Publications by authors named "L Quintiliani"
Article Synopsis
- - The study focused on integrating a new role, Palliative Care Educators (PCEs), into hospital settings to improve advance care planning (ACP) and goals-of-care (GOC) conversations for seriously ill and older patients.
- - Interviews with 24 clinical staff revealed four main themes: PCEs laid a foundation for ongoing palliative care, creative revisions were necessary for their implementation, strong communication ensured continuity of care, and building trust led to greater role acceptance.
- - Despite some challenges in creating this new role, it was viewed as beneficial in reducing staff workloads and enhancing patient engagement in important care discussions.
Introduction: Potential brain structural differences in people with obesity (PwO) who achieve over or less than 50% excess weight loss (EWL) after sleeve gastrectomy (SG) are currently unknown. We compared measures of gray matter volume (GMV) and white matter (WM) microstructural integrity of PwO who achieved over or less than 50% EWL after SG with a group of controls with obesity (CwO) without a past history of metabolic bariatric surgery.
Methods: Sixty-two PwO underwent 1.
Background: Among people living with HIV (PLWH), unhealthy drinking presents an increased risk for negative outcomes. Physical inactivity and sedentariness raise additional health risks. Despite evidence that physical activity (PA) is associated with improved physical and mental functioning and reduced alcohol cravings, there have been no PA studies conducted with PLWH engaged in unhealthy drinking.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDespite declines in adolescent nicotine vaping during the COVID-19 pandemic, vaping continues to be a public health issue for many adolescents. Most studies on teen reasons for vaping and on barriers and facilitators of vaping were conducted prior to the pandemic. Because teen culture changes so rapidly, and because the pandemic had wide-reaching effects on teens and mental health, it is critical to have a current understanding what helps adolescents to quit vaping (facilitators), as well as what prevents them from quitting (barriers) in order to design effective and engaging interventions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Resilience is conceptually characterized as a dynamic process encompassing positive adaptation in the context of significant adversity. Our goal was to assess the resilience in people with epilepsy (PWE) and how it impacts longitudinally on psychosocial factors, with a particular focus on the manifestation of stigmatization-related feelings.
Methods: We consecutively enrolled 78 adults PWE (42.