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Efficacy and safety of olive leaf extract (Olea europaea L.) for glycaemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (ESOLED): A pilot randomised controlled trial.

Leach, MJ Breakspear, I

BACKGROUND: Maintaining optimum glycaemic control is essential to reducing comorbidity and mortality in diabetes. However, research indicates that <50 % of patients achieve their target HbA1c range...

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Immediate Versus Delayed Exercise on Health-related Quality of Life in Patients Initiating Androgen Deprivation Therapy: Results from a Year-long Randomised Trial.

Taaffe, DR Newton, RU Chambers, SK Nelson, CJ Spry, N Luo, H Schumacher, O Joseph, D Gardiner, RA Hayne, D Galvão, DA

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: An array of treatment-related toxicities result from androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with prostate cancer (PCa), compromising function and health-related qu...

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Monensin Suppresses Multiple Features of House Dust Mite-Induced Experimental Asthma in Mice.

Allam, VSRR Akula, S Waern, I Taha, S Wernersson, S Pejler, G

Despite intense efforts to develop efficient therapeutic regimes for asthma, there is a large demand for novel treatment strategies in this disease. Here we evaluated the impact of monensin, a drug...

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Evidence at play: evidence-based practices and barriers in biological maturation assessment among German football academies

Arenas, L Skorski, S Meyer, T Frenger, M

Purpose: This study examined the extent to which German male football academies adopt evidence-based practices (EBP) and their impact on the execution of biological maturation assessments. It also ...

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Effect of virtual care in type 2 diabetes management - a systematic umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analysis.

Ravi, S Meyerowitz-Katz, G Yung, C Ayre, J McCaffery, K Maberly, G Bonner, C

BACKGROUND: Diabetes is an increasingly prevalent and costly chronic disease worldwide, and a large cause of unnecessary disease burden. To address the growing burden of diabetes, care models shoul...

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Psychological interventions across a stepped care framework: special issue editorial

Hronis, A

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A Comparison of the Long and Short Forms of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire in Adults with Generalised Anxiety Disorder

Wilson, EJ Abbott, MJ Norton, AR Berle, D Stapinski, L Rapee, RM

The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) is a 16-item self-report measure designed to assess pathological worry. The PSWQ has, however, demonstrated inconsistent factor structure in adults and old...

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Determinants of poor access to health care among women of reproductive age in Sierra Leone: a cross-sectional study.

Osborne, A James, PB Bangura, C

BACKGROUND: Sierra Leone, like many developing countries, faces challenges in ensuring equitable access to healthcare, particularly for women of reproductive age. This women has specific healthcare...

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Towards person-centred maternal and newborn care in Ethiopia: a mixed method study of satisfaction and experiences of care.

Eshetu, T Fekadu, E Abdella, A Mulushoa, A Medhin, G Belina, M Alem, A Keynejad, R Robbins, T Seward, N Shennan, A Howard, LM Prince, M Sandall, J Hanlon, C

BACKGROUND: Person-centred maternal care is associated with positive experiences in high-income countries. Little is known about the transferability of this concept to non-Western, low-income setti...

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Outcomes of Trauma-Focused Psychological Therapies for Police Officers with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Steensma-Young, S Berle, D

Trauma-focused therapies hold promise for reducing the symptoms of PTSD in police officers, but there remains a lack of certainty about the magnitude of improvement with these approaches. We aimed ...

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