Publications by authors named "Conroy R"

Background: Self-stigma among people who have tuberculosis (TB) can contribute to non-adherence to medication and disengagement from care. It can manifest in feelings of worthlessness, shame, and guilt, leading to social withdrawal and disengagement from life opportunities. Self-stigma may also affect families of those who have TB, or healthcare workers who treat them.

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The purpose of this study is to review the current data regarding implementing pediatric obesity treatment recommendations in rural areas. Data considering barriers to care, challenges as well as opportunities, including leveraging telemedicine, provider training, e-consults to improve pediatric obesity care are provided. Given the pediatric obesity prevalence, particularly in rural settings, a multipronged approach is needed to provide equitable access to vital care.

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Background: Despite the extensive use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) in health-related projects, there is limited work on how CBPR processes result in outcomes, especially in household and ambient air pollution (HAAP) research. This study explores the reflections of key informants on factors that shape the implementation and outcomes of CBPR in HAAP projects.

Methods: We conducted semi-structured interviews with 13 key stakeholders, including academic researchers, non-governmental organisation administrators, a policymaker, and community members.

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Since climate change affects psychiatric, neurological and neuropsychological disorders, as well as brain development, the Irish Doctors for the Environment working group on mental health has changed its title and remit to brain health. Mental health professionals need to respond coherently and effectively to the climate crisis. This need challenges traditional professional, disciplinary and academic boundaries and demands a holistic, person-centred approach.

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Fatigue is common following paediatric acquired brain injury (ABI) and can negatively impact quality of life. Despite this, there is limited understanding of how clinicians currently assess and manage fatigue in rehabilitation. This study explored how Australian rehabilitation clinicians recognize, assess, and manage fatigue following paediatric ABI.

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Background: This Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) details assessment and management of the child with overweight or obesity. The term "child" is defined as the child between 2 and 12 years of age. Because children are in a continual state of development during this age range, we will specify when our discussion applies to subsets within this age range.

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Background: Obesity is a multifactorial neurohormonal disease that results from dysfunction within energy regulation pathways and is associated with increased morbidity, mortality, and reduced quality of life. The most common form is polygenic obesity, which results from interactions between multiple gene variants and environmental factors. Highly penetrant monogenic and syndromic obesities result from rare genetic variants with minimal environmental influence and can be differentiated from polygenic obesity depending on key symptoms, including hyperphagia; early-onset, severe obesity; and suboptimal responses to nontargeted therapies.

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  • The study investigates the effectiveness and optimal duration of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) combined with postoperative radiotherapy for patients with localized prostate cancer following radical prostatectomy.
  • A randomised controlled trial, RADICALS-HD, compared short-course ADT (6 months) to long-course ADT (24 months) among participants who met specific criteria, including PSA levels and absence of metastatic disease.
  • The primary outcome measured was metastasis-free survival, with the trial aiming to determine if longer ADT duration leads to better survival rates, involving over 1,500 patients from 2008 to 2015.
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Background: This Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) details special considerations for the management of the adolescent with obesity. The information in this CPS is based on scientific evidence, supported by medical literature, and derived from the clinical experiences of members of the OMA.

Methods: The scientific information and clinical guidance in this CPS are based on scientific evidence, supported by the medical literature, and derived from the clinical perspectives of the authors.

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Background: This Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) details medication-induced weight gain and advanced therapies for the child with overweight or obesity.

Methods: The scientific information and clinical guidance in this CPS are based on scientific evidence, supported by the medical literature, and derived from the clinical perspectives of the authors.

Results: This OMA Clinical Practice Statement addresses medication-induced weight gain and advanced therapies for the child with overweight or obesity.

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Introduction: Newer pharmacotherapy agents (anti-obesity medication [AOM]) are revolutionizing the management of children and adolescents with obesity. Previously, treatment based on intensive behavioral therapy involved many patient and family contact hours and yielded improvements in obesity status of 1-3 percent of the 95th percentile of the body mass index (BMI). Newer AOMs are yielding more clinically significant improvement of 5-18 percent.

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Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in many student populations learning online in lockdown. While the mental health consequences of lockdown are increasingly understood, the core features of 'cabin fever' - the experience of lockdown - are poorly described.

Methods: We conducted a questionnaire survey of 649 undergraduate medicine and health sciences students.

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Introduction: Self-stigma-negative self-judgements or core beliefs-can result in feelings of shame, worthlessness and self-blame, and impacts social interaction, mental health and health service utilization among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Few interventions target self-stigma among PLHIV and, to our knowledge, none until now for adolescents and young people LHIV (AYPLHIV) in sub-Saharan Africa. We present qualitative findings on the perceived impact of a self-stigma intervention (, "You are Worth it").

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Household air pollution (HAP), primarily from biomass fuels used for cooking, is associated with adverse health outcomes and premature mortality. It affects almost half of the world's population, especially in low-income and low-resourced communities. However, many of the 'improved' biomass cookstoves (ICS) aimed at reducing HAP lack empirical evidence of pollutant reduction and reliability in the field.

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  • The study compares the effectiveness of two screening tools for major depression: the seven-item Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Depression subscale (HADS-D) and the total score of the 14-item version (HADS-T), which includes anxiety items and takes longer to complete.
  • An analysis of data from 20,700 participants revealed that both HADS-D and HADS-T had similar sensitivity and specificity for detecting major depression, with optimal cutoffs being ≥7 for HADS-D and ≥15 for HADS-T.
  • Overall, while both tools are accurate, the shorter HADS-D is preferred in most clinical settings due to its simplicity and time efficiency.
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Genomic architecture appears to play crucial roles in health and a variety of diseases. How nuclear structures reorganize over different timescales is elusive, partly because the tools needed to probe and perturb them are not as advanced as needed by the field. To fill this gap, the National Institutes of Health Common Fund started a program in 2015, called the 4D Nucleome (4DN), with the goal of developing and ultimately applying technologies to interrogate the structure and function of nuclear organization in space and time.

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The lack of safe drinking water affects communities in low-to-medium-income countries most. This barrier can be overcome by using sustainable point-of-use water treatments. Solar energy has been used to disinfect water for decades, and several efforts have been made to optimise the standard procedure of solar water disinfection (SODIS process).

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Background: This Obesity Medicine Association (OMA) Clinical Practice Statement (CPS) details metabolic, behavioral health, and disordered eating comorbidities associated with obesity in children. This CPS will be followed by a companion CPS covering further comorbidities, including genetics and social consequences related to overweight and obesity. These CPSs are intended to provide clinicians with an overview of clinical practices applicable to children and adolescents with body mass indices greater than or equal to the 95 percentile for their ages, particularly those with adverse consequences resulting from increased body mass.

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Objectives: SARS-CoV-2 vaccination has been shown to reduce infection severity; however, the reinfection frequency among unvaccinated, partially vaccinated, and fully vaccinated individuals remains unclear. This study aims to elucidate the rates of and factors associated with such occurrences.

Methods: This retrospective epidemiological report included 1362 COVID-19 reinfection cases in Bahrain between April 2020 and July 2021.

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Angelman syndrome (AS) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder featuring ataxia, cognitive impairment, and drug-resistant epilepsy. AS is caused by mutations or deletion of the maternal copy of the paternally imprinted gene, with current precision therapy approaches focusing on re-expression of . Certain phenotypes, however, are difficult to rescue beyond early development.

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Aims: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are used in incurable urothelial cancers, both in chemo-naïve and platinum-refractory patients. Efficacy and toxicity data published outside controlled clinical trials are limited. We report overall survival, progression-free survival and toxicities of ICIs in locally advanced (LABC) or metastatic bladder cancer (MBC).

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Background: Rapid access to thrombectomy for patients with large vessel occlusion (LVO) acute ischemic stroke (AIS) is critical for improving outcome. A major challenge for the 'drip and ship' model is reducing the door-in-door-out time (DIDO). We propose a new protocol with the aim of reducing DIDO, without adversely affecting emergency service usage time.

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