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Università della Svizzera italiana

Detecting Alzheimer’s disease (AD) : from the asymptomatic stages of healthy adults with AD genetic disposition to late stages of severe neurocognitive impairment

Ibnidris, Aliaa ; Albanese, Emiliano (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021BIOMED001.

Background: Dementia is a syndrome characterized by progressive cognitive impairment, psychological and behavioural symptoms, and functional deficits. It is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide; its impact and the associated costs are enormous. Consequently, dementia is a global public health priority, and so is Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia in late...

Université de Fribourg

Cross-cultural preliminary validation of a measure of social vulnerability in people with intellectual disabilities

Tabin, Mireille ; Diacquenod, Cindy ; De Palma, Nicola ; Gerber, Fabienne ; Straccia, Claudio ; Wilson, Carlene ; Kosel, Markus ; Petitpierre, Geneviève

In: Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020, p. 1-13

Background: Social vulnerability refers to the ways in which an individual is at risk of being victimised. The Test of Interpersonal Competences and Personal Vulnerability [TICPV] is an Australian assessment tool designed for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) [Wilson et al. (1996). Vulnerability to criminal exploitation: Influence of interpersonal competence differences among people with...

Université de Fribourg

Students' Problem Behaviors as Sources of Teacher Stress in Special Needs Schools for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities

Amstad, Meta ; Müller, Christoph Michael

In: Frontiers in Education, 2020, vol. 4, p. 1-11

Students with intellectual disabilities in special needs schools often exhibit high levels of problem behaviors. Besides of the challenges for the concerned individuals, peers, and their caregivers, problem behaviors can also be a source of stress for teachers. However, less is known on which exact behaviors are perceived as how stressful in special needs schools for students with...

Université de Fribourg

Evaluating a sensitive issue: reliability of a clinical evaluation for allodynia severity

Packham, Tara L. ; Spicher, Claude J. ; MacDermid, Joy C. ; Quintal, Isabelle ; Buckley, Norman

In: Somatosensory & Motor Research, 2019, p. 1–6

Allodynia is a common feature of neuropathic pain with few validated clinical evaluation options. We identified a need to estimate the measurement properties of the standardised evaluation procedure for static mechanical allodynia severity popularised by the somatosensory rehabilitation of pain method, known as the rainbow pain scale. This study (www.clinicaltrials.gov. NCT02070367) undertook...

Haute Ecole de Santé Valais

Muskelkraft der Hüftflexion in Relation mit der Schmerzintensität und den Alltagsfähigkeiten nach einer eXtrem Lateral Interbody Fusion : eine prospektive Observationsstudie

Zeiter, Carole ; Kummer, Nina Amélie ; Hilfiker, Roger (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Santé Valais, 2019.

Der seitliche Zugang der eXtrem Lateral Interbody Fusion (XLIF) setzt eine Spaltung des Musculus psoas major voraus, um zur Wirbelsäule zu gelangen. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, in welcher Relation die Hüftflexionskraft mit den Alltagseinschränkungen und der Schmerzintensität steht und wie stark diese durch den XLIF beeinflusst wird.