The Monitoring Illicit Substance Use Consortium: A Study Protocol.

Objective: The global impact of substance use, including cannabis, amphetamine, cocaine, ecstasy, hallucinogens, and opioids, is increasing, although the overall prevalence is low. Australia and New Zealand are among the few regions of the world in which use (typically illicit) of these classes of substances remains within the top 10 causes of disease burden. The period of adolescence and young adulthood, during which substance use behaviors accelerate in prevalence, is associated with a particular risk for harm.

Quality of life, anxiety and depression after acute type B aortic dissection.

Objective: Type B aortic dissection (TBAD) is an acute cardiovascular emergency but also a condition warranting life-long surveillance. The long-term consequences on physical and mental well-being are largely unknown. The primary aim was to analyse self-reported Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and symptoms of anxiety and depression in patients with chronic TBAD.

The family talk intervention prevent the feeling of loneliness - a long term follow up after a parents life-threatening illness.

Background: The psychosocial needs of families in which a parent is affected by life-threatening illness and has dependent children are extensive. However, few family-based interventions have been scientifically evaluated and even fewer have been evaluated long term. Therefore, the specific objectives of this study were to describe the parents' perceptions of the timing and length of FTI in relation to the illness trajectory, to explore what activities learnt by the FTI still were practiced in the long-term and what content of FTI was perceived as most valuable to cope in the long-term.

Patients' experience of suffering a distal radius fracture with long-lasting impairment-a qualitative study.

Background: Every year a large number of people suffer a distal radius fracture and some of them never regain their activity level. The correlation between radiographic features and outcome explains some but not all the disability perceived after fracture healing and rehabilitation. Little is known of the persons reporting persistent upper limb dysfunction.