psychosocial adjustment to illness

... attributed to ageing and not related to symptom severity resulted in acceptance of symptoms and a delay in presenting symptoms to the doctor Thus, redirecting symptom attribution of illness to ageing ... factors that impact on these behaviours The influence of illness representations on health and illness behaviours, and the processes and outcomes relating to psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness ... interfere with the management of chronic illness Chapter presents literature on psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness A model of adjustment to chronic illness proposed by Sharpe and Curran...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 13:20

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 01:19

... 2002; Hetherington and Kelly, 2002) of psychosocial adjustment for adolescents of divorced families, no study to date has examined the psychosocial adjustment in relation to predictor variables ... is designed to find out the factors that affect adolescent psychosocial adjustment following parental divorce By and large, the effects of various factors that affect adolescent adjustment will ... relate in any way to adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment following parental divorce? This study sought to explore the relationship between religion and adolescents’ psychosocial adjustment following...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:08

... growth monitoring Multi-sectoral platform: Linking health efforts to those of other sectors in order to address determinants of ill health and sustain improvements in health The multi-sectoral platform ... women come together in a Care Group every two weeks to learn life-saving health messages from a health educator Each woman is then responsible to teach the health lessons they learn to 10–15 of ... basis to review C-HIS data and lessons learned Results are reported to community members using graphs suitable for low literacy audiences (where appropriate) The C-HIS is a tool not only to monitor...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... their tolerance to symptoms, their functional limitations, and their general ability to cope with chronic illness and disability Consequently, one must consider the effect of the diagnosis, symptoms, ... attribute to associated changes influence the ability to accept the condition and to make necessary adjustments The medical condition itself is only one factor that determines individuals’ ability to ... treatment • threats to independence, privacy, autonomy, and control • threats to self-concept and fulfillment of customary roles • threats to life goals and future plans CHAPTER PSYCHOSOCIAL AND...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... exposure to brief psychosocial stress led to highly significant total plasma cortisol stress responses in younger and older male and female adults Furthermore, older females had higher overall total ... different laboratories by Dickerson and Kemeny (2002) They concluded that the TSST-protocol is one of the best standardized tools to evoke HPA axis stress responses in a laboratory setting Furthermore, ... responses in elderly men compared to elderly women This effect does not appear to be attributable to subjective responses to the TSST The observed ACTH and total plasma cortisol response patterns...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... Index 485 Series Editor’s Foreword Although traditional men are socialized to be providers for and protectors of others, they tend to be poor guardians of their own health Compared to women, men are ... to him, hoping that he would contribute his impressive expertise on the topic to The Routledge Series xi Series Editor’s Foreword xii on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men Eager to ... also indebted to my editors at Taylor and Francis, Dana Bliss and Christopher Tominich, for their guidance in shepherding this project from its earliest stages all the way through to its completion...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... study intended to explore psychosocial factors and quality of life, preparatory to embarking on a larger scale, longterm study Finally, we discuss clinical implications in an attempt to lend greater ... studies to ask the simple question: Is there an effect of [these psychosocial interventions] on the emotional adjustment, functional adjustment, and treatmentand disease-related symptoms of cancer ... Positive psychosocial adjustment in potential bone marrow transplant recipients: Cancer as a psychosocial transition Psycho-Oncology, 2, 261–276 Antoni, M.H., & Goodkin, K (1988) Host moderator variables...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... and Buttocks to Expel Heart-Fire Pull Toes with Both Hands to Reinforce Kidney and Waist Clench Fists and Look with Eyes Wide Open to Build up Strength and Stamina Rise and Fall on Tiptoes to Dispel ... therapeutics, as a psychosocial intervention to alleviate depression and thus improve psychosocial well-being among Chinese elderly with chronic physical illness Qigong has a long history with diverse ... People Gill Livingston: Cornelius Katona Dunitz M 1997 Comorbid Depression in Older People Gill Livingston: Cornelius Katona Engel GL 1980 The clinical application of the biopsychosocial model...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:21

... factors (e.g caseload, demographic factors and clinical features) as potential confounders of the health worker group-outcome association by entering factors into models one at a time Factors ... study supports) To screen hypotheses in an exploratory analysis of which factors influence correct treatment for pneumonia, we used logistic regression modelling to examine 44 factors for their ... following: cough or difficult breathing, duration of symptoms, 60-second respiratory rate, and danger signs (history of seizure, inability to drink or breastfeed and vomiting everything) Note that...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... between illness and self schema is assumed to signify a healthy adjustment to the illness The PRISM, assessing the subjective position of one's illness in relation to the self, seems to match ... Sensky T, Stoll T: PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) – a novel visual method to assess the global burden of illness in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus Lupus ... patient In addition, personality factors are assumed to play an important role in coping with the illness [2] The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM), has recently been...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... between illness and self schema is assumed to signify a healthy adjustment to the illness The PRISM, assessing the subjective position of one's illness in relation to the self, seems to match ... Sensky T, Stoll T: PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) – a novel visual method to assess the global burden of illness in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus Lupus ... patient In addition, personality factors are assumed to play an important role in coping with the illness [2] The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM), has recently been...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... 0.36 to 0.59) compared to values calculated for sunflower cultivars (R2 = 0.70 to 0.97, n = to 11, [5]), but similar to some data for maize hybrids (R2 = 0.61, n = 10, [17]) This may be due to ... osmotic adjustment capacity as the relative water content, derived from the function fitted to the data, evaluated Osmotic adjustment in maritime pine cuttings at a given ΨΠ We chose to calculate ... with ontogeny of osmotic adjustment in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.), Euphytica 71 (1993) 201–210 [6] Collet C., Guehl J.M., Osmotic adjustment in sessile oak seedlings in response to drought,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... osmotic adjustment, which refers to the lowering of osmotic potential arising from the net accumulation of solutes, is considered to be one of the important mechanisms by which plants respond to water ... the degree of active osmotic adjustment for sessile oak seedlings in response to a drought developing at rates similar to those observed in natural conditions, and to investigate if the rate of ... sorghum, who observed no effect of prior exposure to drought on the extent of osmotic adjustment in response to subsequent water deficit Osmotic adjustments shown in the droughted seedlings in...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... of HIV infection, failure to link a diagnosed person to effective medical care, failure to prescribe cART and/or OI prophylaxis when indicated, problems with adherence to cART and/or OI prophylaxis, ... HIV infection, and are therefore subject to significant biases [5] Ideally, populationbased data sources should be used to monitor OI incidence over time, to provide an understanding of trends in ... Administration To recruit providers to participate, sampled providers were contacted by a variety of methods, including telephone and, in some cases, visits by study staff to the provider's office to explain...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... disenfranchised due to their mental illness and minority status, feel that it is inappropriate and disrespectful to directly question their doctors’ advice CMs need to recognize this deference to authority ... across a range of mental and physical illnesses [29-32] To modify PCARE for SWs requires that they receive extra training on how to use existing guidelines to monitor and coordinate the management ... expect to make several modifications at this stage, such as translating PCARE materials into Spanish, developing a community resource guide to the Washington Heights neighborhood, adding explanatory...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... (0 to 18) 56.9 ± 13.2 3.5 57.3 ± 12.8 3.0 56.4 ± 13.6 4.0 0.28 0.04* 7.5 < 0.01** 4th to 6th Grade (19 to 44) 8.8 9.9 7th to 8th Grade (45 to 60) 30.1 26.3 34.4 9th Grade and Greater (61 to 66) ... t-test were used to determine the number of sites needed to have adequate power to detect a specified effect size With a total of 30 sites (with 30 patients at each site), 15 assigned to each condition ... 4.6 5.4 ± 4.7 Minimal (0 to 4) 56.2 59.4 52.8 < 0.01** Mild (5 to 9) 28.1 26.3 30.1 Moderate (10 to 14) Moderately Severe (15 to 19) 10.9 4.1 10.4 3.2 11.5 5.1 Severe (20 to 27) 0.6 0.7 0.5 PCS-12...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... likely to reflect a true relationship between the psychosocial predictors from the TIB and physician intention to use HTA recommendations A short vignette was used to bring physicians into a decision-making ... specialty in order to assess face validity and duration Subsequently, minor adjustments were done to the wording of some questions The questionnaire took approximately 15 minutes to complete Participants ... important to acknowledge a possible threat to professional autonomy when introducing explicit rationing policies, such as prioritisation systems for surgical procedures that can lead to resistance to...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22