BACKGROUND People with a mental illness experience greater chronic disease morbidity and mortality, and associated reduced life expectancy, compared to those without such an illness. A higher prevalence of chronic disease risk behaviours (inadequate nutrition, inadequate physical activity, tobacco smoking, and harmful alcohol consumption) is experienced by this population. Family carers have th...

emotional factors and a recurrent psychosomatic environment, have been implicated in the evolution of atopic dermatitis. these, in turn, affect the disease. this study was under taken to evaluate the functioning of families with a child that has atopic dermatitis without skin symptoms and the parents’ perceptions of their child’s disease. semi-quantitative and cross-sectional study in which que...

The other strategies such as periodically creating awareness programs on brain cancer in the community, conducting recreational programs, and continuing education on illness will increase realistic hope for caregivers and family members, which helps them to look after the brain cancer survivors at home well. Thus, we conclude that social exclusion for persons with brain cancer starts from withi...

Chronic illnesses such as irritable bowel syndrome are not experienced by patients in isolation. They live in a context of relationships, including spouses and partners, other family members, friends and business associates. Those relationships can have an effect, both positive and negative, on the course of illness and may also be affected by the experience of living with a chronic illness lik...

BACKGROUND A diagnosis of serious mental illness can impact on the whole family. Families informally provide significant amounts of care but are disproportionately at risk of carer burden when compared to those supporting people with other long-term conditions. Shared decision making (SDM) is an ethical model of health communication associated with positive health outcomes; however, there has b...

Considerable research has documented the stigmatization of people with mental illnesses and its negative consequences. Recently it has been shown that stigma may also seriously affect families of psychiatric patients, but little empirical research has addressed this problem. We examine perceptions of and reactions to stigma among 156 parents and spouses of a population-based sample of first-adm...

This research identifies the main themes and internal states of heart disease experience in individuals families patients with cardiovascular difficulties.It is applied terms purpose methodologically qualitative phenomenological. Its population admitted to Baqiyatallah Azam Hospital. It includes who had a long severe chronic illness this area (or without illness). We performed in-depth semi-str...

A family initially considered to have 'pure' autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP), was found on neuropsychological testing to have evidence of late onset cognitive impairment. This family showed genetic linkage to the SPG4 locus on chromosome 2p previously reported for pure HSP. Of 56 living members, 44 were examined, 30 of whom were > 30 years of age and 12 members were foun...