Living with an ostomy: A needs assessment in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic, immune-mediated inflammatory condition of the digestive tract associated with substantial psychosocial difficulties. Treatment often focuses on medications but may also include surgical approaches (e.g.

Bolstering connectedness through peer support: Randomized-controlled trial of a web-based peer support program for adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease.

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic autoimmune disease often diagnosed during adolescence. IBD negatively impacts all aspects of health-related quality of life, resulting in physical, emotional, social, school, and work functioning challenges. Adolescents have identified the need for peer support in managing their disease and promoting positive health outcomes.

Accessing care within team-based models of primary care for the management of chronic low back pain in Ontario, Canada: a qualitative study of patient experiences.

Purpose: To understand experiences accessing care within team-based primary care models among adults with chronic low back pain (LBP).

Materials & Methods: We conducted an interpretive description qualitative study and collected data using one-to-one semi-structured interviews. Participants were recruited from publicly funded, team-based primary care models in Ontario, Canada.

The Impact of Inflammatory Bowel Disease on Intimacy: A Multimethod Examination of Patients' Sexual Lives and Associated Healthcare Experiences.

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can negatively impact sexual well-being, and some patients desire healthcare for these issues. Research capturing the lived experiences of patients in these areas is lacking. The present study investigated the sexual well-being impacts of IBD (objective 1) and patients' experiences accessing support for these concerns in the healthcare system (objective 2) through multimethod analyses.

Differentiating Childhood Traumas in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease is characterized by chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. Research on inflammatory bowel disease has shown a connection to childhood traumatic events. However, few studies have focused on specific types of traumatic experiences and the impact of confiding in others on disease-related outcomes.

Delivering Team-Based Primary Care for the Management of Chronic Low Back Pain: An Interpretive Description Qualitative Study of Healthcare Provider Perspectives.

Background: Chronic low back pain (LBP) is a prevalent and disabling health issue. Team-based models of primary care are ideally positioned to provide comprehensive care for patients with chronic LBP. A better understanding of primary care team perspectives can inform future efforts to improve how team-based care is provided for patients with chronic LBP in this practice setting.

Anxiety in adults with asthma during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: a Canadian perspective.

Background: Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease that affects millions of Canadians and often contributes to higher levels of anxiety among patients. Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was a time of increased anxiety and fear among the Canadian population, it was thought that those with asthma may experience heightened anxiety levels due to uncertain access to care, the potential to misinterpret asthma symptoms for symptoms of COVID-19 (or vice versa), and the concern about being treated differently by those around them when experiencing asthma symptoms. Therefore, this study sought to perform a cross-sectional analysis of the asthma-anxiety relationship in adults with and without asthma in the unique context of the COVID-19 pandemic from a Canadian perspective.

Pain Catastrophizing: Controversies, Misconceptions and Future Directions.

Recent reports have pointed to problems with the term "pain catastrophizing." Critiques of the term pain catastrophizing have come from several sources including individuals with chronic pain, advocates for individuals with chronic pain, and pain scholars. Reports indicate that the term has been used to dismiss the medical basis of pain complaints, to question the authenticity of pain complaints, and to blame individuals with pain for their pain condition.

Psychosocial factors associated with j-pouch surgery for patients with IBD: a scoping review.

Background: Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are subtypes of inflammatory bowel disease: a chronic condition of unclear etiology characterized by inflammation of the small and large intestine. Inflammatory bowel disease is managed with diet, medications, and surgeries, with the most common surgery, recommended to ulcerative colitis patients being j-pouch surgery.

Purpose: To assess the current literature concerning psychosocial factors associated with j-pouch surgery for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Asymptomatic surveillance testing for COVID-19 in health care professional students: lessons learned from a low prevalence setting.

The novel coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has severely impacted the training of health care professional students because of concerns of potential asymptomatic transmission to colleagues and vulnerable patients. From May 27th, 2020, to June 23rd 2021; at a time when B.1.

Patient-Reported Pain Distributions in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Impact on Patient Psychosocial Outcomes.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a painful chronic gastrointestinal disease associated with diminished quality of life. No research documents IBD body pain or the associations of pain patterns to outcomes. Objectives were to map patient body pain areas and examine the associations between pain patterns with depression, catastrophizing, pain severity, and quality of life.

Implementing a new physiotherapist-led primary care model for low back pain: a qualitative study of patient and primary care team perspectives.

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is one of the most common reasons for primary care visits and is the leading contributor to years lived with disability worldwide. The purpose of this study was to understand the perspectives of patients and primary care team members related to their experiences with a new physiotherapist-led primary care model for LBP.

Methods: We conducted an interpretive description qualitative study.

Anxiety in adults with allergic rhinitis during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A Canadian perspective.

Background: Despite the symptom overlap between allergic rhinitis (AR) and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pandemic-time anxiety in people with AR remains an area of limited study.

Objective: To assess the AR-anxiety relationship in the unique context of the COVID-19 pandemic from a Canadian perspective.

Methods: The COVID-19 Associated Anxiety in patients with Asthma and AR Experiencing Symptoms survey was distributed on the "Qualtrics XM" platform, with 835 adult participants responding to the first iteration from April to August 2020.

Understanding Perceived Stress in Adolescent Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic and debilitating illness associated with psychosocial comorbidities. Adolescents are vulnerable to the additive stress of managing IBD and navigating developmental milestones. Psychosocial factors, such as catastrophizing, illness stigma, illness uncertainty, and illness-related shame, often contribute to perceived stress in chronic illnesses.

Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome-related pain symptoms and their impact on sexual functioning.

Introduction: The present study sought to examine a new model to evaluate the mechanistic pathways between pain and sexual dysfunction in men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS), incorporating cognitive and emotional factors.

Methods: Men with a self-reported diagnosis of CP/CPPS (n=94, 24-69 years, M=44.22, standard deviation 11.

The influence of mental toughness and self-regulation on post-season perceptions in varsity athletes.

Objective: To investigate whether pre-season self-reported mental toughness and self-regulation strategies predicts post-season stress, mental health, group cohesion, and satisfaction in varsity athletes.

Participants: Sixty-seven varsity athletes from a U-Sport Canadian university.

Methods: Athletes completed pre- and post-season measures of mental toughness, emotion regulation, self-control, group cohesion, and satisfaction.

Are psychological interventions effective in treating functional dyspepsia? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background And Aim: Functional dyspepsia (FD) is a common gastrointestinal disorder, characterized primarily by postprandial fullness or early satiety and/or pain in the epigastrium with no endoscopic evidence of disease. Psychological therapies have been adapted to the treatment of disordered gut-brain interaction such as FD. We sought to determine if psychological interventions were efficacious in providing symptom management and improving health-related quality of life in patients suffering from FD.

The chicken or the egg: Longitudinal changes in pain and catastrophizing in women with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome.

Introduction: Evidence-based psychological strategies are being used as clinicians look for helpful interventions for patients diagnosed with the enigmatic chronic urological pelvic pain condition of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS). Pain and pain catastrophizing are associated with chronic pelvic pain outcomes but the longitudinal role of catastrophizing on patient pain in IC/BPS remains unknown.

Methods: Women with IC/BPS were recruited from tertiary care clinics across North America and completed a battery of questionnaires, including demographics, pain, depression, catastrophizing at baseline, six months, and one year.

Psychological morbidity associated with prostate cancer: Rates and predictors of depression in the RADICAL PC study.

Introduction: Across all cancer sites and stages, prostate cancer has one of the greatest median five-year survival rates, highlighting the important focus on survivorship issues following diagnosis and treatment. In the current study, we sought to evaluate the prevalence and predictors of depression in a large, multicenter, contemporary, prospectively collected sample of men with prostate cancer.

Methods: Data from the current study were drawn from the baseline visit of men enrolled in the RADICAL PC study.

A comparison of pain responses, hemodynamic reactivity and fibre type composition between Bergström and microbiopsy skeletal muscle biopsies.

This study tested the hypotheses that 1) skeletal muscle biopsies performed with the Bergström needle evoke larger perceptions of pain and greater hemodynamic reactivity compared to biopsies performed with the microbiopsy needle, and 2) both needles yield samples with similar fibre type compositions when samples are collected at similar skeletal muscle depths. Fourteen healthy (age: 21.6 ± 3.