'Difficult Conversations with Patients'-A Modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience for Medical Students.

This study presents a modified Group Objective Structured Clinical Experience (GOSCE) focused on difficult conversations, in which, due to limited time and financial resources, only some students could actively participate in scenarios. We aimed to evaluate the intervention, including differences between them and observers. The intervention was organized for sixth-year medical students at a Polish medical university.

Structure and Thermal Properties of 2,2'-Azobis(1-Imidazole-4,5-Dicarbonitrile)-A Promising Starting Material for a Novel Group of Energetic Compounds.

A high-nitrogen compound, 2,2'-azobis(1-imidazole-4,5-dicarbonitrile) (TCAD), was synthesized from commercially available 2-amino-1-imidazole-4,5-dicarbonitrile. It was characterized with infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Its structure was determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction.

Coping with loss of ability vs. emotional control and self-esteem in women after mastectomy.

Aim: Does coping with the loss of ability depend on self-esteem and emotional control?

Background: Persons who experience losses in two dimensions, i.e. health and ability can deal with the loss by physical therapy, and also by mental and socio-professional rehabilitation.

Vaccine Effectiveness against Influenza in 2015/16 in Hospital and Ambulatory Medical Care Facilities: Polish Results of the European I-MOVE+ Multicenter Study.

Influenza vaccination is the best measure available to prevent seasonal influenza infection. The majority of studies on vaccine effectiveness in the 2015/16 season conducted in the European I-MOVE+ Project, show that a match between the circulating influenza strains in the general public and those included in the vaccine for the Northern Hemisphere was low to moderate. As part of I-MOVE+, Poland has implemented a case control negative study design and molecular biology methods, such as real time RT-PCR, to assess the vaccine match and effectiveness.

Coping with loss of ability vs. acceptance of disease in women after breast cancer treatment.

Aim: To answer the question: is there a correlation between copying with the loss of ability and the acceptance of disease?

Background: The loss of ability is the beginning of a process of dealing with a widely understood dysfunction and its consequences. This happens owing to the lifting of the barriers that emerged due to the loss of ability and through the acquisition of skills that help an individual find their way in the new reality.

Materials And Methods: The study included 90 patients with history of breast cancer.

Professional psychological support and psychotherapy methods for oncology patients. Basic concepts and issues.

Background: The essence of psychological support provided to oncology patients is to adjust its methods to the needs and expectations arising from the distressful experience of cancer and its treatment.

Aim: The aim of this study is to present methods of professional psychological support to be used in work with oncology patients during the treatment and follow-up stages.

Materials And Methods: The article is a review of psychological and psychotherapy methods most often applied to oncology patients.

Styles of coping with stress of cancer in patients treated with radiotherapy and expectations towards medical staff - Practical implications.

Background: It is essential to adjust oncological treatment to medical procedures but also to the expectations of patients themselves. Expectations of patients may depend on the way of coping with the stress of cancer. Many researchers have dealt with this issue.

[Causes and consequences of frequent hospitalization among schizophrenic patients].

Unlabelled: Schizophrenia is one of the most frequent mental diseases. The probability of being taken ill with this psychosis among the whole population is 1%. Frequent hospitalizations of schizophrenic patients prevent them from normal and effective functioning in a society.