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Ophthalmic Physiol Opt
January 2025
Vision and Hearing Sciences Research Centre, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Purpose: Wearable electronic low vision enhancement systems (wEVES) improve visual function but are not widely adopted by people with vision impairment. Here, qualitative research methods were used to investigate the usefulness of wEVES for people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) after an extended home trial.
Methods: Following a 12-week non-masked randomised crossover trial, semi-structured interviews were completed with 34 participants with AMD, 64.
Geriatrics (Basel)
October 2024
Department of Health Economics and Health Services Research, Hamburg Center for Health Economics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
The aim of this study was to clarify the link between experiencing cerebrovascular diseases (strokes as an explicit example) and fear of falling (FOF) among middle-aged and older adults in Europe. Longitudinal data were used from wave 5 to wave 7 of the representative Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Self-reported tools were used to quantify the key variables.
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August 2024
School of Communication, Center for Communication, Health, & the Public Good, San Diego State University, USA; Department of Surgery, Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, USA; Social Science & Medicine, USA. Electronic address:
Video recordings of oncology interviews reveal how doctors rely on worry to establish medical expertise, facilitate treatment decision-making, and construct worry parameters to help patients understand whether there is a reasonable need for worry or not. Doctors express worry as frequently as cancer patients during oncology interviews, but they face a dilemma: how to provide care for cancer patients without directly stating they are worried about them? Plausible explanations are offered for why doctors do not state personal worries. Conversation analytic methods were employed to identify how doctors rely on worry to achieve distinct social actions.
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April 2024
Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, The Kolling Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Medicina (Kaunas)
February 2024
Department of Urology, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, San Paolo Hospital, 20142 Milan, Italy.
Chronic pelvic pain (CPP) represents a major public health problem for women with a significant impact on their quality of life. In many cases of CPP, due to gynecological causes-such as endometriosis and vulvodynia-improper pelvic floor muscle relaxation can be identified. Treatment of CPP with pelvic floor hypertonicity (PFH) usually involves a multimodal approach.
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