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Nervenarzt
January 2025
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Asklepios Fachklinikum Tiefenbrunn, Deutschland37124, Rosdorf, Deutschland.
Background: Disorders of sexual function are a frequent comorbidity of depression and have complex interactions on psychological, sexual and relationship qualities.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of sexual functional disorders in depressed patients, the effects of antidepressant drugs and development of treatment recommendations.
Material And Method: Evaluation of the current literature and discussion of fundamental studies.
Eur J Cancer
January 2025
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, University Hospital of Psychiatry II, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. Electronic address:
The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Utility - Core 10 Dimensions (QLU-C10D) adds a preference-based scoring algorithm to the EORTC measurement portfolio. It is built on the most widely used health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measure in oncology, the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire - Core 30 (QLQ-C30), allowing for the calculation of both HRQoL profiles and health utilities. This is an important advancement for integrating cancer-specific values into health economic evaluations and decision making, offering greater content validity and statistical power than some generic measures.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Mental health remains among the top 10 leading causes of disease burden globally, and there is a significant treatment gap due to limited resources, stigma, limited accessibility, and low perceived need for treatment. Problem Management Plus, a World Health Organization-endorsed brief psychological intervention for mental health disorders, has been shown to be effective and cost-effective in various countries globally but faces implementation challenges, such as quality control in training, supervision, and delivery. While digital technologies to foster mental health care have the potential to close treatment gaps and address the issues of quality control, their development requires context-specific, interdisciplinary, and participatory approaches to enhance impact and acceptance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Public Health
January 2025
Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Objectives: To conduct mental health surveillance in adults in Ukraine and Ukrainian refugees (Canton of Zurich, Switzerland) as an actionable scientific foundation for public mental health and mental healthcare.
Methods: Mental Health Assessment of the Population (MAP) is a research program including prospective, population-based, digital cohort studies focused on mental health monitoring. The study aims to include 17,400 people from the general population of Ukraine, 1,220 Ukrainians with refugee status S residing in the canton of Zurich, and 1,740 people from the Zurich general population.
BMC Palliat Care
January 2025
School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health, Faculty of Science and Health, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus, Dublin, D09 V209, Ireland.
Background: Due to medical advancements the number of children living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions is rising, meaning more children and their families will require palliative and end-of-life care in the future. While 'home' is often the preferred place of end-of-life care, the evidence around best practice for decision-making about place of end-of-life care remains inadequate.
Aim: To synthesise evidence on the factors influencing decision-making regarding place of end-of-life care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions.
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