Evaluating the feasibility of "Friends in Nature," a complex nature-based social intervention to address loneliness and quality of life in six cities worldwide.

Background: Loneliness, a major public health concern, could be alleviated through social interventions with nature contact as a primary component. "Friends in Nature" is a complex nature-based social intervention designed to be implemented as part of "Reimagining Environments for Connection and Engagement: Testing Actions for Social Prescribing in Natural Spaces" (RECETAS). This project aims to alleviate loneliness and promote health-related quality of life in six different geographic areas worldwide.

Care of Older Adults with Mental Illness in Long-Term Care Residential Facility: A Scoping Review.

Objectives: Mental illness affects approximately 1 in 8 people globally, with approximately 15% of adults aged 60 years and older experiencing a mental disorder. With the aging population, there is a growing demand for long-term care. This scoping review focuses on older adults with non-neurocognitive and non-neurodevelopmental mental illnesses (NNNDMIs) in nursing homes, exploring how the care is provided.

Nature-based social interventions to address loneliness among vulnerable populations: a common study protocol for three related randomized controlled trials in Barcelona, Helsinki, and Prague within the RECETAS European project.

Background: The negative effects of loneliness on population health and wellbeing requires interventions that transcend the medical system and leverage social, cultural, and public health system resources. Group-based social interventions are a potential method to alleviate loneliness. Moreover, nature, as part of our social and health infrastructure, may be an important part of the solutions that are needed to address loneliness.

The experiences and needs of frail older people receiving home health care: A qualitative study.

Background: Due to the rapid ageing of the population, there is increasing demand for long-term care in the people's home environment. Such care aims to allow the people to stay at home and avoid hospitalisation or other institutional care. In home health care, care must be provided at the highest possible quality, with the focus on the people's needs and experiences.

The needs of older patients in hospital care: a scoping review.

Background: Research into care for older patients in the hospital environment has become an increasingly valuable source of information, as it gives feedback on the quality of hospital care provided. The aim of this study is to provide a comprehensive overview of the self-reported needs of older people in hospital care.

Methods: The scoping review was conducted by searching the following databases: Medline, Web of Science, ProQuest Central, Scopus, Cinahl, PsycINFO and Summon.

The needs of older people receiving home care: a scoping review.

Background: Most people in a state of illness or reduced self-sufficiency wish to remain in their home environment. Their physiological needs, and their psychological, social, and environmental needs, must be fully met when providing care in their home environment. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the self-perceived needs of older people living with illness or reduced self-sufficiency and receiving professional home care.

Class I typing by PCR-SSP in Olomouc.

In this article, methodical experience and population data are given for application of PCR-SSP/ARMS method (Phototyping) to HLA class I typing in Olomouc. Phototyping is reliable method suitable for typing of small to medium number of samples. Method is fast enough for use in on-call service, resolution is better than the level of good serology, and price of method is comparable with serology.

Familial hydronephrosis unlinked to the HLA complex.

Clinical findings, management, and possible linkage of congenital hydronephrosis caused by ureteropelvic junction stenosis to the HLA complex were studied in four families. These families provide evidence of possible autosomal dominant inheritance. HLA class I antigen studies in all four and class II (HLA-DR) in three families were performed.

"The sarcoidosis map": a joint survey of clinical and immunogenetic findings in two European countries.

We pooled immunogenetic data obtained in independent studies in two European populations (Italian and Czech) of patients affected by sarcoidosis. Correspondence analysis was used to investigate the associations between clinical and immunogenetic data. Two hundred and thirty-three patients were enrolled in the study, of which 126 were from the Czech Republic and 107 from Italy.

[The central registry of bone marrow donors and the program for bone marrow transplantation from unrelated donors--20 months' experience].

The authors describe their 20 months' experience with the establishment of a bone marrow register in the Czech Republic and its practical association with the programme of bone marrow transplantations from non-related subjects. During the 20 months of activity 5455 voluntary bone marrow donors were examined and at present more than 500 new voluntary donors are examined every month. For 21 patients a HLA identical unrelated donor is sought.

Polymorphism of the 5' flanking region of the HLA-DQA1 gene in coeliac disease.

Coeliac disease (CD) is associated with particular HLA genotypes. The susceptibility gene (or genes) has been mapped to the class II region, most probably to the DQ loci. Polymorphism of the upstream promoter region of the DQA1 gene (QAP) has been recently reported.

[HLA antigens in patients with celiac disease].

In 104 non-related children with coeliac disease, all from northern Moravia, the authors assessed the distribution of HLA antigens class I and II and compared the findings with a control group. They revealed a positive association between HLA A1 (62% sick subjects as compared 27% healthy ones), B8 (68% as compared with 18%), DR3 (66% as compared with 14%) and DQw2 (79% as compared with 23%). In HLA antigens class II there is a higher relative risk of the disease for subjects with antigens DR3 and DQw2 and a higher aetiological fraction for the investigated antigens.

HLA-A and HLA-B typing: classification of errors.

The authors followed the frequency of errors in serologic identification of HLA-A and HLA-B antigens. They analyzed 205 paternity cases evaluated independently by two judicial experts (a revision of expert opinions). The specification of revealed discrepancies is demonstrated in the study and possible causes of their origin are analyzed.

HLA antibodies in renal transplant candidates.

The level of anti-HLA antibodies was followed in 155 patients of the chronic dialyzed program: against antigens HLA Class I and antigens HLA-DR representing HLA Class II. Correlation between the titre of these antibodies and additional factors were analyzed. The effect of pregnancy and consequently of sex was proved.

Quantitative indices in paternity cases.

The study discusses the basic quantitative indices used as a standard method in foreign professional literature dealing with paternity cases. They are as follows: 1. mean probability of exclusion (PE) which characterizes the informative value of the experts opinions and is the same in all the disputes evaluated by this expert.

HLA antigens associated with sarcoidosis.

In a series of 123 sarcoidosis patients (inhabitants of Moravia), frequencies of 15 HLA-A, 31 HLA-B, and 7 HLA-C antigens have been found. (Control group consisted of 500 healthy persons from the same region.) A subgroup of 46 patients was examined in order to determine a frequency of 10 HLA-DR antigens.