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Strategies to reduce hyperglycemia-related anxiety in elite athletes with type 1 diabetes: A qualitative analysis.
PLoS One
January 2025
School of Human Nutrition, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Objective: Managing blood glucose levels is challenging for elite athletes with type 1 diabetes (T1D) as competition can cause unpredictable fluctuations. While fear of hypoglycemia during physical activity is well documented, research on hyperglycemia-related anxiety (HRA) is limited. HRA refers to the heightened fear that hyperglycemia-related symptoms will impair functioning.
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Front Oral Health
August 2024
School of Dentistry, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.
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- The homeless population faces significant barriers in accessing dental care, leading to greater inequality compared to the general public, with limited recent evidence on effective service delivery models, following the Smile4Life report from 2009.
- The study aims to co-design principles for a dental service specifically tailored to adults experiencing homelessness, utilizing qualitative methods and expert input from both users and healthcare practitioners.
- Five key themes emerged from focus group discussions, highlighting the impact of oral health on the homeless, barriers to access, practitioner perceptions, and factors for a successful service, leading to five principles for a new dental care model: patient-centered services, a welcoming environment, trained staff, dental education, and peer mentoring.
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Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback
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Department of Pediatrics, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, USA.
Many studies have examined the effects of meditation practice focused on the normal breath on vagal tone with mixed results. Heart Rhythm Meditation (HRM) is a unique meditation form that engages in the deep slow full breath, and puts the focus of attention on the heart. This form of breathing likely stimulates the vagus nerve with greater intensity.
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"Pills Don't Teach Skills": ADHD Coaching, Identity Work, and the Push toward the Liminal Medicalization of ADHD.
J Health Soc Behav
June 2024
Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA.
Despite physicians' near monopoly over medicalization historically, various stakeholder groups shape an increasingly complex process today. This study examines a relatively new initiative, "health coaching," within the context of the changing nature of medicalization. Utilizing 51 in-depth interviews with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coaches, participant observation from seven ADHD symposia, and ADHD coach publications, I examine coaching's emergence as a partial challenge to medicalization.
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