Publications by authors named "G B Melis"
Health literacy-responsive health professionals will be increasingly important in addressing healthcare access and equity issues. This international scoping review aims to understand the extent and ways in which health professionals respond to healthcare users' health literacy, identifying tools used to measure health literacy responsiveness and training to support the development of these attributes. Four online databases were searched.
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- Prenatal exome sequencing (pES) was introduced in England to improve genetic diagnosis in fetuses with structural anomalies, and the study aimed to analyze its outcomes between October 2021 and June 2022, including diagnostic yield and referral rates.
- Out of 475,089 births, the pES referral rate was 8.6 per 10,000, with 59% of referred women undergoing testing; 35% of those received a definitive diagnosis, averaging a turnaround time of 15 days.
- The study found significant variations in outcomes based on diagnostic results, with 40% of women with a definite diagnosis choosing termination of pregnancy, compared to only 18% among those without a diagnosis.
Clinical characteristics and predictors of complications and mortality in hospitalized octogenarian patients with COVID-19: an ambispective study.
Eur Geriatr Med
October 2024
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- The study focused on hospitalized patients aged 80 and older with COVID-19 to describe their clinical symptoms and identify predictors for death and complications during different waves of the epidemic.
- A total of 1,192 patients were analyzed, revealing common symptoms like fever, cough, and dyspnea, along with serious complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome and a high overall mortality rate of 41.4%.
- Key risk factors for complications and death included age, existing health conditions (like diabetes and heart failure), specific lab findings, while better functional status (measured by the Barthel index) and the presence of cough offered some protective benefits.
In this study, we propose an approach to detect deception during investigative interviews by integrating response latency and error analysis with the unexpected question technique. Sixty participants were assigned to an honest (n = 30) or deceptive group (n = 30). The deceptive group was instructed to memorize the false biographical details of a fictitious identity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmotional support from family members may have an important effect on adolescent health outcomes, and has been identified as a target for policy to protect against the impacts of poverty and other early life adversities. However, few studies have assessed the extent to which poverty and adversity themselves influence the nature of emotional support that parents can provide to adolescents. We, therefore, aimed to investigate the impact of trajectories of income poverty and family adversities, including parental mental ill health, alcohol misuse and domestic violence across childhood developmental stages on young people's relationships with their families and perceived emotional support received.
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