Publications by authors named "W Dustin Albert"
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- Utilization of ventricular assist devices (VAD) for end-stage heart failure is advanced, but there's a need for evidence-based psychosocial support interventions post-implantation.
- A study in Germany involved 140 patients, randomly assigned to an intervention or control group, to evaluate the impact of a new VAD support curriculum on various health outcomes.
- Results indicated that while primary health complications were similar across both groups, the intervention significantly reduced depression in patients and showed improvements in anxiety, quality of life, social support, and self-management for those receiving the VAD intervention.
Background: Little is known about the disturbance in bodily experience (BE) following ventricular assist device (VAD) implantation. The level of disturbance in BE serves as an indicator of the status of the patients' adaptation process to the device. This process encompasses coping with both the more affective, psychological conflicts and the more cognitive, practical challenges of living with the VAD.
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- Researchers introduced a novel method to assess the benefits of advanced footwear technology (AFT) track shoes for middle-distance running, using 200-m runs at race pace with recovery breaks.
- The study involved four experiments, showing that AFT spikes led to faster running times compared to traditional spikes, with specific findings indicating significant speed benefits and longer step lengths with certain AFT models.
- The results demonstrate that this interval-based approach is a reliable way to measure performance differences in running shoes, providing valuable insights into footwear technology's influence on middle-distance events.
Background: Survival rates after heart transplantation (HTx) have significantly improved over the last decades. There is a growing need to understand the long-term psychological and somatic outcomes, which constitute quality of life (QoL), for these long-term survivors.
Methods: The QoL of patients (N = 75) living 20-31 years (M = 24.
The purpose of this paper is to further understand current literature on prolonged sitting, sitting posture and active sitting solutions. This paper is divided into three sections: The first section (Part I) is a comprehensive overview of the literature on how a static prolonged seated posture can affect: spinal health, trunk posture, contact pressure/discomfort development and vascular issues. The second section (Part II) reviews and qualitatively compares the four working postures recognized in ANSI/HFES 100-2007: reclined sitting, upright sitting, declined sitting and standing.
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