Publications by authors named "M Dol"
Article Synopsis
- This study investigates the effectiveness of surgical interventions for lumbar disc herniation (LDH) by analyzing the minimum clinically important difference (MCID) in the five-repetition sit-to-stand (5R-STS) test one year after surgery.
- The researchers recruited 134 patients and gathered various measurements related to their health before and after surgery, ultimately determining the MCID as an average of 3.6 seconds for meaningful improvement in their performance.
- The conclusion highlights that a 3.6-second improvement in the 5R-STS test signifies a clinically relevant enhancement in patients recovering from LDH.
Objective: It is unknown whether presence of pre-operative objective functional impairment (OFI) can predict post-operative outcomes in patients with lumbar disc herniation (LDH). We aimed to determine whether pre-operative OFI measured by the five-repetition sit-to-stand test (5R-STS) could predict outcomes at 12-months post-discectomy.
Methods: Adult patients with LDH scheduled for surgery were prospectively recruited from a Dutch short-stay spinal clinic.
Objective: Little is known about self-concept in adolescents with physical-mental comorbidity. This study investigated whether physical-mental comorbidity was associated with self-concept in adolescents and examined if adolescent age or sex moderated the association between physical-mental comorbidity and self-concept.
Methods: Study data were obtained from the Multimorbidity in Youth across the Life-course (MY LIFE), an ongoing Canadian study of adolescents with chronic physical illness who were recruited from outpatient clinics at a pediatric hospital.
Internalizing-Externalizing Comorbidity and Impaired Functioning in Children.
Children (Basel)
October 2022
Background: The comorbidity of mental illnesses is common in child and adolescent psychiatry. Children with internalizing-externalizing comorbidity often experience worse health outcomes compared to children with a single diagnosis. Greater knowledge of functioning among children with internalizing-externalizing comorbidity can help improve mental health care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study investigated the psychometric properties of the 12-item proxy-administered World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) 2.0 in young children with chronic physical illness in Canada.
Materials And Methods: Data come from the Multimorbidity in Youth across the Life-course, a longitudinal study of Canadian youth with physical illnesses ( = 263).