Hábitos de estudio y estilos parentales en estudiantes del nivel secundario de una institución educativa de Huancayo, 2022

El título del estudio fue: Hábitos de estudio y estilos parentales en estudiantes del nivel secundario de una Institución Educativa de Huancayo, 2022. Teniendo como objetivo determinar si existe relación entre hábitos de estudio y estilos parentales en estudiantes del nivel secundario de una institución educativa de Huancayo, 2022, respondiendo la cuestión ¿Cuál es la relación entre hábitos de estudio y estilos parentales en estudiantes del nivel secundario de una institución educativa de Huancayo, 2022? Como posible respuesta se formuló la hipótesis: Existe relación directa entre hábitos de estudio y estilos parentales en estudiantes del nivel secundario de una institución educativa de Huancayo, 2022. El estudio correspondió al tipo básico, nivel relacional, diseño correlacional-transversal. Contando con una muestra de 201 estudiantes, a los que se les aplicó el cuestionario hábitos de estudio CASM-85 y la escala de estilos de socialización de padres en adolescentes ESPA29. Los resultados encontraron en los hábitos de estudio y estilos parentales una tendencia positiva con un 27,4%. Lo que conduce a la conclusión que existe entre hábitos de estudio y estilos parentales una correlación directa débil. Por lo que se recomienda realizar talleres para los alumnos y padres con el fin de reforzar los hábitos de estudio y fortalecer los estilos parentales

Quality of life changes over time and predictors in a large head and neck patients' cohort: secondary analysis from an Italian multi-center longitudinal, prospective, observational study-a study of the Italian Association of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology (AIRO) head and neck working group

Purpose: The present study examined the longitudinal trajectories, through hierarchical modeling, of quality of life among patients with head and neck cancer, specifically symptoms burden, during radiotherapy, and in the follow-up period (1, 3, 6, and 12 months after completion of radiotherapy), through the M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory Head and Neck questionnaire, formed by three factors. Furthermore, analyses were conducted controlling for socio-demographic as well as clinical characteristics. Methods: Multi-level mixed-effects linear regression was used to estimate the association between quality of life and time, age, gender, household, educational level, employment status, ECOG performance status, human papilloma virus (HPV) status, surgery, chemotherapy, alcohol intake, and smoking. Results: Among the 166 participants, time resulted to be a predictor of all the three questionnaire factors, namely, general and specific related symptoms and interference with daily life. Moreover, regarding symptom interference with daily activities factor, HPV-positive status played a significant role. Considering only HPV-negative patients, only time predicted patients' quality of life. Differently, among HPV-positive patients, other variables, such as gender, educational level, alcohol use, surgery, age at diagnosis, employment status, and ECOG status, resulted significant. Conclusion: It was evident that quality of life of patients with head and neck cancer declined during RT, whereas it slowly improved after ending treatment. Our results clarified the role of some socio-demographic and clinical variables, for instance, HPV, which would allow to develop treatments tailored to each patient

Management of psoriatic arthritis: a consensus opinion by expert rheumatologists

Background: Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is a chronic inflammatory musculoskeletal disease involving several articular and extra-articular structures. Despite the important progresses recently made in all of the aspects of this disease, its management is still burdened by unresolved issues. The aim of this exercise was to provide a set of statements that may be helpful for the management of PsA. Methods: A group of 38 Italian rheumatologists with recognized expertise in PsA selected and addressed the following four topics: "early PsA," "axial-PsA," "extra-articular manifestations and comorbidities," "therapeutic goals." Relevant articles from the literature (2016-2022) were selected by the experts based on a PubMed search. A number of statements for each topic were elaborated. Results: Ninety-four articles were selected and evaluated, 68 out of the 1,114 yielded by the literature search and 26 added by the Authors. Each of the four topic was subdivided in themes as follows: transition from psoriasis to PsA, imaging vs. CASPAR criteria in early diagnosis, early treatment for "early PsA"; axial-PsA vs. axialspondyloarthritis, diagnosis, clinical evaluation, treatment, standard radiography vs. magnetic resonance imaging for "axial PsA"; influence of inflammatory bowel disease on the therapeutic choice, cardiovascular comorbidity, bone damage, risk of infection for "comorbidities and extra-articular manifestations"; target and tools, treat-to-target strategy, role of imaging for "therapeutic goals." The final document consisted of 49 statements. Discussion: The final product of this exercise is a set of statements concerning the main issues of PsA management offering an expert opinion for some unmet needs of this complex disease

Acute and chronic pain in orthopaedic and rheumatologic diseases: mechanisms and characteristics

Pain is one of the most frequent clinical symptoms encountered by orthopaedic surgeons and rheumatologists as it is one of the main reasons for patients seeking medical help. Traumas and/or inflammatory rheumatologic diseases give rise to two different types of acute pain, but their chronic evolution is so similar that they both need to be treated as early as possible. It is now widely accepted that chronic pain is a disease per se, and that its location may be less important than the way in which it is perceived by people suffering from it. Consequently, its pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment should be based on its specific characteristics, other disease-related factors, the ability of patients to cope with it, and the way in which they live their lives

Jitter Measurements of 1 cm² LGADs for Space Experiments

This work explores the possibility of using Low Gain Avalanche Diodes (LGADs) for tracker-based experiments studying Charged Cosmic Rays (CCRs) in space. While conventional silicon microstrip sensors provide only spatial information about the charged particle passing through the tracker, LGADs have the potential to provide additional timing information with a resolution in the order of tens of picoseconds. For the first time, it has been demonstrated that an LGAD with an active area of approximately 1 cm2 can achieve a jitter of less than 40 ps. A comparison of design and gain layers is carried out to understand which provides the best time resolution. For this purpose, laboratory measurements of sensors’ electrical properties and gain using LED and an Infrared laser, as well as their jitter, were performed

Ferritin and C-reactive protein are predictive biomarkers of mortality and macrophage activation syndrome in adult onset Still's disease. Analysis of the multicentre Gruppo Italiano di Ricerca in Reumatologia Clinica e Sperimentale (GIRRCS) cohort.

ObjectiveTo assess the predictive role of ferritin and C-reactive protein (CRP) on occurrence of macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) and mortality in patients with adult onset Still's disease (AOSD), a rare and severe disease, included in the multicentre Gruppo Italiano di Ricerca in Reumatologia Clinica e Sperimentale (GIRRCS) cohort.MethodsThe predictive role, at the time of diagnosis, of serum levels of ferritin and CRP on occurrence of MAS and mortality, was evaluated by logistic regression analyses and receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves were built to identify patients at high risk of MAS and mortality, respectively.ResultsIn assessed 147 patients with AOSD, levels of ferritin were predictive of MAS (OR: 1.971; P: 0.002; CI 95%: 1.280-3.035). The ROC curve showed that the best cut-off for ferritin was 1225 ng/ml in predicting MAS (sensitivity 88%; specificity 57%). Levels of CRP were predictive of mortality in these patients (OR: 2.155; P: 0.007; CI 95%: 1.228-3.783). The ROC curve showed that the best cut-off for CRP was 68.7 mg/L in predicting mortality (sensitivity 80%; specificity of 65%).ConclusionsWe reported the predictive role of ferritin and CRP on MAS and mortality, respectively, in a large cohort of patients with AOSD, identifying subsets at higher risk of poor prognosis. Considering that the analysis of CRP and ferritin is widely available, these results could be readily transferable into clinical practice, thus improving the management of patients with AOSD