"Ariadne's Thread": Psycho-educational Empowerment Intervention for Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer.

"Ariadne's thread" is a psycho-educational intervention designed by the Breast Unit and the Clinical Psychology Unit of an Italian Comprehensive Cancer Center and aims to promote empowerment in patients with metastatic breast cancer. It consists of 8 online meetings led by a psycho-oncologist in which informative sessions by patients' referring physicians alternate with moments of stress management techniques. This study aims to investigate (1) the feasibility of the "Ariadne's thread" pilot intervention and (2) the satisfaction and perceived benefits of the pilot intervention.

[Theoretical-practical training for personnel involved in patient assistance for limiting the risk of manual handling of the patients in a hospital company].

Worker education and training must represent a deep cultural change that can be achieved, fulfilled and strengthened through constant guiding steps and periodical checks regarding practical application of acquired knowledge. In our hospital, a multi-subject team has been identified to face such problem of risk reduction from inpatient mobilization in a shared and synergic manner. Therefore a theory and practical training course is being proposed, with a theoretic part of one hour and a half to be held in a classroom to small groups (not more than 20 people) and a practical part (addressed to 8 people groups) composed of 4 sections of 1 hour and a half each: once listening in class and then being subdivided in the relative belonging wards as well as after an explanation, everyone will have here the chance to perform the correct manual mobilization handlings also in association with the use of minor aid devices.