A Tailored Approach to Supporting Parent-Child Attachment in Families with Children with Severe Disabilities: Matching I...
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Prognostic value of the Surprise Question for one-year mortality in older patients: a prospective multicenter study in a...
Published in Acta clinica Belgica
To determine the prognostic value of the Surprise Question (SQ) in older persons. A multicenter prospective study, including patients aged 75 years or older admitted to acute geriatric (AGU) or cardiology unit (CU). The SQ was answered by the treating physician. Patients or relatives were contacted after 1 year to determine 1-year survival. Logisti...
Self-management support in flemish primary care practice: the development of a preliminary conceptual model using a qual...
BACKGROUND: Coping with a chronic disease can be really challenging. Self-management represents a promising strategy to improve daily life experiences. The role of primary healthcare professionals cannot be underestimated in supporting self-management. Due to a shortage of theory, implementation of self-management support is hindered in primary car...
Exploring the link between oil exploitation and cancer in the indigenous population of Ecuador : a scoping review
With cancer accounting for 19% of deaths and projected to rise in the coming years, Ecuador’s inequities in healthcare coverage remain a major concern for the rural, indigenous populations. While the cancer burden among this vulnerable population has been much publicized in the context of the controversial oil extraction in the Amazon, there is con...
Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations
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Happiness is a valuable experience, and societies want their citizens to be happy. Although this societal commitment seems laudable, overly emphasizing positivity (versus negativity) may create an unattainable emotion norm that ironically compromises individual well-being. In this multi-national study (40 countries; 7443 participants), we investiga...
“I Grew Up Amidst Alcohol and Drugs:” a Qualitative Study on the Lived Experiences of Parental Substance Use Among Adult...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Experiencing parental substance use (PSU) has been associated with a heightened risk of developing substance use disorders (SUDs) in offspring. The primary goal of this study was to explore perspectives of adult children with lived experience of PSU who also developed SUDs themselves through first-hand experience. This study was conducted in Flande...
The Impact of Dementia's Affiliate Stigma on the Mental Health of Relatives: A Cross Section Survey
OBJECTIVE: To determine the impact of the affiliate stigma on mental well-being of relatives caring for a person with dementia. DESIGN: The study was conducted in a cross sectional design. SETTING: The study was conducted in a public setting, addressing relatives caring for a person with dementia. PARTICIPANTS: Participants were relatives of patien...
A large-scale meta-analytic atlas of mental health problems prevalence during the COVID-19 early pandemic
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions can impact mental health. To quantify the mental health burden of COVID-19 pandemic, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis, searching World Health Organization COVID-19/PsycInfo/PubMed databases (09/29/2020), including observational studies reporting on mental health outcomes in any popula...
Motor-Cognitive Treadmill Training With Virtual Reality in Parkinson's Disease: The Effect of Training Duration
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Treadmill training with virtual reality (TT + VR) has been shown to improve gait performance and to reduce fall risk in Parkinson's disease (PD). However, there is no consensus on the optimal training duration. This study is a sub-study of the V-TIME randomized clinical trial (NCT01732653). In this study, we explored the effect of the duration of t...
Social thinking is for doing : the posterior cerebellum supports prediction of social actions based on personality trait...
Can we predict the future by reading others' minds? This study explores whether attributing others' personality traits facilitates predictions about their future actions and the temporal order of these future actions. Prior evidence demonstrated that the posterior cerebellar crus is involved in identifying the temporal sequence of social actions an...
