Personality Functioning in Inpatients With Eating Disorders: Association With Symptom Severity and Treatment Outcome.

Objective: Impairment in personality functioning (PF) has been linked to a number of mental disorders, including eating disorders (EDs). However, the precise relationship between PF and symptom severity, as well as the potential impact on outcome, remains unclear. The study aimed to analyse the association of PF and its change with severity of ED symptomatology as well as outcome of hospital treatment.

Training in medical communication competence through video-based e-learning: How effective are video modeling and video reflection?

Objective: The present study investigated the efficacy of the didactic approaches of video modeling (VM, best-practice examples), video reflection (VR, problem-based approach), and the combination of both (VMR) in fostering medical communication competence in a video-based digital learning environment.

Methods: N = 126 third-year medical students who participated in the pre-post study were assigned to either the intervention groups (VM, VR, and VMR) or the wait-list control group. The efficacy of the three approaches was assessed by means of a situational judgment test (SJT) of medical communication competence.

Gender specific somatic symptom burden and mortality risk in the general population.

Gender specific all-cause mortality risk associated with a high somatic symptom burden (SSB) in a population-based cohort was investigated. The study population included 5679 women and 5861 men aged 25-74 years from the population-based MONICA/KORA Cohort. SSB was assessed following the Somatic Symptom Scale-8 and categorized as very high (≥ 95th percentile), high (60-95th percentile), moderate (30-60th percentile), and low (≤ 30th percentile).

[Chronic pain syndromes and other persistent functional somatic symptoms].

Somatic symptoms including pain are everyday human experiences. They usually result from a complex interaction of stimuli, interpretation and reaction, and are not necessarily proportional to structural damage. Persistent functional somatic symptoms can be associated with a significant impairment of quality of life and functioning, even without mental or somatic comorbidity.

Validation of the German version of the Bodily Distress Syndrome 25 checklist in a representative German population sample.

Objective: The Bodily Distress Syndrome 25 (BDS 25) checklist is a self-report instrument that can be used for case finding of a BDS in both clinical practice and research. We assessed the reliability and the internal and external validity of the German version of the BDS 25 in a sample of the general German population.

Methods: The psychometric properties of the BDS 25 German were examined in a representative cross-sectional German population survey which included 2386 persons aged ≥14 years.

Functional Somatic Symptoms.

Background: Approximately 10% of the general population and around one third of adult patients in clinical populations suffer from functional somatic symptoms. These take many forms, are often chronic, impair everyday functioning as well as quality of life, and are cost intensive.

Methods: The guideline group (32 medical and psychological professional societies, two patients' associations) carried out a systematic survey of the literature and ana- lyzed 3795 original articles and 3345 reviews.

The determination of tissue perfusion and collateralization in peripheral arterial disease with indocyanine green fluorescence angiography.

Purpose: Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence angiography is used to evaluate tissue perfusion in many different medical fields. This study aims to evaluate the value of ICG angiography in the determination of tissue perfusion in the PAD lower extremities.

Material And Methods: In a prospective clinical study, ICG angiography was used to evaluate tissue perfusion and collateralization in 30 PAD patients.

Early postoperative detection of tissue necrosis in amputation stumps with indocyanine green fluorescence angiography.

Objective: Amputations of the lower extremity due to irreversible ischemic tissue loss are performed as distally as possible. Therefore, oftentimes wound-healing disorders develop, requiring additional surgical treatment.

Methods: The amputations stumps of 10 patients with irreversible ischemic tissue loss due to arteriosclerosis were investigated within 72 hours postoperatively with indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence.