Are mindfulness groups more mindful face to face or online? A comparison of delivering a mindfulness based well-being group for parents of children with a chronic health condition.

Introduction And Aims: Mindfulness has been shown to be an effective group intervention for adults and children living with a range of medical conditions. Recently, research has also explored the impact of mindfulness interventions offered to parents of children with health conditions. Few studies have examined whether the mode of delivery (face-to-face vs online) has an impact on outcomes.

Keeping young people connected during COVID-19: the role of online groups.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on young people, disrupting education, routines, hobbies and peer interactions and there is concern for longer term effects on physical and mental health outcomes. Young people living with chronic health conditions face additional challenges including reduced or no face-to-face contact with medical teams, shielding and the increased stressors of being in 'at-risk' groups and social isolation. In a climate of social isolation and disconnectedness, online groups could provide a method of delivering healthcare and support that strengthens social connectedness and reduces isolation.

[Drinking water regulations in Ukraine and infectious morbidity rate with water pathway of transmission of causative agents].

These are presented drinking water regulations in Ukraine on microbiological indices in the new state document "Hygienic Drinking water regulations intended for human consumption" (State sanitary regulations and standards (GsanPiN) 2.2.4-171-10).

[Antimicrobial activity of stable silver nanoparticles of a certain size].

Conditions for obtaining stable silver nanoparticles smaller than 10 nm were developed using a binary stabilizer polyvinylpyrrolidone/sodium dodecylsulphate in optimal ratio. Optical spectra, morphology and dependence of size of the nanoparticles on the amount of reducing agent were studied. Colloidal solutions of nanosilver showed a high bactericidal activity against strains of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and fungicidal activity against Candida albicans.

[The study of antimicrobial properties of silver nanoparticles in the form of a colloidal solution in the matrix of finely dispersed silica].

In the experimental study obtained with chemical method colloid solution of nanoparticles (NPs) of silver (Ag) and a composite on his base in the matrix of finely dispersed silica with particle size of 8-12 nm and NPs concentration in basic solution of 0,0016% (0,016 mg/cm3) were established to exhibit high antimicrobial activity against the test organisms: E. coli, P. aeruginosa, S.

[Study of the mechanisms of interaction between intestinal bacteriophages and polyaluminum coagulants].

The authors have investigated the adsorption-elution of intestinal bacteriophages T2 and MS2 as a model of enteric viruses, by using the coagulants aluminum oxychloride (AOX78) and aluminum sulfate (AS). The investigation has ascertained the effective removal of the phages from water with AOX78 (98.7-100%) and the low efficiency of elution of coliphages from the particles of AOX hydrolysis products (0.

[Development of sanitary microbiology researches at the A. N. Marzeyev Institute for Hygiene and Medical Ecology, Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev)].

The paper describes the main stages of development of sanitary bacteriological studies at the leading hygiene research institute of Ukraine--the A. N Marzeyev Institute for Hygiene and Medical Ecology. These researches have made a substantial contribution to the formation and development of hygiene science in the former Soviet Union.

[Risk of halophilic morbidity in connection with the eutrophication of the seashore].

Significant role of the littoral eutrophication in the growth of parahemolytic vibrio caused acute gastrointestinal disturbance- halophilosis was described.

[Sanitary-indicative significance of the content of microorganisms of the Candida genus in the water at sea beaches].

Possibility to use the microfungi from genus Candida as the sanitary index of the water quality was substantiated in the article. The maximum allowable index of Candida in the beach water recommended at level of 50 cells/l.

[Effects of carnitine and cobamamide on the dynamics of mental work capacity in patients with anorexia nervosa].

The authors relate the results of studying intellectual work fitness in patients with anorexia nervosa (in the stage of cachexia) receiving the vitamin-like drugs carnitine and cobamamide. It has been shown that the long-term food deprivation leads to a reduction of intellectual work fitness, lability of productivity, fluctuations in the work quality, appearance of latent fatigue. In spite of the fact that standard nonspecific treatment ameliorates intellectual work fitness, it does not lead to its normalization.

[The use of stains for the detection of the pathogenetic factors of Escherichia and Salmonella].

The authors have modified the technique for using three stains to detect enterobacterial pathogenicity factors. The methods have been tried with 306 Escherichia and Salmonella strains. The most accurate results were obtained when azure eosin was layered onto culture growth surface and when Congo red was added into solid medium.

[Clinico-experimental substantiation of the use of carnitine and cobalamin in the treatment of anorexia nervosa].

The effects of carnitine and cobamamide were studied at the unspecific stage of anorexia nervosa treatment. Carnitine and cobamamide accelerated the amelioration of the patients' somatic state (body weight gain, gastrointestinal functions normalization). Experimental psychological technique of involved deciphering discovered that latent fatigue disappeared and mental performance sharply increased under carnitine and cobamamide treatment.

[Interrelation of morbidity with acute intestinal infections and the biological pollution of water reservoirs].

The simultaneous study of fecal samples from persons bathing and not bathing in the sea, as well as samples of sea water, was carried out in recreational zones. The presence of enterobacterial contamination was more frequently detected in persons who bathed in the sea than in those who did not bath (13.5% and 0.

[Detection of bdellovibrios and bacteriophages in the seawater near the shores].

The frequency of occurrence of bdellovibrios and intestinal bacteriophages at the sites of contamination in the sea and along the sea shore and at the points remote from the sources of contamination was studied. At the contaminated sites bdellovibrios were revealed in 73.3-100% and bacteriophage in 75-83.