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Capacité mentale
Capacité mentale : Questions médicales fréquentes
Termes MeSH sélectionnés :
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Soutien social
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Gestion des soins
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Santé mentale
Accidents domestiques
Sécurité
Relations interpersonnelles
Conflits familiaux
Maladies chroniques
Comorbidité
Facteurs de risque
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Âge avancé
Antécédents familiaux
Tabagisme
Santé cognitive
Inactivité physique
Santé mentale
Traumatismes crâniens
Troubles cognitifs
Troubles de l'humeur
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Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; foy.jane@gmail.com.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, New York; and.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Community Care of North Carolina, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York; cmg9004@med.cornell.edu.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
The American Board of Pediatrics, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and.
Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Office of Medical Services, Region Skane, Malmö, Sweden.
Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Office of Medical Services, Region Skane, Malmö, Sweden.
Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, IKVL, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.
Victorian Tuberculosis Program, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Rural Health, University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Promotion, Prevention and Policy, Mental Health Team, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
WHO Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Promotion, Prevention and Policy, Mental Health Team, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
Central Finland Health Care District, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
1 publication dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Lentis Psychiatric institute, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
1 publication dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Lentis Psychiatric institute, Groningen, The Netherlands.
University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Rob Giel Research Center, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Publications dans "Capacité mentale" :
1 publication dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Addiction care North Netherlands, Groningen, The Netherlands.
NHL Stenden Hogeschool, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands.
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A lot of newer anti-cancer therapies have been implicated in the development or worsening of hypertension. We summarize the latest data, explore associations between these therapies and hypertension, ...
Persons newly diagnosed with pancreas cancer and who have survived a previous cancer are often excluded from clinical trials, despite limited evidence about their prognosis. We examined the associatio...
This US population-based cohort study included older adults (aged ≥66 years) diagnosed with pancreas cancer between 2005 and 2015 in the linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare dat...
Of 32,783 patients, 18.7% were previously diagnosed with another cancer. The most common previous cancers included prostate (29.0%), breast (18.9%), or colorectal (9.7%) cancer. More than half of prev...
Given nearly equivalent survival compared to those without previous cancer, cancer survivors newly diagnosed with pancreas cancer should be considered for inclusion in pancreas cancer clinical trials....
We investigated sleep disturbances among cancer survivors compared to similarly aged women without cancer history....
We identified 2067 women with a history of cancer other than breast or non-melanoma skin cancer at enrollment in the Sister Study, a US-wide cohort of women with a family history of breast cancer. Can...
At enrollment, cancer survivors were on average 13.8 years (range=0, 62) from diagnosis. After adjustment for age at enrollment and depression, diabetes, hypertension, and menopausal status prior to t...
Addressing sleep disturbances may improve well-being for cancer survivors....
To explore: 1) the unmet needs of breast cancer patients; 2) the sexual needs experienced by breast cancer survivors; 3) the experiences of cancer patients at the time of relapse, including the biopsy...
Interpretative phenomenological qualitative research by conducting direct in-depth interviews with participants who met the inclusion criteria. Sample analyzed were breast cancer survivors who had exp...
Themes identified for breast cancer patients with unmet needs were i) overcoming health problems in breast cancer survivors; ii) need to access the best health services; iii) women's unmet information...
Health-related problems of breast cancer survivors, such as fatigue and fear of cancer recurrence, can lead them to have trouble with social relationships, question their spirituality, and struggle wi...
This research aims to systematically review a comprehensive sample of websites (English-language) that provide information on nutrition after cancer treatment....
In consultation with cancer survivors and experts, we developed search strings for an internet search (incognito mode in Google Chrome) to be completed in six English-speaking countries (Ireland, the ...
Initially, 720 links were found, with 159 eligible for inclusion. Those eligible for review were charity/support/non-governmental organisation weblinks (49.1%) that originated in the United States (42...
Cancer survivors seeking nutrition information online may encounter difficulty locating advice, and where they do, it is unlikely to contain guidance on implementation into day-to-day life. This is co...
Breast cancer patients commonly present to their OBGYN during the process of diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer both for specific gynecologic needs and for primary care follow up. These patients...
Fear of cancer recurrence is common among survivors of adult-onset cancer and associated with increased distress, functional impairment, and health care utilization. However, little is known about the...
To characterize the prevalence of and risk factors for clinically significant fear of cancer recurrence in adult survivors of childhood cancer....
This cross-sectional investigation included participants recruited from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study, a retrospective cohort study of long-term childhood cancer survivors treated at 31 institut...
Clinically significant fear of cancer recurrence was assessed via the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Inventory-Short Form. Poisson regression models estimated prevalence ratios (PRs) with 95% CIs adjusted ...
The final sample included 229 adult survivors of childhood cancer (115 female [50.2%]; mean [SD] age, 39.6 [9.9] years; mean [SD] time since diagnosis, 31.7 [8.4] years). Among survivors, 38 (16.6%; 9...
Decades following treatment, one-third of childhood cancer survivors in this study reported elevated fear their cancer will recur or a subsequent malignant neoplasm will develop. Findings suggest that...
Financial burden and distress are high in patients with thyroid cancer. However, little has been done to evaluate potential interventions to mitigate financial toxicity in survivors. This review will ...
Thyroid cancer incidence has nearly tripled in the past decades, and cost of treatment is predicted to rise more than other cancers over the next decade. With mean age of diagnosis at 51 years, most p...
Thyroid cancer survivors have high rates of financial toxicity, and there remains need for longitudinal studies to evaluate how financial burden may change during the treatment process while also asse...
Little is known about cancer survivors' needs in Alaska. To address this knowledge gap, the Alaska Cancer Partnership conducted a needs assessment survey; our objectives were to identify unmet needs o...
Cancer survivors were identified using data from the Alaska Cancer Registry. A random sample of 2,600 individuals was selected to receive the survey, which assessed unmet needs across the following do...
We received 335 survey responses, for a response of 13.7%. Only 29.9% of cancer survivors expressed that all their needs were met. The most highly ranked unmet needs were as follows: help to reduce st...
This assessment provided some of the first information regarding the needs of Alaska's cancer survivors. These results will be used by Alaska Cancer Partnership members across the state to inform heal...