Examines the impact of illness on the families of seriously ill adults. Description of the Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment; Inclusion criteria; Frequency of adverse caregiving; Economic burdens; Correlates of loss of family savings; Implications for ...
Major illness may have a devastating effect on whole families. If the physician is to successfully treat the disease of the identified patient, the psychosocial problems of both the patient and the family must be recognized, diagnosed, and addressed. This chapter outlines an approach to this issue...
This paper reviews the literature on the effect of severe mental illness on other members of the patient9s family. The burdens of caring for a patient at h... G Fadden,P Bebbington,L Kuipers - 《Br J Psychiatry》 被引量: 629发表: 1987年 The Crisis of Physical Illness: An Overview An...
Although spousal concordance has been reported in specific chronic illnesses, the impact they cumulatively exert on a spouse in a longitudinal setting has not been investigated. We aimed to determine whether one’s cumulative illness burden has a longitudinal impact on that of their spouse. Methods ...
Mental illness has far-reaching effects on other family members, as individuals and as members of a social system. While the study of the family impact of mental illness has been reported in the specialized mental health literature, it has not received much attention from sociologists. This artic...
family presence. Additionally, the number of family members and visitors permitted at the bedside varied day-to-day as hospital leaders adjusted policies based on government directives. This disproportionally impacted those families who are used to experiencing illness as a collective or who rely on ...
But this is something that shouldn’t be ignored. At all life stages, the better your state of mind, the better your physical health. That’s true of everyone in the family, including the person with an end-stage illness. If they’re happier and more at peace, they’re likely to be...
The general characteristics of the patient; 2. General characteristics of the carer; and 3. Social activities, family relationships and both physical and psychological health of the carers. 12 patients were studied. Two of these had no carer. In the remaining ten cases, the carer was a member...
Although patients frequently use patient information leaflets (PILs) to obtain information about medicine, their confidence in using it may be diminished after reading it. This study aimed to assess the public perception of PIL's quality and the perceived impact of its use on medication adherence....
These territorial delimitations always include large urban centers as a reference for urban functions of greater complexity to the neighboring towns17. Among other characteristics, IGR tends to cover the path through the health system that a patient, resident of these, goes through; larger cities ...