Healing Through Empowerment and Active Listening: Experience-Based Co-Design of a Nurse-Led Personalised Self-Care Support Intervention for Primary Care Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulcers.

Background: The rising prevalence of diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) highlights the need for effective self-care interventions. Despite strong evidence supporting their effectiveness, patient engagement, uptake, and integration into routine care remain limited. Co-design approaches can enhance the relevance and adoption of interventions but are underutilized in DFU management.

"It is a constant battle": A qualitative study of the lived experience of individuals with diabetic foot ulcer and post-healing challenges in primary care.

Aim: To explore the lived experiences of primary care patients with active diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) and post-healing in remission (PHIR) to inform tailored interventions.

Methods: A qualitative interview study was conducted with primary care patients with DFU and PHIR in Singapore. In-depth interviews were held with 27 participants (15 with active DFU and 12 with PHIR) from April to July 2022.

Patient and Health Care Provider Perspectives of Cognitive Difficulties in Dialysis.

Introduction: Cognitive impairments (CIs) are common among patients on dialysis, compromising functional capacity, decision-making, and quality of life. Previous work is dominated by quantitative studies, leaving the everyday experience of these impairments and their practical implications poorly understood. This qualitative study explored patients' and providers' perspectives on the lived experience of cognitive difficulties, impacts on daily living and care delivery, and associated needs.

Facilitators and Barriers to Uptake of Genetic and Cascade Testing in Familial Hypercholesterolemia: a Systematic Review.

Background: Familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is an underdiagnosed autosomal dominant genetic disorder that confers high but preventable risk for premature adverse cardiovascular events. Timely diagnosis is limited by low uptake of genetic testing (GT) and cascade testing (CT). This systematic review identifies barriers and facilitators for uptake of GT and CT in FH.

Development of a rapid screener through network analysis to identify central cognitive complaints in haemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: Cognitive impairments and cognitive complaints are commonly present in dialysis patients and can affect clinical, functional, occupational, and psychosocial well-being. It is important to screen for patients' cognitive status as it offers a gateway to specialty referral, prevention or rehabilitation programmes, and personalisation of clinical care. The Patient's Assessment of Own Functioning Inventory (PAOFI) is a comprehensive questionnaire that assesses patient-reported difficulties in memory, language, motor/sensory-perceptual skills and higher-level cognitive function.

Depression Self-Care Apps' Characteristics and Applicability to Older Adults: Systematic Assessment.

Background: Depression affects 32% of older adults. Loneliness and social isolation are common risk factors for depression in older adults. Mobile apps can connect users and are also effective in depression management in the general population.

Factors associated with foot self-care behaviour and foot screening attendance in people with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study in primary care.

Objectives: To assess the factors associated with foot self-care behaviour and non-adherence to foot screening among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

Design And Setting: A multicentre cross-sectional study was undertaken in seven primary care polyclinics in Singapore between October 2020 and December 2021.

Participants And Outcomes: 275 adults (male 55.

Screening for cognitive symptoms in dialysis patients with an extended version of Kidney Disease Quality of Life Cognitive Function subscale (KDQOL-CF): a validation study.

Background: Cognitive impairment and cognitive complaints are highly prevalent in haemodialysis patients and are associated with adverse health outcomes. Currently, there is no established guideline on cognitive screening in this population. Although neuropsychological tests are the gold standard measure of cognition, they are time-consuming and require trained personnel.

Structural equation modelling of the role of cognition in functional interference and treatment nonadherence among haemodialysis patients.

Background And Objectives: Cognitive impairment is common in haemodialysis patients and associated with adverse health outcomes. This may be due to cognitive impairments interfering with daily functioning and self-care, but evidence is limited. This cross-sectional study aims to explore the interrelationships between cognition and functional outcomes in haemodialysis patients.

Exploring the Cognitive Profiles of Haemodialysis Patients using Objective and Subjective Indicators: A Cross-sectional Observational Study.

Background: Cognitive impairment is common in haemodialysis patients and associated with adverse health outcomes. Previous work focused primarily on neuropsychological tests, the gold standard measure of cognition. However, these tests reflect performance under optimal conditions rather than performance in everyday life.

Foot self-care behaviour in primary care patients with diabetic foot ulcers: Structural equation modelling of psychological predictors.

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are one of the most prevalent and costly diabetes complications, associated with diminished quality of life and poor prognosis. Management of DFUs relies heavily on patients' foot self-care behaviour. This study aims to explore psychological determinants of this important behaviour among primary care patients.

Prevalence and trajectories of subjective cognitive complaints and implications for patient outcomes: A prospective study of haemodialysis patients.

Objectives: Cognitive impairment is common in haemodialysis patients and is associated with increased hospitalization and mortality. However, subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs), the self-experienced difficulties in everyday cognitive activities, remain poorly understood. This study examined the prevalence and course of SCCs in haemodialysis patients and its longitudinal associations with sociodemographic, clinical and patient-reported variables.

The role of subjective cognitive complaints in self-management among haemodialysis patients: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Subjective cognitive complaints refer to self-experienced difficulties with everyday cognitive tasks. Although there has been a fair amount of research on cognitive impairments and cognitive complaints in end-stage renal disease, the practical implications of these complaints remain unclear. The current study aims to examine the associations of cognitive complaints with sociodemographic and clinical variables, mood, as well as key patient-reported outcomes, i.

Subjective cognitive complaints in end-stage renal disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Cognitive impairment is common in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and is associated with compromised quality of life and functional capacity, as well as worse clinical outcomes. Most previous research and reviews in this area were focused on objective cognitive impairment, whereas patients' subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs) have been less well-understood. This systematic review aimed to provide a broad overview of what is known about SCCs in adult ESRD patients.

Information needs and sources of information among people with depression and anxiety: a scoping review.

Background: Previous studies have identified substantial unmet information needs in people with depression and anxiety. Sufficient information about the disorder, treatment, available services, and strategies for self-management is essential as it may influence quality of care and patients' quality of life. This scoping review aimed to provide a broad overview of information needs of people with depression and anxiety as well as the sources that they use to seek this information.

The effects of efficacy framing in news information and health anxiety on coronavirus-disease-2019-related cognitive outcomes and interpretation bias.

Within the coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, disease-related information is omnipresent in the media, whereas information about how to manage the pandemic is less often covered. Under the context where threat is present, this study investigated whether and how the strength of efficacy framing (i.e.

The Impact of Interpretation Biases on Psychological Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Prospective Study.

Background: This study investigates the longitudinal role of interpretation biases in the development and maintenance of health anxiety during the pandemic. Individual differences in behavioural responses to the virus outbreak and decision-making were also examined.

Methods: Two hundred seventy-nine individuals from a pre-pandemic study of interpretation bias and health anxiety completed an online survey during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong.

Evaluating Rates and Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy for Adults and Children in the Singapore Population: Strengthening Our Community's Resilience against Threats from Emerging Infections (SOCRATEs) Cohort.

COVID-19 vaccines are crucial for achieving sufficient immunisation coverage to manage the pandemic, but vaccine hesitancy persists. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and determinants of vaccine hesitancy in adults and in parents for vaccinating their children using an integrated social cognition model. A community-based cohort in Singapore [ = 1623] completed a survey (wave 25) between June and July 2021 which measured their risk perceptions, distress, trust, vaccination beliefs, and vaccine intentions/behaviours.

The effects of attentional and interpretation biases on later pain outcomes among younger and older adults: A prospective study.

Background: Studies examining the effect of biased cognitions on later pain outcomes have primarily focused on attentional biases, leaving the role of interpretation biases largely unexplored. Also, few studies have examined pain-related cognitive biases in elderly persons. The current study aims to fill these research gaps.

The interrelation between interpretation biases, threat expectancies and pain-related attentional processing.

Background: Few studies examining the effect of pain-related threat on eye movements have incorporated a measure of interpretation bias. However, theories suggest that interpretation biases also play an important role in the anticipation of harm in situations where pain could be imminent. The current study investigates the association between interpretation biases and pain-related threat expectancies and their associations with eye movements to pain-related imagery.

Pain-related attentional processes: A systematic review of eye-tracking research.

Biases in the way that people direct their attention towards or away from pain-related information are hypothesised to contribute to the onset and severity of pain-related disorders. This systematic review summarised 24 eye-tracking studies (N = 1424) examining effects of chronic pain, stimulus valence, individual differences in pain-related constructs such as fear of pain and pain catastrophising, and experimentally-induced pain or pain-related threat on attentional processing of visual stimuli. The majority of studies suggest that people with and without chronic pain do not differ in their eye movements on pain-related stimuli, although there is preliminary evidence that gaze biases vary across subtypes of chronic pain and may be evident only for certain stimuli.

Understanding visual attention to face emotions in social anxiety using hidden Markov models.

Theoretical models propose that attentional biases might account for the maintenance of social anxiety symptoms. However, previous eye-tracking studies have yielded mixed results. One explanation is that existing studies quantify eye-movements using arbitrary, experimenter-defined criteria such as time segments and regions of interests that do not capture the dynamic nature of overt visual attention.