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Counselling for physical activity, life-space mobility and falls prevention in old age (COSMOS): protocol of a randomised controlled trial.
2019
IntroductionThe most promising way to promote active life years in old age is to promote regular participation in physical activity (PA). Maintaining lower extremity muscle function with good balance has been associated with fewer falls and the need of help from others. This article describes the design and intervention of a randomised controlled trial (RCT) investigating the effectiveness of a health and PA counselling programme on life-space mobility and falls rates in community-dwelling older adults at the Health Kiosk and/or Service Centre.Methods and analysisCommunity-dwelling men and women (n=450) aged 65 years and over with early phase mobility limitation will be recruited to a 24-mo…
Domanda e offerta di consuòltazione psicologica nei contesti universitari
2005
Prefazione
2009
Farmers' participation in civic agriculture: The effect of social embeddedness
2014
This work investigates how farmers??? attitudes influence their decision to participate in some particular forms of civic agriculture, namely farmers' markets (conventional or organic), solidarity purchase groups, direct selling and box schemes. It also explores whether social embeddedness-related attitudes occur with different intensities within the various types of civic agriculture. To this end, a survey was carried out among farmers participating in civic agriculture in Sicily (Italy). Empirical results confirm the role of social embeddedness whereby personal relations between farmers and consumers are emphasised: a greater presence of community relations fosters a greater role of socia…
Scaling Consultative Selling with Virtual Reality: Design and Evaluation of Digitally Enhanced Services
2018
Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technologies allow creation of powerful customer experiences and illustrative demonstrations especially in use cases that benefit from spatial visualizations. Our study focuses on the natural resource management sector and digitalizing of consultative selling process. More specifically, we look at how to improve customer engagement with the use of virtual reality (VR) and thus digitally scale consultative selling. In this process, a VR application is used to demonstrate various management operations and their economic results. Design research methodology is applied to a pre-development phase and three application development iterations between 2016 and …
Diecézna rodinná poradňa (DRP) v Opole pre manželské a rodinné krízy
2019
Caused by main types of the crisis give the impulse to break the limits that reduce accommodation abilities of family and marriage scheme to a new situations and challenges brought by social and cultural life. The activity of Diocesan Family Counselling in Opole is inscribed in that perspective. The institution is one of the leading centres of marriage and family support run by the Catholic Church in Poland. In 2018 over 360 people were seen in this Counselling Centre at almost 2 thousand appointments in the scope of psychological counselling, individual therapy, marriage and family therapy, law counselling and a therapy for addicted and co-addicted people. At the beginning the article pres…
Gynaecological cancer patients` experience with sexual counselling : A qualitative metasynthesis
2018
Master's thesis Clinical health sciences ME520 - University of Agder 2018 Background: Changes to sexuality can be one of the most difficult aspects of life following treatment for gynaecologic cancer. It is important to address gynaecological cancer survivors need for counselling on this matter and find out more on how they experience sexual counselling. Aim: The purpose of this study is to explore gynaecological cancer patients` experience with sexual counselling. Methods: Inspired by Sandelowski and Barroso a qualitative metasynthesis was conducted, based on a systematic literature search in CINAHL (EBSCO Host), MEDLINE (OvidSP) and Psycinfo (Ovid SP) during September 2017. The findings w…
Who has to undergo cancer genetic testing? A perspective
2017
Genetic testing is a medical tool employed to screen changes in genes linked to cancer and other genetic diseases. Genetic tests are available for breast, ovarian, colon, thyroid, and some other cancers and they represent the main tool for early identification of the “risk” subjects. The choice to undergo genetic testing by a healthy or affected cancer patient with family history of the cancer has to be the fruit of a careful and prudent assessment of the advantages and disadvantages discussed during oncogenetic counselling. The latter, in turn, in the case of a patient’s positive and informed choice, must constantly affiliate the genetic testing, in order to preserve the prediction and inf…