Publications by authors named "Alain Deppen"
Article Synopsis
- Adolescents with painful functional disorders require care from a specialized interdisciplinary team for effective management.
- Intensive interdisciplinary physical therapy (IIPT) programs have emerged in European hospitals and globally, focusing on rebuilding trust between patients and therapists while easing the coordination burden on parents.
- These IIPT programs have shown medium to long-term effectiveness in enhancing patients' clinical performance and normalizing family life, also presenting a favorable cost-benefit ratio for complex care needs.
Functional disorder during adolescence is a very complex problem too often limited to a psychological origin. Its pathogenesis remains unclear but it definitively associates individual and environmental factors. Recent data show anatomo-functional evidence of neural networks of the brain that is involved in pain and its psychological representation as well as the representation of pain in the body.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutrition is central in pediatric care : essential for growth and development, it plays also a role in the prevention of many diseases.Even if breastfeeding is highly recommended, its implementation may be difficult in particular for premature and ill newborns. The creation of a specific unit for breastfeeding support in neonatology allows to help mothers willing to nurse and to improve the rate of breastfeeding for these vulnerable infants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Little is known about cystic fibrosis patients, who are not considered to be terminally ill, and who die after voluntary cessation of treatment.
Aim: This study was undertaken to provide an international snapshot of this issue.
Design: An online survey was distributed across three continents.
Aim: The aim of this research is to assess the associations between subjective pubertal timing (SPT) and onset of health-compromising behaviours among girls reporting an on-time objective pubertal timing (OPT).
Methods: Data were drawn from the Swiss SMASH 2002 survey, a self-administered questionnaire study conducted among a nationally representative sample of 7548 adolescents aged 16-20 years. From the 3658 girls in the initial sample, we selected only those (n = 1003) who provided information about SPT and who reported the average age at menarche, namely 13, considering this as an on-time OPT.