Pain in Palliative Cancer Patients - Analysis of the German National Palliative Care Registry.

Context: Palliative care aims to improve the quality of life in patients with progressive diseases such as cancer. Effective cancer pain management is a major challenge of palliative treatment. Empirical data on the prevalence of cancer pain, the efficiency of pain treatment and influencing factors are scarce.

Personality subtypes in adults with social anxiety disorder - novelty seeking makes the difference.

Background: Up to now several subtypes of social anxiety disorder (SAD) have been proposed.

Methods: In the present study, we used a cluster analytic approach to identify qualitatively different subgroups of SAD based on temperament characteristics, that is, harm avoidance (HA) and novelty seeking (NS) dimensions of Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory.

Results: Based on a large, diverse clinical sample (n = 575), we found evidence for two distinct subgroups of SAD: a larger (59%) prototypic, inhibited cluster characterized by high HA and low NS, and a smaller atypic, and comparatively more impulsive cluster characterized by medium to high HA and increased NS.

Risk factors for pressure ulcers in adult patients: A meta-analysis on sociodemographic factors and the Braden scale.

Aims And Objectives: Providing the first meta-analysis of risk factors for pressure ulcer development in adult patients.

Background: Pressure ulcers remain a serious health complication for patients and nursing staff. However, there is a lack of statistical evidence for risk factors as previous research did not include any quantitative synthesis.

Risk Factors for Pressure Injuries in Adult Patients: A Narrative Synthesis.

Pressure injuries remain a serious health complication for patients and nursing staff. Evidence from the past decade has not been analysed through narrative synthesis yet. PubMed, Embase, CINAHL Complete, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, and other reviews/sources were screened.

Significance of anger suppression and preoccupied attachment in social anxiety disorder: a cross-sectional study.

Background: There is evidence for the relevance of attachment style and anger expression for the manifestation of social anxiety disorder (SAD).

Method: In a cross-sectional study 321 individuals with social anxiety disorder (41% men, age 38.8 ± 13.