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A systematic review of disease related stigmatization in patients living with Prostate Cancer.
Get PDFBackground
Prostate cancer has been shown to be susceptible to significant stigmatisation, because to a large extent it is concealable, it has potentially embarrassing sexual symptoms and has significant impact on the psychosocial functioning.
Methods
This review included studies that focused on qualitative and/or quantitative data, where the study outcome was prostate cancer and included a measure of stigmatization. Electronic databases (CINAHL, Medline, PubMed, PsycInfo, Cochrane Library, PROSPERO, and the Joanna Briggs Institute) and one database for grey literature Opengrey.eu, were screened. We used thematic analysis, with narrative synthesis to analyse these data. We assessed risk of bias in the included studies using the RoBANS.
Results
In total, 18 studies met review inclusion criteria, incorporating a total of 2295 participants. All studies recruited participants with prostate cancer, however four studies recruited participants with other cancers such as breast cancer and lung cancer. Of the 18 studies, 11 studies evaluated perceived or felt stigma; four studies evaluated internalised or self-stigma; three studies evaluated more than one stigma domain.
Discussion
We found that patients living with prostate cancer encounter stigmatisation that relate to perception, internalisation, and discrimination experiences. We also identified several significant gaps related to the understanding of prostate cancer stigmatization, which provides an opportunity for future research to address these important public health issues.
Registration
This systematic review protocol is registered with PROSPERO, the international prospective register of systematic reviews in health and social care. Registration number: CRD4202017731
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No full textDoes firm-level political risk affect cash holdings?
No full textWe investigate whether firm-level political risk affects corporate cash holdings. Taking a sample of 5,424 US firms with 129,750 firm-quarter observations from 2002Q1 to 2021Q3, we find that cash holdings is higher for firms with greater exposure to firm-level political risk. The positive relationship between firm political risk and cash holdings is consistent for financial constraint and non-constraint firms, high and low growth firms, pro-cyclical and counter-cyclical and competitive industries. Further, our findings are consistent to alternative measures of firm-level political risk and cash holdings. In addition, our findings remain robust with different endogeneity tests: a natural experiment, an instrumental variable approach, and a propensity score matching. Overall, we present novel evidence on the determinants of corporate cash holdings
Between Stirling and Olivetti: Ted Cullinan’s workplaces design in the UK
Get PDFAbstract: Ted Cullinan’s (1931–2019) work for Olivetti is complex and fascinating: his mixed-function
buildings in Belfast, Dundee, Carlisle and Derby are unique and astonishing artefacts, also if almost
unknown to the broader architecture audience. The purpose of this article is to reassemble the phases
of this brief but extremely incisive collaboration between Cullinan, James Stirling and the Italian
company. From his first Olivetti project, shared with “Big Jim” Stirling in Haslemere—a refurbishment
of an Edwardian pre-existence converted into a residence for students and technicians—to the design
for Dundee, Carlisle, Belfast and Derby, the impact of Cullinan’s pre-sustainable ideas is palpable.
We find these ideas in the elegance of the relationship between building and landscape, in the social
agenda, but also in the representativeness of the iconic roofs and in the materials. His work exhibits
an architectural versatility that has allowed the buildings to keep intact their essential characteristics,
despite their subsequent destinies. Re-reading Cullinan in relation to Olivetti’s buildings, therefore,
is two-fold: on the one hand, to reconsider the English architect among the ‘creators’ of the Olivetti
image, and on the other to underline how Cullinan was a fundamental interpreter of the ideas of
unity, between architecture and industrial design, in a unique phase of the British technological
history of the 1970s
The Crown Letter
No full textI am part of a collective of authors of The Crown Letter (www.crownproject.art), a weekly online publication presented by a network of women artists, composers, writers and filmmakers from around the globe. The Crown Letter represents both a platform for distribution and an archive. The Crown Letter has been awarded funding through a Fluxus Art Project grant 2021, the Hans und Lea Gründig Preis 2021 https://www.hans-und-lea-grundig.d
Key questions: research priorities for student mental health
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The high prevalence of mental distress among university students is gaining academic, policy and public attention. As the volume of research into student mental health increases, it is important to involve students to ensure that the evidence produced can translate into meaningful improvements.
Aims
For the first time, we consult UK students about their research priorities on student mental health.
Method
This priority setting exercise involved current UK university students who were asked to submit three research questions relating to student mental health. Responses were aggregated into themes through content analysis and considered in the context of existing research. Students were involved throughout the project, including inception, design, recruitment, analysis and dissemination.
Results
UK university students (N = 385) submitted 991 questions, categorised into seven themes: epidemiology, causes and risk factors, academic factors and work–life balance, sense of belonging, intervention and services, mental health literacy and consequences. Across themes, respondents highlighted the importance of understanding the experience of minority groups.
Conclusions
Students are interested in understanding the causes and consequences of poor mental health at university, across academic and social domains. They would like to improve staff and students’ knowledge about mental health, and have access to evidence-based support. Future research should take a broad lens to evaluate interventions; considering how services are designed and delivered, and investigating institutional and behavioural barriers to accessibility, including how this varies across different groups within the student population
The effect of flywheel inertia on peak power and its inter-session reliability during two unilateral hamstring exercises: leg curl and hip extension.
Get PDFThis study investigated the effect of flywheel moment of inertia (0.029, 0.061, and 0.089 kg·m 2 ) on concentric and eccentric peak power and eccentric:concentric peak power ratio during unilateral flywheel leg curl and hip extension exercises. Moreover, the inter-session reliability of peak power was analysed during both exercises. Twenty amateur male soccer athletes attended five visits – performing three sets of eight repetitions of either unilateral leg curl or hip extension (all moments of inertias) per visit. The leg curl reported no differences in any measure between moments of inertia ( p = 0.479) but a higher eccentric than concentric peak power for all moments of inertia ( p < 0.001). The unilateral hip extension reported differences between moments of inertia for all measures ( p ≤ 0.002). Specifically, the lowest moment of inertia elicited the greatest concentric peak power ( p = 0.022), there were no differences with the medium inertia ( p = 0.391), and the greatest moment of inertia obtained the greatest eccentric peak power ( p = 0.036). Peak power measures obtained acceptable to excellent reliability while the eccentric:concentric ratio reported unacceptable to good reliability for both exercises. Various moments of inertia can elicit high eccentric knee flexor demands during unilateral leg curls, whereas higher moments of inertia are needed to achieve an eccentric-overload in peak power during hip extensions. Exercises may have different inertia-power relationships. Concentric and eccentric peak power measures should continue to inform training, while the eccentric:concentric ratio should not be used
Matthew Bowman interviewed by Kisito Assangi
No full textThe interview to Dr Matthew Bowman is part of Kisito Assangni’s research on “curating as a phenomenological history of everyday life”:
Transitory conversations with reputable curators who engage positively with artistic practices driven by non-oppressive facilitation, alternative pedagogies, chronopolitics, and contemporary urgencies within the context of larger political, cultural, and economic processes. At this very moment in history, as well as raising some epistemological questions about redefining what is essential, this revelatory interview series attempts to bring together different critical approaches regarding international knowledge transfer, transcultural and transdisciplinary curatorial discourse. (Kisito Assangni