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Filter by:Latino children experience higher rates of obesity compared to non-Hispanic white children, especially in low-income communities. Optimal feeding strategies in early life, avoidance of screen time and longer sleep duration may lower the risk of obesity. Family financial hardship is also associated with short- and long-term health risks, including behavioral and mental health problems, and toxic stress which contributes to elevated risk of common chronic conditions over the life course. This proposal aims to pilot test two interventions to promote optimal health outcomes in Latino infants. Study participants will meet with a health educator after well child visits at 2-weeks, 2-, 4-, 6-, 9- and 12-months. Half of the parents will receive education on obesity prevention. The other half will receive financial education and case management using an established financial coaching approach. Parents will also receive text messages that reinforce educational content. The objective of this study is to determine the acceptability and feasibility of offering these interventions in the well-child setting. Study investigators also seek to determine the preliminary efficacy of these interventions on infant and parent health outcomes including dietary intake, screen time, sleep duration, health related quality of life and financial stress.
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of using digital technology and remote monitoring to track health-related measures in men following prostate cancer treatment. Half of the participants will receive tools to monitor their activity and weight, as well as personalized feedback on these measures, while the other half will receive standard of care. Health related quality of life measure will be collected from both groups.
The purpose of this study was to measure the differences in Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and functional measurements between two groups of patients with Carpometacarpal Osteoarthritis of the thumb.
Eating disorders (ED) comprise a multitude of symptoms involving a disturbed body image and a preoccupation with food or bodyweight. EDs are often difficult to treat, in part due to the lack of motivation for improvement. Anorexia nervosa (AN) has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disease, and less than half of patients will recover from the disease. Studies have found that patients suffering from AN have impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) compared to the general population. It has also been suggested that despite improvement in clinical parameters, patients report deterioration in HRQoL, which is in line with a study finding low agreement between patient perceived outcome and clinician assessed characteristics. To evaluate the patients' perception of their disease, it is important to develop reliable and valid assessment tools. Previously generic questionnaires have been used to assess HRQoL in Danish ED patients, as no disease-specific questionnaires have been developed. Translating and validating a disease-specific questionnaire would provide a useful tool in assessing current treatment and in developing new treatment options. This study aimed to develop a Danish version of an internationally disease-specific HRQoL questionnaire. Furthermore, HRQoL is assessed in patients who have gone through shorter or longer treatment.
The goal of this research program is to reduce health disparities by deploying an information-based intervention to increase caregiver utilization of community-based food supports and satisfaction with care among food insecure caregivers of hospitalized children. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate, versus usual care, the effects of the CommunityRx-H intervention on caregiver use of food resources (primary), caregiver patient satisfaction with care (primary), caregiver mental health-related quality of life (secondary), and caregiver household food security (secondary). The proposed research will yield an understanding of how to leverage a child's hospitalization to effectively intervene on the problem of food insecurity. Findings will inform the rapidly growing field of healthcare-based interventions to address health-related social needs.
This research will determine (a) the unmet needs of family caregivers of adult cancer patients and (b) determine the impact on stress, care burden and quality of life. A cross-sectional questionnaire methodology will be used to answer the research questions. 510 family caregivers at different stages of patients' cancer journey will be recruited. The study duration is expected to take two years. Research findings will address the knowledge gap of caregivers' needs and stress, burden and quality of life and support plans to help caregivers.
At all of the follow-ups, including the worst period (between four and ten weeks), the intervention group reported higher scores than the control group, suggesting in this RCT that adopting the person-centred-care concept was a promising way to improve function and wellbeing in patients with HNC.
The objective is to test the efficacy of a patient-centered, culturally relevant narrative intervention, or "storytelling," based on the solid conceptual foundation of the narrative communication theory and the constructs of the Health Belief Model (HBM) to improve medication adherence and outcomes in chronic diseases among African-Americans (AA), using gout as an example. Gout is a chronic disease associated with chronic symptoms and disability interrupted by intermittent acute flares, similar to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) that leads to joint destruction if not treated appropriately. Due to the intermittently symptomatic nature of chronic conditions, patients often don't perceive disease severity and susceptibility to disease complications, and, therefore, may not balance the barriers and benefits to medication adherence. Storytelling in the patients' own voices has the power to directly and more effectively confront a patient's barriers to medication adherence, reinforce the benefits and provide useful cues to action. Storytelling promotes patient engagement when the patient identifies with the storyteller and can lead to a patient's recognition of the need to treat the condition and improve health outcomes, as shown by a meaningful improvement in blood pressure in a recent clinical trial in AAs with hypertension. The success of this project, combined with other published data, will represent a major step toward demonstrating the effectiveness of storytelling to improve medication adherence in chronic diseases and will address two VA research priority areas, i.e., health care disparities and health care delivery.
Background: KOOS is a self -administered instrument which assesses the patient's opinion about the Knee associated problems. For now it is available in English & various other languages & is a complete instrument in itself. In India it has been translated in Hindi so far. However, each province in this country has a unique language. Maharashtra is the second largest state in India and Marathi is the regional language of the communication. Since KOOS is a self-report measure, its translation in this local language was thought to be necessary. This disease specific measure which is originally designed for English speaking region when employed to non-English population needed to be translated with unique method to achieve a normative equivalence and linguistic validation. Methods: After taking permission from KOOS web manager T1, T2, T12, B1 & B2 versions were formatted according to the guidelines laid down by AAOS for cross cultural adaptation of health status measure. T12 version was sent for the field testing. Total 32 subjects who met the eligibility criteria were Included in this study. Results: Statistical analysis for reliability with test re-test method suggested Perfect correlation (r =1) between day 1 & 2. A range of 0.83-0.54 co-relation co-efficient (r) demonstrated the validity of KOOS and its subscales when compared against the 8 different domains of SF-36. All this correlations were statistically highly significant. Sport and recreation subscale had many missing responses since many items in this subscale were not appropriate for the Maharashtrian cultural set-up. Participants additionally provided the information about other functional activities which were difficult to execute due to knee associated pain and disability. Conclusion: Marathi version of KOOS is proved to be a reliable & valid measure. Future scope: this study demonstrate a need to undertake the cross cultural adaptation since a constant pattern of impairment revealed in the execution of daily activities such as sitting on the floor and attending certain yoga postures etc. Key words: linguistic validation, disease specific self-report, KOOS, Marathi translation, quality of life.
Health Related Quality of Life Assessment In Egyptian Recipients After Living Donor Liver Transplantation