Background: Despite the availability of standard instruments for evaluating health-related quality life (HRQoL), the feasibility, reliability, and validity of such instruments among tuberculosis (TB) patients in different populations of sub-Saharan Africa where TB burden is of concern, is still ...
Problem: Siblings of children with chronic illness have unique experiences that can affect their school functioning, such that they may miss ongoing periods of school, experience difficulties with schoolwork or experience changes in their peer and teacher interactions. This review provides an overview ...
Chronic illness often goes hand-in-hand with absence from school, and students miss out on learning opportunities at school for extended or accumulative periods of time. Many young people seek to continue their school studies nonetheless. The need to consider viable ways to support them ...
Oremland, E.K. (1986). Communicating over chronic illness: Dilemmas of affected school-aged children. Children's Health Care, 14, 218-223. doi:10.1207/s15326888chc1404_5Oremland, E. K. (1986). Communication over chronic illness: Dilemmas of affected school-aged children. Children's Health ...
I encouraged Charlotte to maintain as much of her normal life as she could. I knew that would help her stay mentally strong and would keep her fighting the illness rather than giving in to it. Charlotte works at the take away at the bottom of our road. It is a two-minute walk away ...
A good number of children grow up in households where a parent has been diagnosed with medical chronic illness. Parental chronic illness is stressful for c
Demographic data showed survey respondents to be predominantly female (81.8%) and highly educated (97.2% > high school education and 39.6% with graduate school or professional degrees). A wide spectrum of chronic pain and illness diagnoses and comorbidities were represented. Respondents reported that ...
Children and adolescents with a chronic illness (CI) tend to demonstrate diminished physical and social functioning, which contribute to school attendance issues. We investigated the role of social and physical functioning in reducing school absenteeism in children participating in Mastering Each New ...
I’d spent most of high school struggling with chronic (慢性的)illness. For almost three years, I bounced between home tutoring and short-lived returns to school. “I don’t want to be in this___anymore,” I told my mom. One night...
[40]. On the one hand, unmarried people may lack the supervision of a partner and may have lower adherence to medication for a chronic illness. On the other hand, unmarried people lack the mental support from their partners and are more prone to depression when suffering from chronic ...