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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Treatment-related decisional conflict in patients with depressive and anxious disorders.
To determine the level of treatment-related decisional conflict in patients with emotional disorders and to establish its relationship with sociodemographic and clinical variables. ⋯ The high level of decisional conflict found in patients with depression and anxiety attending a secondary care service could be an important driving force when personalizing and tailoring information and teaching skills to patients about their illnesses and their treatments.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Development and validation of a predictive model of failed stepping-down of inhaled corticosteroids in adult asthmatics.
Asthma guidelines suggest stepping-down of inhaled corticosteroids (ICSs) when asthma is stable. ⋯ Our results suggest that comorbidity with rhinitis/rhinosinusitis and phlegm grade are imperative to predict failed stepping-down of ICSs in controlled patients with adult asthma.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Age-related hearing loss in individuals and their caregivers: effects of coping on the quality of life among the dyads.
Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) impacts the daily living and quality of life (QoL) of affected individuals and the functioning of family caregivers. In the specific context of voluntary medical checkups, we examined sample dyads (ARHL individual and the caregiver) to determine whether QoL of patients and caregivers is influenced by coping strategies implemented either by themselves or their relatives. ⋯ This study emphasizes that QoL of individuals with age-related hearing impairment and their natural caregivers is related to the coping strategies that they use. This finding suggests that targeted interventions should be offered to help individuals who experience emotional difficulties to implement more efficient coping strategies.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Factors influencing the quality of life perception in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
To evaluate the impact of several factors on the patient's perception on quality of life in a group of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). ⋯ To improve the patient's quality of life, special care should be given to the modifiable diabetes-related factors: the prevention and treatment of diabetes complications, treatment of depression, and weight loss in obese and overweight patients.
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Patient Prefer Adher · Jan 2016
Improving doctor-patient communication: content validity examination of a novel urinary system-simulating physical model.
Effective doctor-patient communication is essential for establishing a successful doctor-patient relationship and implementing high-quality health care. In this study, a novel urinary system-simulating physical model was designed and fabricated, and its content validity for improving doctor-patient communication was examined by conducting a randomized controlled trial in which this system was compared with photographs. A total of 240 inpatients were randomly selected and assigned to six doctors for treatment. ⋯ The study results demonstrated that the individual groups were comparable with respect to demographic variables but that relative to patients in the picture-based communication group, patients in the model-based communication group had significantly higher total satisfaction scores and higher ratings for distress relief, communication comfort, rapport, and compliance intent. These results indicate that the physical model is more effective than the pictures at improving doctor-patient communication and patient outcomes. The application of the physical model in doctor-patient communication is helpful and valuable and therefore merits widespread clinical popularization.