Diarrhea is a global public health problem that is the third leading cause of death in under five years, with an estimated 1.7 billion cases in 2023 and 1.8 million deaths from diarrhea diseases every year.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset-with data collected between 2020 and 2022 -to assess measurement invariance of the SWLS across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups (N = 56,968). All participants completed the SWLS under largely uniform conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth insurance is essential in reducing or eliminating the financial constraint to accessing maternal health services caused by out-of-pocket payments. Also, it has a beneficial effect in minimizing maternal and child mortality. However, limited studies in Cambodia examined the association between health insurance coverage on antenatal care (ANC) utilization.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: (1) To determine the repartition of criteria which can be considered as marks of lack of assent by the child with intellectual disabilities from the dentist's point of view and whether that influences the decision to examine the patient or not. (2) To explain the decision of practitioners and determine the ethical implications of these practices.
Methods: An anonymous and structured questionnaire was distributed online using the scenario of a 9-year-old child with moderate cognitive impairment with eight different oppositional behaviours.
Introduction: Parents of persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) play a major and often lifelong role in the care and support of their child. A better understanding of parents' perspectives regarding their experiences of parenting their child with PIMD is essential to support them more effectively. Although this topic has been explored extensively in Anglo-Saxon and Northern European countries, little is known about the experience of these parents in a highly institutionalized context such as that in France.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset - with data collected between 2020 and 2022 - to assess measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Int Bioethique Ethique Sci
April 2023
Bioethics are widely used in the course of biomedical science’s evolution. It allows to question ethical aspects underlying the setting of new research and clinical intervention techniques. This ethical thinking reflects norms and values socially admitted and question the way new scientific information are integrated to individuals’ system of knowing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Int Bioethique Ethique Sci
April 2023
Bioethics are widely used in the course of biomedical science’s evolution. It allows to question ethical aspects underlying the setting of new research and clinical intervention techniques. This ethical thinking reflects norms and values socially admitted and question the way new scientific information are integrated to individuals’ system of knowing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Life habits (LH) encompass an individual's engagement in daily activities such as nutrition, fitness, personal care, communication, housing, and mobility, along with his/her social role (responsibility, interpersonal relationships, community life, education, employment, and recreation). This qualitative study explores the nature and context of LH restrictions in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) individuals across their SLE journey.
Methods: Narrative interviews were conducted with adult SLE patients.
Objectives: To explore cancer patients' experience of pain and coping strategies as well as beliefs and representations associated with pain, pain management and treatments.
Method And Participants: A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews was conducted among 16 patients with cancer. The inductive research strategy adopted derived from the Grounded Theory approach and the data transcribed verbatim were gradually analyzed involving researcher triangulation.
Unlabelled: This literature review focuses on the neonatal context. It provides an update of knowledge on the psychosocial consequences and communication needs expressed by parents. It highlights the obstacles to communication and proposes lines of thought for the development of new training systems to improve the communication practices of caregivers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic generated "risks" and uncertainties as well as organizational changes among French perinatal caregivers. Our study aimed to investigate the psychosocial impact of the first wave on this population.
Method: Our participants (N=565) were invited to answer an online questionnaire that included questions on various indices of health and quality of life at work (e.
Background: In neonatology, parents play a central role as guarantors of the new-born's autonomy. Notifying parents about their infant's status in neonatal critical care is an integral part of the care. However, conveying this information can be very difficult for physicians and the neonatal medical team.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAs the object of care in medical treatment, the body is apprehended and invested in by patients from the point of view of the subject. The social, cultural and historical background of the subjects shapes their relationship with their body and regulates the possible impact of its transformations. These elements are important to take into account in the identification of body image disturbances and access to dedicated care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDuring the past 15 years, in France, like in many European countries, the attention paid to patients at the end of their lives has continued to grow. But in the meantime, only a few researchers have managed to collect reliable data on End-of-Life Care and to implement scientific studies describing the reality of these situations. This difficulty is due in particular to the lack of a recognized and operational definition of the end of life.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPalliative care teams face complex medical situations on a daily basis. These situations require joint reflection and decision making to propose appropriate patient care. Sometimes, sedation is one of the options to be considered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHealth beliefs, and especially illness representations, have been widely used to understand clinical outcomes and psychosocial adjustment in people with physical diseases. However, this area of research has been under-explored in the field of mental health, and the few studies that have been conducted have used very different methods. Therefore, the aim of our study was to identify the tools and methods that have been used to evaluate illness representations in psychiatry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnderstanding and improving the psychosocial adjustments (e.g., quality of life, depression) and treatment outcomes (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The anticipatory postural adjustments (APA) associated with step initiation are impaired in obese patients (e.g. longer duration, greater lateral center of pressure excursion).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Children with intellectual disabilities experience major inequality in the field of oral health, including a higher number of extracted teeth. The literature explains this difference in terms of higher levels of dental disease but does not mention the possibility of inequality in the treatment options offered these children.
Aim: The aim is to investigate whether the same treatment options are offered by practitioners to children with and without intellectual disability in equivalent clinical circumstances.
Aim: Doctors have a moral and legal obligation to keep patients and their families informed, and this is an integral part of care. We explored the communication strategies used by doctors when they spoke to parents in a French neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Methods: This was a single-centre qualitative pilot study carried out from October 2015 to January 2016.
Numerous studies have shown the impact of lung cancer disease on patient quality of life (QoL), but no research has yet examined the impact of illness representations (IR) in the assessment of QoL in lung cancer. Our goal is to explore the role of IR as adeterminant of QoL for lung cancer patients. Data were collected from 162 French patients who completed aself-administered questionnaire including ageneric measure of QoL.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Various studies have shown that the drafting of Advance Directives (ADs) is relatively uncommon. This study was performed to explore cancer patients' attitudes toward ADs, and their reasons for completing or not completing advance directive forms.
Methods: The research included interdependent steps designed to gradually collect patients' agreement and comments concerning their participation in an AD study.
Background/aims: In line with Self-determination Theory, individuals who feel they are able to adopt new behaviors autonomously, and who perceive their social environment as supportive of their autonomy and confident in their competencies, are more likely to engage in sustainable behavioral change over time. We aimed to study the impact of an educational intervention, which has already shown its effectiveness in reducing transmission-risk behaviors and injection-related complications among drug users (Roux et al., 2016), on three psychosocial factors (PSF) involved in initiating and maintaining new health behaviors over time, as follows: A) self-regulation of behaviors (autonomous vs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study focuses on life experiences and social representations related to gender in the context of health among young French lay people aged from 18 to 21 years ( = 47). Qualitative analysis of the discursive content of nine focus groups illuminated the lay thinking underlying gender issues in the health context. Broadly speaking, group composition (i.
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