scholarly journals The second step in the construction of a stigma scale of epilepsy

2005 ◽  
Vol 63 (2b) ◽  
pp. 395-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscila C.B. Salgado ◽  
Paula T. Fernandes ◽  
Ana Lúcia A. Noronha ◽  
Fernanda D. Barbosa ◽  
Elisabete A.P. Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Stigma Scale ◽  
Know How ◽  
The University ◽  
Brazilian Culture ◽  
Recreation Activities

RATIONALE: The issue of stigmatization is one of the most common psychosocial problems faced by people with epilepsy. PURPOSE: A second step towards the development of a scale to measure epilepsy stigma. METHOD: We applied a closed questionnaire to 12 patients and 32 relatives from the Epilepsy Outpatient Clinic at the University Hospital of Campinas. RESULTS: The results are grouped in three main domains: medical, social and personal areas. Medical: the subjects did not know exactly what epilepsy is or how it is caused; nonetheless they know how to treat it. Social: the most important areas that people with epilepsy are discriminated are at work and social relationships. Patients also complained about their lack of freedom and limits on recreation activities. Personal Area: subjects apparently have the same feelings and thoughts about epilepsy and seizures. CONCLUSION: This study analyzed the most common aspects presented in the questionnaire to assess epilepsy stigma for the Brazilian culture which are the base to the elaboration of a stigma scale of epilepsy.

scholarly journals Caso 2/19: “Uma doença destruidora da face” / Case 2/19: “A face-destroying disease”

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Céline Yasmine Schweri ◽  
Mayara Santos Morais ◽  
Fernanda Miranda ◽  
Pietro Waltrick ◽  
Pedro Antônio Meneghetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Upper Airway ◽  
Airway Disease ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Proteinase 3 ◽  
Chronic User ◽  
Acute Headache ◽  
The University ◽  
De Medicina ◽  
Rheumatology Outpatient

Caso relatado na Reunião de Discussão de Casos Clínicos do Hospital Universitário Prof. Polydoro Ernani de São Thiago, iniciada pelos Profs. Jorge Dias de Matos, Marisa Helena César Coral e Rosemeri Maurici da Silva, em julho de 2017. No dia 13 de junho de 2019, no bloco do curso de medicina, realizou-se a apresentação e discussão do caso cujo registro é apresentado a seguir: um paciente de 38 anos é acompanhado no ambulatório de reumatologia, com uma doença destrutiva das vias aéreas superiores, pansinusopatia, ANCA e anti-proteinase 3 positivos. É usuário crônico de cocaína inalável e de corticosteróides. Um dia, dá entrada na emergência com cefaleia aguda e meningismo. Qual é o diagnóstico?Case reported at the Clinical Cases Discussion Meeting of the University Hospital “Polydoro Ernani of São Thiago”, initiated by Profs. Jorge Dias de Matos, Marisa Helena César Coral and Rosemeri Maurici da Silva, July 2017. On June 13, 2019, in the medical school block, the case was presented and discussed: A 38-year-old male patient is followed at the rheumatology outpatient clinic with a destructive upper airway disease, pansinusopathy, positive ANCA and anti-proteinase 3. He is a chronic user of inhaled cocaine and corticosteroids. One day, he comes to the emergency room with acute headache and meningism. What is the diagnosis?

Use of patient-reported outcomes in outpatient settings as a means of patient involvement and self-management support – a qualitative study of the patient perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Trillingsgaard ◽  
Berit Kjærside Nielsen ◽  
Niels Henrik Hjøllund ◽  
Kirsten Lomborg
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Patient Reported Outcomes ◽  
Patient Involvement ◽  
Disease Patient ◽  
Psychosocial Problems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Patient Reported

Rationale, aims and objectives Patient-reported outcomes (PRO) is being implemented in clinical practice across different healthcare settings with various purposes. Involving the patients in reporting outcomes may increase their attention to symptoms and thereby support their self-management. The aim of the present study was to describe patients’ experiences with a web-based PRO system where patients fill in a PRO questionnaire at home or in the outpatient clinic prior to a consultation. Moreover, the study aimed to explore how PRO influenced the interaction between patients and clinicians during the consultation.Methods Through participant observations of nine consultations and 12 semi-structured interviews with patients after the consultation this interpretive description study explored patients’ experiences with the PRO system. The PRO included self-assessment on health-related quality of life, symptoms, and well-being. Patients who visited the outpatient clinic at Department of Renal Medicine at Aarhus University Hospital in the Central Denmark Region in February and March 2014 and in March and August 2015 were invited to participate. We used a convenience sampling approach to recruit patients who had completed at least two PRO questionnaires.Results The analysis revealed rudiments of PRO in clinical practice leading to an increased understanding of their chronic disease, patient-centred communication and an additional focus on psychosocial problems. However, the very application of PRO in the outpatient clinic and the patient attitudes were substantial and crucial barriers for PRO as a method to achieve patient involvement and self-management.Conclusion The use of PRO in outpatient consultations may support patients' self-management by a) impelling patient-centred communication in the consultation, b) legitimising talk about psychosocial problems, and c) increasing the patients' understanding of their disease. Yet, applying PRO into clinical practice does not automatically involve the patients and support their self-management. We suggest supplementary clinical initiatives to strengthen the patient involving benefits of PRO.

scholarly journals Stigma scale of epilepsy: validation process

2007 ◽  
Vol 65 (suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula T. Fernandes ◽  
Priscila C.B. Salgado ◽  
Ana L.A. Noronha ◽  
Josemir W. Sander ◽  
Li M. Li
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Mass Media Campaign ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Validation Process ◽  
Stigma Scale ◽  
Community People ◽  
High Internal Consistency ◽  
The University ◽  
Patients With Epilepsy

PURPOSE: To validate a Stigma Scale of Epilepsy (SSE). METHODS: The SSE was completed by 40 adult with epilepsy attending an Outpatient Epilepsy Clinic at the University Hospital of UNICAMP, and by 40 people from the community. People were interviewed on an individual basis; a psychologist read the questions to the subjects who wrote the answers in a sheet. The procedure was the same for all the subjects and completion took around ten minutes. RESULTS: The SSE has 24 items. The internal consistency of the SSE showed alpha Cronbach’s coefficient 0.88 for the patients with epilepsy and 0.81 for the community. The overall mean scores of the Stigma Scale of Epilepsy formula were: 46 (SD=18.22) for patients and 49 (SD=13.25) for the community where a score of 0 would suggest no stigma, and 100 maximum stigma. DISCUSSION: The SSE has satisfactory content validity and high internal consistency. It allows the quantification of the perception of stigma by patients and people from community; this can then be used for interventional studies, such as mass media campaign in minimizing the negative facets of stigma.

scholarly journals Medically Unexplained Oropharyngeal Dysphagia at the University Hospital ENT Outpatient Clinic for Dysphagia: A Cross-Sectional Cohort Study

Dysphagia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob J.C.G. Verdonschot ◽  
Laura W.J. Baijens ◽  
Sophie Vanbelle ◽  
Michelle Florie ◽  
Remco Dijkman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Oropharyngeal Dysphagia ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medically Unexplained ◽  
The University

Symptomatic vascular complications after vascular closure device use following diagnostic and interventional catheterisation

VASA ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thalhammer ◽  
Aschwanden ◽  
Jeanneret ◽  
Labs ◽  
Jäger
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Vascular Complications ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Closure Device ◽  
Ultrasound Guided ◽  
Vascular Closure Device ◽  
Device Use ◽  
Arterial Stenoses ◽  
The University ◽  
Stenotic Lesions

Background: Haemostatic puncture closure devices for rapid and effective hemostasis after arterial catheterisation are a comfortable alternative to manual compression. Implanting a collagen plug against the vessel wall may become responsible for other kind of vascular injuries i.e. thrombotic or stenotic lesions and peripheral embolisation. The aim of this paper is to report our clinically relevant vascular complications after Angio-Seal® and to discuss the results in the light of the current literature. Patients and methods: We report the symptomatic vascular complications in 17 of 7376 patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic catheterisation between May 2000 and March 2003 at the University Hospital Basel. Results: Most patients presented with ischaemic symptoms, arterial stenoses or occlusions and thrombotic lesions (n = 14), whereas pseudoaneurysms were extremely rare (n = 3). Most patients with ischaemic lesions underwent vascular surgery and all patients with a pseudoaneurysm were successfully treated by ultrasound-guided compression. Conclusions: Severe vascular complications after Angio-Seal® are rare, consistent with the current literature. There may be a shift from pseudoaneurysms to ischaemic lesions.

User Evaluation of an Integrated Medical Workstation for Clinical Data Analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (05) ◽  
pp. 365-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Timmeis ◽  
J. H. van Bemmel ◽  
E. M. van Mulligen
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Clinical Research ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
User Evaluation ◽  
Scientific Staff ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Clinical Data Analysis ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The University

AbstractResults are presented of the user evaluation of an integrated medical workstation for support of clinical research. Twenty-seven users were recruited from medical and scientific staff of the University Hospital Dijkzigt, the Faculty of Medicine of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, and from other Dutch medical institutions; and all were given a written, self-contained tutorial. Subsequently, an experiment was done in which six clinical data analysis problems had to be solved and an evaluation form was filled out. The aim of this user evaluation was to obtain insight in the benefits of integration for support of clinical data analysis for clinicians and biomedical researchers. The problems were divided into two sets, with gradually more complex problems. In the first set users were guided in a stepwise fashion to solve the problems. In the second set each stepwise problem had an open counterpart. During the evaluation, the workstation continuously recorded the user’s actions. From these results significant differences became apparent between clinicians and non-clinicians for the correctness (means 54% and 81%, respectively, p = 0.04), completeness (means 64% and 88%, respectively, p = 0.01), and number of problems solved (means 67% and 90%, respectively, p = 0.02). These differences were absent for the stepwise problems. Physicians tend to skip more problems than biomedical researchers. No statistically significant differences were found between users with and without clinical data analysis experience, for correctness (means 74% and 72%, respectively, p = 0.95), and completeness (means 82% and 79%, respectively, p = 0.40). It appeared that various clinical research problems can be solved easily with support of the workstation; the results of this experiment can be used as guidance for the development of the successor of this prototype workstation and serve as a reference for the assessment of next versions.

Sharing of Worldwide Spread Knowledge Using Hypermedia Facilities & Fast Communication Protocols (Mosaic and World Wide Web): The Example of ExPASy

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (01/02) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Appel ◽  
O. Golaz ◽  
Ch. Pasquali ◽  
J.-C. Sanchez ◽  
A. Bairoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Central Element ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
New Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Link Information

Abstract:The sharing of knowledge worldwide using hypermedia facilities and fast communication protocols (i.e., Mosaic and World Wide Web) provides a growth capacity with tremendous versatility and efficacy. The example of ExPASy, a molecular biology server developed at the University Hospital of Geneva, is striking. ExPASy provides hypermedia facilities to browse through several up-to-date biological and medical databases around the world and to link information from protein maps to genome information and diseases. Its extensive access is open through World Wide Web. Its concept could be extended to patient data including texts, laboratory data, relevant literature findings, sounds, images and movies. A new hypermedia culture is spreading very rapidly where the international fast transmission of documents is the central element. It is part of the emerging new “information society”.

Prospective evaluation for gastrointestinal bleedings at the University Hospital St. Pölten – one year of follow-up

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Stättermayer ◽  
F Riedl ◽  
S Bernhofer ◽  
A Stättermayer ◽  
A Mayer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Hospital ◽  
Prospective Evaluation ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University
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