Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for Improving Health, Quality of Life, and Social Functioning in Adults by Michael deVibe, Arild Bjørndal, Elizabeth Tipton, Karianne Hammerstrøm, Krystyna Kowalski

“…Executive summary/Abstract BACKGROUND Stress and distress are common experiences central to many of the problems occupying health and social services and efforts to improve both health and quality of life are receiving increasing attention. …”
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Innovative Health and Social Integrated Care Model Effectiveness to Improve Quality Care for Chronic Patients: A Single Group Assignment Clinical Trial by Ester Gavaldà-Espelta, Maria del Mar Lleixà-Fortuño, Jordi Baucells-Lluis, Maria Ferré-Ferraté, Begoña Tomàs-Navarro, Claudia Curto-Romeu, Jorgina Lucas-Noll, Macarena Pozo Ariza, Elisabet Castro-Blanco, José Fernández Sáez, Carina Aguilar Martín, Alessandra Queiroga Gonçalves, Carmen Ferré-Grau

“…Enhanced access to medical and social services from complex chronic patients may have important implications for caregivers and the care systems who are struggling to adapt to an expanding demand.   …”
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Personalized symptom management: a quality improvement collaborative for implementation of patient reported outcomes (PROs) in ‘real-world’ oncology multisite practices by Doris Howell, Zeev Rosberger, Carole Mayer, Rosanna Faria, Marc Hamel, Anne Snider, Denise Bryant Lukosius, Nicole Montgomery, Mindaugas Mozuraitis, Madeline Li, the iPEHOC Collaborative Team

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Applying Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Implementation of a Multisector Population Health Collaborative That Uses a Bridging Hub Organization by Aaron L. Leppin, Janet M. Okamoto, Paige W. Organick, Anjali D. Thota, Francisco J. Barrera-Flores, Mark L. Wieland, Rozalina G. McCoy, Robert P. Bonacci, Victor M. Montori

“…We commented on the feasibility and usefulness of the methods.Results: The initial surveyed network consisted of 50 healthcare organizational sites and 50 community organizations representing sectors of public health, education, research, health promotion, social services, and long-term care and supports. Fifty-three of these organizations responded to the survey. …”
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Estado nutricional de la población mayor de Cataluña de diferentes niveles asistenciales Nutritional status of Catalonia’s elderly people with different health care needs by Pilar Jürschik Jiménez, Joan Torres Puig-gros, Román Solá Martí, Carmen Nuin Órreo, Teresa Botigué Satorra

“…It included men and women of 65 years or more users of primary health care centre, the acute hospital, nursing home and health and assisted social services. The MNA was used in your short form (MNA-SF) and MNA total (MNA). …”
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Childhood obesity and comorbidities-related perspective and experience of parents from Black and Asian minority ethnicities in England: a qualitative study by George Obita, Mark Burns, Lawrence Achilles Nnyanzi, Chia-Hua Kuo, Noël C. Barengo, Noël C. Barengo, Ahmad Alkhatib, Ahmad Alkhatib, Ahmad Alkhatib

“…Parents revealed social disadvantages, fear of victimization by social services, perceptions on their cultural and religious traditions, and racial stigmatization related to their child’s weight. …”
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Experiences of gender-based violence among female sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender women in Latin America and the Caribbean: a qualitative study to inform HI... by Emily Evens, Michele Lanham, Karin Santi, Juana Cooke, Kathleen Ridgeway, Giuliana Morales, Caleb Parker, Claire Brennan, Marjan de Bruin, Pavel Chladni Desrosiers, Xenia Diaz, Marta Drago, Roger McLean, Modesto Mendizabal, Dirk Davis, Rebecca B. Hershow, Robyn Dayton

“…Consequences included emotional, physical, and sexual trauma; lack of access to legal, health, and other social services; and loss of income, employment, housing, and educational opportunities. …”
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Lessons in sustainability: The re-imagination of integrated care in Ontario, Canada by Gayathri Embuldeniya, Jennifer Gutberg, Maritt Kirst, Kevin Walker, Walter P. Wodchis

“…Stakeholders advocated systemic transformation that wrapped care around the patient both spatially and temporally– by expanding the hospital-community partnership to include primary care and other community-based health and social services, while providing longer-term, ongoing care. …”
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Violência intrafamiliar contra crianças e adolescentes: identificação, manejo e conhecimento da rede de referência por fonoaudiólogo em serviços públicos de saúde Family violence a... by Raquel Moura Lins Acioli, Maria Luiza Carvalho de Lima, Maria Cynthia Braga, Fernando Castim Pimentel, Adriana Guerra de Castro

“…Most referred the cases to social services or psychologists (34.3%). Around 50% of such patients abandoned treatment. …”
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A scoping review of theories, models and frameworks used or proposed to evaluate knowledge mobilization strategies by Saliha Ziam, Sèverine Lanoue, Esther McSween-Cadieux, Mathieu-Joël Gervais, Julie Lane, Dina Gaid, Laura Justine Chouinard, Christian Dagenais, Valéry Ridde, Emmanuelle Jean, France Charles Fleury, Quan Nha Hong, Ollivier Prigent

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Validación de un cuestionario para la medición de las creencias sobre el climaterio Validity test of a questionnaire used to measure climacteric beliefs by Rubén Chávez-Ayala, Patricia Andrade-Palos, Leonor Rivera-Rivera

“…The study included 340 women affiliated to Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales para los Trabajadores del Estado (Institute for Social Services and Security for State Workers, ISSSTE) (age mean=49.46, (SD 7.92). …”
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Subthreshold micropulse laser versus standard laser for the treatment of central-involving diabetic macular oedema with central retinal thickness of by Sobha Sivaprasad, Clare Bailey, Augusto Azuara-Blanco, Mike Clarke, Danny Mcauley, Louise Downey, Noemi Lois, Norman Waugh, Hema Mistry, Victor Chong, Faruque Ghanchi, Ahmed Saad, David H Steel, Geeta Menon, Haralabos Eleftheriadis, Nachiketa Acharya, Samia Fatum, Tariq M Aslam, Paul Doherty, Sheena George, Robin Hamilton, Catherine Adams, Clíona McDowell, Markus Groppe, James Stephen Talks, Mandy Maredza, Marianne Shiew, Christina Campbell, Evie Gardener, Aby Joseph, Matthew Mills

“…Objectives To estimate the economic costs, health-related quality-of-life outcomes and cost-effectiveness of subthreshold micropulse laser (SML) versus standard laser (SL) for the treatment of diabetic macular oedema (DMO) with central retinal thickness (CRT) of <400µ.Design An economic evaluation was conducted within a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised clinical trial, DIAbetic Macular Oedema aNd Diode Subthreshold.Setting 18 UK Hospital Eye Services.Participants Adults with diabetes and centre involving DMO with CRT<400µ.Interventions Participants (n=266) were randomised 1:1 to receive SML or SL.Methods The base-case used an intention-to-treat approach conducted from a UK National Health Service (NHS) and personal social services (PSS) perspective. Costs (2019–2020 prices) were collected prospectively over the 2-year follow-up period. …”
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Project INOVEMAR: Innovation in Sea Produce Processment by Maria Alberta Araújo, Diogo Moreira, Manuel Rui Alves

“…In view of this reality, Project INOVEMAR was created by the food engineering group of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, in co-operation with the Social Services of the same institute, and Docapesca, the national fish auction managers. …”
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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of humanistic counselling in schools for young people with emotional distress (ETHOS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Megan Rose Stafford, Mick Cooper, Michael Barkham, Jeni Beecham, Peter Bower, Karen Cromarty, Andrew J. B. Fugard, Charlie Jackson, Peter Pearce, Rebekah Ryder, Cathy Street

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Pre-diagnosis alcohol consumption and mortality risk among black women and white women with invasive breast cancer by Huiyan Ma, Kathleen E. Malone, Jill A. McDonald, Polly A. Marchbanks, Giske Ursin, Brian L. Strom, Michael S. Simon, Jane Sullivan-Halley, Leslie Bernstein, Yani Lu

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Problems maintaining collaborative approaches with excluded populations in a randomised control trial: lessons learned implementing Housing First in France by Pauline Rhenter, Aurélie Tinland, Julien Grard, Christian Laval, Jean Mantovani, Delphine Moreau, Benjamin Vidaud, Tim Greacen, Pascal Auquier, Vincent Girard

“…They envisioned the squat as an alternative to conventional health and social services for individuals experiencing long-term homelessness and severe psychiatric disorders. …”
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The European Researchers’ Network Working on Second Victim (ERNST) Policy Statement on the Second Victim Phenomenon for Increasing Patient Safety by Jose Mira, Irene Carillo, Susanna Tella, Kris Vanhaecht, Massimiliano Panella, Deborah Seys, Marius-Ionut Ungureanu, Paulo Sousa, Paulo Sousa, Sandra C. Buttigieg, Patricia Vella-Bonanno, Georgeta Popovici, Einav Srulovici, Sofia Guerra-Paiva, Sofia Guerra-Paiva, Bojana Knezevic, Susana Lorenzo, Peter Lachman, Shin Ushiro, Susan D. Scott, Albert Wu, Reinhard Strametz

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Cost-effectiveness of screening tools for identifying depression in early pregnancy: a decision tree model by Margaret Heslin, Huajie Jin, Kylee Trevillion, Xiaoxiao Ling, Selina Nath, Barbara Barrett, Jill Demilew, Elizabeth G. Ryan, Sheila O’Connor, Polly Sands, Jeannette Milgrom, Debra Bick, Nicky Stanley, Myra S. Hunter, Louise M. Howard, Sarah Byford

“…The economic evaluation took an NHS and Personal Social Services perspective. Model parameters were taken from a combination of sources including a cross-sectional survey investigating the diagnostic accuracy of screening tools, and other published literature. …”
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Recurrent epibulbar dermoid cyst treated with amniotic membrane implant a case report by Ma. Luisa Villalón, Ma. De Los Ángeles Leal, José R. Chávez, Eduardo M. Santillán, Ismael Lares-Asseff, Verónica Loera, Laura Valencia, Blanca Camacho, Brenda Alvarado, Vilma Cervantes, Leslie Patrón, Horacio Almanza

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The British Columbia Healthy Connections Project: findings on socioeconomic disadvantage in early pregnancy by Nicole L. A. Catherine, Rosemary Lever, Debbie Sheehan, Yufei Zheng, Michael H. Boyle, Lawrence McCandless, Amiram Gafni, Andrea Gonzalez, Susan M. Jack, Lil Tonmyr, Colleen Varcoe, Harriet L. MacMillan, Charlotte Waddell, For the British Columbia Healthy Connections Project Scientific Team

“…Furthermore, despite Canada’s public programs, these pregnant girls and young women were not being adequately reached by social services. Our study adds new data to inform early intervention planning, suggesting that unacceptably high levels of socioeconomic disadvantage exist for some young British Columbians. …”
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