Publications by authors named "Fullerton C"

Introduction: Methods for assessing change in tumor burden differ between clinical trial and routine clinical care settings, presenting a unique opportunity to design novel methods to capture clinical outcomes from electronic health record (EHR) data. We adapted a previously established approach for solid tumors and modified it to capture real-world progression (rwP) and real-world insufficient response (rwIR) events in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL).

Methods: This study used a nationwide EHR-derived deidentified database.

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Background: Older adults (aged >65 years) are disproportionately affected by cancer at a time when Canadians are surviving cancer in an unprecedented fashion. Contrary to persistent ageist assumptions, not only do the majority of older adult cancer survivors use digital health technologies (DHTs) regularly, such technologies also serve as important sources of their health information. Although older adults' transition to cancer survivorship is connected to the availability and provision of relevant and reliable information, little evidence exists as to how they use DHTs to supplement their understanding of their unique situation to manage, and make decisions about, their ongoing cancer-related concerns.

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  • The National Guard played a crucial role in the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and understanding their personal experiences can help address mental health issues among service members.
  • A survey conducted with nearly 4,000 NG members revealed that 32% experienced personal connections to COVID-19, such as infection or loss of loved ones, which resulted in higher levels of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and probable PTSD.
  • Specifically, those whose close relationships were affected by death due to COVID-19 reported significantly higher PTSS and were nearly three times as likely to exhibit PTSD compared to those without such experiences.
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Background: Community-based exercise programmes (CBEPs) offer a practical and viable approach to providing people with Parkinson's disease (PwP) the opportunity to exercise as an ancillary therapeutic benefit to pharmacological management. This study explores the perceptions of exercising participants (PwP) and non-participating partners involved in an exercise class delivered through a community-university partnership.

Methods: Two separate focus group discussions were conducted: one with class participants (PwP: n = 7, H&Y scale I to III), and the other with non-participating partners of PwP (n = 4).

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Pain is a naturally occurring phenomenon that consistently inhibits exercise performance by imposing unconscious, neurophysiological alterations (e.g., corticospinal changes) as well as conscious, psychophysiological pressures (e.

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Introduction: The National Guard (NG) served as a critical component of the U.S. response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.

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Purpose: The increasing frequency of extreme climate events underscores the need for urgent action on climate change. The health care system contributes 4.6% of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in Canada; thus, it is a major contributor to the country's carbon footprint.

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Objective: This report presents an overview of the objectives, design, and analytic strategy of the , an investigation of factors associated with child maltreatment in active duty military families.

Method: The study uses a case-control retrospective research design and discrete-time survival methodology to examine service member demographic characteristics, family characteristics, military-related characteristics, and military family life events associated with child maltreatment incidents that meet the Department of Defense definition of child abuse or neglect. The sample includes all active duty families with a first occurrence of child maltreatment anytime between Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 and FY 2018 (  = 28,684), and a representative sample of control families with children under age of 18 during the same period (  = 589,417).

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Using a think aloud approach during fixed perceived effort exercise is a unique method to explore the decision-making processes that guide the self-regulation of perceived effort during endurance-based activity. In a two-part study, authors investigated the attentional focus and self-regulatory strategies associated with: Part A - perceived effort corresponding to (RPE) and above gas exchange threshold (RPE); Part B - between experienced and inexperienced cyclists during fixed perceived effort cycling tasks. Eighteen (15 male, 3 female) healthy, active individuals completed three visits (visit 1 - ramped incremental test and familiarisation, visit 2 and 3-30-min fixed perceived effort cycling).

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This study explored the use of computed cardiopulmonography (CCP) to assess lung function in early-stage cystic fibrosis (CF). CCP has two components. The first is a particularly accurate technique for measuring gas exchange.

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Introduction: The National Guard (NG) served as a critical component of the USA's response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, while concurrently managing their personal responses to the pandemic. Determining whether the activation of NG service members in response to the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a greater psychological strain can identify NG's needs for mental health support.

Materials And Methods: We surveyed 3993 NG unit (NGU) service members (75% Army NG, 79% enlisted, 52% 30-49 years old, and 81% males) during the COVID-19 pandemic, with surveys administered between August and November 2020.

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The National Guard (NG) served as a critical component of the US COVID-19 response while concurrently managing personal COVID-19 responses. Understanding pandemic-related concerns, sleep difficulties, increased substance use, and stress management strategies can promote readiness for subsequent disasters. We surveyed 3221 NG service members (75% Army; 79% enlisted; 52% 30-49 years; 81% male) during COVID-19 (August-November 2020).

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Purpose: Using exercise protocols at a fixed rating of perceived effort (RPE) is a useful method for exploring the psychophysical influences on exercise performance. However, studies that have employed this protocol have arbitrarily selected RPE values without considering how these values correspond to exercise intensity thresholds and domains. Therefore, aligning RPE intensities with established physiological thresholds seems more appropriate, although the reliability of this method has not been assessed.

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Early diagnosis and disease phenotyping in COPD are currently limited by the use of spirometry, which may remain normal despite significant small-airways disease and which may not fully capture a patient's underlying pathophysiology. In this study we explored the use of a new non-invasive technique that assesses gas-exchange inhomogeneity in patients with COPD of varying disease severity (according to GOLD Stage), compared with age-matched healthy controls. The technique, which combines highly accurate measurement of respiratory gas exchange using a bespoke molecular flow sensor and a mechanistic mathematical model of the lung, provides new indices of lung function: the parameters σCL, σCd, and σVD represent the standard deviations of distributions for alveolar compliance, anatomical deadspace and vascular conductance relative to lung volume, respectively.

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The longer-term effects of COVID-19 on lung physiology remain poorly understood. Here, a new technique, computed cardiopulmonography (CCP), was used to study two COVID-19 cohorts (MCOVID and C-MORE-LP) at both ∼6 and ∼12 mo after infection. CCP is comprised of two components.

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Objective: In times of repeated disaster events, including natural disasters and pandemics, public health workers must recover rapidly to respond to subsequent events. Understanding predictors of time to recovery and developing predictive models of time to recovery can aid planning and management.

Methods: We examined 681 public health workers (21-72 y, M(standard deviation [SD]) = 48.

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Background: Although much has been learned about the physical and psychological impacts of deployment and combat injury on military service members, less is known about the effects of these experiences on military spouses.

Methods: The present study examined self-reported mental health symptoms (using the Brief Symptom Inventory [BSI]-18 and the posttraumatic stress disorder [PTSD] Checklist [PCL-C]) in wives of service members who were combat-injured (CI; n = 60); noninjured with cumulative deployment longer than 11 months (NI-High; n = 51); and noninjured with cumulativel deployment less than 11 months (NI-Low; n = 53).

Results: 36.

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