Publications by authors named "Laura Kuznetsov"
Aims: To examine the association between health status, diabetes-specific quality of life (QoL) and glycaemic control among individuals with type 2 diabetes.
Methods: 1876 individuals with screen-detected diabetes and a mean age of 66 years underwent assessment of self-reported health status (SF-36), diabetes-specific QoL (the Audit of Diabetes Dependent Quality of Life (ADDQoL19)) and glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) at five years post-diagnosis in the ADDITION-Europe trial. Multivariable linear regression was used to quantify the cross-sectional association between health status, diabetes-specific QoL and HbA1c, adjusting for age, sex, education, alcohol consumption, physical activity, BMI, intake of any glucose-lowering drugs, and trial arm.
Background: There is limited evidence about predictors of health behaviour change in people with type 2 diabetes. The aim of this study was to assess change in health behaviours over one year and to identify predictors of behaviour change among adults with screen-detected and recently clinically diagnosed diabetes.
Methods: ADDITION-Plus was a randomised controlled trial of a behaviour change intervention among 478 patients (40-69 years).
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- There is a lack of research on awareness of HPV among dermatology outpatients, despite its relevance to treatment practices.
- A study in a Munich clinic found that only 39.4% of patients were aware of HPV, with even fewer knowledgeable about associated risks and vaccination.
- Factors like being male and being a parent were linked to a lower likelihood of ever having heard of HPV, highlighting a need for improved education on the virus and its prevention.
In Germany, immigrants from Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries represent one of the largest immigrant groups. Some FSU countries face the highest HIV prevalence in the region of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. However, the HIV knowledge, attitude and behavioral intent have not been investigated in FSU immigrants compared to the native population yet.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aimed to examine the differences in cancer risk by regional deprivation in Bavaria, Germany.
Methods: Multilevel Poisson regression analysis was used to evaluate the association between lung and colorectal cancer risk and community deprivation level based on data from the Cancer Registry of Bavaria (2003–2006). The communities (n=1,408) were classified according to the Bavarian Index of Multiple Deprivation (BIMD), differentiated into quintiles ranging from lowest to highest deprivation.
Objective: Previous research from other countries shows a positive association between cancer risk and regional deprivation. This study explores this association for lung and colorectal cancers in Germany.
Method: Regional deprivation was assessed by the 'Bavarian Index of Multiple Deprivation'.
Purpose: A short HIV/AIDS risk behaviour knowledge index based on questions about HIV transmission and prevention of HIV infection during sexual intercourse and intravenous drug use is proposed and implemented for an HIV average risk population in Munich.
Methods: Knowledge levels about HIV/AIDS risk behaviour was assessed in a group of people (n = 210) in sexually active age range of 18-49 years which was at an average risk of contracting HIV. Four questions about HIV transmission by unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral sexual intercourse, and by needle sharing, and two questions about HIV prevention by condom use, and the single use of needles and syringes were chosen from ten others for making a four level risk behaviour knowledge index (HIV/AIDS Transmission through Sex and Intravenous Drug Use, HATSIDU) internally consistent according to Cronbach's alpha.