Evaluation of the Primary Healthcare attributes in a municipality located in the countryside of São Paulo State – Brazil by Lislaine Aparecida Fracolli, Marianne Junko Muramatsu, Maria Fernanda Pereira Gomes, Fabiana Rodrigues Zequini Nabão

“…The evaluative and quantitative study collected data through interviews with 34 caregivers who have cared for children under two years old by the use of PCATool child version in January 2014. …”
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Mistakes in the diagnosis and treatment of atopic dermatitis by Monika Marko, Rafał Pawliczak

“…We also point out that conversation with patients and their caregivers is an element that largely influences the effective treatment of AD.…”
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Child Survival Strategies: Assessment of Knowledge and Practice of Rural Women of Reproductive Age in Cross River State, Nigeria by Aniekan Jumbo Etokidem, Ofonime Johnson

“…The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge and practice of child survival strategies among rural community caregivers in Cross River State of Nigeria. Materials and Methods. …”
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Social Cognition Deficits: Current Position and Future Directions for Neuropsychological Interventions in Cerebrovascular Disease by Progress Njomboro

“…In clinical settings, social cognition deficits are normally gleaned from collateral information from caregivers or from indirect inferences made from patients’ performance on standard nonsocial cognitive tests. …”
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Retirement, Home Care and the Importance of Gender by Anders Brändström, Glenn Sandström

“…We interpret this as a result of women, on average, being younger than their male partners and more easily adopting caregivers' roles. This gendered pattern is potentially explained by the persistence of more traditional gender roles prevailing in older cohorts.…”
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Prevalence and factors associated with childhood malaria and anaemia in Osun state, Nigeria: a baseline household malariometric study by Olusola Ajibaye, Semiu Adebayo Rahman, Oluwagbemiga Olanrewaju Aina, Chinazo Ujuju, Chimere Obiora Agomo, Samuel Akindele, Olakiigbe Abiodun, Tolulope Victoria Uzoka, Nnenna Ogbulafor, Olufemi Oroge, Rufai-Ahmed Garba, Michael Ekholuenetale, Kolawole Maxwell, Ridwan Akorede Awosanya, Mary Abosede Adekola, Benjamin Bukky Ilesanmi, Adekemi Ajayi, Olusola Oresanya, James K. Tibenderana, Adeola Yetunde Olukosi

“…In addition, haemoglobin levels were measured using Haemocue® Hb 201. Caregivers were interviewed on malaria management practices using tools adapted from Nigeria Malaria Indicator Survey. …”
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Direct Cost of Parkinson’s Disease: A Real-World Data Study of Second-Line Therapies by Elisa Gomez-Inhiesto, María Teresa Acaiturri-Ayesta, Iker Ustarroz-Aguirre, Diana Camahuali, Maider Urtaran-Laresgoiti, Marisol Basabe-Aldecoa, Roberto Nuño-Solinís, Elena Urizar

“…Due to the nature of the disease, it impacts patients, families, and caregivers. Parkinson’s disease is a degenerative disease with no cure, although second-line therapies have recently improved the quality of life of patients in advanced stages. …”
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Transportation considerations in underserved patient populations receiving multidisciplinary head and neck cancer care by Luke Stanisce, Donald H Solomon, Liam O'Neill, Nadir Ahmad, Brian Swendseid, Gregory J Kubicek, Yekaterina Koshkareva

“…Thirty-two percent reported using public transportation; 42% relied on caregivers. Patients who used public transportation were 3.3 and 4.6 times more likely to miss treatment (p = 0.001) and surveillance (p = 0.014) visits, respectively. …”
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Throat Colonization of Neonatal Nursery Staff by Ureaplasma urealyticum: an Infection Control or Occupational Health Consideration? by Joanne E Embree, Michelle Alfa, Joy Lertzman, Gloria Gray, Carlos Fajardo, Annalee Yassi

“…To determine whether prolonged contact with very low birth weight infants resulted in higher rates of upper respiratory tract colonization with this organism for caregivers, throat swabs for U urealyticum culture were obtained from medical, nursing and other support staff working in the neonatal intensive care and level II nurseries at the Health Sciences Centre and the St Boniface Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba. …”
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Stress and Coping Among Elderly During The COVID-19 Pandemic in Sulaimanya City in Kurdistan Region of Iraq by Yousif Abdalla Qadr, Azad Ali Ismail

“…These results may also inform the elder's caregivers that elder's stress level and illness anxiety was not very high, strengthening their social support and spiritual connection may help them to reduce their distress into a lesser degree. …”
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Making Complex Technologies Accessible Through Simple Controllability: Initial Results of a Feasibility Study by Pascal Müller, Hari Krishna Reddy Gali, Subashkumar Rajanayagam, Stefan Twieg, Patrick Jahn, Sebastian Hofstetter

“…The co-creative design cycle was conducted in two long-term care facilities, with 25 caregivers participating in the form of testing for the platform’s prototypes across multiple iteration loops. …”
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A Long-Term Follow-Up Programme for Maintenance of Motor Function after Stroke: Protocol of the life after Stroke—The LAST Study by Torunn Askim, Birgitta Langhammer, Hege Ihle-Hansen, Jon Magnussen, Torgeir Engstad, Bent Indredavik

“…Secondary outcomes are: dependency, balance, endurance, health-related quality of life, fatigue, anxiety and depression, cognitive function, burden on caregivers, and health costs. Adverse events and compliance to the intervention will be registered consecutively during follow-up.…”
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Exploration of non-pharmacological interventions in the management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia by Nur Sabiha Md Hussin, Mahmathi Karuppannan, Yogheswaran Gopalan, Kit Mun Tan, Shubashini Gnanasan

“…Data were collected through observations and semi-structured interviews of 12 caregivers and 11 people with dementia (PWD) at seven secondary care facilities. …”
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Latent profile analysis of fatalism and its influencing factors among community-dwelling disabled elderly individuals by Jinlei Du, Xiaoling Wu, Qiyu Zhang, Yuanxia Wang, Yao Chen, Chencong Nie

“…Multivariate analysis revealed that living arrangements, number of children, educational level, duration of disability, and self-reported economic stress were significant factors influencing these fatalism profiles.ConclusionThere is significant heterogeneity in fatalism among community-dwelling disabled elderly individuals. Caregivers and healthcare managers can develop more precise and personalized management strategies by considering the different latent profiles and their associated influencing factors.…”
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A narrative review of proactive palliative care models for people with COPD by Amy Pascoe, Xinye Chen, Natasha Smallwood

“…Symptom palliation, advance care planning, and support for caregivers emerged as the common components underpinning both generalist and specialist models of palliative care. …”
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Aduhelm, a novel anti-amyloid monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease: A comprehensive review by Hannah W. Haddad, Garett W. Malone, Nicholas J. Comardelle, Arielle E. Degueure, Salomon Poliwoda, Rachel J. Kaye, Kevin S. Murnane, Adam M Kaye, Alan D. Kaye

“…Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia affecting millions of individuals, including family members who often take on the role of caregivers. This debilitating disease reportedly consumes 8% of the total United States healthcare expenditure, with medical and nursing outlays accounting for an estimated \$290 billion. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBESITY ANDPHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN CHILDREN by Nimra Mustafa et al

“…Conclusion: It has become a combined social responsibility of parents, caregivers, educators and health professionals to aware children about the negative effects of obesity and helps them in implementing strategies to prevent its development.  …”
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Global Fluoroquinolone Resistance Epidemiology and Implictions for Clinical Use by Axel Dalhoff

“…This paper on the fluoroquinolone resistance epidemiology stratifies the data according to the different prescription patterns by either primary or tertiary caregivers and by indication. Global surveillance studies demonstrate that fluoroquinolone resistance rates increased in the past years in almost all bacterial species except S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae, causing community-acquired respiratory tract infections. …”
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The Role of the New Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibodies in Active Relapsing – Remitting Multiple Sclerosis Treatment: Efficacy and Safety of ofatumumab by I. Jonušaitė, N. Giedraitienė, G. Kaubrys, R. Kizlaitienė

“…Considering its extent in a relatively young population, multiple sclerosis determines a significant socioeconomic burden to the society due to the cost of disease modifying treatment and a lower working capacity of patients and their caregivers. It is important to control neuroinflammation in the central nervous system caused by the pathologic activity of immune cells by considering a high efficacy treatment early in the disease course in order to prevent accumulation of neurological damage and to improve long term outcomes. …”
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Assessment of Antiretroviral Treatment Adherence among Children Attending Care at a Tertiary Hospital in Southeastern Nigeria by Cletus Akahara, Emeka Nwolisa, Kelechi Odinaka, Seline Okolo

“…Stigma was an important reason given by patient/caregivers for nonadherence. There is need for concerted effort in addressing this barrier to improve adherence and prevent the emergence of drug resistance and treatment failure.…”
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