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At an individual level, physician resilience protects against burnout and against its known negative effects on individual physicians, patient safety, and quality of care. However, it remains uncertain whether...
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Psychosocial factors significantly influence patient care in many fields of medicine, among these in the field of endocrinology. Easily applicable validated assessment tools for such psychosocial factors are l...
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Personality functioning, also referred to as structural integration, describes basic emotion-related perception and regulation capacities directed towards the self and others. Patients with impairments of pers...
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From a biopsychosocial perspective, maintaining health requires sufficient autoregulatory and self-regulatory capacity to both regulate somatic physiology and manage human-environment interactions. Increasing ...
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Open AccessAssociation of fibroblast growth factor 21 with alcohol consumption and alcohol liver cirrhosis
Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) is produced in the liver and binds to different complex receptor/coreceptor systems. Besides many other processes, FGF21 regulates the intake of simple sugars and alcohol. I...
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Open AccessHealth-related quality of life, workability, and return to work of patients after liver transplantation
Health-related quality of life (HrQoL) and workability are related parameters to measure success of therapy. Both have been insufficiently explored in patients after liver transplantation (LT). Particularly li...
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Successful Embedding of Virtual Lectures in Medical Psychology Education in Order to Improve Teacher-Student Interactivity and Collaboration
Teaching medical psychology requires both, a good knowledge of theory but also a lot of practical hands on experience in order to successfully deploy the learned skills to patients. However, the time for class...
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Psychosomatic medicine in primary care: influence of training
HINTERGRUND: Häufig werden von Patienten bestimmte körperliche Symptome geschildert, bei denen Allgemeinmediziner vermuten, dass diese wesentlich von psychosozialen Faktoren moduliert sein könnten. In Bezug au...
