Publications by authors named "Katharina Pal-Handl"
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- * It uses an adapted CFIR questionnaire to analyze responses from 31 healthcare professionals, highlighting that while the interventions themselves are seen positively, resource shortages, poor policy integration, and lack of incentives are major obstacles.
- * Recommendations to overcome these barriers include designing patient-focused tools, creating user manuals, conducting workshops, and enhancing communication through interdisciplinary meetings, alongside integrating psychosocial care into public health policies to improve treatment standards.
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- Biallelic SUFU variants are linked to severe conditions like Joubert syndrome, while heterozygous truncating variants are associated with milder issues such as developmental delay and ocular motor apraxia, though limited cases have been studied. !* -
- The study examined nine individuals across three families with truncating SUFU variants, detailing their neuroimaging and developmental assessments to explore the phenotypic expression of these variants. !* -
- Findings revealed a wide range of symptoms including motor developmental delays and subtle neuroimaging abnormalities, indicating that SUFU haploinsufficiency presents with varying severity, even among family members. !*
Pediatric cancer is one of the most burdensome chronic diseases, necessitating a variety of severe medical interventions. As a result, the disease and its treatment cause numerous acute and long-term medical, psychological, and socioeconomic strains for young patients and their families. Therefore, psychosocial care using evidence-based interventions (EBIs) before, during, and after medical treatments is essential to ensure that patients receive adequate information and to minimize the adverse emotional and psychosocial impacts such as insecurity, fear, and shame.
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- The case study focuses on a 10-year-old girl with complete corpus callosum agenesis, who displayed average intelligence but significant difficulties in reading and writing.
- A targeted spelling treatment improved her ability to spell and read irregular words, showing lasting benefits beyond the trained material.
- Neuroimaging revealed enhanced connectivity in the brain, suggesting that alternative pathways can support reading and writing functions in the absence of the corpus callosum.