Month: March 2022

PLoS One. 2022 Mar 31;17(3):e0266360. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266360. eCollection 2022. ABSTRACT PURPOSE: Intensive care unit (ICU) survivors suffer from physical weakness and challenges returning to daily life. With the importance of rehabilitating patients in the pediatric intensive care unit being increasingly recognized, we evaluated the prevalence of physical and occupational therapy (PT/OT)-provided rehabilitation and factors affecting …

Rehabilitation in critically ill children: Findings from the Korean National Health Insurance database Read More »

PLoS One. 2022 Mar 31;17(3):e0266348. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266348. eCollection 2022. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Early rehabilitation allows patients to better perform the activities of daily living after hospital discharge. A specialized physical therapist has been assigned as part of the early rehabilitation, but the effectiveness of the program remains unclear. We investigated how early rehabilitation provided by a …

Effects of early rehabilitation in sepsis patients by a specialized physical therapist in an emergency center on the return to activities of daily living independence: A retrospective cohort study Read More »

JMIR Res Protoc. 2022 Mar 31;11(3):e33611. doi: 10.2196/33611. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Canada’s national parks are world-renowned. However, despite recent attempts to improve access, many are not accessible to people with disabilities. With the advent of provincial and federal legislation, standards are being developed to assist with the design and management of parks. OBJECTIVE: The overarching objective …

Providing Accessible Recreation Outdoors-User-Driven Research on Standards (PARCOURS): Protocol for a Multiphase Study Read More »

Occup Ther Health Care. 2022 Mar 31:1-16. doi: 10.1080/07380577.2022.2056779. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Using an integrative review methodology, this paper describes the current literature on the use of telehealth technology to conduct occupational therapy home assessments. Searches of ProQuest Health and Medicine, PubMed and CINAHL accessed articles from January 2001 to 18 April 2021. …

The Use of Telehealth to Perform Occupational Therapy Home Assessments: An Integrative Literature Review Read More »

Toxicol Sci. 2022 Mar 31:kfac035. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfac035. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Lead is a non-essential metal and may be a co-exposure in welding fumes. Preclinical data indicate lead may affect iron regulation. The current study investigated blood lead concentrations and their association with brain iron accumulation in workers with chronic welding fume exposure, with …

Higher R2* in the red nucleus is associated with lead exposure in an asymptomatic welder cohort Read More »

Front Neurol. 2022 Mar 9;13:746640. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.746640. eCollection 2022. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The capability in applying information communication technology (ICT) is crucial to the functional independence of older peoples of community living nowadays. The proper assessment of individuals’ capability of ICT application is the corner stone for the future development of telemedicine in our aging population. …

Information Communication Technology as Instrumental Activities of Daily Living for Aging-in-Place in Chinese Older Adults With and Without Cognitive Impairment: The Validation Study of Advanced Instrumental Activities of Daily Living Scale Read More »

Omega (Westport). 2022 Mar 31:302228221086169. doi: 10.1177/00302228221086169. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Long-term care facilities for older adults (LTCFs) were directly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to discuss the perceptions of occupational therapists about deaths and other losses in LTCFs during the pandemic. This qualitative study is anchored in social phenomenology, and …

Death and Other Losses in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Long-Term Care Facilities for Older Adults in the Perception of Occupational Therapists: A Qualitative Study Read More »

SAGE Open Med. 2022 Mar 24;10:20503121221085843. doi: 10.1177/20503121221085843. eCollection 2022. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVES: Insufficient nutrition can predisposes women to infection, pregnancy losses, preeclampsia and anaemia as well birth of underweight baby whose survival is threatened. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess pregnant mothers’ nutrition knowledge, attitude, practice and associated factors. METHODS: A multicenter cross-sectional study …

Pregnant mothers’ knowledge, attitude, practice and its predictors towards nutrition in public hospitals of Southern Ethiopia: A multicenter cross-sectional study Read More »

Int J Sports Med. 2022 Mar 30. doi: 10.1055/a-1812-5840. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT The blood lactate value at rest (Lacrest) is linked to cardiovascular outcomes. It is unclear whether this association holds true in younger, healthy subjects, especially as the pathophysiological connection between Lacrest and cardiometabolic disease is not well understood. The aim of …

Clarifying the link between the blood lactate concentration and cardiovascular risk Read More »

PLoS One. 2022 Mar 30;17(3):e0266160. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266160. eCollection 2022. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: The objective was to compare home care episode, standardised assessment, and service patterns in Ontario’s publicly funded home care system during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., March to September 2020) using the previous year as reference. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We …

Patterns of home care assessment and service provision before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada Read More »