Megan S Overby, Annette Baft-Neff
Perceptions of telepractice pedagogy in speech-language pathology: A quantitative analysis
Journal of telemedicine and telecare
many studies indicated inadequate healthrelated behavior associated progression cancer cardiometabolic disorders patients hepatocellular carcinoma may adopt inadequate health behaviors risk cancer recurrence mortality cardiometabolic disease progression worse quality life explore prevalence cardiometabolic risks healthpromoting behaviors associated quality life among patients hepatocellular carcinoma treatment crosssectional study conducted october 2021 august 2022 data collected facetoface interviews using structured questionnaire cardiometabolic information recorded medical charts total 115 patients liver cancer treatment enrolled 73 male mean age 677 years high prevalence rates central obesity 722 metabolic syndrome 47 noted inadequate exercise oral hygiene cigarette smoking common healthpromoting score significantly associated exercise number remaining teeth metabolic syndrome correlated quality life including positive functional negative symptoms dimensions findings demonstrated high prevalence cardiometabolic risks inadequate healthrelated behaviors among patients liver cancer treatment study highlights need healthcare providers help patients increase health literacy preventing cardiometabolic risks outpatient clinics findings study used advise healthcare providers educate patients liver cancer treatment improving healthpromoting behaviors