Promoting Sexual Health in Colorectal Cancer Patients and Survivors: Results from a Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer diagnosis and treatment negatively impact sexual health. However, there is still a lack of interventions targeting the sexual healthcare needs of colorectal cancer patients and survivors. This systematic review aimed to identify and summarize the efficacy of available psychological interventions aimed at improving colorectal cancer patients' and survivors' sexual health. METHODS: This review followed PRISMA guidelines for systematic reviews. A database search was conducted for studies published until July 2023 on EBSCO Host, Web of Science, PubMed, and the Cochrane Library. Manuscripts were screened according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The risk of bias was assessed using the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies. RESULTS: From the 1499 records screened, four studies describing psychological interventions to improve the sexual health of the target population were identified. All studies reported on e-health programs and showed evidence of their efficacy in the improvement of participants' sexual function. The studies presented low scores on the Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the evidence that tele/e-health psychological interventions have the potential to effectively promote sexual health in colorectal cancer patients and survivors, more robust research is needed to allow for generalization. Future research should further assess the efficacy of e-health interventions (eMental Health) in promoting sexual health in patients with colorectal cancer.

Mapping the contributions of dyadic approaches to couples' psychosocial adaptation to prostate cancer: a scoping review.

INTRODUCTION: Prostate cancer is the second-most prevalent cancer diagnosis worldwide among males. Although prostate cancer affects the physical, sexual, and mental health of patients, the impact of prostate cancer on partners has also been increasingly recognized. Hence, taking a dyadic approach is of relevance. Moreover, there is evidence of the utility of dyadic approaches to the study of relational stress that chronic diseases such as prostate cancer can bring to couples, even though knowledge is sparse about prostate cancer. OBJECTIVES: This scoping review aimed to map existing dyadic studies on the psychosocial adaptation of couples to prostate cancer. METHODS: A systematic search of studies published from 2005 to November 2022 was conducted on electronic databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, EBSCOHost, Scopus, and Web of Science) following PRISMA-ScR (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses-Extension for Scoping Reviews). RESULTS: The review included 25 eligible studies from the initial 2514 articles retrieved. Overall, the results emphasized the interdependency between couple members and suggested how partners' adaptation influences patients' adaptation to prostate cancer and vice versa, regarding several psychosocial dimensions (eg, intimacy, quality of life). CONCLUSIONS: This work can bring awareness to health care professionals to adopt a couples approach when managing prostate cancer whenever there is a partner, due to these interdependent influences. For researchers and future studies, this work can strengthen the relevance of dyadic approaches on how couples adapt to prostate cancer and explore which other dimensions influence these complex dynamics.

Educação à distância em nefrologia na Amazônia: processos e resultados / Distance education in nephrology in the Amazon region: processes and results

A carência de docentes qualificados na Região Amazônica levou à adoção de tecnologias de Educação à Distância para organizar a disciplina de Nefrologia do quarto ano do curso de graduação em Medicina da Faculdade São Lucas (FSL), localizada em Porto Velho (RO). Neste trabalho, descrevemos a construção do curso na plataforma Moodle, usando uma estrutura de módulos para discutir os principais tópicos de Nefrologia em fóruns de discussão assíncronos online com base em problemas clínicos ilustrativos, e mostramos os resultados do curso, que já foi realizado com três turmas de alunos, bem como as avaliações da metodologia, realizadas pelos alunos e pela instituição.

The relative lack of qualified teachers in the Amazon Region led to the adoption of Distance Education technologies in order to implement Nephrology classes in the fourth year of the medical course in São Lucas College (Faculdade de São Lucas), located in Porto Velho, Rondonia. In this paper, we describe the construction of the course on the Moodle platform, using a modular structure to discuss the main topics of Nephrology in online asynchronous forums based on illustrative clinical problems, and we also show the results of the classes, which has already been completed with 3 groups of medical students, and the evaluation of the methodology by the students and by the institution.