Pediatric Balance Scale: Translation and Cross-Cultural Adaptation Into Greek.

Purpose: Cross-cultural adaptation of the Pediatric Balance Scale (PBS) into Greek.

Methods: The PBS was forward-back translated and evaluated for content equivalence. The Greek PBS (PBSGR) was administered to children with movement impairments by 2 pediatric physical therapists.

Attitudes towards people with disabilities across different healthcare undergraduate students: A cluster analysis approach.

Background And Purpose: Negative attitudes towards disability amongst healthcare professionals endanger social inclusion of people with disabilities (PwD). This study aimed to investigate the attitude of undergraduate healthcare students of various disciplines towards PwD, including specific aspects of their attitude.

Methods: We assessed the attitudes of university students, including physiotherapy, speech therapy, nursing, social work and medical students, through the Greek Interaction with Disabled Person Scale (IDPS) in a survey.

What are the optimum training parameters of progressive resistance exercise for changes in muscle function, activity and participation in people with cerebral palsy? A systematic review and meta-regression.

Objectives: To explore the effect of progressive resistance exercise (PRE) on impairment, activity and participation of people with cerebral palsy (CP). Also, to determine which programme parameters provide the most beneficial effects.

Data Sources: Electronic databases searched from the earliest available time.

Physiotherapists' Perceptions and Willingness to Use Telerehabilitation in Greece: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected the healthcare system and the practice of physiotherapists. Telerehabilitation is an alternative method of delivering physiotherapy services. The aim of this study was to investigate physiotherapists' knowledge, beliefs, and willingness to use telerehabilitation in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Functional activity and communication-social ability of youths with developmental disabilities: a qualitative study.

[Purpose] To describe the functional activity and the communication-social ability levels of youths with developmental disabilities and to determine whether demographic factors predict these levels. [Participants and Methods] A mixed, observational and qualitative, study in which parents of students with developmental disabilities were interviewed based on the WeeFIM questions. Both quantitative and qualitative data were analysed.

The 2021 Core Content of Medical Toxicology.

The Medical Toxicology Subboard approved modifications to the Core Content of Medical Toxicology in March 2021. The document outlines the areas of knowledge considered essential for the practice of medical toxicology. The Core Content provides the organizational framework for the development of the Medical Toxicology Certification and Cognitive Expertise Examinations and serves as a template for the development of curricula for medical toxicology fellowship training programs.

The Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale: evidencing construct validity with factor analysis and measurement invariance in Greek-speaking healthcare students.

Purpose: To explore the construct validity and reliability of the Greek version of the Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale (IDPS) amongst healthcare students.

Methods: Greek IDPS factors were extracted and confirmed by Analysis of Moment Structures. Measurement invariance for the group of students completing a clinical module with people with disabilities was also evaluated.

Mechanically assisted walking training for walking, participation, and quality of life in children with cerebral palsy.

Background: Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in childhood. Mechanically assisted walking training can be provided with or without body weight support to enable children with cerebral palsy to perform repetitive practice of complex gait cycles. It is important to examine the effects of mechanically assisted walking training to identify evidence-based treatments to improve walking performance.

"Greek KOOS-Child: a valid, disease specific, diagnostically accurate and responsive PROM in children with knee-related pathology".

Purpose: The Knee Injury Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS)-Child questionnaire is one of the frequently child-friendly measures used in pediatric studies. The aim of this study was to transculturally adapt the Greek version of KOOS-Child and evaluate its clinimetric properties in children with knee disorders.

Methods: Children visiting the Outpatients Orthopaedic Clinic of a Greek Paediatric General Hospital were considered eligible if they were aged 8-14 years, had a knee soft tissue injury and associated physical limitations.

A Rare Case of Mad Honey Disease: A Reversible Cause of Complete Heart Block.

This case describes a patient with hypotension, bradycardia, and third-degree atrioventricular block following ingestion of a grayanotoxin-containing species, or lily of the valley bush. Although unlikely in metropolitan environments, physicians should be aware of the possibility of grayanotoxin ingestion when confronted with new-onset heart block even in nonendemic areas. ().

The Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale: translation and cross-cultural validation into Greek.

Aim: Cross-cultural adaptation of the Interaction with Disabled Persons Scale (IDPS) into Greek.

Methods: The IDPS was forward and back-translated by two bilingual physiotherapists and a Greek-English translator, respectively. Greek-speaking health professionals provided modifications in order to develop the final version of the Scale.

Computer-Based Substance Use Reporting and Acceptance of HIV Testing Among Emergency Department Patients.

More than 10 years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended routine HIV testing for patients in emergency departments (ED) and other clinical settings, as many as three out of four patients may not be offered testing, and those who are offered testing frequently decline. The current study examines how participant characteristics, including demographics and reported substance use, influence the efficacy of a video-based intervention designed to increase HIV testing among ED patients who initially declined tests offered by hospital staff. Data from three separate trials in a high volume New York City ED were merged to determine whether patients (N = 560) were more likely to test post-intervention if: (1) they resembled people who appeared onscreen in terms of gender or race; or (2) they reported problem substance use.

Activity training on the ground in children with cerebral palsy: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

: To systematically review the evidence about whether activity training on the ground is effective on activity or participation in children with cerebral palsy. : Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were searched in databases using relevant keywords. RCTs were included with children (≤18 years) with cerebral palsy who received activity training on the ground only or activity training on the ground combined with another type of physiotherapy.

Mobile Technology to Increase HIV/HCV Testing and Overdose Prevention/Response among People Who Inject Drugs.

The United States faces dramatically increasing rates of opioid overdose deaths, as well as persistent ongoing problems of undiagnosed HIV and HCV infection. These problems commonly occur together in substance using populations that have limited, if any, access to primary care and other routine health services. To collectively address all three issues, we developed the Mobile Intervention Kit (MIK), a tablet computer-based intervention designed to provide overdose prevention and response training and to facilitate HIV/HCV testing in community settings.

Staff Perspectives on a Tablet-Based Intervention to Increase HIV Testing in a High Volume, Urban Emergency Department.

Emergency departments (EDs) frequently serve people who have limited, if any, additional interactions with health care, yet many ED patients are not offered HIV testing, and those who are frequently decline. ED staff ( = 13) at a high volume urban ED (technicians, nurses, physicians, and administrators) were interviewed to elicit their perspectives on the feasibility and acceptability of a tablet-based intervention designed to increase HIV test rates among patients who initially decline testing. Content-based thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews indicated overall support for interventions to increase HIV testing, but a lack of available staff resources emerged as a potential barrier to widespread implementation.

Perspectives on Tablet-based Multimedia Interventions for Behavioral Health: Populations, Venues, and Delivery Modalities.

The current paper reports on a study examining the use of a tablet-based multimedia intervention to increase HIV test rates among patients in a New York City hospital Emergency Department (ED) serving the Harlem area. The findings from this qualitative analysis of 40 ED patient interviews indicates how tablet-based multimedia can be expanded and adapted to serve a wide-range of at-risk populations and address salient public health concerns including the reduction of blood-borne disease transmission, drug overdose reduction, and increasing the health, empowerment and well-being of historically stigmatized and marginalized populations in global contexts.

Evidence-based recommendations on the use of intravenous lipid emulsion therapy in poisoning.

Background: Although intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE) was first used to treat life-threatening local anesthetic (LA) toxicity, its use has expanded to include both non-local anesthetic (non-LA) poisoning and less severe manifestations of toxicity. A collaborative workgroup appraised the literature and provides evidence-based recommendations for the use of ILE in poisoning.

Methods: Following a systematic review of the literature, data were summarized in four publications: LA and non-LA poisoning efficacy, adverse effects, and analytical interferences.

Feasibility of a Computer-Based Intervention Addressing Barriers to HIV Testing Among Young Patients Who Decline Tests at Triage.

Young people face greatly increased human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk and high rates of undiagnosed HIV, yet are unlikely to test. Many also have limited or inconsistent access to health care, including HIV testing and prevention education, and prior research has documented that youth lack knowledge necessary to understand the HIV test process and to interpret test results. Computer-based interventions have been used to increase HIV test rates and knowledge among emergency department (ED) patients, including those who decline tests offered at triage.

MOBILE SCREENING TO IDENTIFY AND FOLLOW-UP WITH HIGH RISK, HIV NEGATIVE YOUTH.

Background: HIV prevalence remains disproportionately high among youth, especially among young men who have sex with men, young people with substance use disorders, and recently incarcerated youth. However, youth may not report behavioral risks because they fear stigma or legal consequences. While routine HIV screening programs have increased testing, current programs are not designed to identify, or provide prevention services to, high-risk patients who test HIV negative.

Systematic review of the effect of intravenous lipid emulsion therapy for local anesthetic toxicity.

Background: Following national and regional recommendations, intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE) has become established in clinical practice as a treatment for acute local anesthetic (LA) toxicity, although evidence of efficacy is limited to animal studies and human case reports. A collaborative lipid emulsion workgroup was therefore established by the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology to review the evidence on the effect of ILE for LA toxicity.

Methods: We performed a systematic review of the literature published through 15 December 2014.

Methodology for AACT evidence-based recommendations on the use of intravenous lipid emulsion therapy in poisoning.

Intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE) therapy is a novel treatment that was discovered in the last decade. Despite unclear understanding of its mechanisms of action, numerous and diverse publications attested to its clinical use. However, current evidence supporting its use is unclear and recommendations are inconsistent.

The effects of progressive resistance training on daily physical activity in young people with cerebral palsy: a randomised controlled trial.

Purpose: To examine if individualised resistance training increases the daily physical activity of adolescents and young adults with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (CP).

Method: Young people with bilateral spastic CP were randomly assigned to intervention or to usual care. The intervention group completed an individualised lower limb progressive resistance training programme twice a week for 12 weeks in community gymnasiums.