Publications by authors named "Stefania Signore"

Article Synopsis
  • Trazodone, an antidepressant often prescribed for insomnia, anxiety, and behavioral disorders, is the focus of a study aimed at understanding its prescription reasons, effectiveness, and side effects in older adults in long-term care facilities.
  • The study included feedback from 37 out of 74 participating long-term care facilities, analyzing data from 427 older adults, revealing that common reasons for prescribing trazodone included agitation, insomnia, and depression, with over 90% reporting it was effective.
  • While trazodone proved beneficial, the study identified falls as a key side effect, affecting 30% of participants, underlining the need for careful monitoring in elderly patients, especially those with dementia.
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Background: The containment measures linked to the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected the phyco-physical well-being of the population, especially older adults with neurocognitive disorders (NCDs). This study aims to evaluate whether the frailty of NCD patients was associated with different changes in multiple health domains, in particular in relation to loneliness and social isolation, pre- and post-lockdown.

Materials And Methods: Patients were recruited from 10 Italian Centers for Cognitive Disorders and Dementia.

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Background: Numerous individual and organizational factors can influence the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Long Term Care Facilities (LTCFs). A range of outbreak control measures are still implemented in most facilities involving administrations, staff, residents and their families. This study aims to evaluate which measure could influence the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 infection among residents during the period March 2021-June 2022.

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Background And Objectives: Depression is highly prevalent in older adults, especially in those with dementia. Trazodone, an antidepressant, has shown to be effective in older patients with moderate anxiolytic and hypnotic activity; and a common off-label use is rising for managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). The aim of the study is to comparatively assess the clinical profiles of older patients treated with trazodone or other antidepressants.

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Psychometric and emotional intelligence are considered as two separate theoretical constructs, although each one has been found to correlate to a certain degree with measures of creativity. The aim of the present study was to analyze whether individual differences such as age and gender, together with psychometric intelligence and emotional competence (EC) predicted creativity. We selected a sample of 376 participants aged 12-88 (mean age = 30.

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