Giulia Locatelli

Post-doc Research fellow @unimib
Interest: Interoception, Symptoms, Selfcare, Chronic Conditions

[Giulia Locatelli @Giulia_Loc]

How do heart failure patients perceive psychological and physical symptoms❓And can we predict it❓

We clustered 510 patients based on their symptoms and trained a model to predict their symptom cluster membership.
Check out our latest paper to know more! https://t.co/psQl7VzwDd

[Giulia Locatelli @Giulia_Loc]

We gave 161 young adults with cancer an app to track their symptoms.
📋Which symptoms did they experience?
🖇Which symptoms occurred together?
🚴🏻‍♀️Were symptoms associated with physical and social activities?
Click the link below to read about what we found!
https://t.co/MPPCJzjQx6

[Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing @JCNonline]

*New intervention*

@VelloneErcole @RiegelBarbara & colleagues found that among 510 patient-caregiver dyads randomized to 1 of 3 conditions in the MOTIVATE-HF trial, mental health, QOL, & sleep in caregivers did not significantly differ between the 3 arms

https://t.co/wpo7QHWoYY

[Giulia Locatelli @Giulia_Loc]

Our systematic review is out!🎉

We found that people with a chronic condition have lower interoceptive accuracy than healthy individuals & that higher interoceptive sensibility is associated with lower symptom severity/frequency.

https://t.co/qqRfkkEdOh

[Giulia Locatelli @Giulia_Loc]

In the Mind Your Heart-II Study, we aim to investigate the effects of #mindfulness on #selfcare via changes in #cognitive function and #interoception in patients with #HeartFailure and cognitive impairment.

Here you can find out more about our study:
https://t.co/uciRgmesyh