Sentences with phrase «symptoms burden»

Multiple trials have shown that increased activity reduces symptom burden and that exercise interventions may have beneficial effects on quality of life, physical function, social function, and fatigue.

The paper, titled «In People Living with HIV (PLWH), Menopause (Natural or Surgical) Contributes to the Greater Symptom Burden in Women: Results from an Online US Survey,» was published in the March 2018 online edition of Menopause.

The parent - reported and child - reported Brief Problem Checklist (BPC) were administered every 3 months during the first 18 months of the trial, which rates items from 0 (not true) to 2 (very true) with higher scores indicating greater symptom burden.

Chronically - ill cancer patients have different exercise limitations than their healthy counterparts and other concurrent diseases and high symptom burden add challenges in how best to study and implement physical activity programs in lung cancer patients.

We further hypothesised that a greater use of potentially maladaptive coping strategies and a heavier symptom burden would reflect higher rates of depressive symptoms.

Supervised by a nurse and other members of the team that includes a social worker and a geriatrician, the care coordinator assistants monitor symptom burden, coach patients with history of depression on implementing behavioral activation and relapse prevention activities.

«We observed higher rates of neurocognitive decline, increased symptom burden and a decline in health - related quality of life over time among non-progressing patients treated with bevacizumab,» he says.

Other natural agents that assist with mood and stress management, as well as psychological techniques to help manage stress, such as mindfulness practice and mediation, may also ameliorate symptom burden in patients with IBS.

PTSD is a severe psychiatric illness characterised by four core symptom clusters: re-experiencing, avoidance, negative cognition and mood and hyperarousal.1 With an estimated lifetime prevalence in community samples of up to 8 %, PTSD results in a great deal of personal suffering and escalating social and economic costs.2 Unfortunately, current evidence - based treatments for PTSD leave a high percentage with a significant symptom burden, highlighting the urgent need for novel treatments.

This randomized clinical trial examines whether a symptom and psychosocial collaborative care intervention vs usual care improves heart failure — specific health status, depression, and symptom burden in patients with heart failure.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommends concurrent use of palliative care with cancer care early in the course of illness for any patient with metastatic cancer and / or high symptom burden.

This may reflect a greater symptom burden.

Dr. Guyuron and colleagues conclude, «Both procedures can be performed safely with significant improvement in symptom burden, without concern for great morbidity [complications].»

Researchers also performed a meta - analysis to investigate the overall association between palliative care and three outcomes often linked with palliative care — patients» quality of life, symptom burden and survival.

Non-surgical advanced - stage lung cancer patients may benefit from increased physical activity by improving exercise tolerance and symptom burden, though the location, duration, and intensity to be recommended is not clear.

Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study is the first meta - analysis of the effect of palliative care as it relates to patients» quality of life, symptom burden and survival.

Because multiple symptoms common with blast traumatic brain injury are also seen with growth hormone and testosterone deficiencies, perhaps treating these hormone deficiencies will help improve the symptom burden and quality of life for these veterans,» said lead study author Jeffrey S. Taylor, MD, endocrinology fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia.

A decade later, when Jenkins» cancer returned and her MD Anderson doctors determined that surgery was again necessary, she jumped at the chance to participate in a protocol designed to relieve patients» symptom burden and improve functional recovery.