[Outpatient psychosocial screening in a skin cancer center: acceptance, psychosocial distress and utilization of support : A post hoc analysis in a quality management program].

Background: Psychosocial care of cancer patients is an important aspect throughout the entire course of oncological treatment. Since 2015, psychosocial screening has been implemented in the outpatient clinics of the Skin Cancer Center in Freiburg. We present here a post hoc analysis in the context of a quality management program.

[Communication training in otorhinolaryngology education : Comparison of an online and a classroom-based training course].

Background: Communication skills are among the most important key qualifications of the medical profession. To what extent these can also be acquired online in medical education in otolaryngology is investigated in this study.

Objective: A voluntary online training for the teaching of communication skills was compared with a corresponding face-to-face format.

Men's Access to Outpatient Psychosocial Cancer Counseling—a Cluster-Randomized Trial.

Background: Men make use of outpatient cancer counseling less commonly than women, even when they stand to benefit from it.

Methods: In a cluster-randomized trial (registered under DRKS00032181), we studied whether measures on multiple levels (information for referring physicians, public information, structural changes, offerings specifically for male patients) over a period of 12 months would be able to increase the percentage of men among patients seeking outpatient cancer counseling (primary endpoint, initial contact; secondary endpoint, all contacts). The intervention effect was quantified by the fitting of generalized linear mixed models to obtain an odds ratio, which was adjusted for cluster structure and for the percentages of first contacts and of all contacts during the 12 months before the start of the intervention.

Self-management in adults after solid-organ transplantation: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: After solid-organ transplantation (SOTx), recipients must adhere to a lifelong medical regimen, change their lifestyle and cope with physiological and psychosocial challenges. This requires active participation in their care and self-management abilities. The concept of self-management after SOTx has only been described regarding specific organs and focused on adherence to medical treatment.

Mindfulness and skills-based eHealth intervention to reduce distress in cancer-affected patients in the Reduct trial: Intervention protocol of the make it training optimized.

Introduction: Cancer-affected patients experience high distress due to various burdens. One way to expand psycho-oncological support is through digital interventions. This protocol describes the development and structure of a web-based psycho-oncological intervention, the Make It Training optimized.

How to Measure the Mental Health of Teachers? Psychometric Properties of the GHQ-12 in a Large Sample of German Teachers.

To improve the health status of teachers, there is a need for good and reliable instruments to continuously assess their mental health. The current study proposed the GHQ-12 questionnaire as an appropriate instrument for measuring the mental health of teachers. The GHQ-12 is a well-established screening instrument that has mostly been applied in non-teaching samples.

Web-based mindfulness and skills-based distress reduction for patients with cancer: study protocol of the multicentre, randomised, controlled confirmatory intervention trial Reduct.

Introduction: Many patients with cancer experience severe psychological distress, but as a result of various barriers, few of them receive psycho-oncological support. E-mental health interventions try to overcome some of these barriers and the limitation of healthcare offers, enabling patients with cancer to better cope with psychological distress. In the proposed trial, we aim to assess the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the manualised e-mental health intervention Make It Training- Mindfulness-Based and Skills-Based Distress Reduction in Oncology.

A multiplexed phospholipid membrane platform for curvature sensitive protein screening.

The curvature of lipid membranes plays a key role in many relevant biological processes such as membrane trafficking, vesicular budding and host-virus interactions. In vitro studies on the membrane curvature of simplified biomimetic models in the nanometer range are challenging, due to their complicated nanofabrication processes. In this work, we propose a simple and low-cost platform for curvature sensitive protein screening, prepared through scanning probe lithography (SPL) methods, where lipid bilayer patches of different compositions can be multiplexed onto substrate areas with tailored local curvature.

[Specific Contribution of Psychosocial Cancer Counselling Centers - Perspectives of the Person Seeking Advice and the Referring Professional].

Aim: The aim of the study is to look at the specific contribution of outpatient cancer counselling centers (OCCC) from the perspective of both the person seeking advice and the referring health care professionals.

Methods: Qualitative design by means of guideline-based face-to-face interviews with cancer patients/relatives and individual telephone interviews with referring health care professionals.

Results: A total of 43 persons seeking advice and 30 referring health care professionals were interviewed.

Psychooncological care for patients with cancer during 12 months of the Covid-19 pandemic: Views and experiences of senior psychooncologists at German Comprehensive Cancer Centers.

A monthly videoconference was maintained over 1 year, allowing senior psychooncologists from German Comprehensive Cancer Centers to discuss the implications of the Covid‐19 pandemic for psychooncological care. In the early phase of the pandemic, a widespread disruption of psychooncological services was noted. Rapidly developed adaptations of regular services worked well and sometimes brought about unexpected, creative solutions.

Feedback in medical education - a workshop report with practical examples and recommendations.

As a teaching method, feedback is an integral part of medical education. However, there is a lack of a uniform theoretical basis or generally recognized guidelines for its specific design. Against this background, the aim of this article is to discuss conceptual considerations and empirical findings regarding feedback using various practical examples.

Hydrogen Production from the LOHC Perhydro-Dibenzyl-Toluene and Purification Using a 5 µm PdAg-Membrane in a Coupled Microstructured System.

Hydrogen bound in organic liquid hydrogen carriers (LOHC) such as dibenzyl-toluene enables simple and safe handling as well as long-term storage. This idea is particularly interesting in the context of the energy transition, where hydrogen is considered a key energy carrier. The LOHC technology serves as a storage between volatile energy and locally and timely independent consumption.

[Surveys as Quality Management Measures in Psychosocial Cancer Counselling Centers].

Aim: The aim of the present survey was to describe and evaluate experiences of German psychosocial cancer counselling centers with user surveys as a quality management measure.

Methods: Representatives of various psychosocial cancer counselling centers were asked to prepare an experience report on user surveys. Nine field reports were presented and discussed in summary by the working group "Cancer Counselling Centers" of the Working Group Psychooncology of the German Cancer Society (PSO).

Intensified LOHC-Dehydrogenation Using Multi-Stage Microstructures and Pd-Based Membranes.

Liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) are able to store hydrogen stably and safely in liquid form. The carrier can be loaded or unloaded with hydrogen via catalytic reactions. However, the release reaction brings certain challenges.

Recent Developments in Compact Membrane Reactors with Hydrogen Separation.

Hydrogen production and storage in small and medium scale, and chemical heat storage from renewable energy, are of great interest nowadays. Micro-membrane reactors for reforming of methane, as well as for the dehydrogenation of liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs), have been developed. The systems consist of stacked plates with integrated palladium (Pd) membranes.

[Outpatient Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability].

Outpatient Psychotherapy for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disability The psychiatric morbidity risk for people with intellectual disability is considerably increased. Psychotherapy is considered as one possible treatment. Among experts the caresituation is described as substantial insufficient.

[Cognitive-Behavioral Group Therapy Addressing Fear of Progression in Cancer Out-Patients].

Fear of progression (FoP) is an appropriate, rational response to the real threat of cancer and its treatments. However, patients experiencing elevated, dysfunctional levels of FoP often feel severely distressed and are in need of treatment. We previously conducted a (partly-)randomized controlled study with cancer patients undergoing in-patient rehabilitation and showed that a brief, four-session cognitive-behavioral group therapy significantly reduced dysfunctional FoP.

Desire and reality--teaching and assessing communicative competencies in undergraduate medical education in German-speaking Europe--a survey.

Objectives: Increasingly, communicative competencies are becoming a permanent feature of training and assessment in German-speaking medical schools (n=43; Germany, Austria, Switzerland - "D-A-CH"). In support of further curricular development of communicative competencies, the survey by the "Communicative and Social Competencies" (KusK) committee of the German Society for Medical Education (GMA) systematically appraises the scope of and form in which teaching and assessment take place.

Methods: The iterative online questionnaire, developed in cooperation with KusK, comprises 70 questions regarding instruction (n=14), assessment (n=48), local conditions (n=5), with three fields for further remarks.

The Basic Documentation for Psycho-Oncology Short Form (PO-Bado SF)--an expert rating scale for distress screening: development and psychometric properties.

Background: The aim of this study is to validate the Basic Documentation for Psycho-Oncology Short Form (PO-Bado SF), a six item interview-based expert rating scale for distress screening in cancer patients.

Methods: Using a heterogeneous multicenter study sample (n = 1551), we examined validity, reliability, and dimensionality of the PO-Bado SF. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Distress Thermometer, the Questionnaire on Stress in Cancer, and the Patient Health Questionnaire were used to investigate convergent validity.

A controlled trial to determine the efficacy of red and near-infrared light treatment in patient satisfaction, reduction of fine lines, wrinkles, skin roughness, and intradermal collagen density increase.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the safety and efficacy of two novel light sources for large area and full body application, providing polychromatic, non-thermal photobiomodulation (PBM) for improving skin feeling and appearance.

Background Data: For non-thermal photorejuvenation, laser and LED light sources have been demonstrated to be safe and effective. However, lasers and LEDs may offer some disadvantages because of dot-shaped (punctiform) emission characteristics and their narrow spectral bandwidths.

Development and evaluation of a checklist assessing communication skills of oncologists: the COM-ON-Checklist.

Objectives: Communication skills training (CST) has to be proven effective, and therefore reliable instruments to evaluate CST are required. Most instruments assessing medical consultations do not take individual aspects of CST into consideration. Such assessment tools should naturally also be closely associated with the communication skills taught to the participants.