Neglected parasitic infections, including Chagas disease, toxocariasis, cysticercosis, and toxoplasmosis, affect millions of persons in the United States. Relatively few resources have been devoted to surveillance, prevention, and treatment of these diseases. Chagas disease primarily affects Latin American immigrants and can cause heart failure and death if not treated. Immediate antiparasitic ...

OBJECTIVE To identify the key goals that are established by children and parents from families in which parents have substance use and/or mental health problems, and the level of progress achieved towards goals over 1 year of case management. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Participants from three rural sites of a New South Wales non-government agency completed family care plans between 2008...

The current literature on radionuclide therapy is heavily based on health care professionals' perspectives and provides little insight regarding what patients or family members identify as their needs or concerns. Family members (N = 130) of patients undergoing treatment with radioactive iodine were selected from eight programs across Canada to participate in a survey to identify the needs they...

study of educational needs in tuberculosis patients and   their family and selfcare in urmia   shainseddin shams [1] , m.s.   abstract:     introdtiction: tuberculosis is a disaster disease, in spite of progresses of technology and medical   sciences. early diagnosis and treatment is the first step of controling and prevention of diseases and patient education and his/her family is important.  ...

BACKGROUND Knowledge about past disease, treatment, and possible late effects has previously been shown to be low in survivors of childhood cancer and their relatives. This study investigated the information needs of childhood cancer survivors and their parents and explored possible determinants for differences in information need and health-related Internet use. PROCEDURE Childhood cancer su...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to determine emotional reactions and needs of families of ICU patients. METHODS The study group included 60 relatives of ICU patients, aged 18-80 years. The diagnostic questionnaire-based survey was conducted. The questionnaire contained questions regarding demographic data, emotions and needs as well as the Courtauld Emotional Control Scale (CECS). RES...

this research investigates the extent of intimacy among family members and the social elements effective on it. to start with, the intimacy has been defined on the basis of the present theoretical issues and its status among family members has been examined through some elements. accordingly, it has been studied some elements such as the self-reliance, satisfaction of the needs, coherence, as w...