In this piece, Maria Ebling interviews former colleague Michael Rogan about the experiences that led him to enter field of digital health. is a neuroscientist, mental health clinician, and specialist at Greenphire who focuses on supporting people dealing with serious illness. CTO company co-founded, Medaptive Health. They discuss challenges faced in designing apps support illness, so tech promo...

Caring for a child with an acute/life threatening disease exposes parents to multiple stressors and challenges, resulting in physical psychological burden. Parents experience many health-related issues worries that often remain underestimated. The aims of the study were: (a) explore associations between needs/disease-related burden children leukemia or Hodgkin’s disease; (b) estimate predictors...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between the burden level of spouses of patients in the symptomatic remission state of the major depressive disorder (MDD; 60 patients) or bipolar disorder (BD; 65 patients) and coping styles. METHODS The Involvement Evaluation Questionnaire was used to assess the burden magnitude. Coping styles were evaluated by the Cop...

N ot so long ago, cost-of-illness studies were criticised for mainly estimating the annual costs of a disease in retrospect, without paying attention to trends in costs and the return on the investments in terms of health benefits. From the time when we began developing models that can simulate the future burden and costs of a disease, we recognised the importance of cost-of-illness studies for...

Acute gastrointestinal illness is an important public-health issue worldwide. Burden-of-illness studies have not previously been conducted in Cuba. The objective of the study was to determine the magnitude, distribution, and burden of self-reported acute gastrointestinal illness in Cuba. A retrospective, cross-sectional survey was conducted in three sentinel sites during June-July 2005 (rainy s...

Caregiving for an ill family member can be both stressful and rewarding. Caring for a relative with a psychiatric illness adds the burden of social stigma, both for the patient and the family caregivers, especially in minority cultures. Families from minority cultures may have a different understanding of mental illness and have difficulties with language, discrimination, and accessing services...

BACKGROUND Family members who care for patients with severe mental illness experience emotional distress and report a higher incidence of mental illness than those in the general population. They report feeling inadequately prepared to provide the necessary practical and emotional support for these patients. The MAT training, an Interaction-Skills Training program (IST) for caregivers, was deve...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is a chronic condition that leads to high rates of disability and high levels of family burden but the interactive relationship between these variables remains unclear, particularly in low- and middle-income countries where the vast majority of patients live with their families. AIM Assess the symptom severity, level of disability, and family burden among clinically s...

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and psychiatric illness are related in many ways by prevalence, burden, course, and outcome. Co-morbid mental illness may play a role in determining the complication in diabetic patients. This study was conducted in 2010 among consecutive diabetic out-patients diagnosed as per American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines 2009, of age above 14 years, to compare the compl...