3 Steps 4 Health, a program on quality of life.

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (28_suppl) ◽  
pp. 95-95
Author(s):  
Ann Fonfa
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Cancer Treatments ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Patient Advocate ◽  
Patient Advocates ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Correct Path ◽  
Risk Of Cancer

95 Background: As Patient advocates we have spent years gathering/ sharing information about simple, natural strategies to reduce risk of cancer treatment-related toxicities and strengthen the immune system. Methods: We created a simple 3 step program that absolutely anyone with cancer, at any stage, can incorporate into their own healthful protocol. Since it involves no tools and can be used at the level that an individual is at the time they start, we consider it appropriate for all. Further we cannot see any objection from the Oncologist or staff members. Step 1 is eating one more fruit and one more vegetable every day. This is helpful since studies show few Americans are getting enough fruits or vegetables. The National Cancer Institute considers ‘Five a Day’, a minimum. We want to get people started on the correct path simply and easily. Step 2 is taking a walk around the room, facility or neighborhood depending on ability and health status. This has been shown by many studies to help anyone with cancer, undergoing treatment or in recovery. We are not asking folks to become athletes; we are involving them in a plan to improve their health. Step 3: 7 deep breaths before treatment, in a stressful situation or at bedtime. This step is important to reduce stress and encourage relaxation. Results: Every step moves people forward into better health. We believe taking these first steps will lead to more healthful behaviors, better ability to handle conventional cancer treatments, and an easier recovery. Conclusions: Immune system health depends on the individual as much as any treatments. In this era of Immunology, we see a real opportunity for our Patient/Advocate-driven concept.

"3 Steps 4 Health" in survivorship.

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. e273-e273
Author(s):  
Ann Fonfa ◽  
Helayne Waldman
Keyword(s):  
Health Program ◽  
Complete Recovery ◽  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Cancer Treatments ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Patient Advocates ◽  
Important Time ◽  
Correct Path ◽  
Risk Of Treatment

e273 Background: As patient advocates we have spent years gathering and sharing information about simple, natural strategies to reduce risk of treatment-related toxicities and strengthen the immune system in survivorship. Sadly it is well known that many suffer long-term toxicities and are at higher risk for secondary cancers. Survivorship plans are created to help people move forward with their lives; we suggest the “3 Steps 4 Health” program as an addition. Methods: We created a simple 3-step program that absolutely anyone with cancer can incorporate into their own healthful protocol as they move into complete recovery. Since it involves no tools and can be used at the level that an individual is at the time they start, we consider it appropriate for all. Further, we cannot see any objection from the oncologist or staff members. Step 1: Eat one more fruit and one more vegetable every day. This is helpful since studies show few Americans are getting enough fruits or vegetables. The National Cancer Institute considers “Five a Day” a minimum. We want to get people started on the correct path simply and easily. Step 2: Take a walk around the room or neighborhood depending on ability and health status. This has been shown by many studies to help anyone with cancer, undergoing treatment, or in recovery. We are not asking people to become athletes; we are involving them in a plan to improve their health. Step 3:Seven deep breaths in a stressful situation or at bedtime. This step is important to reduce stress and encourage relaxation. Results: As patient advocates, we conduct no research; we scour journals for studies supporting our evidence-based concept. There are now many studies showing the value of one or more of the three steps. Rarely does research examine the concept as a whole. We believe this will occur soon. Conclusions: Every step moves people forward into better health. We believe taking these first steps will lead to more healthful behaviors, better ability to handle conventional cancer treatments, and an easier recovery. In this era of interest in immune response, it makes perfect sense for each individual to strive to be their personal best. Clearly, the “3 Steps 4 Health” program is a beginning at an important time for those who have survived cancer. We will share some of the studies that led us to this position.

scholarly journals The patients’ perspective on coordinated action for cancer and AMR

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
K Apostolidis
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Cancer Treatments ◽  
Unique Challenge ◽  
Coordinated Action ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Patients Perspective

Abstract The speaker will present the perspective of the cancer patients, and the challenges they encounter across the spectrum of care and what measures they consider relevant in terms of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and, indeed, to raise awareness of the impact of AMR on rendering cancer treatments ineffective. She will elaborate on survivorship, and on the impact of AMR on the quality of life of patients, their carers, and families. Emphasis will be given on the implications of modern therapies, such as immunotherapy, representing a unique challenge in terms of better understanding the effect on overall health of patients, with the effect they have the immune system, further weakening the patient and leaving him/her exposed to infections potentially of higher risk than cancer itself.

scholarly journals Immune System Modulations in Cancer Treatment: Nanoparticles in Immunotherapy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadriye Kızılbey ◽  
Nelisa Türkoğlu ◽  
Fatma Ceren Kırmızıtaş
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Checkpoint Inhibitors ◽  
Charge Material ◽  
Target Cells ◽  
Cancer Treatments ◽  
Term Survival ◽  
Car T

Cancer immunotherapy is based on the idea of overcoming the main problems in the traditional cancer treatments and enhancing the patient’s long-term survival and quality of life. Immunotherapy methods aimed to influence the immune system, to detect and eradicate the tumors site and predict the potential results. Nowadays, nanomaterials-based immunotherapy approaches are gaining interest due to numerous advantages like their ability to target cells and tissues directly and reduce the off-target toxicity. Therefore, topics about immune system components, nanomaterials, their usage in immunotherapy and the benefits they provide will be discussed in this presented book chapter. Immunotherapy can be divided into two groups mainly; active and passive immunotherapy including their subtitles such as immune checkpoint inhibitors, adoptive immunotherapy, CAR-T therapies, vaccines, and monoclonal antibodies. Main classification and the methods will be evaluated. Furthermore, state-of-art nanocarriers based immunotherapy methods will be mentioned in detail. The terms of size, charge, material type and surface modifications of the nanoparticles will be reviewed to understand the interference of immune system and nanoparticles and their advantages/disadvantages in immunotherapy systems.

scholarly journals MODEL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGICAL STATE OF HIGHLY-QUALIFIED ATHLETES IN A STRESSFUL SITUATION

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Borysova ◽  
Victoriia Nagorna ◽  
Svitlana Shytova ◽  
Artyr Mytko
Keyword(s):  
Stressful Situation ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Voluntary Attention ◽  
Basketball Game ◽  
Game Situation ◽  
Equilibrium Function ◽  
Psychophysiological State ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual

The effectiveness of the competitive activity of top-class athletes depends on the level of all kinds of trainings, but the skill of regulation of their psychophysiological state is of high priority for a player in a stressful situation of competition. The result of the overall performance often depends immediately on the psychophysiological state of an athlete in the moment of realization of the “last” technical action of a game, be it a foul shot in a basketball game with a tie during the last seconds of a match or the last ball in a frame at a cost of the victory or the loss of a billiard match. Due to the reason the nervous system, with the individual and typological peculiarities of the athlete, is in charge of the high precision of movements and proprioceptive sensuality in differentiation of muscular efforts, anxiety level, strength and mobility of nervous processes. The objective – the establishment of the model characteristics of the psychophysiological state of highly-qualified basketball and billiard players in the moment of realization of a technical action under conditions of a stressful situation. Methods. theoretical analysis and generalization; method of expert estimations; psychophysiological methods; pedagogical observation; pedagogical testing; methods of mathematical statistics. Results. In the course of the research the ideal characteristics of the psychophysiological state of highly-qualified basketball and billiard players for the effective realization of a technical action under conditions of the stress have been determined. Conclusions. Modelling of a stressful game situation and the use of a number of psychophysiological and pedagogical tests have allowed to obtain the average figures of quality of the equilibrium function with and without visual control, voluntary attention span, attention effectiveness, productivity, stress tolerance and coefficient of motivational, volitional and typological component in high-qualified athletes.

Semi-automated methods for 3-D reconstruction of macromolecular complexes

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 42-43
Author(s):  
B. Carragher ◽  
M. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Time Saving ◽  
Macromolecular Complexes ◽  
Symmetry Properties ◽  
Dimensional Reconstruction ◽  
Experienced Operator ◽  
Projection Images ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Natural Symmetry

Techniques for three-dimensional reconstruction of macromolecular complexes from electron micrographs have been successfully used for many years. These include methods which take advantage of the natural symmetry properties of the structure (for example helical or icosahedral) as well as those that use single axis or other tilting geometries to reconstruct from a set of projection images. These techniques have traditionally relied on a very experienced operator to manually perform the often numerous and time consuming steps required to obtain the final reconstruction. While the guidance and oversight of an experienced and critical operator will always be an essential component of these techniques, recent advances in computer technology, microprocessor controlled microscopes and the availability of high quality CCD cameras have provided the means to automate many of the individual steps.During the acquisition of data automation provides benefits not only in terms of convenience and time saving but also in circumstances where manual procedures limit the quality of the final reconstruction.

Communication Disordered: Program Implementation in Long-Term Care

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (15) ◽  
pp. 64-67
Author(s):  
George Barnes ◽  
Joseph Salemi
Keyword(s):  
Program Implementation ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Regulatory Compliance ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Change Policy

The organizational structure of long-term care (LTC) facilities often removes the rehab department from the interdisciplinary work culture, inhibiting the speech-language pathologist's (SLP's) communication with the facility administration and limiting the SLP's influence when implementing clinical programs. The SLP then is unable to change policy or monitor the actions of the care staff. When the SLP asks staff members to follow protocols not yet accepted by facility policy, staff may be unable to respond due to confusing or conflicting protocol. The SLP needs to involve members of the facility administration in the policy-making process in order to create successful clinical programs. The SLP must overcome communication barriers by understanding the needs of the administration to explain how staff compliance with clinical goals improves quality of care, regulatory compliance, and patient-family satisfaction, and has the potential to enhance revenue for the facility. By taking this approach, the SLP has a greater opportunity to increase safety, independence, and quality of life for patients who otherwise may not receive access to the appropriate services.

Manageable Self in the Early Hellenistic Era

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-36
Author(s):  
Vaia Touna
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Self ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Individual

This paper argues that the rise of what is commonly termed "personal religion" during the Classic-Hellenistic period is not the result of an inner need or even quality of the self, as often argued by those who see in ancient Greece foreshadowing of Christianity, but rather was the result of social, economic, and political conditions that made it possible for Hellenistic Greeks to redefine the perception of the individual and its relationship to others.

Reflecting the Sky in Water

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Cristofaro
Keyword(s):  
The Unconscious ◽  
Related Case ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
Fluid Properties ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Artificial Water ◽  
Land Water

From a phenomenological perspective, the reflective quality of water has a visually dramatic impact, especially when combined with the light of celestial phenomena. However, the possible presence of water as a means for reflecting the sky is often undervalued when interpreting archaeoastronomical sites. From artificial water spaces, such as ditches, huacas and wells to natural ones such as rivers, lakes and puddles, water spaces add a layer of interacting reflections to landscapes. In the cosmological understanding of skyscapes and waterscapes, a cross-cultural metaphorical association between water spaces and the underworld is often revealed. In this research, water-skyscapes are explored through the practice of auto-ethnography and reflexive phenomenology. The mirroring of the sky in water opens up themes such as the continuity, delimitation and manipulation of sky phenomena on land: water spaces act as a continuation of the sky on earth; depending on water spaces’ spatial extension, selected celestial phenomena can be periodically reflected within architectures, so as to make the heavenly dimension easily accessible and a possible object of manipulation. Water-skyscapes appear as specular worlds, where water spaces are assumed to be doorways to the inner reality of the unconscious. The fluid properties of water have the visual effect of dissipating borders, of merging shapes, and, therefore, of dissolving identities; in the inner landscape, this process may represent symbolic death experiences and rituals of initiation, where the annihilation of the individual allows the creative process of a new life cycle. These contextually generalisable results aim to inspire new perspectives on sky-and-water related case studies and give value to the practice of reflexive phenomenology as crucial method of research.

QUALITY OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP LEVEL INTERVENTIONS FOR FIRST EPISODE PSYCHOSIS AT THE TERTIARY PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL IN UGANDA.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Kiiza Mwesiga ◽  
Noeline Nakasujja ◽  
Lawrence Nankaba ◽  
Juliet Nakku ◽  
Seggane Musisi
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
First Episode Psychosis ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Group Interventions ◽  
Episode Psychosis ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
The Individual

Introduction: Individual and group level interventions have the largest effect on outcomes in patients with the first episode of psychosis. The quality of these individual and group level interventions provided to first-episode psychosis patients in Uganda is unclear.Methods: The study was performed at Butabika National Psychiatric Teaching and referral hospital in Uganda. A retrospective chart review of recently discharged adult in-patients with the first episode of psychosis was first performed to determine the proportion of participants who received the different essential components for individual and group level interventions. From the different proportions, the quality of the services across the individual and group interventions was determined using the first-Episode Psychosis Services Fidelity Scale (FEPS-FS). The FEPS-FS assigns a grade of 1-5 on a Likert scale depending on the proportion of patients received the different components of the intervention. Results: The final sample included 156 first-episode psychosis patients. The median age was 27 years [IOR (24-36)] with 55% of participants of the female gender. 13 essential components across the individual and group interventions were assessed and their quality quantified. All 13 essential components had poor quality with the range of scores on the FEPS-FS of 1-3. Only one essential component assessed (use of single antipsychotics) had moderate quality.Discussion: Among current services at the National psychiatric hospital of Uganda, the essential for individual and group level interventions for psychotic disorders are of low quality. Further studies are required on how the quality of these interventions can be improved.

THE VALUE OF LOVE IN THE SYSTEM OF FORMATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL MATURITY OF THE EDUCATOR

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(79)) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
G. Bubyreva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

The existing legislation determines the education as "an integral and focused process of teaching and upbringing, which represents a socially important value and shall be implemented so as to meet the interests of the individual, the family, the society and the state". However, even in this part, the meaning of the notion ‘socially significant benefit is not specified and allows for a wide range of interpretation [2]. Yet the more inconcrete is the answer to the question – "who and how should determine the interests of the individual, the family and even the state?" The national doctrine of education in the Russian Federation, which determined the goals of teaching and upbringing, the ways to attain them by means of the state policy regulating the field of education, the target achievements of the development of the educational system for the period up to 2025, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of October 4, 2000 #751, was abrogated by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of March 29, 2014 #245 [7]. The new doctrine has not been developed so far. The RAE Academician A.B. Khutorsky believes that the absence of the national doctrine of education presents a threat to national security and a violation of the right of citizens to quality education. Accordingly, the teacher has to solve the problem of achieving the harmony of interests of the individual, the family, the society and the government on their own, which, however, judging by the officially published results, is the task that exceeds the abilities of the participants of the educational process.  The particular concern about the results of the patriotic upbringing served as a basis for the legislative initiative of the RF President V. V. Putin, who introduced the project of an amendment to the Law of RF "About Education of the Russian Federation" to the State Duma in 2020, regarding the quality of patriotic upbringing [3]. Patriotism, considered by the President of RF V. V. Putin as the only possible idea to unite the nation is "THE FEELING OF LOVE OF THE MOTHERLAND" and the readiness for every sacrifice and heroic deed for the sake of the interests of your Motherland. However, the practicing educators experience shortfalls in efficient methodologies of patriotic upbringing, which should let them bring up citizens, loving their Motherland more than themselves. The article is dedicated to solution to this problem based on the Value-sense paradigm of upbringing educational dynasty of the Kurbatovs [15].

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