- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Health disparities and outcomes
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Heart Failure Treatment and Management
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Restraint-Related Deaths
- Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
- Dialysis and Renal Disease Management
- Machine Learning in Healthcare
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
2023-2024
Sapienza University of Rome
2022-2023
Current guidelines for conducting symptom validity assessments require that professionals administer multiple tests (SVTs) and the SVTs selected their evaluations provide nonredundant information. However, not many are currently available, most of them rely on same, (in)frequency-based, feigning detection strategy. In this context, Inventory Problems (IOP-29) could be a valuable addition to assessor's toolbox because its brevity (29 items) different approach assessing credibility presented...
Introduction Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)–associated hemolysis still represents a serious complication. The present study aimed to investigate those predictive factors, such as flow rates, the use of anticoagulants, and circuit connected dialysis, that might play pivotal role in adult patients. Methods This is retrospective single-center case series 35 consecutive patients undergoing veno-venous ECMO support at our center between April 2014 February 2020. Daily plasma-free...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its protective measures had a tremendous effect on the general population’s mental health deeply affected their lifestyle. present study carried out longitudinal analysis to evaluate long-lasting psychological effects of impact day-to-day routine. Three points in time were considered: initial period lockdown (T1; n = 2766; March 2020), final (T2; 439; May 2020) two years after (T3; 268; July 2022). Frequency analyses examine which behavioral changes maintained...
Abstract Homicide–suicide is an event in which individual murders one or more persons and then takes his/her own life. The present study aimed to assess the incidence of homicide-suicide Italy over a 10-year period (between 2009 2018) compare its findings with national international data. Furthermore, time series analysis was carried out employing autoregressive integrated moving average model. Data regarding cases were collected from press agencies four major Italian newspapers. In...
According to the main international guidelines, patients with obesity and psychiatric/psychological disorders who cannot be addressed surgery are recommended follow a nutritional approach psychological treatment. A total of 94 (T0) completed battery self-report measures: Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R), Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 (BIS-11), Binge-Eating Scale (BES), Obesity-Related Well-Being Questionnaire-97 (ORWELL-97), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)....
Context: In high‐stakes assessments, such as court cases or managerial evaluations, decision‐makers heavily rely on psychological testing. These assessments often play a crucial role in determining important decisions that affect person’s life and have significant impact society. Problem Statement: Research indicates many are compromised by respondents’ deliberate distortions inaccurate self‐presentations. Among these sources of bias, socially desirable responding (SDR) describes the...
Abstract In civil and forensic evaluations of psychological damage, depression is one the most commonly identified disorders, also frequently feigned. Thus, practitioners are often confronted with situations in which they must assess whether symptomatology presented by a patient genuine or being feigned for secondary gains. While effective, traditional feigning detection instruments generate high number false positives—especially among patients presenting severe symptomatology. The current...