A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mindfulness in Recovery from Colorectal Cancer.

Objective: This study examined whether a 4-week group-based mindfulness intervention would be superior in reducing psychological distress in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients compared to a psychoeducation and cognitive behavioural skills learning support active control group.

Methods: Patients with CRC were randomized via Computerised Permuted Block Randomisation to mindfulness or active control groups (2-h weekly sessions over 4 weeks). Outcomes were measured pre-intervention, and 8 weeks and 6 months post-baseline.

What Next After MBSR/MBCT? An Open Trial of an 8-Week Follow-on Program Exploring Mindfulness of Feeling Tone ().

Objectives: The effectiveness of mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) has been established in many randomized controlled trials. However, effect sizes are often modest, and there remains ample scope to improve their effectiveness. One approach to this challenge is to offer a "follow-on" course to people who have completed an MBP and are interested in further skill development.

The Effect of a Diving Mask on Intraocular Pressure in a Healthy Population.

Purpose: Swimming goggles increase the intraocular pressure (IOP) via the periorbital frame pressure and suction effect. In comparison, diving masks have a larger frame rim and incorporate the nose. The exact effect(s) of diving masks on IOP is unknown.

Factors influencing the output of rural cataract surgical facilities in China: the SHARP study.

Purpose: To identify factors associated prospectively with increased cataract surgical rate (CSR) in rural Chinese hospitals.

Methods: Annual cataract surgical output was obtained at baseline and 24 months later from operating room records at 42 rural, county-level hospitals. Total local CSR (cases/million population/y), and proportion of CSR from hospital and local competitors were calculated from government records.

Performance of the Moorfields motion displacement test for identifying eyes with glaucoma.

Purpose: The Moorfields Motion Displacement Test (MMDT; Enhanced Standard Threshold Algorithm [ESTA] version 1, London, UK) is a new 31-point suprathreshold test for visual field assessment using moving line stimuli displayed on a standard laptop computer. This study evaluated the diagnostic performance of the MMDT for discriminating between healthy eyes and eyes with glaucoma.

Design: Evaluation of diagnostic technology.

Factors influencing the success of rural cataract surgery programs in China: the study of hospital administration and relative productivity (SHARP).

Purpose: To explore factors potentially influencing the success or failure of rural Chinese hospitals in increasing cataract surgical output and quality.

Methods: Focus groups (FGs, n = 10) were conducted with hospital administrators, doctors, and nurses at 28 county hospitals in Guangdong Province. Discussions explored respondents' views on increasing surgical volume and quality and improving patient satisfaction.

Classification algorithms enhance the discrimination of glaucoma from normal eyes using high-definition optical coherence tomography.

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic performance of classification algorithms based on Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Classification And Regression Tree (CART) methods, compared with optic nerve head (ONH) and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) parameters measured by high-definition optical coherence tomography (Cirrus HD-OCT) for discriminating glaucoma subjects.

Methods: Consecutive glaucoma subjects (Training data = 184; Validation data = 102) were recruited from an eye center and normal subjects (n = 508) from an ongoing Singaporean Chinese population-based study. ONH and RNFL parameters were measured using a 200 × 200 scan protocol.

A review of the medical treatment of pediatric glaucomas at Moorfields Eye Hospital.

Purpose: To report on the medical treatments used for pediatric glaucomas.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective case series consisting of reviewing the medical notes of pediatric glaucoma patients under the care of the Glaucoma Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The medical notes of 200 patients were selected.

The concave iris in pigment dispersion syndrome.

Objective: To visualize the changes of the iris contour in patients with pigment dispersion syndrome after blinking, accommodation, and pharmacologic miosis using anterior segment optical coherence tomography.

Design: Observational case series.

Participants: A total of 33 eyes of 20 patients with pigment dispersion syndrome.

The utility of symptoms in identification of primary angle-closure in a high-risk population.

Objective: To examine the frequency of symptoms associated with primary angle closure in an East Asian population with high rates of disease.

Design: Population-based survey.

Participants: One thousand adults from rural and urban provinces of Mongolia were examined.

Amount-dependent temporal discounting?

Amount-dependent temporal discounting has been demonstrated for human choice between outcomes differing in amount and delay. In the only study to date with non-humans, Grace reported no evidence for amount-dependent temporal discounting with pigeons in a concurrent-chains procedure. The present experiments repeated Grace's procedure but with modifications to enhance the discrimination between small and large magnitude outcomes.