Using a shortened Nature Relatedness Scale, the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS), and sociodemographic information, the researchers surveyed 386 individuals aged 18 to 65 about their feelings of connection to nature and mental well-being.
During the first pandemic year, there were increases in the proportion of pediatric patients presenting to hospital with suicidal ideation/suicidal attempts, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and obsessive compulsive and related disorders.
For patients receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, higher doses of gabapentin are well tolerated and associated with delayed time to first opioid use for additional pain control during radiotherapy.
Researchers sought to assess the short-term benefit and risk of ticagrelor with aspirin in patients with acute mild-moderate ischemic stroke or high-risk transient ischemic attack.
To gain a better understanding of income disparities between children with and without autism and how those disparities affect health, data from the National Survey of Children’s Health 2017-2020 were evaluated.
The final 6 months of life is presumed to be a high-risk period for depression and anxiety in patients with cancer. However, few studies have examined whether depression and anxiety do occur in the last year of life and to what extent.
Researchers assessed the frequency and severity of cognitive impairments over time and specifically 1 year after hospitalization in patients who contracted COVID-19.