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P220 DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW PSYCHOLOGICAL TOOL TO IMPROVE PATIENT ABILITIES TO DEAL WITH ESOPHAGECTOMY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
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This study aims to create a tool for evaluation of patient ability to deal with postoperative course after esophagectomy for cancer.
Background & Methods
Esophagectomy requires patient to be active and compliant to face up to postoperative impairments. Health related quality of life (HRQoL) data in short and medium-term after surgery show that competences used by patients are not appropriate. Lack of patient abilities to manage postoperative course influences patient recovery and reduces HRQoL.
Psychological analysis of patient clinical needs was conducted to identify peculiar patient competences involved after esophagectomy. Four competences (future forethought; context evaluation; consequences of own actions forethought; use of available resources), each relevant to four areas (clinical; familiar; working; daily-activities) were identified and converted in open-ended questions to assess patient level of skills: a 16 questions structured interview was composed.
From April to June 2019 we performed a feasibility study on 18 consecutive patients between 3rd and 15th postoperative day. They underwent esophagectomy for esophageal or esophagogastric junction cancer in two high volume centers. Patients with metastasis, with language problems due to neurological impairment or age <18 were excluded. M.A.D.I.T.-Methodology of Computerized Textual Data Analysis (University of Padua) was used.
Results
Each interview was administered orally to all patients and took 15 minutes. 5 questions were asked to be repeated. No complaints or negative comments were received.
Non-responding percentage was 0,4% (one question in one interview). Textual corpus was composed of 3210 words, passable of analysis. No differences between postoperative days administration were found.
M.A.D.I.T. analysis showed that answers were adequate and pertinent and allowed us to stratify patients in three different levels of competences (low, median, high). No need of additional competences or areas was observed.
Conclusion
This new psychological tool shows content validity, adequacy and pertinence to the study aim. It is understandable, easy, quick to be answered during any postoperative day and useful to identify patients with low abilities to deal with esophagectomy.
Therefore a multicentric study will be conducted to use this tool further in multiple-choice format with a larger number of patients, in order to identify which patients will benefit of psychological intervention for HRQoL improvement
Data for Gupta et al., "Estimating the Meridional Extent of Adiabatic Mixing in the Stratosphere using Age-of-Air", JGR:Atmospheres,
No full textModel data and post-processed data supporting the creation of the manuscript "Estimating the Meridional Extent of Adiabatic Mixing in the Stratosphere using Age-of-Air" submitted to JGR:Atmospheres in August 2022.
1) The netCDF files created through post-processing of full model data in FORTRAN are shared in the /data/ directory. These file contains the zonal mean circulation statistics based on Gupta et al. (2020), age-of-air transport diagnostics based on Linz et al. (2021), and the novel \Gamma-\Theta circulation streamfunction introduced in this study. The /data/ directory also contains MATLAB .mat data files for the transport diagnostics obtained from WACCM. 150 days of actual GFDL-FV3 model data in the northern hemisphere, between 0.1 hPa-500 hPa pressure levels is also provided to support external computations and validation.
2) The Jupyter notebook used for final computation and figures production is provided in .ipynb, .html and .pdf formats in /code/. All the files referred to in the notebook are stored in the /data/ directory.
Corresponding author : Aman Gupta, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Corrigendum: Capital Inflows and House Prices: Aggregate and Regional Evidence from China
No full textIn the paper ‘Capital Inflows and House Prices: Aggregate and Regional Evidence from China’ by H. An, et al., printed in the December 2016 issue, there was a missing acknowledgement section for funding resources.
On page 451, the acknowledgement section should appear after the corresponding information as:
“Correspondence: Rakesh Gupta, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Nathan Campus QLD 4111. [email protected]
*This work was financially supported by the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (16YJA790001).”
The author apologises for this error and any confusion it may have caused.No Full Tex
sj-xlsx-1-phr-10.1177_00333549231181348 – Supplemental material for Hepatitis C Virus–HIV Coinfection in the United States Among People Who Inject Drugs: Data Needed for Ending Dual Epidemics
No full textSupplemental material, sj-xlsx-1-phr-10.1177_00333549231181348 for Hepatitis C Virus–HIV Coinfection in the United States Among People Who Inject Drugs: Data Needed for Ending Dual Epidemics by Anne C. Moorman, Danae Bixler, Eyasu H. Teshale, Megan Hofmeister, Henry Roberts, Johanna Chapin-Bardales and Neil Gupta in Public Health Reports</p
First person – Akash Gupta
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Akash Gupta is first author on ‘A novel and cost-effective ex vivo orthotopic model for the study of human breast cancer in mouse mammary gland organ culture’, published in BiO. Akash conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Scholar in Rajendra Mehta's lab at IIT Research Institute, Chicago, USA. He is now an assistant research scientist in the lab of Syreeta L. Tilghman at the University of Arizona, Department of Medicine, Tucson, USA, investigating drug efficacy modeling using human organoids culture for the treatment of cancers
sj-docx-1-tag-10.1177_17562848221093873 – Supplemental material for Application of artificial intelligence in diagnosis of pancreatic malignancies by endoscopic ultrasound: a systemic review
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tag-10.1177_17562848221093873 for Application of artificial intelligence in diagnosis of pancreatic malignancies by endoscopic ultrasound: a systemic review by Hemant Goyal, Syed Ali Amir Sherazi, Shweta Gupta, Abhilash Perisetti, Ikechukwu Achebe, Aman Ali, Benjamin Tharian, Nirav Thosani and Neil R. Sharma in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology</p
sj-pdf-1-phr-10.1177_00333549231170044 – Supplemental material for Development of a Standardized, Laboratory Result–Based Hepatitis C Virus Clearance Cascade for Public Health Jurisdictions
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-phr-10.1177_00333549231170044 for Development of a Standardized, Laboratory Result–Based Hepatitis C Virus Clearance Cascade for Public Health Jurisdictions by Martha P. Montgomery, Lindsey Sizemore, Heather Wingate, William W. Thompson, Eyasu Teshale, Ade Osinubi, Mona Doshani, Noele Nelson, Neil Gupta and Carolyn Wester in Public Health Reports</p
Engineering materials : research, applications and advances / author, K.M. Gupta.
No full text"A CRC title."Includes bibliographical references and index.596 p.
Universal Statistical Properties of Inertial-particle Trajectories in Three-dimensional, Homogeneous, Isotropic, Fluid Turbulence
No full textWe obtain new universal statistical properties of heavy-particle trajectories in three-dimensional, statistically steady, homogeneous, and isotropic turbulent flows by direct numerical simulations. We show that the probability distribution functions (PDFs) P(Φ), of the angle Φ between the Eulerian velocity u and the particle velocity v, at a point and time, scales as P(Φ) ∼Φ−, with a new universal exponent ≃ 4
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