Schoolteachers' well-being: A pilot study from the AVATAR project during COVID-19 school closure.

Background: Teachers are a category at high risk for co-occurring mental diseases.

Objectives: The purpose was to assess well-being of schoolteachers and psychological effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Method: Data were collected in April 2021, during the partial re-opening of public schools in Italy, from 838 schoolteachers who complete a battery of psychological tests on a multimedia platform.

Well-Being Perception during COVID-19 Pandemic in Healthy Adolescents: From the Avatar Study.

The COVID-19 pandemic provided an extraordinary and naturalistic context to observe young people's psychosocial profiles and to study how a condition of environmental deprivation and lack of direct social contact, affects the well-being and health status of adolescents. The study explored whether the COVID-19 outbreak changes, in the short term, the acute well-being perception in adolescents, as measured by a Personalized Well-Being Index (PWBI) and the four components affecting health (i.e.

Health-Related Quality of Life in Italian Adolescents During Covid-19 Outbreak.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak represented an experience of social isolation potentially leading to changes in the health quality of life. The aim of this study is to investigate the health-related quality of life during quarantine in early adolescents. Data were collected from 1,289 adolescents (mean age, 12.

Antihypertensive effect of barnidipine 10 mg or amlodipine 5 to 10 mg once daily in treatment-naive patients with essential hypertension: A 24-week, randomized, open-label, pilot study.

Background: Dihydropyridine calcium antagonists are largely employed for the treatment of hypertension, coronary heart disease, and heart failure.

Objective: The aim of our study was to compare the antihypertensive effect of the dihydropyridine calcium antagonists barnidipine and amlodipine.

Methods: This was a 24-week, randomized, open-label, pilot study.