Objective:
Understanding that diabetes is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) may help increase diabetes screening and improve prevention efforts for CVD.

Overview:
The American Heart Association conducted an online survey across 50 countries to assess public awareness of the link between diabetes and CVD. The study looked at differences in awareness by sex, age, region, and country income level.

Key Findings:

• Out of 48,988 respondents, only 32.1% recognized diabetes as a major risk factor for CVD.

• Awareness was similar between men and women, but higher among older...

Αφηρημένος

Με τον αυξημένο ρόλο των νοσηλευτών στη φροντίδα ασθενών με εθισμό σε ουσίες, υπήρχε σαφής ανάγκη ανάπτυξης των νοσηλευτικών ικανοτήτων εθισμού για την καθοδήγηση και την υποστήριξη του νοσηλευτικού εργατικού δυναμικού.

Μια βιβλιογραφική έρευνα αποκάλυψε την έλλειψη επίσημων μέσων για την αξιολόγηση και την καθοδήγηση των νοσηλευτών στη φροντίδα ατόμων με διαταραχές χρήσης ουσιών.

Οι Νοσηλευτικές Ικανότητες Εθισμού δημιουργήθηκαν χρησιμοποιώντας τα υπάρχοντα πλαίσια νοσηλευτικής εκπαίδευσης και τις κλινικές κατευθυντήριες γραμμές του διευθυντή νοσηλευτικής φροντίδας εθισμού.

Background

Healthcare workers across the world have risen to the demands of treating COVID-19 patients, potentially at significant cost to their own health and wellbeing. There has been increasing recognition of the potential mental health impact of COVID-19 on frontline workers and calls to provide psychosocial support for them. However, little attention has so far been paid to understanding the impact of working on a pandemic from healthcare workers’ own perspectives or what their views are about support.

Methods

Key healthcare databases (Medline, PsychINFO and PubMed) were checked, from...

Background

Interdisciplinary collaborations (i.e., where various disciplines work coordinated and interdependently toward shared goals) are stated to yield higher team effectiveness than multidisciplinary approaches (i.e., where various disciplines work in parallel within their professional boundaries) in somatic health care settings. Nevertheless, research is lacking on interdisciplinary approaches for alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment of hospitalized patients as these types of approaches are still uncommon. This study aims to evaluate an innovative interdisciplinary AUD treatment...