Factors associated with attendance at screening for breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: Attendance at population-based breast cancer (mammographic) screening varies. This comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis assesses all identified patient-level factors associated with routine population breast screening attendance.

Design: CINAHL, Cochrane Library, Embase, Medline, OVID, PsycINFO and Web of Science were searched for studies of any design, published January 1987-June 2019, and reporting attendance in relation to at least one patient-level factor.

Prospective study of autism phenomenology and the behavioural phenotype of Phelan-McDermid syndrome: comparison to fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome and idiopathic autism spectrum disorder.

Background: The limited behavioural phenotype literature on Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) indicates atypically high levels of activity, impulsivity and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) behaviours. Divergent profiles of ASD in PMS are also reported, with some studies demonstrating similarities to idiopathic ASD and others indicating an uneven profile of social and communication impairments and repetitive behaviours. An evaluation of the behavioural phenotype of PMS and the prevalence and phenomenology of ASD is warranted, particularly given the causal involvement of the SHANK3 gene in the aetiology of PMS.

Service utilisation and family support of people with dementia: a cohort study in England.

Objectives: This study aimed to compare costs of caring for people with dementia in domiciliary and residential settings, central England.

Methods: A cohort of people with dementia was recruited during a hospital stay 2008-2010. Data were collected by interview at baseline, and 6- and 12-month follow-up, covering living situation (own home with or without co-resident carer, care home); cognition, health status and functioning of person with dementia; carer stress; utilisation of health and social services; and informal (unpaid) caring input.

Patient and proxy measurement of quality of life among general hospital in-patients with dementia.

Background: We aimed to investigate quality of life ratings among people with varying severity of dementia and their carers, recruited in general hospital.

Method: We recruited 109 people with dementia, and their proxies (carers), from psychiatric referrals of inpatients in two general hospitals in England. From patients, we gathered data on quality of life (QoL-AD and EQ5-D) and depressive symptoms, and from proxies we gathered data on patient quality of life (Proxy QoL-AD and EQ5-D), severity of dementia, activities of daily living, physical illness and depressive symptoms, and on carer stress.