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Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, technologies such as videoconferencing were used to deliver mental health appointments remotely online. For many people, this was a change from previous methods of mental healthcare receipt and delivery. We aimed to explore in-depth how practitioners, young people and parents in the UK experienced this transition.

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Background: Digital technologies play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and have important effects on their mental health.

Objective: We aimed to explore 3 key areas of the intersection between digital technology and mental health: the views and experiences of young people and clinicians about digital technology and mental health; implementation and barriers to the UK national guidance recommendation-that the discussion of digital technology use should form a core part of mental health assessment; and how digital technology might be used to support existing consultations.

Methods: Two cross-sectional web-based surveys were conducted in 2020 between June and December, with mental health clinicians (n=99) and young people (n=320).

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Background: Increasing concerns among mental health care professionals have focused on the impact of young people's use of digital technology and social media on their mental well-being. It has been recommended that the use of digital technology and social media be routinely explored during mental health clinical consultations with young people. Whether these conversations occur and how they are experienced by both clinicians and young people are currently unknown.

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Background: Online activity has been linked to poor mental health in children and young people, particularly those with existing vulnerability who may inadvertently or otherwise access harmful content. It is suggested health and social care practitioners should address online activity during mental health consultations, but guidance about acceptable or effective ways to do this is lacking. This study sought to derive good practice guidance to support mental health practitioners to engage young people in conversations about their online activities and impact on mental health.

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Background: Vulval lichen sclerosus (VLS) is a common condition. Despite this, there is a paucity of research investigating the impact on women's lives. Some women with VLS utilise online forums to discuss their priorities and concerns.

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An evaluation of a dedicated chronic pelvic pain syndrome clinic in genitourinary medicine.

Sex Transm Infect

August 2014

Bristol Sexual Health Centre, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

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How to manage the chronic pelvic pain syndrome in men presenting to sexual health services.

Sex Transm Infect

August 2014

Bristol Sexual Health Centre, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol, UK School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

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There is little written on the financial cost of burns care. This project examined three major paediatric burns of 30-40% total body surface area (%TBSA) admitted to the South West Paediatric Burns Service in Bristol, and calculated the cost per patient of acute inpatient treatment. A list of costs was established for theatre time, bed time, medications and fluids, dressings, invasive procedures, therapy services and investigations.

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Background And Objectives: After an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) prehospital thrombolysis (PHT) reduces mortality compared with inhospital thrombolysis. In practice, a relatively small proportion of the total population with AMI receives PHT. This study was designed to identify the current barriers to PHT.

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Ig heavy-chain (IgH) and partial V delta 2-D delta 3 T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangements were investigated, by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and sequence analysis, in 52 patients at presentation and first relapse and in 14 at both first and second relapse of B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia. In combination, these techniques amplified one or more clonal markers at presentation in 90% of patients (IgH-PCR, 75%; V delta 2-D delta 3-PCR, 46%; both, 33%). Changes in the pattern of amplification between presentation and first relapse were seen in 31% of patients positive by IgH-PCR at presentation and in 25% of those positive by TCR delta-PCR.

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The genetic sequence of the third complementarity determining region (CDR III) of the immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) gene was analysed in 55 rearranged alleles from 36 children presenting with B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). This confirmed the unique nature of these rearrangements. However, contrary to the hypothesis that the CDR III is produced by a random process of rearrangement, biased utilisation of diversity (D) segments and of joining (J) regions 4, 5 and 6 was demonstrated.

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The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to study clonality in a group of children with B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Rearrangement of the immunoglobulin heavy chain gene (IgH) results in a hypervariable sequence known as the complementarity determining region III. This can be amplified by the PCR using one pair of consensus primers.

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A retrospective study has been carried out on 114 patients who have undergone dacryocystography (DCG) for epiphora, to assess the role of DCG in their management. It was found that 16/66 (24%) patients who were offered surgery after DCG refused it or were assessed as unfit for surgery, demonstrating the need for careful counselling and assessment of patients prior to investigation. The presence of lacrimal system obstruction on DCG was an important factor in determining whether a patient underwent lacrimal surgery.

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