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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"Functional impairment"”.
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Functional impairment in South African children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder
… aimed to increase current understanding of functional impairment in children and adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Twenty-six South African children and adolescents with OCD participated in the study. The Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age …
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Machine learning models for functional impairment risk prediction in ischemic stroke patients
Background: Stroke-related functional impairment risk scores are commonly used to estimate the patient-specific risk of functional impairment in acute care settings. However, these models have been primarily developed based on regression models, which might not provide optimal predictive accuracy, …
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Raising an HIV-infected child: associations between parental stress and child functional impairment
… First, I aimed to investigate the differences in functional, behavioural, and emotional impairment of HIV-infected, HAART-naive children compared to HIV-negative controls. Second, I aimed to investigate the levels of parental stress, depression, and quality of life related to caring for an …
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Safety-seeking behaviours and functional impairment in excessive worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
… (GAD) is a chronic condition with substantial functional impairment and high comorbidity with other mental disorders. GAD is the only anxiety disorder that does not have behavioural avoidance in its diagnostic criteria. Despite that, research has shown that GAD patients engage in maladaptive …
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Persistence of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms and Functional Impairment From Childhood Through Adolescence
… hyperactivity, and impulsivity which cause impairment in multiple settings, including at home, in school, and with friends. Partially due to medication, behavioral modifications, and lifestyle changes, not all children will meet diagnostic criteria in adulthood. However, most children with …
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The Emergence of Network Hyperexcitability and Functional Impairment in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease
… study the emergence of hyperexcitability in functional hippocampal networks, spontaneous activity from AppNL-G-F and WT primary hippocampal cultures, grown on MEAs, was regularly recorded over a 56 days-in-vitro culture maturation period. Early AppNL-G-F hippocampal hyperexcitability was …
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Functional impairment in South African children with Obsessive-Compulsive disorder and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder
The electromagnetic pulse (EMP) resulting from the detonation of nuclear explosives is a documented and studied phenomenon. What is less well known and understood is the simi- lar yet considerably less powerful occurrence surrounding the detonation of high explosives. The phenomenon was rst noticed …
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Raising an ADHD child : relations between parental stress, child functional impairment, and subtypes of the disorder
The broad aim of this study was to gain a clear picture of how mothers of children with ADHD experience stress, how their stress levels compare to those of mothers of children without ADHD, and which factors predict the extent to which they are stressed.
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Functional Impairment in school-aged South African children with ADHD: design, implementation, and evaluation of a targeted intervention
… little Africa-based research considering (a) the functional impact of the disorder within the population or (b) locally appropriate interventions that might alleviate that impact. Study 1 was a needs assessment project that described the functional impairment experienced by a South African sample …
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HIV-associated cognitive disorders in children and adolescents: methodological investigations and validating a quick screening tool
… is associated with both cognitive and functional impairment. Accurate measurement and screening for these conditions is key in ensuring that these vulnerable children and adolescent receive the care they need. Objectives I sought to carry out the following: 1) to undertake a systematic …
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Daily functioning and compliance to health precautions in relation to COVID-19
… between COVID-19 related anxiety and functional impairment, and the moderating effect of health literacy on the relationship between source of COVID-19 information (e.g., healthcare providers, public health organizations, liberal media outlets, and conservative media outlets) and …
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Motivation to expend physical and cognitive effort as predictors of functioning in major depression
… Disorder (MDD) is associated with severe functional disability; however, the mechanisms of impaired functioning are understudied. Cognitive deficits is one known mechanism of functional impairment in MDD. However, treatments that remediate cognitive functioning do not seem to produce …
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An investigation of functional correlates and predictors of apathy in a Memory Clinic sample
… significant caregiver burden, cognitive and functional impairment, and poor quality of life. Marin's (1991) definition of apathy as an amotivational disorder has gained widespread acceptance, despite recent contentions about this conceptualization. Marin's Apathy Evaluation Scale reflects his …
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Mental Health Service Utilization Among African-American Adolescents
… with previous research, psychological symptoms, functional impairment, and caregiver strain were each associated with increased odds of adolescent treatment. Caregiver ratings were more strongly related to treatment than youth ratings. Caregiver rating of youth functional impairment and caregiver …
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Evaluating the functional effects, morbidity, recurrence, survival and quality of life after curative treatment for rectal cancer
… for rectal cancer can be associated with rectal functional impairment, increased morbidity and may impact quality of life. Restorative surgery is the preferred choice of surgery, but in some circumstances, surgery with a permanent stoma is required to ensure tumour clearance. While the aim of …
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Predictors of Health in Adult Child Caregivers of Parent Stroke Survivors in China
… number of diseases and care receivers’ functional impairment were adjusted, filial attitude significantly predicted age- and gender-adjusted caregiver depression. After caregivers’ number of diseases, employment type, and care receivers’ functional impairment were adjusted, mutuality …
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Cardiovascular Functional Alterations in Chronic Kidney Disease
… of cardiovascular disease during renal impairment involves striking multitiered, multi-dimensional complex alterations encompassing the entire oxygen transport system. Complex interactions between target organ systems involving alterations of the heart, vasculature, musculoskeletal and …
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Vascular risk and depression in outpatients at Groote Schuur Hospital memory clinic
… more apathy, fewer ideational symptoms, and more functional and cognitive impairment. Recent studies offer only limited support for this proposal, perhaps due to lack of comparability of studies, lack of control for factors such as age, medical co-morbidity and functional impairment, and exclusion …
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Caulrophobia: An investigation of clinical features
… and extent of psychological distress and functional impairment - in individuals who self-report coulrophobia. Fear of clowns is more commonly associated with fear (45.3%) than disgust (37.9%). The possibility that fear of clowns comprises a specific phobia was also examined. Those from the …
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