A5072307929- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Family Support in Illness
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Cancer-related cognitive impairment studies
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Ethics in medical practice
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Oral health in cancer treatment
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Head and Neck Cancer Studies
Prevention Institute
2021
Piedmont Reference Center for Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention
2013-2020
Istituto per lo Studio e la Prevenzione Oncologica
2012-2019
Prevention Group
2015
University of Florence
2014
Regione Toscana
2008
Background Advance care planning (ACP) supports individuals to define, discuss, and record goals preferences for future medical treatment care. Despite being internationally recommended, randomised clinical trials of ACP in patients with advanced cancer are scarce. Methods findings To test the implementation cancer, we conducted a cluster-randomised trial 23 hospitals across Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, United Kingdom 2015–2018. Patients lung (stage III/IV) or colorectal...
Awareness of preferences regarding medical care should be a central component the patients with advanced cancer. Open communication can facilitate this but occur in an ad hoc or variable manner. Advance planning (ACP) is formalized process between patients, relatives and professional caregivers about patients' values preferences. It raises awareness need to anticipate possible future deterioration health. ACP has potential improve current healthcare decision-making, provide sense control,...
Hoarding is associated with significant impairment. Although traditionally considered as a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), some authors have proposed that pathological hoarding could be stand alone condition. The prevalence behaviour has been shown to high in countries, but little known about the and correlates non-clinical population Italy.We studied self-reported using Italian version Saving Inventory-Revised, well association between various clinical correlates, including...
Purpose Patients treated for head and neck cancer present some of the most significant posttreatment morbidity any group patients with cancer. Our aim is to describe quality life psychological distress after different treatments among during first year treatment. Methods A total 86 were evaluated within 1 end treatment by means Distress Thermometer (DT) EORTC C30 H&N35 questionnaires. Type was classified into 3 groups: surgery, chemo-/radiotherapy, combined Results Forty-one percent...
Advance Care Planning (ACP) is widely regarded as a component of good end-of-life care. However, findings from qualitative international study patient and family caregiver attitudes preferences regarding ACP highlight participants' ambivalence towards confronting the future factors underlying their motivation to accept or defer anticipatory planning. They show how impacts on, can be determined by, relationships between patients caregivers. Although some may welcome chance engage in tendency...
Abstract Objective Relationship obsessive‐compulsive disorder (ROCD) symptoms, which include obsessive preoccupation, doubts, and compulsive behaviors focusing on the suitability of relationship and/or partner, have been receiving increasing clinical, theoretical, empirical attention. This clinical variant OCD is associated with significant functional, personal, dyadic consequences. ROCD symptoms also linked to several cognitive vulnerability factors, such as maladaptive catastrophization....
In oncology, Health Care Professionals often experience conducting Advance Planning (ACP) conversations as difficult and are hesitant to start them. A structured approach could help overcome this. the ACTION trial, a Phase III multi-center cluster-randomized clinical trial in six European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, United Kingdom), patients with advanced lung or colorectal cancer invited have one two ACP trained facilitator. It is unclear how facilitators...
Background: Despite being widely used, research into the effectiveness of Liverpool Care Dying Pathway (LCP) and associated cases malpractice does not match dissemination. No study exists focusing on concerns voiced by professionals. Aim: To explore views professionals who, during hospital implementation Italian version (LCP-I), or showed towards it. Design: A qualitative nested within LCP-I randomized cluster trial, with semi-structured interviews analysed using thematic analysis. Setting...
Objective Clinicians' fears of taking away patients' hope is one the barriers to advance care planning (ACP). Research on how ACP supports scarce. We have taken up challenge specify ways in which conversations may potentially support hope. Methods In an international qualitative study, we explored experiences patients with advanced cancer and their personal representatives (PRs) within cluster-randomised control ACTION trial. Using deductive analysis data obtained interviews following...