This study examines the impact of cancer on family relationships among members of a Chinese cancer support group. A qualitative research design was used, including participant observation of 96 participants at group meetings over an 8-month period and in-depth interviews with seven group members. Findings indicated that family members were integral to the support group, constituting almost 40% ...

There are many decisions that family members of sufferers of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia are forced to take to guarantee the well-being and quality of life of their loved ones and, of course, themselves. A little more than 12 years ago in Medina del Campo, Valladolid, there arose the need to inform and, what's more, to support a large number of people whose family members ha...

OBJECTIVES It has been well established that pathways to care are considerably modified by local, social and psychological characteristics as well as the doctor-patient relationship. Scant attention has been paid to the role of family advice in care-seeking. In Omani society, traditional family values and a collective mindset are the norm rather than the exception. This paper examines how famil...

BACKGROUND We explored how family psychoeducation could be made culturally sensitive for postpartum mothers with psychotic illness in a Ugandan setting. METHODS A qualitative multi-method approach using an already existing family psychoeducation Tool Kit was adapted to incorporate lay perceptions related to psychotic illness in the postpartum period in this Ugandan setting. The participants c...

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness, which is stressful not only for patients, but also for family members. Numerous studies have demonstrated that family caregivers of persons with a severe mental illness suffer from significant stresses, experience moderately high levels of burden, and often receive inadequate assistance from mental health professionals. Effective family functioning in f...

The aim of this descriptive and qualitative study is to analyse how acceptance of mental illness is perceived by family members of the patient and the surrounding community. This study was conducted with the help of 10 families of patients with mental disorders admitted to the psychiatric emergency unit of the Municipal Hospital of Maringá, state of Parana, Brazil. Data were collected from Octo...

The aim of this qualitative descriptive study was to gain an in depth understanding and knowledge regarding how Omani families care for a member with mental illness including they supported the later self-care activities. Data collected from participants using purposive sample consisting ten family caregivers whose Sultan Qaboos University Hospital Muscat. Each caregiver participated one semi-s...

BACKGROUND Seven affected members are described from a kindred with autosomal dominant familial Alzheimer's disease associated with a novel mutation in the presenilin 1 (PS1) gene on chromosome 14 that results in a leucine to serine substitution at codon 250 (L250S). METHOD Clinical information on the pedigree was collected directly from family members including affected members and their car...

Family members provide most of the patient care and administer most of the treatments to patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Family caregivers have an important impact on clinical outcomes, such as quality of life (QoL). As a consequence of this service, family caregivers suffer high rates of psychological and physical illness as well as social and financial burdens. Hence, it is important ...

Woolson. (Frederick Midler, 18s.). This is the account of his adult son's psychotic illness by an American journals and of the way in which members of his family tried to readjust themselves to its effects upon their lives and personalities. The narrative is a painful one, and the author?deeply involved by his oW almost desperate efforts to help his son and to understand the changes in him^ wri...