Publications by authors named "S Ferrante"
This paper describes the theoretical and practical aspects of Immersive Education, an educational methodology based on interactive narratives, articulated as emotional journeys, to develop competencies. It has been developed throughout three school years (2021-2024) with more than 400 students (8-12 years old) in Public Schools in Italy and Spain. Immersive Education can be integrated with curricular school activities and can be used to target both curricular and transversal learning objectives, specifically the ones connected with the Personal, Social and Learning to learn Key Competence (LifeComp European framework).
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- - Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a long-term inflammatory disease that requires ongoing treatment, with options like guselkumab and IL-17A inhibitors (ixekizumab, secukinumab) approved for use in adults by the FDA.
- - A retrospective analysis studied adults with PsA who started treatment with either guselkumab or IL-17A inhibitors, assessing how long they continued their therapy based on insurance claims data from July 2020 to June 2022.
- - Results showed that patients on guselkumab were significantly more likely to stick with their treatment for at least a year compared to those on IL-17A inhibitors, with longer median persistence and lower discontinuation rates for the gus
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- The Coma Recovery Scale-revised (CRS-r) is the main tool for assessing patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DoCs), but it has a misdiagnosis rate of about 40%.
- Recent guidelines recommend adding neurophysiological measures, such as surface electromyography (sEMG), to improve these assessments.
- The STRIVEfc system was tested on DoCs patients, highlighting that it can reveal subtle muscular activities invisible to clinicians and helps improve diagnostic accuracy by providing additional information through an instrumented version of the CRS-r (ICRS-r).
Ageing is a physiological phenomenon associated with cognitive and functional decline which, in the long term, could hamper the execution of daily life activities and threaten both social and independent life. The onset of chronic diseases can intensify this process, increasing the risk of hospitalisation and admission to long term care. This represents a significant burden on public health and reduces the quality of life of those affected.
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- The study aims to assess urinary and sexual function outcomes in men with high-risk prostate cancer after undergoing radical prostatectomy within the Michigan Urological Surgery Improvement Collaborative from 2014 to 2023.
- Results show that 58% of patients were socially continent three months post-surgery, increasing to 86% by twelve months, with better recovery linked to higher baseline urinary function scores and younger age.
- Only 15% of patients regained sexual function by twelve months, with nerve-sparing surgery and lower pre-operative PSA levels positively influencing results, highlighting a need for improved strategies in addressing sexual function post-surgery.