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Fortschr Neurol Psychiatr
November 2024
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Objective: A telephone-based health program for people with depressive and anxiety disorders as well as stress, already implemented in the standard care of a private health insurance company, as well as the initial evaluation results will be presented.
Methods: The program, based on several months of telephone support for patients from medical professionals, focuses on teaching psychoeducational content, behavioral therapy techniques, and emotional support. In the current program, the German version of the DASS 21 questionnaire was used, which detects distress in the dimensions of depression, anxiety and stress as well as overall psychological stress.
Cochrane Database Syst Rev
August 2024
Department of Health Sciences Ålesund, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ålesund, Norway.
Background: Healthcare workers sometimes develop their own informal solutions to deliver services. One such solution is to use their personal mobile phones or other mobile devices in ways that are unregulated by their workplace. This can help them carry out their work when their workplace lacks functional formal communication and information systems, but it can also lead to new challenges.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCureus
February 2024
Microbiology, Immunology and Pharmacology, St. George's University School of Medicine, St. George's, GRD.
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common yet debilitating and chronic condition that consists of disturbances in bowel habits and abdominal pain that is frequently relieved with defecation. While the first line of treatment for IBS is pharmacological treatment, this has been shown to fail, leading to the patient being classified as having refractory IBS. The quality of life (QOL) of these patients is greatly hindered; in this case, there are rarely moments of relief.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Pediatr Nurs
May 2024
Muş Alparslan University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Campus, Turkey. Electronic address:
Purpose: This study was aimed to investigate the relationship between smartphone addiction, loneliness, and depression in adolescents.
Design And Methods: This study was designed in a correlational-cross-sectional-descriptive model and was conducted with 1041 adolescents attending high schools in a provincial center in Eastern Turkey. The data were collected through face-to-face interviews using a personal information form, Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version for Adolescents, UCLA Loneliness Scale, and Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale.
PLOS Glob Public Health
December 2023
Patient-Reported Outcomes Unit (PROQOL), UMR 1123, INSERM, Paris, France.
The concordance of communication between patients and health professionals is essential to promoting positive health outcomes. However, concordance may be broken where language barriers exist therefore creating a need to use interpretation services. This is the case when rapid diagnostic testing (RDT) of HIV, HBV, and HCV is offered to migrants.
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