OBJECTIVES Analysis of the correlation between the assessment of current family relations in families of patients diagnosed with eating disorders and the assessment of the relations in the family of origin of their parents. METHODS 54 female patients with restrictive anorexia nervosa, 22 female patients with binge-purge anorexia, 36 female patients with bulimia. Two control groups were includ...

BACKGROUND Family functioning plays an important role in developing and maintaining dysfunctional behaviors, especially during adolescence. The lack of indicators of family functioning, as determinants of personal and interpersonal problems, represents an obstacle to the activities aimed at developing preventive and intervention strategies. The Process Model of Family Functioning provides a con...

Including a family session in a child assessment can significantly advance the assessor's and parents' understanding of the child's problems and enhance the likelihood that parents will follow through on recommendations after the assessment. A family session allows the assessor to observe the child in the family context, test systemic hypotheses, better understand the meaning of individual test...

OBJECTIVES To explore agreement between the Family Confusion Assessment Method (FAM-CAM) for delirium identification and interviewer-rated CAM delirium ratings. DESIGN Exploratory analysis of agreement. SETTING Community. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-two family caregivers and 52 elderly adults with preexisting impairment according to standardized cognitive testing. MEASUREMENTS The interviewer-ra...

For children with chronic medical conditions, as with typically developing children, family is of central importance (Kazak, 2008; Schumm, 1982). Consistent with the Burmese proverb, ‘‘In times of test, family is best’’ (Hla Pe, 1985), numerous studies have demonstrated the role of the family as a potential protective factor in the adaptation of children with chronic medical conditions and as a...

Risk assessment is an essential component of genetic counseling and testing, and Bayesian analysis plays a central role in genetic risk assessment. Bayesian analysis allows calculation of the probability of a particular hypothesis, either disease or carrier status, based on family information and/or genetic test results. Genetic risk should be assessed as accurately as possible for family decis...

BACKGROUND Patients' perspectives of family medicine according to the physician's identity and role as a primary-care specialist need to be investigated. This study was conducted to investigate the perceived quality of the primary care of family medicine clinics as assessed by patients in a community setting. METHODS Patients (or their guardians) visiting nine community family medicine clinic...

BACKGROUND Although competency in written communication is a core skill, written communication is seldom the focus of formal instruction in medical education. The objective of this intervention was to implement a self-assessment strategy to assist learners in improving their letter writing skills and then to evaluate its feasibility, reliability and potential educational value. METHODS Eight ...