Photovoice as a tool to improve patient-Provider communication in inflammatory bowel disease clinic: A feasibility study.

Background: The emotional health of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is critical to self-management, but has been difficult to elucidate in routine care. Patients are often unsure how to communicate their preferences and concerns to their providers in ways that could directly inform shared decision making. Photovoice is an established research methodology used to give vulnerable patients a voice through photographic expression, but has not been previously used in gastroenterology or in IBD.

Enhancing the Communication of Suddenly Speechless Critical Care Patients.

Background: Sudden speechlessness is common in critically ill patients who are intubated or have had surgery for head and neck cancer. Sudden inability to speak poses challenges for hospitalized patients because strategies to facilitate communication are often limited and unreliable.

Objective: To determine the impact of a technology-based communication intervention on patients' perception of communication difficulty, satisfaction with communication methods, and frustration with communication.

Development of a communication intervention to assist hospitalized suddenly speechless patients.

Healthcare staff face significant challenges while caring for hospitalized patients experiencing sudden inability to verbalize their needs (sudden speechlessness). Familiar methods of communication such as non-verbal strategies are limited and often fail to assist suddenly speechless patients (SS) communicate their needs. Consequently, strategies tailored to the needs of hospitalized speechless patients are necessary, and must consider factors intrinsic to the patients and the complexities of the acute care environment.

[Role of the father in the assisted reproduction project].

The legal obligations concerning ART and the role assigned to the father, with his active and voluntary participation in all the steps of IVF, but also in the pregnancy and delivery, have contributed to establishing a sort of "pre-conception" ideal paternity model that should not, however, mask a certain number of failures.

[Psychological management of women with implantation failure].

Women who have been proposed to assess endometrial receptivity seem to be very interested in participating to this research. This biological re-start, when repeated failures contributes to self devalorization. Recent progresses in medical understanding of the physiology of implantation (endometrium cytokines) give a possible answer to the question of repeated implantation failures: men and women are able again to do something instead of being victims.