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Adolescent use of insulin and patient-controlled analgesia pump technology: A 10-year food and drug administration retrospective study of adverse events
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Il disegno della figura umana in bambini con diabete tipo 1 ed in controlli sani: quali differenze?
No full textThe human figure drawing in children with type 1 diabetes and healthy control individuals: What differences? The purpose of this study was to evaluate the presence of psychological problems in children with type 1 diabetes by using human figure drawings. A total of 81 consecutive patients attending an Southern Italian university pediatric diabetology centre with a diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, along with 219 control subjects matched to the study group for age and gender, were asked to draw human figure drawings according to the Draw a Person: Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbances (DAP:SPED). The glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C) mean value, measured every 3 months over the past year, was used as a measure of metabolic control. No significant differences between the children with type 1 diabetes and controls in the DAP:SPED total scores were observed, even when they were differentiated by gender or by weight An item by item human figure drawings comparison showed that the children with type 1 diabetes drew smaller figures for height and width than the controls, with more frequent presence of pointed fingers and the absence of clothes. Findings indicated the presence of distinctive elements in human figure drawings suggesting the existence of aspects of body image which characterize children with type 1 diabetes and distinguish them from healthy children. The differences observed support the need for monitoring the characteristics of body image in children with type 1 diabetes during the course of the development in order to increase the efficacy of early action to prevent the onset of psychological problems
Psychological Outcomes in Children and Early Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes Following Pediatric Diabetes Summer Camp: A 3-Month Follow-Up Study
Full text linkObjective: The aim of this study was to assess general psychosocial adjustment to diabetes and perceived disease management among patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) and their parents before and after patients' participation in a diabetes summer camp. Methods: In this follow-up study, 20 children and adolescents with T1D (eight boys; mean age = 11.01 ± 0.94 years; mean diabetes duration = 3.02 ± 2.27) attending a southern Italian diabetic center, along with their parents, were assessed prior to and 3 months after the youths participated in a 1 week camp-based intervention involving didactic and interactive child-centered education and recreational activities. Patients and their parents completed measures assessing patients' quality of life and strategies employed by patients to cope with pain. Patients also completed measures evaluating their diabetes psychosocial adjustment, diabetes self-efficacy management, and illness perception; also, their parents completed measures of caregivers' perceived diabetes burden and treatment satisfaction. Youths' glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) and standardized body mass index (z-BMI) values were also assessed. Within-subjects repeated-measures analyses of variance evaluated pre- and post-camp changes. Results: Camp attendance showed no beneficial effects on glycemic control, as indicated by HbA1c values both before (7.02%) and after (7.28%) camp being lower than 7.5%. HbA1c values were found to have increased after camp (pre-camp = 7.02%, post-camp = 7.28%; p = 0.010), but since they still fell within an acceptable range, they did not reveal clinically relevant changes in glycemic control. No substantial significant improvement in psychosocial measures was observed in children or parents (all p > 0.05). According to the parents' evaluation, social support-seeking as a patient pain-coping strategy was slightly increased (p = 0.044) after attending the camp. Conclusions: This study does not provide empirical evidence of benefits of participating in a diabetes camp for either patients or their parents. These findings suggest that healthcare providers rethink such camps as an experience for youths with T1D that actively involves parents and that includes both youth- and parent-focused psychological interventions
Creazione di una rete regionale per l’assistenza ai soggetti con diabete in età pediatrica.
No full textLetter to the Editor: CoVid-19 and type 1 diabetes: Every cloud has a silver lining. Searching the reason of a lower aggressiveness of the CoronaVirus disease in type 1 diabetes
No full textMODY 2 presenting as neonatal hyperglycaemia: a need to reshape the definition of "neonatal diabetes"?
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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