Sexual Satisfaction and Quality of Life in Cardiovascular Patients: The Mediating Role of Anxiety.

Background: Cardiovascular diseases represent one of the most important problems for public health. Research indicates that elderly patients consider sexual satisfaction as a fundamental aspect of their quality of life and a better sexual function is related to higher general wellbeing.

Objective: The main objective of this study was to investigate the mediating role of anxiety and depression in the relationship between quality of life and sexual satisfaction in cardiovascular (CVD) patients.

Emotional Competence in Primary School Children: Examining the Effect of a Psycho-Educational Group Intervention: A Pilot Prospective Study.

Emotional competence (EC) is a key component of children’s psychological, cognitive, and social development, and it is a central element of learning. The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of implementing a psycho-educational group intervention aimed at improving children’s emotional competence (EC), quality of integration and scholastic skills. A total of 229 children (123 females; M Age = 7.

Quality of Life and Job Loss during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediation by Hopelessness and Moderation by Trait Emotional Intelligence.

This study contributes to the knowledge on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic by examining a moderated mediation model in which the impact of job loss over quality of life (QoL) is mediated by hopelessness and moderated by trait emotional intelligence (trait EI). Data were collected from a large nationally representative Italian sample of adult workers ( = 1610), who completed a series of anonymous online questionnaires. Total, direct and indirect effects were estimated through bootstrapped mediated moderation analyses providing 95% bias corrected bootstrap confidence intervals.

Haptic Perception in Extreme Obesity: qEEG Study Focused on Predictive Coding and Body Schema.

Haptic perception (HP) is a perceptual modality requiring manual exploration to elaborate the physical characteristics of external stimuli through multisensory integrative cortical pathways. Cortical areas exploit processes of predictive coding that collect sensorial inputs to build and update internal perceptual models. Modifications to the internal representation of the body have been associated with eating disorders.

Treatment of acute bone defects in severe lower limb Trauma.

Purpose: To present our experience in the management of acute large bone defects treated with the use of vascularized fibular grafts supported by Ilizarov circular external frames.

Patients And Methods: During a period of 6 years (from 2007 to 2013) 8 patients with acute large bone defects (IVB according to Winquist modified classification) were treated at our institution with early bone reconstruction by means of microvascular fibular grafts. All patients were evaluated by the use of the following parameters: X-ray consolidation, discharge time, duration of treatment, malalignment of the lower limb and final leg length discrepancy, knee and ankle mobility (ROM), pain (VAS), number of eventual additive treatments (plastic surgery, etc.