- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Nutrition and Health in Aging
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Testicular diseases and treatments
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Music Therapy and Health
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
Universität Innsbruck
2021-2025
Innsbruck Medical University
2021-2025
St Olav's University Hospital
2023
University Hospital Innsbruck
2023
University of Washington
2023
Seattle University
2023
Harvard University
2023
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
2023
Massachusetts General Hospital
2023
University Medical Center Utrecht
2023
Background Inpatient psychosomatic rehabilitation is a key treatment for patients with mental health issues. However, knowledge about critical success factors beneficial outcomes scarce. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association mentalizing and epistemic trust improvement psychological distress during rehabilitation. Methods In naturalistic longitudinal observational study, completed routine assessments (BSI), health-related quality life (HRQOL; WHODAS), (MZQ), (ETMCQ) before...
Patient-reported outcomes are considered the gold standard for assessing subjective health status in oncology patients. Electronic assessment of patient-reported (ePRO) has become increasingly popular recent years both clinical trials and practice. However, there is limited evidence on how well older patients with cancer can complete ePRO assessments.We aimed to investigate adult different age ranges could assessments at home a treatment facility identify factors associated ability...
Serial assessment of health condition based on self-report made by children and their proxies has consistently shown a lack congruence. The study explored the discrepancies between mother's, father's, children's reports health-related quality life (HRQOL) during first two months pediatric cancer treatment.In this cohort study, parents completed generic cancer-specific Pediatric Quality-of-Life Inventory (PedsQL) questionnaires at initial diagnosis in subsequent months. Evaluation included...
Cancer and its treatment can have substantial impact on patients' emotional functioning. Several patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) assessing functioning are available, but differences in content limit the comparability of results. To better understand conceptual (dis)similarities, we conducted a comparison commonly used PROMs.We included items, scales, item banks from EORTC CAT Core, QLQ-C30, FACT-G, Hospital anxiety depression scale (HADS), SF-36, PRO-CTCAE, PROMIS (item for...
Rehabilitation is a key element in improving health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for pediatric cancer survivors. The aim this study was to present data from multidisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation treatment. Children took part four-week family-oriented rehabilitation. A total 236 children (>5–21 years) and 478 parents routinely completed electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs), performance-based assessments, clinician-rated assessments before (T1) at the end (T2) HRQOL assessed...
In line with the World Health Organizations' health definition, patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures frequently cover aspects of social health. Our study aimed to evaluate role functioning (RF) and (SF) contents assessed by PRO commonly used in cancer patients.We analysed item content SF RF domains EORTC CAT Core, QLQ-C30, SF-36, FACT-G as well PROMIS bank covering Ability Participate Social Roles Activities. Following an established methodology we linked International Classification...
In the project "Resilient Children", a resilience promotion program for kindergartens and elementary schools was directly applied evaluated during COVID-19-crisis.The aim of study to strengthen three sources according Grotberg (1995) I HAVE, AM CAN through targeted exercises resilience-promoting communication (transfer everyday life). Additionally, gender differences with regard effect programme were addressed. Children" at impact level (pre-post design) process level. Eight 125 children...
Abstract Background To assess fatigue in cancer patients, several patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are available that differ content. support the selection of suitable for specific applications and to evaluate possibilities quantitative linking, present study provides a content comparison common measures, scales, item banks. We included EORTC CAT Core, QLQ-FA12, QLQ-C30, FACIT-F, PROMIS Fatigue (Cancer bank v1.0), Brief Inventory (BFI), Multidimensional (MFI-20), Piper Scale...
Summary Background Group psychotherapy is an effective treatment for patients with mental health issues. This study aims to evaluate data on the effectiveness of a cost-free short-term outpatient group project mixed issues in Tyrol, Austria. Methods In this naturalistic observational study, outpatients taking part psychotherapeutic between spring 2018 and 2020 were included. Patients completed patient questionnaire (PHQ-D), item working ability index (WAI) single items symptom burden,...
Drug Prescribing for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in General Practice: a Cross-Sectional Study
Abstract Objectives In line with the World Health Organizations’ health definition, patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures frequently cover aspects of social health. Our study aimed to evaluate role functioning (RF) and (SF) contents assessed by PRO used in cancer patients. Methods We analysed item content SF RF domains EORTC CAT Core, QLQ-C30, SF-36, FACT-G as well PROMIS bank covering Ability Participate Social Roles Activities. Following an established methodology we linked International...
Objective:The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System (PROMIS)-25 profile has been validated for use in diverse populations of children with many conditions, though not among burn-injured children.The purpose this study was to examine the reliability and validity PROMIS-25 scores living burn injury.Methods: Data were collected through a multi-center longitudinal outcomes after injury.Each domain Profile evaluated validity.Floor ceiling effects, unidimensionality, internal consistency...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Patient-reported outcomes are considered the gold standard for assessing subjective health status in oncology patients. Electronic assessment of patient-reported (ePRO) has become increasingly popular recent years both clinical trials and practice. However, there is limited evidence on how well older patients with cancer can complete ePRO assessments. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> We aimed to investigate adult different age ranges could assessments at home a...