Background:Sarcopenia significantly impairs quality of life(QoL).The Sarcopenia Quality of Life®(SarQol®)questionnaire provides a sarcopenia-specific instrument for the assessment of QoL.The aim of this study was to c...
Supported by Wenzhou Science and Technology Bureau,No.Y20220031.
BACKGROUND Patients with inflammatory bowel diseases(IBDs)generally have poor knowledge,attitude,and practice of their disease,while the data from China are lacking.AIM To address this knowledge disparity among Chines...
The study was conducted in compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki and received approval from the Ethics Committee of the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli(protocol number 7892,15 March 2023).
BACKGROUND The place regular physical activity(PA)should occupy in managing patients with inflammatory bowel diseases(IBD)is unclear.AIM To assess PA levels and barriers in a southern Italian IBD population.METHODS IB...
Financial support for this study was provided through Grants by the Instituto de Salud Carlos III FEDER:Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional(PI15/00449);Generalitat de Catalunya(AGAUR 2021 SGR 00624,2017 SGR 452);The following researchers have worked on this manuscript while funded by Grants:CLB(University of Costa Rica OAICE-85-2019);KM(Instituto de Salud Carlos III FEDER:Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional FI16/00071);ALD(Miguel Servet research contract from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III CP21/00062).
Asthma in school-aged children is a major public health problem worldwide[1,2].Inhaled medications are the mainstay of its pharmacological management[2],but only 8%-22%of children with asthma use their inhalers correc...
Supported by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil(CAPES),No.code 001;São Paulo Research Foundation(FAPESP),No.2018/05571-0 and No.2018/05705-6.
BACKGROUND Inflammatory bowel diseases(IBDs)are chronic diseases that demand continuous interaction between patients and healthcare providers.Quality of care(QoC)is a factor that contributes to a patient’s adherence ...
Objectives:This study aimed to develop a self-management behavior questionnaire for Chinese enter-ostomy patients and examine its reliability and validity.Methods:Guided by the theory of self-management,an initial que...
This work was supported by the research project fund of the Health Care for Cadres in Jiangsu Province(BJ19005);Key R&D Plan of Jiangsu Province(Social Development,BE2015609).
Background The importance of psychosocial functioning in the assessment,diagnosis and treatment of major depressive disorder(MDD)is widely recognised.However,there is a lack of effective scales to assess psychosocial ...
This research was supported by Beijing University of Chinese Medicine [2020-JYB-ZDGG-081].
Objectives:This study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Head and Neck Information Needs Questionnaire(HaNiQ).Methods:The HaNiQ was translated into a Chinese version using inter...
AIM:To assess the reliability of web-based version of ocular surface disease index in Chinese(C-OSDI)on clinically diagnosed dry eye disease(DE)patients.METHODS:A total of 254 Chinese participants(51%male,129/254;mean...