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Health Expect
February 2025
Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
Objectives: Grounded in the Health Empowerment Model, which posits that health literacy and patient empowerment are intertwined yet distinct constructs, this study investigates how the interplay of these factors influences attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help in members of online communities for mental health (OCMHs). This while acknowledging the multidimensionality of patient empowerment, encompassing meaningfulness, competence, self-determination, and impact.
Design And Methods: A cluster analysis of data gathered from 269 members of Italian-speaking OCMHs on Facebook has been performed.
Acad Med
December 2024
R.M. Leipzig is professor and vice chair emerita, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.
Purpose: Medical student education in geriatrics is a critical need for every doctor-in-training as the population ages, with fewer than 7,000 geriatricians, and older patients, who now approach 20% of the U.S. population, having unique health care needs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWorld J Clin Cases
December 2024
Department of Ultrasound imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, Fujian Province, China.
Traditional Chinese medicine has a long and illustrious history, and with the development of modern science and technology, the research and application of traditional Chinese medicines have continued to progress significantly. Many traditional Chinese medicinal herbs have undergone scientific validation, reinvigorating with new life and vitality, and contributing unique strengths to the advancement of human health. Recently, the discovery that leech total protein extracted from lyophilized powder reduces blood uric acid (UA) levels by inhibiting the activity of xanthine oxidase to decrease UA synthesis and promotes UA excretion by regulating different UA transporters in the kidney and intestine has undoubtedly injected new vitality and hope into this field of research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWorld J Clin Oncol
December 2024
Department of Gastroenterology, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover 30625, Lower Saxony, Germany.
In the ongoing quest for new treatments in medicine, traditional Chinese medicine offers unique insights and potential. Recently, studies on the ability of to inhibit M2-type tumour-associated macrophage polarisation by modulating the Wnt/β-catenin signalling pathway to suppress liver cancer have undoubtedly revealed new benefits and hope for this field of research. The purpose of this article is to comment on this study and explore its strengths and weaknesses, thereby providing ideas for the future treatment of liver cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Med Inform
December 2024
Regenstrief Institute, 1101 W 10(th) St, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; Department of Health Policy and Management, Indiana University Richard M Fairbanks School of Public Health, 1050 Wishard Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.
Objective: Existing literature shows associations between patient demographics and reported experiences of care, but this relationship is poorly understood. Our objective was to use natural language processing of patient comments to gain insight into associations between patient demographics and experiences of care.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional study of 14,848 unique emergency department (ED) patient visits from 1/1/2020 to 12/31/2020.
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