Psychosocial Morbidity

Assessing for psychosocial morbidity in pregnant women.

Impact of pulmonary rehabilitation on psychosocial morbidity in patients with severe COPD.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) on psychosocial morbidity, functional exercise capacity, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with severe COPD. DESIGN A prospective, randomized, controlled trial with blinding of outcome assessment and data analysis. SETTING A tertiary-care respiratory service. PATIENTS Forty patients (mean age, 65 +/-...

The Melbourne Family Grief Study, II: Psychosocial morbidity and grief in bereaved families.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe the intensity of grief, the psychosocial morbidity, and the coping patterns in members of families classified according to a typology of family functioning comprising supportive, conflict-resolving, intermediate, sullen, and hostile classes. METHOD One hundred fifteen families were assessed longitudinally 6 weeks (time 1), 6 months (time 2), and...

The role of behavioral and psychosocial science in reducing cancer morbidity and mortality.

Behavioral and psychosocial science has the potential to contribute much to the overall effort to reduce cancer morbidity and mortality and to improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their families. However, for a variety of reasons, including a lack of sustained funding for research and training and a lack of confidence by some in the potential payoff for investments in the area, t...

Association of parental pretransplant psychosocial assessment with post-transplant morbidity in pediatric heart transplant recipients.

Because parents assume the primary responsibility for providing ambulatory post-transplant care to pediatric patients, pretransplant psychosocial evaluation in these recipients is usually focused on parents rather than on patients themselves. We sought to determine whether pretransplant parental psychosocial evaluation predicts post-transplant medical outcome at current levels of psychosocial s...