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Clinical empathy and physicians’ compassion satisfaction: Analysis of potential...

Background: Clinical empathy is an intrinsic attribute of the medical profession and is associated with greater physicians’ compassion satisfaction levels. However, little is known about the potentially modifiable mechanisms underlying this relationship. Aim: This study aimed to analyze the direct and indirect effects of clinical empathy on physicians’ compassion satisfaction via the quality of therapeutic rela...

An Hypothalamic Hamartoma Presenting as Gelastic Epilepsy: When it Goes Unnoticed

A 5-year-old boy presented with episodes of ocular retroversion occurring over the past 4 weeks. Further investigation revealed frequent bilateral epileptiform frontal activity on electroencephalogram and a nodular formation in the hypothalamus on cerebral computed tomography scan. Magnetic resonance imaging characterized the lesion as a hamartoma of the tuber cinereum. After questioning, episodes of unprovoked...

Clinical empathy, barriers to compassion and flourishing in physicians: Differe...

The present study aimed to analyse the direct and indirect effects, via barriers to compassion, of clinical empathy on flourishing in physicians. A sample of 102 Portuguese physicians completed an online survey, which included self-report instruments assessing clinical empathy, barriers to compassion, and flourishing. Direct and indirect effects were analyzed using PROCESS statistical tool. Moderate to large di...

Exploring factors associated with complete mental health of pregnant women duri...

Objective: To explore a wide range of factors associated with complete mental health (i.e., positive mental health - the presence of flourishing, and the absence of mental illness - depressive and anxious symp- toms) among Portuguese pregnant women, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: Quantitative cross-sectional study. Setting: Data were collected through an online survey placed on social media websites targ...

I COME FROM HERE. I KNOW MY CONTEXT. I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING – AN EXPLORING EXPE...

Arts Education has shown to be extremely effective in contexts of social intervention, mainly because Education is, as Paulo Freire and Dewey defend, a powerful and transforming tool for learning what we are as individuals and for putting us in relationship with others and with everything around us. In turn, Art, through the development of the imagination and the improvement of the senses, also enhances cogniti...

Unintentional injuries and associated factors among adolescents

Introduction: Unintentional injuries are an important cause of death in adolescents, as well as a major cause of ill health. This age group is prone to unintentional injuries due to their specific biological, psychological, and social characteristics. To prevent these injuries, it is crucial to understand their prevalence and associated factors. The aim of this study was to identify and characterize unintention...

Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia: Manifestation of Clinically Isolated Syndrome in ...

Unintentional injuries and associated factors among adolescents

Introduction: Unintentional injuries are an important cause of death in adolescents, as well as a major cause of ill health. This age group is prone to unintentional injuries due to their specific biological, psychological, and social characteristics. To prevent these injuries, it is crucial to understand their prevalence and associated factors. The aim of this study was to identify and characterize unintention...

Hypotonia and feeding problems in the newborn: a congenital myotonic dystrophy ...

Introduction: Congenital myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is characterized by hypotonia and severe general weakness at birth, often with respiratory distress and even death. Clinical report:A newborn male with prenatal diagnosis of ventriculomegaly and polyhydramnios was born at 39 weeks of gestation with no immediate occurrences and a maternal family history of two cases with unspecified neuromuscular condition...

Survey of fertility preservation options available to patients with cancer arou...

Purpose Oncofertility focuses on providing fertility and endocrine-sparing options to patients who undergo life-preserving but gonadotoxic cancer treatment. The resources needed to meet patient demand often are fragmented along disciplinary lines. We quantify assets and gaps in oncofertility care on a global scale. Methods Survey-based questionnaires were provided to 191 members of the Oncofertility Consortium ...