Anxiety, Depression and Quality of Life Improve After One Month and Three Months of Home Parenteral Nutrition: A Pilot Study in a Canadian Population.

Background: Patients receiving home parenteral nutrition (HPN) have a reduced quality of life (QoL), but it is unknown if this is associated with psychiatric comorbidities such as anxiety or depression.

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess anxiety, depression and QoL in patients transitioning from hospital to HPN.

Methods: We conducted a prospective study in adult patients receiving parenteral nutrition (PN) during transition from hospital to home.

Economic analysis of home vs hospital-based parenteral nutrition in Ontario, Canada.

Background: Advances in technology and infrastructure have facilitated transfer of complex services from acute care hospitals to the home. This increases the burden on community resources but may provide net savings to the health care system. We undertook a retrospective cohort study of patients transferred from hospital to home while receiving home parenteral nutrition (PN) to assess their costs of care.

Making the most and making sense: ethnographic research on spirituality in palliative care.

Presents ethnographic research on spirituality in palliative care. Reviews the literature and interviews palliative care staff along with their patients. Discovers two dominant themes in the literature and interviews with staff and patients around spirituality: making the most of it now and making sense.

An interactive 24-h recall technique for assessing the adequacy of trace mineral intakes of rural Malawian women; its advantages and limitations.

Objectives: To assess the relative validity of an interactive 24-h recall for estimating mineral intakes of rural Malawian women.

Design: Repeated interactive 24-h recalls were compared with weighed records collected for the same 2 days of food intake, and for 2 days 1-2 weeks prior and subsequent to the weighed record data collection period.

Setting: Three villages in traditional authority Jalasi, Mangochi District, Malawi.

Biochemical folate, B12, and iron status of a group of pregnant adolescents accessed through the public health system in southern Ontario.

Purpose: This study was designed to estimate the prevalence of biochemical iron, folate, and vitamin B12 depletion among a group of Canadian pregnant adolescents accessed through the Public Health system. Further, the impact of prenatal supplement use, chronologic age, gynecologic age, living arrangement, main source of income, postpartum custody plan, time of entry into prenatal care, and cigarette smoking on laboratory indices of the three nutrients were determined.

Methods: Fifty-eight adolescents (14.