A Family History Intervention

Early intervention--a family perspective.

Family history of alcohol abuse moderates effectiveness of a group motivational enhancement intervention in college women.

This study examined whether a self-reported family history of alcohol abuse (FH+) moderated the effects of a female-specific group motivational enhancement intervention with first-year college women. First-year college women (N=287) completed an initial questionnaire and attended an intervention (n=161) or control (n=126) group session, of which 118 reported FH+. Repeated measures ANCOVA models...

Educating women about breast cancer. An intervention for women with a family history of breast cancer.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate an "information aid" for women with a family history of breast cancer. DESIGN Before-after descriptive study. SETTING Family practices in Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Of 405 randomly selected Ontario physician members of the College of Family Physician's of Canada's National Research System, 97 agreed to participate and to recruit three consecutive female patients with any ...

Brief screening for family psychiatric history: the family history screen.

BACKGROUND Brief screens to collect lifetime family psychiatric history are useful in clinical practice and for identifying potential families for genetic studies. METHODS The Family History Screen (FHS) collects information on 15 psychiatric disorders and suicidal behavior in informants and their first-degree relatives. Since each question is posed only once about all family members as a gro...

Report of a Case of Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy in a Patient Without a Family History of Kidney Disease

Introduction: IgA Nephropathy is the most common form of glomerulonephritis and the major cause of end-stage renal disease. Gross or microscopic hematuria is a common symptom of hematuria and occurs in less than 5% to 10% of patients with IGM with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic biomarkers of this disease after biopsy. Methods: IgA...