OBJECTIVES The present pilot study sought to compare a compassion-focused therapy (CFT)-based self-help intervention for binge eating disorder (BED) to a behaviourally based intervention. DESIGN Forty-one individuals with BED were randomly assigned to 3 weeks of food planning plus self-compassion exercises; food planning plus behavioural strategies; or a wait-list control condition. METHODS...

BACKGROUND Patients with nephrotic syndrome have the highest lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] concentrations known. Lp(a) is an low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-like particle consisting of 45% cholesterol. The usual methods to determine LDL cholesterol do not distinguish between cholesterol derived from LDL and Lp(a) and are thus the net result of cholesterol levels from both lipoproteins. High Lp(a) concen...

OBJECTIVE Nonadherence in diabetes is a problem leading to wasted resources and preventable deaths each year. Remedies for diminishing nonadherence are many but marginally effective, and outcomes remain suboptimal. AIM The aim of this study was to test a new iOS "app", PatientPartner. Derived from complexity theory, this novel technology has been extensively used in other fields; this is the ...

objective: to determine the effectiveness of counseling in reducing anxiety of nulliparous pregnant women. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental study, 110 nulliparous pregnant women were selected out of all pregnant women referring to fatemieh hospital in hamadan, iran. then, the subjects were divided into two groups in experimental and control (55 women in each). the data were col...

The evaluation of complex intervention with a randomised trial is often undermined by varying levels of participant compliance to the intervention. It is important to evaluate the causal effect of different levels of the intervention to gain a fuller understanding of the effectiveness of the intervention when complied with. For example, when evaluating a psychotherapeutic intervention, the effe...

OBJECTIVES To test whether an intervention designed to encourage older patients and their caregivers to assert a more active role during care transitions can reduce rehospitalization rates. DESIGN Quasi-experimental design whereby subjects receiving the intervention (n=158) were compared with control subjects derived from administrative data (n=1,235). SETTING A large integrated delivery sy...

OBJECTIVES To test the main and interactive effects of activities derived from the Need-Driven Dementia-Compromised Behavior model for responding to behavioral symptoms in nursing home residents. DESIGN Randomized double-blind clinical trial. SETTING Nine community-based nursing homes. PARTICIPANTS One hundred twenty-eight cognitively impaired residents randomly assigned to activities adj...

We discuss the deletion of a single vertex in a Delaunay tetrahedralization (DT). While some theoretical solutions exist for this problem, the many degeneracies in three dimensions make them impossible to be implemented without the use of extra mechanisms. In this paper, we present an algorithm that uses a sequence of bistellar flips to delete a vertex in a DT, and we present two different mech...