Control beliefs as mediators between education and quality of life in patients with breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancer: a large register based study.

Objective: Control beliefs have been found to influence adaption to a cancer diagnosis. This study explored interrelationships among education, control beliefs, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with breast, prostate, colorectal, and lung cancer and tested weather control beliefs act as mediators.

Methods: Six hundred and five patients with breast (n = 205), prostate (n = 205), colorectal (n = 124), and lung (n = 71) cancer from two German cancer registries answered standardized questionnaires.

Patients' Reflections on Treatment Decision After Surgery for Laryngeal Cancer.

Importance: Clinicians should understand how patients who were treated with laryngeal cancer surgery think about this later on and what factors may be related with regretting surgery.

Objective: To assess variables associated with a positive attitude toward laryngeal cancer surgery.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This combination of 2 cohorts, based on patient interviews and questionnaires, was studied in 16 hospitals in Germany.

Learners' characteristics and the mastery of digital education during the COVID-19 pandemic in students of a medical faculty in Germany.

Background: In response to the spread of the coronavirus, educational institutions have been closed and digital education has become a new teaching method to ensure the continuity of medical education. Since this format was a new form of learning for students at medical faculties in Germany, little is known about the perception of it and the factors that contribute to successful mastery. The current study aimed to analyze students' learning experiences during the first online semester and to identify associations between learners' characteristics and enjoyment, mastery experiences, as well as the perceived stress level.

Course of social support and associations with distress after partial laryngectomy.

Purpose: Social support has been shown to be positively associated with quality of life and adjustment after a cancer diagnosis. The present study investigates the course of social support up to one year after partial laryngectomy and its association with distress.

Design: Longitudinal questionnaire study.

Food practices and nutrition of children and adolescents in residential care: A scoping review.

Food practices of children and adolescents have thus far been researched mainly regarding families and schools. However, there are children and adolescents who live outside of their families of origin in various forms of residential accommodation together with other young people and staff. It can be assumed that food practices and eating habits are central and challenging topics in everyday life in these institutions.