Publications by authors named "Patrizia Di Giacomo"
Aims And Objectives: To describe the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of nurses and midwives who have attended to women who suffered violence. This study further analyses the possible changes of attitude that have occurred over the past five years.
Background: Gender violence or violence against women is the largest problem with regard to public health and violated human rights all over the world.
Aims And Objectives: To describe what puerperal women know about postpartum contraception and to identify their related needs and expectations.
Background: Puerperal women face the problem of beginning or resuming contraception, the choice of the right method of contraception and the right time to start it. This choice becomes particularly important in case they breastfeed since the contraceptive method should not interfere with breastfeeding.
Aim: To describe a protocol for a quantitative systematic review, to identify critique and summarize factors that influence self-management education.
Background: Self-management education enables patients to manage their condition successfully and it is associated with better self-care, good control over lifestyle and leading the best possible quality of life, notwithstanding the presence of a chronic disease. Type II Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires lifestyle adjustments and disease management to keep glycaemia and long-term complications under control.
In oncological patients , communication of the diagnosis of the disease or its regression and the patient's awareness of both diagnosis and prognosis, plays a central role. Up to a few decades ago , it was common practice not to reveal the diagnosis of cancer. Nowadays, the situation has changed owing to radical socio-cultural changes.
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