Publications by authors named "C Given"
While the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has declined, many survivors continue to suffer debilitating symptoms, such as fatigue, pain, and foggy thoughts. Sustained COVID-19 symptoms, or Long COVID, challenge health care resources and economic recovery. This article describes the methodology, implementation, and results of an observational study investigating how time since diagnosis may affect lingering symptoms among the adult COVID-19 population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Three sequences of telephone symptom management interventions were tested on use of unscheduled health services among cancer survivors with depressive or anxiety symptoms during treatment (N = 334) and their informal caregivers (N = 333).
Methods: The three 12-week intervention sequences were as follows: (1) Symptom Management and Survivorship Handbook (SMSH), (2) a combined 8-week SMSH + Telephone Interpersonal Counseling (TIPC) followed by SMSH for 4 weeks, and (3) SMSH for 4 weeks followed by a combined SMSH + TIPC if no response to SMSH alone. Survivor-caregiver dyads were first randomized to SMSH or a combined SMSH + TIPC.
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- A study examined the factors that influence parents' decisions to consent to hair sample collection from their young children, focusing on 188 parent-child pairs.
- 78% of parents consented to the collection, with notable differences in stress levels and coping strategies between those who did and did not participate.
- Sociodemographic factors, such as the child's gender, parental marital status, and income, were linked to higher completion rates, prompting suggestions for tailored participation methods to enhance engagement in research.
Background: Flow diversion has revolutionized the management of wide-necked intracranial aneurysms (IAs). We aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of the new generation 64-wire Surpass Evolve for the treatment of unruptured small/medium-sized IAs.
Methods And Results: This is a subanalysis from the SEASE (Safety and Effectiveness Assessment of the Surpass Evolve) registry, an observational cohort study including 15 academic institutions in North America and Europe between July 2020 and October 2022.
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- The study looked at whether a medical procedure called thrombectomy helps patients who have a large stroke as seen on a specific type of scan called a noncontrast CT within 24 hours of having the stroke.
- It involved 300 patients from different hospitals who were split into two groups; one group received the thrombectomy treatment, while the other only received regular care.
- The main goal was to see if those who had thrombectomy had better recovery after 90 days compared to those who didn’t, along with checking if there were any serious side effects.