Publications by authors named "Natalia Antonova"
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- The study looked at how well patients recover their language skills after having brain surgery for a type of tumor on the left side of the brain.
- Researchers tested 59 patients' language abilities before surgery, right after, and several months later to see how they changed.
- They found that while some patients didn't recover well, better immediate language mapping during surgery helped with recovery, especially in areas like understanding sentences and using verbs.
Little is known about the perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic's dynamic and its effect on self-protective behaviour. Using survey data from 1343 university students we explored how the perceived temporal distance to the COVID pandemic peak associates with risk perception and the adherence of preventive behaviours. Results show that individuals differ in their perception of the pandemic stage despite being in the same environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The success of biobanking is directly linked to the willingness of people to donate their biological materials for research and storage. Ethical issues related to patient consent are an essential component of the current biobanking agenda. The majority of data available are focused on population-based biobanks in USA, Canada and Western Europe.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The aim of the study was to analyze accessibility of medical assistance in Russian polyclinics (a case study of the city of Ekaterinburg).
Methods: The research included an anonymous survey of patients in five polyclinics of Ekaterinburg (N=500) conducted by applying a specially developed standardised interview.
Results: The following factors of medical care accessibility were analyzed: the patient's financial status and administrative and managerial resources of medical institutions.