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The prevalence of pain places an enormous burden on individuals and the healthcare system. The management of chronic pain has long been a complex and multifaceted challenge, requiring a comprehensive approach that encompasses various treatment modalities. As the field of palliative care evolves, the integration of technology, particularly pain management apps, presents a promising avenue for enhancing patients’ outcomes. This review aims to identify the challenges related to the implementation of these applications into clinical practice while highlighting the potential they hold for pain management strategies. We also analyzed the ClinicalTrials.gov dataset to scope the ongoing landscape and future perspectives of mobile app interventions in pain management at the end of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Introduction The terms supportive and palliative care -- analysis of their prevalence and use: quasi-systematic review. Methods. The authors conducted a quasi-systematic review of literature obtained from MEDLINE and Google Scholar, with the use of the following terms: palliative care, supportive care, palliative and supportive care. The article was supplemented with manually added information sources and the use of Google Trends. The authors also analysed the frequency with which the term 'supportive care' was used in literature compared to the term 'palliative care'. Results. It was demonstrated that the term 'palliative care' is more frequently used in scientific literature, and the median of the ratio of the use of the terms supportive care/palliative care in the analysed texts is 0.51. The term 'palliative care' is also more often searched in Google than the term supportive 'care' (74:4). Differences in the prevalence of both terms also depend on the country from which users searched a given phrase. The term 'palliative care' evokes more negative emotions and is less preferred by medical staff and patients' families than the term 'supportive care', which has more positive connotations. Supportive care is most often viewed as an element of oncologic care, while palliative care is believed to be a stand-alone field of medicine that can treat patients from all of is areas. Conclusions. Despite being more positively perceived by patients, the term 'supportive care' is still used less frequently. Even though the terms 'supportive care' and 'palliative care' are precisely defined, many authors use them relatively freely. Knowledge should be systematized, nomenclature -- clarified and the term 'supportive care' as an alternative to the term 'palliative care' should be popularized. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The phenomena of the simulated (SP) and virtual patient (VP) is widely described in the literature. Although it is difficult to find any practical information on developing these methods for teaching psychological assessment. Having conducted a long-term research project regarding this topic, we report the experience gained and retrospectively identify many mistakes. In this article, we present a summary of creating and using both SP and VP methods in clinical psychology and propose some insights and tips for their development, based on our experiences. While the project concerned clinical psychology, we believe the reflections might be applicable to a wider group of educational situations in which students develop competencies to carry out a diagnostic process with a real patient., Competing Interests: The authors have no competing interests to declare., (Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s).)