Publications by authors named "C M Jarach"
Gender equality has been a crosscutting issue in Horizon 2020 with three objectives: gender balance in decision-making, gender balance and equal opportunities in project teams at all levels, and inclusion of the gender dimension in research and innovation content. Between 2017 and 2022, the EU funded, in collaboration with national agencies, 13 transnational projects under "GENDER-NET Plus" that explored how to best integrate both sex and gender into studies ranging from social sciences, humanities, and health research. As the projects neared completion, forty researchers from these interdisciplinary teams met in November 2022 to share experiences, discuss challenges, and consider the best ways forward to incorporate sex and gender in research.
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- - The study investigates the out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses associated with tinnitus in several European countries, revealing significant costs that vary by severity of the condition.
- - Participants reported annual OOP expenses averaging 368€ for slight, 728€ for moderate, and 1,492€ for severe tinnitus, totaling an estimated 565€ for all tinnitus sufferers due to healthcare visits, treatments, medications, and alternative medicine.
- - The findings highlight the substantial economic burden of tinnitus, comparable to other major disabilities, indicating a willingness among individuals to invest significant monthly income for relief, and suggesting the total expenses exceed 17 billion € across the countries studied.
Background And Objective: Tinnitus would benefit from an objective biomarker. The goal of this study is to identify plasma biomarkers of constant and chronic tinnitus among selected circulating inflammatory proteins.
Methods: A case-control retrospective study on 548 cases with constant tinnitus and 548 matched controls from the Swedish Tinnitus Outreach Project (STOP), whose plasma samples were examined using Olink's Inflammatory panel.
In Italy, despite strong community-based mental health services, needs assessment is unsatisfactory. Using the Mental Health Clustering Tool (MHCT) we adopted a multidimensional and non-diagnosis dependent approach to assign mental health services users with similar needs to groups corresponding to resources required for effective care. We tested the MHCT in nine Departments of Mental Health in four Italian regions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Tinnitus is a leading cause of disease burden globally. Several therapeutic strategies are recommended in guidelines for the reduction of tinnitus distress; however, little is known about the potentially increased effectiveness of a combination of treatments and personalized treatments for each tinnitus patient.
Methods: Within the Unification of Treatments and Interventions for Tinnitus Patients project, a multicenter, randomized clinical trial is conducted with the aim to compare the effectiveness of single treatments and combined treatments on tinnitus distress (UNITI-RCT).