Spiritual issues, beliefs, needs, and resources in palliative healthcare providers: An Italian qualitative study.

The significance of spirituality in navigating the meaning of illness and death has been well-established. However, healthcare professionals working with palliation also grapple with their own spiritual dimensions when confronted with these circumstances. This study aimed to explore spirituality from a subjective standpoint among a sample of palliative care professionals, investigating its role and associated needs.

Irrigation Targeted to Provoke Ejection of Ascospores of Shortens the Season for Ascospore Release and Results in Less Apple Scab.

Trials were carried out in apple orchards of Emilia-Romagna and Trentino-Alto Adige in northern Italy to investigate the effects of sprinkler irrigation on possible reduction in inoculum and subsequent disease pressure of , the ascomycete causing apple scab. In spring, volumetric spore traps were placed above apple leaf litter containing pseudothecia with ascospores of the fungus. Pseudothecia matured more rapidly in irrigated plots, and 95% of the total number of spores trapped in a season was reached on average 164 degree days (base temperature 0°C) earlier in irrigated compared with nonirrigated plots.

Compassion: Learning Needs and Training Opportunities-a Survey Among Palliative Healthcare Providers in Italy.

Compassion is a key quality in palliative care; however, there is a lack of evidence of the need to discuss the theme of compassion and professionals' training in the subject. The study aimed to investigate the knowledge of the construct of a sample of Italian healthcare professionals (HCPs) working in palliative care. In addition, their learning needs and training opportunities were explored.

Hospice palliative care professionals' opinions, emotions, skills and ethical reflections during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presented an extraordinary challenge for palliative care in Italy.

Aim: To investigate the opinions, emotions, skills, resources, critical issues and ethical aspects of palliative care encountered by hospice palliative care professionals in Italy.

Methods: Content analysis was performed on the answers to a survey distributed by e-mail.

Linguistic Traces of Subjectivity and Dissent. A Discursive Analysis of Inclusive Language in Argentina.

In Argentina, the so-called "inclusive language" aims at avoiding the bias for a particular sex or gender and objects to a grammatical binary system (feminine - masculine). Although in most Spanish-speaking countries, inclusive language has been limited to the realms of activism, gender studies and a certain type of public administration, in Argentina, its use has been extended to different social spheres, mostly urban. Considering such context, this work aims to investigate the inclusive language in Spanish and characterize its most relevant resources in a series of public texts that circulated in Argentina between 2018 and 2020.

Death and Dying on the Social Network: An Italian Survey.

Death, bereavement, and grief are part of everyone's life experience. In the last few decades, media and social network platforms gradually began to influence people's ways of perceiving and coping with death and dying, and the research on the phenomenon of digital death is growing. Facebook is one of the most known and used social networks, and one of the few that developed specific measures to manage the profile pages of the deceased users.

A Qualitative Study to Explore Healthcare Providers' Perspectives on End-of-Life Patients' Dignity. How Can Dignity Be Defined, and Which Strategies Exist to Maintain Dignity?

Dignity is a core topic within palliative care, and thus, it is important to get a detailed assessment of healthcare providers' (HCPs) perspectives on this subject. This study aimed to explore various HCPs' perspectives on end-of-life patients' dignity by collecting different testimonies about what dignity entails and which strategies HCPs use to maintain patients' dignity. A sample of 104 participants was interviewed using two open questions to collect qualitative data.

Simultaneous CO capture and metal purification from waste streams using triple-level dynamic combinatorial chemistry.

A reduction in CO emissions is required to mitigate global warming. Post-combustion carbon capture is one of the most developed technologies that has the potential to meet this goal, but its cost prevents its widespread use. A different approach would be to use CO directly as it is captured, before it is stored.

Definition of a Good Death, Attitudes Toward Death, and Feelings of Interconnectedness Among People Taking Care of Terminally ill Patients With Cancer: An Exploratory Study.

The concept of a good death is crucial in palliative care, but its relationship with attitudes toward death and feelings of interconnectedness needs to be further deepened. The first aim of this study was to explore the concept of good death, attitudes toward death, and feelings of interconnectedness among family caregivers (FCs) and health-care providers (HCPs) of terminally ill patients with cancer. The second aim was to analyze associations of good death concept with attitudes toward death and feelings of interconnectedness.

The Health Care Providers' Perspectives on End-of-Life Patients' Sense of Dignity. A Comparison Among Four Different Professionals' Categories.

The studies on terminally ill patients' dignity as perceived by health care providers (HCPs) in palliative care are growing. The comparison of different HCPs' perspectives in particular is necessary to explore how HCPs perceive patients' dignity in order to promote reflection on this core issue. This study aimed to investigate the perspectives on end-of-life patients' sense of dignity among four different categories of professionals: nurse assistants, nurses, psychologists, and physicians.

The Spirituality in End-of-Life Cancer Patients, in Relation to Anxiety, Depression, Coping Strategies and the Daily Spiritual Experiences: A Cross-Sectional Study.

This study aimed to investigate "Faith" and "Meaning/Peace" dimensions of the functional assessment of chronic illness therapy-spiritual well-being scale (FACIT-Sp-12) in relation to coping strategies, anxiety and depression, and to analyze the relationship between FACIT-Sp-12 and the daily spiritual experience scale in end-of-life cancer patients. A sample of 152 participants were involved. The daily spiritual experiences correlated the most with "Faith" subscale.

Dignity in cancer patients with a life expectancy of a few weeks. Implementation of the factor structure of the Patient Dignity Inventory and dignity assessment for a patient-centered clinical intervention: A cross-sectional study.

Objective: Hospice is a favored setting for dignity care. Studies on dignity dimension in end-of-life patients are growing. The Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI) is a tool that can lead to interesting information on dignity-related aspects of suffering.

Medical Students Reflections Toward End-of-Life: a Hospice Experience.

In this study, we want to investigate the personal reflections toward care of the dying cancer patients among second year medical students. Two hundred fifty second year medical students attended an elective short course on end-of-life care and a brief training at the hospice Valletta, in Turin. After group discussion, the students explained their reflections about their experience.

Subjective sleepiness and daytime functioning in bariatric patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate associations between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity and self-reported sleepiness and daytime functioning in patients considering bariatric surgery for treatment of obesity.

Methods: Using a retrospective cohort design, we identified 342 patients who had sleep evaluations prior to bariatric surgery. Our final sample included 269 patients (78.

From fatness to leaness: where did we go wrong?

Introduction: In humans, using adipose tissue to store fat represents the most effective means to 'store' energy. On the whole and over an extended period of time, intake of energy has exceeded energy expenditure and where previously the excess of energy was regularly turned over through physical activity, this crucial circle has now been broken. In this way obesity ascribed to either 'overeating' or 'under-activity'.

Predicting obstructive sleep apnea among women candidates for bariatric surgery.

Background: More women than men pursue bariatric surgery for treatment of obesity. Untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in bariatric patients increases perioperative morbidity and mortality, and, therefore, most bariatric surgeons screen for OSA with polysomnography (PSG). We sought to develop a model for predicting OSA in women seeking bariatric surgery in order to use this diagnostic resource most efficiently.

Cetacean diversity on the Parnaiba Delta, Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil.

The increase in the research of cetacean surveys on the Brazilian coast has brought new data on the distribution of species never reported before. The present work reviews the current knowledge on cetaceans species and extends this knowledge with an analysis of cetaceans stranded in the Parnaiba Delta, on the coast of Maranhão State, Brazil. The studies on cetacean diversity on the coast of the Parnaíba Delta were made from August 2004 to August 2006.

Redimune NF Liquid, a ready-to-use, high-concentration intravenous immunoglobulin therapy preparation, is safe and typically well tolerated in the routine clinical management of a broad range of conditions.

In clinical practice, intravenous immunoglobulin therapy (IVIG) is used in the management of a wide variety of medical conditions. Observational studies examining IVIG use in routine clinical practice are therefore an important means of validating findings from more strictly randomized controlled trials of patients with specific conditions. In this observational study, we examined the tolerability of a high-concentration (12%) ready-to-use liquid IVIG (Redimune NF Liquid) when used in the standard management of a diverse range of conditions (including primary immunodeficiency diseases, neurology conditions, oncology conditions and immune thrombocytopaenic purpura).

The impact of cardiac resynchronization therapy on obstructive sleep apnea in heart failure patients: a pilot study.

Background: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) has been shown to improve cardiac function and reduce Cheyne-Stokes respiration but has not been evaluated in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). In this pilot study, we investigated the impact of both CRT and CRT plus increased rate pacing in heart failure (ie, congestive heart failure [CHF]) patients with OSA. We hypothesized that through increased cardiac output CRT/pacing would reduce obstructive events and daytime symptoms of sleepiness.

Post-ictal fever: a rare symptom of partial seizures.

Although fever may induce seizures, especially in children, its occurrence following epileptic spells has been rarely described, except from generalized convulsive status epilepticus. We present two patients suffering from focal seizures accompanied by episodes of post-ictal fever, and review similar reports in the literature of the last 40 years. Temperature changes following non-convulsive seizures might be induced by gene upregulation occurring in the hypothalamus, the nucleus tractus solitarius, or in other brain regions, producing a local inflammatory response.

Metabolically engineered Rhodobacter sphaeroides RV strains for improved biohydrogen photoproduction combined with disposal of food wastes.

Three differently metabolically engineered strains, 2 single PHA- and Hup- mutants and one double PHA-/Hup- mutant, of the purple nonsulfur photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides RV, were constructed to improve a light-driven biohydrogen production process combined with the disposal of solid food wastes. These phenotypes were designed to abolish, singly or in combination, the competition of H2 photoproduction with polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) accumulation by inactivating PHA synthase activity, and with H2 recycling by abolishing the uptake hydrogenase enzyme. The performance of these mutants was compared with that of the wild-type strain in laboratory tests carried out in continuously fed photobioreactors using as substrates both synthetic media containing lactic acid and media from the acidogenic fermentation of actual fruit and vegetable wastes, containing mainly lactic acid, smaller amounts of acetic acia, and traces of higher volatile acids.

[Trachoma in Chad: results of an epidemiological survey].

A regional survey was carried out in Chad in 2000 and 2001 to estimate the prevalence and severity of trachoma. The main objectives were to describe the epidemiological pattern in terms of prevalence of inflammatory trachoma and blinding complications in two sub-samples of the population: children under 10 years of age and women over 14. Two strata were identified based on geographical criteria: two regions [Ouaddaï-Biltine, North-East] and [Lac-Kanem-Chari Baguirmi, North-West].