Support and information needs of people with systemic sclerosis by time since diagnosis: A cross-sectional study.

Background: How support and informational needs of people with systemic sclerosis (SSc) may differ by time since diagnosis is not known. Our objective was to determine if informational and support needs of recently diagnosed individuals with systemic sclerosis differ from people diagnosed for longer periods of time.

Methods: The North American Scleroderma Support Group Members survey included 30 items on reasons for attending support groups.

Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire: Skill gaps and psychosocial predictors of transition readiness among adolescents and young adults with chronic medical conditions.

Background: Transferring from paediatric to adult care can be challenging. Adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with chronic health conditions need to develop a specific set of skills to ensure lifelong medical follow-up due to the chronicity of their condition. The Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire-French version (TRAQ-FR) is a 19-item questionnaire measuring such skills.

Transparent masks reduce the negative impact of opaque masks on understanding emotional states but not on sharing them.

While face masks provide necessary protection against disease spread, they occlude the lower face parts (chin, mouth, nose) and consequently impair the ability to accurately perceive facial emotions. Here we examined how wearing face masks impacted making inferences about emotional states of others (i.e.