Conveners
Talk Session 5: Digital Interventions and Health
- Ana Arzenšek (University of Primorska)
Background: Injection-related pain and anxiety have been major contributors to hesitancy and noncompliance with children's vaccinations. Traditional distraction, as a common method, often fails to prevent syringe anxiety. Novel strategies involving multiple senses in managing pain and anxiety related to children's vaccinations require evaluation. This study aimed to investigate the effect of...
In the past decade, researchers have shown great interest in exploring the neuroplasticity of the brain and the idea that intelligence and personality can change, which is an important contribution to the models of mental health. This research aimed to explore the interconnectedness between mindset, mental health indicators, and depressive symptomatology, as depression is one of the most...
BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disorder can highly impair the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) via its motor and non-motor symptoms (NMS). Overall, mobility-related difficulties and subjective mood problems have the most powerful negative effect on the HRQoL.
OBJECTIVES: We aimed to investigate the HRQoL of patients with PD along new...
For a very long time it has been well known that different autoimmune syndromes are followed by neuropsychological symptoms. These neuropsychological symptoms often mimic neuropsychiatric disorders and it is very important to distinguish between comorbidity and psychological symptoms that are direct consequences of autoimmune state.
The role of psychologist becomes an important one, but...
