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Filter by:Executive functions, anxiety and their relation to social participation and quality of life among children with Migraine during COVID-19 Backgrounds: Among children, especially adolescents, migraine stands out as one of the most prevalent headache disorders. It is susceptible to stress and has the potential to affect children's emotional and cognitive status and therefore, affect their function, and notably amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Study Objective: To compare executive functions (EF), anxiety, social participation and quality of life (QoL) between children with migraine and healthy controls, and to examine the differences of these factors between children who were infected by COVID-19 and those who were not. Study Population: The research will include 75 children between the ages of 6 and 18 years, diagnosed with Migraine, who are under follow-up at the Pediatric Neurology Clinic in Bnei Zion. A control group of 75 children without chronic diseases, assessed during routine visits at the Pediatric Neurology Clinic or for other reasons, will also be included. Research Methods: Participants will complete questionnaires related to demographic details, quality of life, sleep, and emotional status. Inclusion Criteria: Children between the ages of 6 and 18 years with Migraine. Exclusion Criteria: Children unable or unwilling to complete the questionnaires, and those with secondary headaches or other chronic illness. Informed Consent: Participants aged 11 and older will provide informed consent, while younger children will receive oral explanations, and their paren
To date, there is little international data on depression and anxiety among police officers apart from studies carried out after an attack or natural disaster. At the national level, no mental health data exists for police officers, apart from those from the Paris attacks, and the work of investigators after the Strasbourg attack (article in press). During the covid crisis, in Alsace, the police, like the rest of the population, took the full brunt of the pandemic. The police, however, are part of essential professions and have not been confined, but on the contrary, have remained in contact with the population, in particular to carry out traffic controls. Studies published to date show varying mental health outcomes for essential occupations during the pandemic. The investigators hypothesize that the police officers had a feeling of being more exposed and that their mental health could be affected. For this it was decided to compare two populations of departments of similar size, but with different exposure to the pandemic: Bas Rhin and Hérault French departments
The goal of this cluster randomized trial is to compare two modes of management -- pharmacist care vs. pooled adult and family medicine physician care -- for electronically submitted requests (e-visits) for Paxlovid by adults with COVID-19. It will compare quality of care based on counseling for common potential drug-drug interactions and time to prescription, as well as the time and financial costs of care in the two groups.
The study aims to evaluate whether evidence-based fact boxes on COVID-19 and influenza vaccination contribute to the decision making of laypeople from different social backgrounds in different educational settings (e.g. medical practices, outreach work). Furthermore, the study will investigate whether evidence-based fact boxes can contribute to more equitable health care by improving shared decision-making.
Introduction: The disease caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) represents a pandemic with significant affectation in our country, generating critical illness in around 5% of the patients who present this disease at an international level, with the requirement of invasive mechanical ventilation being the main cause of admission to intensive care units (UTI). Objective: to evaluate the utility of using the prone position in patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure with COVID-19 who are with non-invasive oxygenation devices to reduce the need for invasive mechanical ventilation and mortality in this population. Material and methods: a controlled and randomized clinical trial will be carried out, which will include patients who come to the institution for medical attention with a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19 with a severe presentation, hypoxemic respiratory failure, and non-existent oxygen therapy. invasive with a FiO2 contribution ≥40%. The patients enter 2 follow-up groups: an intervention group in which the prone position maneuver performed by the patient himself will be implemented, and another group where the patients will remain supine with the head of their bed between 30-60º. The demographic and clinical variables of these patients will be described. The primary outcome to be evaluated will be the proportion of patients requiring orotracheal intubation during their hospital stay. The secondary outcomes that will be evaluated will be hospital mortality, development of ARDS, and changes in oxygenation by determining SpO2 and SpO2/FiO2 on admission and at 1, 6, 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours after inclusion in the protocol. , as well as PaO2/FiO2 on admission and at 24 hours; the time interval between inclusion in the protocol and orotracheal intubation, use of non-invasive ventilatory therapies, days of hospital stay, days of stay in intensive care, days free of mechanical ventilation, development of acute organ failure during hospitalization and complications related to the treatment with the prone position.
This multilevel, multidisciplinary, theoretically based, culturally sensitive, community-engaged intervention sets out to mitigate uptake barriers and non-adherence to vaccination schedules as recommended by the CDC and increase influenza, meningitis, pneumonia, VZV, and COVID-19 vaccine rates among under-resourced African American and Latino public housing residents in South Los Angeles.
Different physical and mental morbidities such as pain, fatigue, depressed mood and cognitive impairment can be triggered by coronavirus infection. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), an easy-to-apply, non-pharmacological and safe technique, has been used to attenuate these symptoms caused by other diseases, and, therefore, it is expected that it can also attenuate them when generated by COVID-19. It is known that the persistent inflammatory state observed after COVID-19 would be related to the progression of these negative symptoms. As non-invasive brain stimulation can also attenuate acute and persistent inflammation, it can be estimated that tDCS can be a useful tool to recover immune function and reduce post-COVID-19 morbidity.
The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is the most severe health crisis of the 21st century. This is not only due to the deaths caused by the disease. People that were affected by COVID-19 and supposedly recovered may suffer from long lasting sequelae. The presence of symptoms longer than 3 months after the infection with the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is referred to as Post-COVID-19 Syndrome or Long COVID-19. It is estimated that 10-20 percent of all infected people are affected. The most common symptoms include persistent fatigue, reduced physical capacity, dyspnoea, ageusia, anosmia, musculoskeletal pain and neuropsychological complaints such as depression, anxiety, insomnia and a loss of concentration. Considering the novelty of the pathology, evidence on the successful treatment of Post-COVID/Long-COVID is scarce. Physical activity has been established as a treatment option for chronic diseases that have similar symptomatic manifestations to those of Post-COVID/Long-COVID. For example, exercise therapy has shown positive effects on the health status of patients with lung disease, depression, anxiety, insomnia and cognitive impairment. However, there has been controversy whether so-called Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) is a safe treatment strategy for patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). This population may experience Post Exertional Malaise (PEM), a worsening of symptoms after physical, cognitive or emotional exertion. Since COVID-19 might be an infectious trigger for CFS, particular caution has to be taken when recruiting participants and when screening them for adverse events and worsening of symptoms during an exercise intervention. It can be hypothesized that patients suffering from Post-COVID/Long-COVID can benefit from exercise in various ways, guaranteed that there is sufficient screening for PEM before and during the intervention and training volume and intensity are increased slowly and progressively. The current study investigates the effects of a home-based concurrent training program on various parameters in people affected by Long COVID.
Psychological distress (anxiety and depression) is common in and experienced differently by people living with long-term health conditions (LTCs). Being able to measure whether psychological distress is related to living with a LTC would allow researchers and clinicians to provide interventions specifically tailored to the challenges of living with a LTC and therefore provide the most appropriate support for these patients. Such a measure would also be useful in research to identify the presence of illness-related distress in different patient groups. This project will therefore create a new measure of illness-related distress that has applications for both research and clinical practice. This will involve the psychometric validation of the new illness-related distress measure to test how valid and reliable the measure is. The aim of the project is to provide initial validation of the Illness Related Distress Scale in a community sample, recruited through online platforms. The objective of the study is to gather initial validity and reliability data for the scale.
This is a prospective biological study evaluating the persistence of COVID-19 vaccine and other vaccines' (zoster, diphtheria and tetanus)-induced immunity in a subgroup patient affected by Follicular Lymphoma requiring treatment undergoing frontline induction immuno-chemotherapy and anti-CD20 maintenance within the prospective FIL_FOLL19 study (NCT05058404). Blood samples from patients will be collected before and at planned timepoints during treatment to evaluate humoral and cellular immunity against SARS-COV-2, VZV, tetanus and diphtheria and T-cell markers characterization.