`Stroke' Illness--Help for Patient and Family

Stroke: A Guide for Patient and Family

medical student without a clinical background. Furthermore, scattered throughout selected diagnosis sections are unexplained symptomatologies and differential diagnoses which add to this confusion. While such considerations are helpful to the practicing physician, they only bewilder those who are struggling with the basics. Perhaps even more distressing is the nature of the topics presented. Wh...

Heritability for Stroke: Essential for Taking Family History

 There are many well-established factors that influence the risk of stroke including blood pressure, diabetes, low socioeconomic status and smoking, however, the shared genetic resource in members of a family effect on stroke predisposition. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have demonstrated evidence of a shared genetic source in stroke risk. This review considered the influence of family...

Family intervention after stroke: does counseling or education help?

Two interventions for improving stroke caregiver knowledge, stabilizing family function, promoting patient adjustment, and enlisting the use of social resources after stroke were compared with routine medical and nursing care of stroke patients (n = 61) at a 440-bed Veterans Administration Medical Center. The education intervention (n = 64) consisted of classroom instruction for caregivers abou...

Symptoms, Illness Behavior, and Help-Seeking

events and negative health outcomes) which may be brought about by the presence, absence, or intensity of such intervening variables as social networks, expectancy related to aging, availability of material resources, coping abilities, and many other intervening variables. Moreover, statistical confounding is often a problem. Because of the plethora of models and of the ways of operationalizing...

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