Buls, Samantha Beverly, Elizabeth A Berryman, Darlene E Sotos-Prieto, Mercedes
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Chronic illness
To evaluate the opinions of primary health-care providers and patients regarding the use of the Healthy Heart Score 20-year cardiovascular disease risk assessment tool in the clinical setting. Semi-structured in person or phone interviews among 20 patients with no self-reported cardiovascular disease diagnoses and 20 health-care providers in Centra...
Storz, Maximilian Andreas
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Chronic illness
Tran, Lam Tran, Phoebe Tran, Liem
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Chronic illness
Stroke symptom recognition is critical in reducing time to treatment, but it is not known whether the increased support for stroke education programs during the last several years has led to an improvement in regional stroke symptom recognition levels since they were last assessed in the mid-2010s. We used the most current estimates of recognition ...
Wilkinson, Amanda Atlas, Janel Nelson, Katrina Mulligan, Hilda
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Chronic illness
Health and social care navigation services provide support for people with long-term conditions. Such services are available in the New Zealand (NZ) context. However little is known nationally or internationally about clients' experience of engaging with such services. This study aimed to describe client perspectives of engaging with a health and s...
Singh, Harjit K Kennedy, Gerard A Stupans, Ieva
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Chronic illness
A systematic review was undertaken in order to evaluate the competencies of primary healthcare professionals who are engaged with health coaching patients with chronic health conditions. The databases CINHAL, EMBASE, PubMed, PsychINFO and SCOPUS were searched to identify peer reviewed papers referring to competencies of health professionals engaged...
Westley-Wise, Victoria Lago, Luise Mullan, Judy Facci, Franca Zingel, Rebekah Eagar, Kathy
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Chronic illness
To describe morbidity and multimorbidity patterns among adults readmitted to an Australian regional health service, in terms of occurrence of the same and different morbidities at index admission and readmission. This cohort study used hospital admissions data for patients admitted between 1 July 2014 and 30 June 2016 to estimate proportions of unp...
Sadek, Zahra Salami, Ali Youness, Mahmoud Awada, Charifa Hamade, Malek Joumaa, Wissam H Ramadan, Wiam Ahmaidi, Said
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Chronic illness
Chronic heart failure is a major public health problem in which supervised exercise programs are recommended as part of non-pharmacological management. There are various reports of the success of high-intensity aerobic interval training (HI-AIT) and inspiratory muscle training (IMT) in the management of chronic heart failure patients. This study te...
Webber-Ritchey, Kashica J Taylor-Piliae, Ruth E Loescher, Lois J
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Chronic illness
To describe the recruitment strategies and lessons learned when enrolling African American parents/caregivers of school-aged children (ages 6-12 years) in an online survey of physical activity. With physical activity serving as a modifiable behavioral risk factor for several chronic diseases (obesity and cardiovascular diseases), little is understo...
Dixon, J Cardwell, F S Clarke, Ann E Elliott, S J
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Chronic illness
Individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus experience considerable economic challenges. The aim of this research is to qualitatively investigate experiences of the lifecosts (direct and indirect economic costs and beyond) to those with systemic lupus erythematosus in Canada. Using a biopsychosocial conceptual framework and integrated knowledge t...
Filho, José C Araújo Rocha, Luana P Cavalcanti, Frederico Cb Marinho, Patrícia Em
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Chronic illness
To identify which functioning, personal and environmental factors are more relevant to adults in hemodialysis treatment. Data was collected by semi-structured interview, recorded, transcribed in full, verified and produced by Bardin Thematic content analysis. Two independent researchers identified the relevant themes and named the thematic categori...
