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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Treatment related"”.
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Cancer Treatment-Related Fatigue: Psychometric Testing of the Cancer Treatment-Related Fatigue Representation Scale (CTRFRep) in Patients Undergoing Radiation Treatment for Cancer
Cancer treatment-related fatigue (CTRF) is recognized as a prevalent and bothersome symptom for patients with cancer. In a model of the CTRF experience, CTRF representation, or the beliefs, thoughts and emotions surrounding the experience of CTRF, is believed to mediate the relationship between …
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LPP INDEXES BASELINE AND TREATMENT-RELATED CHANGES IN ANXIETY SENSITIVITY
… individual’s tendency to be fearful of anxiety-related bodily sensations (the symptoms that accompany feelings of anxiety)(Reiss et al., 1986). These symptoms can be cognitive (i.e., fear of losing control of mental processes), physical (i.e., fear of catastrophic physiological outcomes such as …
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Treatment-related decisional conflict, quality of life, and comorbid illness in older adults with cancer
… of not only the cancer, but also the cancer treatment. This study utilized a cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational study design to explore the relationships between and among treatment-related decisional conflict, quality of life and comorbidity in older adults with cancer. An anonymous …
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Mechanisms of social dysfunction and treatment-related change in Veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
… violence [2]. Current Veterans Affairs (VA) treatments effectively decrease posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) [3, 4, 5, 6], but do not directly target social dysfunction. In the current study, we investigate deficits in two potential mechanisms: trust and social responsiveness. We propose …
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Hearts and minds : how do people experience and psychologically recover from traumatic cardiac treatment-related events?
… to two types of potentially traumatic cardiac treatments: heart transplantation and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). It was hoped that such an endeavour would yield novel insights into these treatments that might facilitate the development of pertinent theory and psychotherapeutic …
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The relationship between chest X-ray findings, bacterial load and treatment-related outcomes in persons with extensively drug resistant TB
… inadequate access to drug sensitivity testing. Treatment outcomes of XDR-TB have been variable with countries like Peru showing a 60% overall cure (or completed treatment) rate, and studies in KwaZulu Natal in South Africa showing much poorer outcomes. The reasons for the poor outcomes in XDR-TB …
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Evaluating the measurement of infertility and infertility treatment-related depression in women : a multiphase qualitative and quantitative analysis of psychometric properties.
… literature regarding measures of infertility-related depression. Study 1 was a phenomenological systematic review of depression in women experiencing infertility in which current diagnostic criteria were plotted across qualitative studies and new themes central to infertility-related …
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Molecular epidemiology, susceptibility profiles, outcomes and transmission dynamics in patients with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in two provinces of South Africa
… and programmatically incurable TB. Short-term treatment-related outcomes of XDR-TB patients are known to be poor. However, there are no prospective data to inform longterm treatment-related outcomes, design of effective XDR-TB treatment regimens, and public health interventions required to …
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Time-Restricted Eating During Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
… improvements in screening, early detection, and treatment. However, common treatments still come with side effects that decrease quality of life and may lead to factors that increase the risk of recurrence, cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. Additionally, social determinants of …
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Clinical Diagnosis, Genetic Background and Treatment of Vitamin-D Resistant Hypophosphatemic Ricket
… diminishes the synthesis of active vitamin D. Treatment includes conventional therapy of phosphate and active vitamin D, together with correction of bone deformities and monitoring treatment-related side effects. Burosumab, a recombinant monoclonal antibody directed at FGF23, is a first-line …
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Cancer
<p>Health-related quality of life is an important phenomenon to measure in children undergoing treatment for cancer. However, the effects of different treatment modalities and cancer related factors over the duration of treatment have not been explored. To assess the effects of different child-, …
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Cognitive ability and change in long-term chronic schizophrenia
… the relation of early adult demographic and treatment-related variables to cognitive performance and change was examined. The Schizophrenic group declined in all intellectual abilities, except vocabulary, and showed loss in general intelligence significantly greater than that observed in the …
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Extensively drug resistant tuberculosis in South Africa
There are few data for treatment-related outcomes in patients with XDR tuberculosis in settings with high HIV prevalence. We reviewed the case records of 227 consecutively diagnosed South African patients with XDR-TB between 2002 and 2008, and analysed the records of another 115 patients, …
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T-lymphocyte senescence and hepatitis C virus infection
… The degree of fibrosis progression and treatment-related outcomes are critically dependent on the age of the infected individual. Progressive ageing is associated with a decline in the efficacy of adaptive immune system function. T-lymphocytes from aged subjects demonstrate multiple …
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The effect of milieu therapy on personality and clinical symptom variables
… unit's selection process, as well as particular treatment-related considerations, using a self-report questionnaire, the revised Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-II). The MCMI-II provided information about clinical symptoms and personality styles, which was used to investigate what …
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Evaluating the Feasibility of a Nurse-driven Follow-up Telephone Triage Intervention to Improve Post-treatment Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy and Radiation in the Ambulatory Setting
… and healthcare providers because of persistent treatment related acute and long-term effects which interfere with the patients’ basic functions such as, breathing, tasting, chewing, swallowing, and speech. Most acute symptoms are experienced during the treatment and in first eight weeks after …
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Is SABR cost-effective in oligometastatic cancer? An economic analysis of SABR-COMET randomized trial
… however, is associated with higher costs and treatment-related toxicity. The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of SABR versus SoC in patients with oligometastatic disease. A time-dependent Markov model with five health states was constructed from the Canadian health …
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Information and the Management of Treatment in Chronic Illness: A Qualitative Study of People Living With HIV -Disease
… and conduits for learning about their treatment regimens. Other information sources and activities tied closely to the individual and their surrounding personal environment, including past experience and bodily sensations, trial and error work, and the creation and maintenance of …
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A literature review of the impact of a monitoring coping style on psychological adjustment in people with real or potentially life threatening illness AND An investigation of psychological adjustment and coping style in patients undergoing bone marrow/stem cell transplantation
… over the course of transplantation, which pre-treatment demographic, medical and psychosocial factors predict psychological distress and adjustment after transplantation, and whether informational coping style was associated with distress levels before and after transplantation. The findings of …
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Cancer Related Symptom Clusters
… the co-occurrence of symptoms, both disease-related and treatment related, in cancer patients is in the early stages of investigation. As more individuals survive cancer, the prevalence and consequences of psychological and physical symptom clusters are increasing, yet they are under-reported …
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