Publications by authors named "Maria Matarese"
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- * Involving 1,079 older patients, predominantly aged 65 and above with at least two of the conditions, the study utilized established tools to measure self-care practices and implemented statistical analyses to draw comparisons among subgroups.
- * Results indicated inadequate self-care for HF and COPD across all groups, with some adequate self-care noted in patients managing DM, highlighting the need for tailored healthcare strategies to improve education and support for patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Background: In recent years, there has been an exponential increase in attention paid to the patient-reported outcome of self-care. Many investigators have used one of the families of self-care instruments freely available on the website www.self-care-measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To describe and compare generic and disease-specific self-care measures in patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) in the three dimensions of self-care maintenance, monitoring, and management.
Design: Multicentre cross-sectional study.
Methods: Patients aged 65 and over with MCCs.
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- Self-care is essential for improving the quality of life and reducing costs for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but the factors affecting self-care styles in these patients are not well understood.
- A mixed methods study involving questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups revealed that 37 COPD patients typically scored low in self-care dimensions, and factors such as age, education, and economic status impacted their self-care practices.
- The research identified four self-care styles (proactive, inactive, reactive, hypoactive) based on the severity of COPD, psychological distress, and self-efficacy, providing insights that could help healthcare professionals create more personalized educational interventions.
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate self-care behaviours of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), understand their complex interconnections and identify key behaviours influencing self-care and self-efficacy.
Design: An observational, cross-sectional study design.
Setting(s): The outpatient department of two tertiary hospital.
Aims: To test the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Self-Care in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Inventory on a sample of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China.
Background: Measuring the self-care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is vital to promote the performance of effective self-care behaviours. However, few instruments have been developed to measure self-care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and the existing instruments lack theoretical support and satisfactory psychometrics properties.
Aim: To explore family caregivers' experiences of contributing to self-care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Design: A qualitative description study.
Methods: Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted face-to face, by telephone or video calls in a purposive sample of 17 family caregivers of patients with COPD recruited in Italy, and analysed through content analysis.
Introduction: We know that patient and caregiver sex influence patient self-care and caregiver contribution to self-care in multiple chronic conditions. However, the role of dyad sex combination (e.g.
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- - A scoping review examined the use of motivational interviewing to encourage self-care in older patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and support their informal caregivers, searching across seven databases up to July 2022.
- - Researchers found 12 studies reported in 15 articles that utilized motivational interviewing between 2012 and 2022; however, there was no research focusing on its use for informal caregivers.
- - The findings indicate that motivational interviewing is underused in MCCs, primarily aimed at improving medication adherence, with a call for more detailed insights on its application and the inclusion of informal caregivers in future studies.
Self-care of multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and caregiver contribution to self-care have been theorized as dyadic. However, the different dyadic archetypes are still unknown. This cross-sectional study aimed to identify dyadic archetypes related to how in patient-caregiver dyads manage the patient's MCCs and to describe other ways in which the dyadic archetypes differ.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntracellular mono-ADP-ribosyltransferases (mono-ARTs) catalyze the covalent attachment of a single ADP-ribose molecule to protein substrates, thus regulating their functions. PARP10 is a soluble mono-ART involved in the modulation of intracellular signaling, metabolism and apoptosis. PARP10 also participates in the regulation of the G1- and S-phase of the cell cycle.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe study tested the construct validity and reliability of the Caregiver Contribution to Self-Care of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Inventory and the Caregiver Self-Efficacy in Contributing to Self-Care of COPD Scale. The two instruments were developed by modifying the Self-Care of COPD Inventory and Self-Care Self-Efficacy Scale in COPD into caregiver versions. The psychometric properties were tested in a convenience sample of 261 informal caregivers of COPD patients recruited in Italy in two cross-sectional studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The objective of this review was to evaluate the experiences of health care personnel with promoting a sense of home for older adults living in residential care facilities.
Introduction: Moving to a residential care facility represents a critical moment for older adults. It disrupts the continuity of their lives and distances them from significant people and objects.
Aims And Objectives: To assess the level of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related knowledge within patient and informal caregiver dyads, and to identify factors influencing the knowledge level considering the interdependence within the dyads.
Background: Patients with COPD and their informal caregivers present poor disease knowledge and different characteristics are associated with their level of knowledge. Disease knowledge and related characteristics have been assessed separately in patients and informal caregivers, without considering possible influence within the dyads.
Background: The recognition of a symptom is needed to initiate a decision to engage in a behavior to ameliorate the symptom. Yet, a surprising number of individuals fail to detect symptoms and delay in addressing early warnings of a health problem.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that symptom recognition mediates the relationship between monitoring for and management of symptoms of a chronic illness.
Self-care is essential to achieve positive clinical outcomes in patients with chronic diseases; however, self-care behaviors of people living with HIV (PLWH) have not been extensively studied due to the lack of validated measurements. We performed preliminary psychometric analyses of the structural validity and internal consistency of the Self-Care of Chronic Illness Inventory among 108 PLWH living in Italy and assessed self-care levels. Our findings largely replicate the instrument's original factor structure and indicated high internal consistency and reliability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFamily is a major source of support for older chronically-ill patients and known to be associated with better self-care. Depression and self-care self-efficacy are associated with healthy behaviors and thus may serve as mechanisms by which family support influences self-care.We explored depression and self-care self-efficacy as mediators of the relationship between perceived family support and self-care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Self-care of chronic conditions involves both patients and their informal caregivers and therefore might be considered as a dyadic phenomenon. Nevertheless, empirical evidence supporting a dyadic construct is unavailable. This study aimed to explore the existence of a dyadic construct in self-care maintenance, monitoring, and management in patients affected by chronic conditions and their informal caregivers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There is need for improvement in effective pressure ulcers preventive strategies.
Objective: To study whether a multi-layer silicone-adhesive polyurethane foam dressing shaped for the sacrum prevents PUs development in addition to standard PU preventive care for at-risk hospitalized patients.
Design: Open-label, parallel group, multi-center randomized controlled trial.
Aims: Explore the self-care experiences of patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs) and caregivers' contributions to patient self-care during COVID-19 pandemic.
Design: A descriptive qualitative design was used. The COREQ checklist was used for study reporting.