Publications by authors named "G Caprara"
Worldwide, almost 10 million cancer deaths occurred in 2022, a number that is expected to rise to 16.3 million by 2040. Primary prevention has long been acknowledged as a crucial approach to reducing cancer incidence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlbert Bandura, one of the most influential psychologists, passed away on 26 July 2021. His scientific merits have been acknowledged across various domains of inquiry, thereby attesting to his relevance for understanding people's agentic role in shaping and improving their life. The purpose of this special issue was to honour Bandura's contribution to psychological science through a collection of articles from several researchers around the globe whose scientific interests are rooted in Bandura's theoretical conceptualisations, ranging from self-efficacy beliefs to moral disengagement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, the associations between positivity and positive affect were examined at five time points between January 2020 and September 2021, a period of turmoil associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Data were collected from 1401 students (73.45% women) attending an online university in Spain, commencing at the outbreak of the pandemic and then at four different time points up to the time it was considered to have been controlled.
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- The study aims to explore how a mother's nutritional status before pregnancy and the method of delivery affect the gut microbiota composition in newborns.
- Researchers collected biological samples from newborns and used advanced genetic sequencing methods to analyze the microbiome, considering factors like alpha and beta diversity.
- Results indicated that newborns of obese mothers had lower microbiota diversity, and those born via cesarean section showed distinct microbial community compositions compared to vaginally delivered babies.
Introduction: Several studies have demonstrated that, following a breast cancer (BC) diagnosis, patients are eager to obtain information on cancer and nutrition, in order to ameliorate both their quality of life (QoL) and disease outcome. To avoid BC survivors to get wrong information from unreliable sources, healthcare providers need to be aware of patients' needs, to guide them toward optimal nutrition recommendations, aimed at preventing tumor recurrence and increasing survival rates.
Material And Methods: The cross-sectional web-based survey "Nutrition and breast cancer, what would you like to know?" has been conceived and conducted, in Italy, between the 2nd and the 25th of June 2023.