BACKGROUND Persistent sub-threshold depressive symptoms are important because almost all patients who experience symptoms for more than 2 years go on to develop major depressive episodes. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence in the United Kingdom recommends research into the efficacy of person centred counselling and low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy for persistent su...

BACKGROUND Waste collection workers are exposed to several occupational stressors which may affect their quality of life. Our aim was to assess the health status and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of municipal waste collection workers of a big German city. METHODS Cross-sectional study with a non-random sample of 65 (62 male, 3 female) workers of the Hamburg sanitation department, vol...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, women elect breast reconstruction after mastectomy. However, their expectations of surgery are often not met, and dissatisfaction with outcome and ongoing psychosocial concerns and distress are common. We developed a patient-centered intervention, PEGASUS:(Patients' Expectations and Goals: Assisting Shared Understanding of Surgery) which supports shared decision making ...

BACKGROUND Posttraumatic stiffness of the elbow is a common finding after elbow trauma. Restoration of motion in the posttraumatic stiff elbow is difficult, time consuming, and requires high patient compliance. We have evaluated the long-term effect of an open elbow arthrolysis in the posttraumatic stiff elbow. METHODS We evaluated 43 patients (14 women, 29 men) with a median age of 47(16-78)...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of depression in people with a visual disability is high but screening for depression and referral for treatment is not yet an integral part of visual rehabilitation service provision. One reason for this may be that there is no good evidence about the effectiveness of treatments in this patient group. This study is the first to evaluate the effect of depression treatm...

OBJECTIVES To determine the feasibility of collecting population-based patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in assessing quality of life (QoL) to inform the development of a national PROMs programme for cancer and to begin to describe outcomes in a UK cohort of survivors. DESIGN Cross-sectional postal survey of cancer survivors using a population-based sampling approach. SETTING Englis...

BACKGROUND Traffic injuries can cause physical, psychological, and economical impairment, and affected individuals may also experience shortcomings in their post-accident care and treatment. In an earlier randomised controlled study of nursing intervention via telephone follow-up, self-ratings of health-related quality of life were generally higher in the intervention group than in the control ...

To evaluate dyspnea in patients with persistent symptoms after at least six months of hospital discharge due to COVID-19 and its correlation the quality life, fatigue, functional status This cross-sectional study included 101 for COVID-19. A physician evaluated using Modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) scale questionnaire, life EQ-5D-5L, fatigue an analog (0=no 10=worst possible fatigue), ...