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Impact of a decision aid about stratified ovarian cancer risk-management on women's knowledge and intentions: a randomised online experimental survey study.
(2017-11-16)
BACKGROUND: Risk stratification using genetic and other types of personal information could improve current best available approaches to ovarian cancer risk reduction, improving identification of women at increased risk ...
The development and evaluation of a five-language multi-perspective standardised measure: clinical decision-making involvement and satisfaction (CDIS).
(2014-07-28)
BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a brief quantitative five-language measure of involvement and satisfaction in clinical decision-making (CDIS) - with versions for patients (CDIS-P) and staff ...
The impact of a social prescribing service on patients in primary care: a mixed methods evaluation.
(2017-12-19)
BACKGROUND: Social prescribing is targeted at isolated and lonely patients. Practitioners and patients jointly develop bespoke well-being plans to promote social integration and or social reactivation. Our aim was to ...
Histological confirmation of breast cancer registration and self-reporting in England and Wales: a cohort study within the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening.
(2012-06-05)
BACKGROUND: In research studies, accurate information of cancer diagnosis is crucial. In women with breast cancer (BC), we compare cancer registration (CR) in England/Wales and self-reporting with independent confirmation. ...
Dietary patterns and respiratory health in adults from nine European countries-Evidence from the GA2 LEN study.
(2018-11)
BACKGROUND: Dietary patterns defined using principal component analysis (PCA) offer an alternative to the analysis of individual foods and nutrients and have been linked with asthma and allergic disease. However, results ...
Prevalence and factors associated with a higher risk of neck and back pain among permanent wheelchair users: a cross-sectional study.
(2018-04)
STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence of, and factors associated with, spinal pain among wheelchair users. SETTING: Four Spanish hospitals specialized in providing care for wheelchair ...
Patient-reported outcomes of parenteral somatostatin analogue injections in 195 patients with acromegaly.
(2016-03)
BACKGROUND: Long-acting somatostatin analogues delivered parenterally are the most widely used medical treatment in acromegaly. This patient-reported outcomes survey was designed to assess the impact of chronic injections ...
Women's preferences for alternative financial incentive schemes for breastfeeding: A discrete choice experiment.
(2018)
BACKGROUND: Increasing breastfeeding rates have been associated with reductions in disease in babies and mothers as well as in related costs. 'Nourishing Start for Health (NoSH)', a financial incentive scheme has been ...
Does livestock protect from malaria or facilitate malaria prevalence? A cross-sectional study in endemic rural areas of Indonesia.
(2018-08-20)
BACKGROUND: Ever since it was discovered that zoophilic vectors can transmit malaria, zooprophylaxis has been used to prevent the disease. However, zoopotentiation has also been observed. Thus, the presence of livestock ...
Childhood maltreatment and adult medical morbidity in mood disorders: comparison of unipolar depression with bipolar disorder.
(2018-11)
BACKGROUND: The medical burden in mood disorders is high; various factors are thought to drive this pattern. Little research has examined the role of childhood maltreatment and its effects on medical morbidity in adulthood ...