Rehab A.E Sallam +2 more
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Internal consistency and reliability of the Swiss-French translation of the venous leg ulcer self efficacy tool (VeLUSET) [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Objective This study was conducted to assess the psychometric properties of the translated and adapted Venous Leg Ulcer Self Efficacy Tool (VeLUSET) in the new cultural context.Design Validation studySetting Three outpatient clinics in Western ...
Sebastian Probst +2 more
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Health-related quality of life in patients with venous leg ulcer treated in primary care in Brazil and Portugal. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Venous ulcers constitute an important public health problem as they can cause disability with consequences for multiple dimensions of quality of life.To describe the quality of life in patients with venous leg ulcer treated in primary care in two cities ...
Sandra Maria da Solidade Simões de Oliveira Torres +10 more
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Satisfactory result of great saphenous vein endovenous laser ablation until below the knee on active venous leg ulcer: a case series [version 4; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 Background Active venous leg ulcer (VLU) is the most severe manifestation of chronic venous disease which not only affects patients’ health, but also decreases the quality of life, and delivers economic burdens.
Jonathan Edbert Afandy +5 more
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A non-invasive Ayurveda management of venous leg ulcer- A case report [PDF]
Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative MedicineVenous leg ulcer (VLU) is a severe complication of chronic venous insufficiency that commonly affects older individuals. It is a long-standing consequence of venous insufficiency and accounts for 70%–80% of lower limb ulcers seen in outpatient ...
Archana Muraleedharan +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 BackgroundThere has been limited examination of the contribution of socio-economic factors to the development of leg ulcers, despite the social patterning of many underlying risk factors.
Emily S Petherick +2 more
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