Objective. To explore the psychosocial problems faced by the parents of children with cerebral palsy (CP) in rural and urban settings. Design. Qualitative research design using focus group discussions (FGDs) was used for the study. Setting. Two FGDs comprising one at a rural tertiary level care hospital and the other at an urban tertiary level care hospital were conducted. Participants. A total...

OBJECTIVE To study the relationships between retrospective reports of exposure to interparental violence in childhood and rates of psychosocial adjustment problems in young adulthood in a birth cohort of New Zealand subjects. METHOD Data were gathered during the course of an 18 year longitudinal study of a birth cohort of 1,265 New Zealand children. At age 18 retrospective reports of exposure...

Introduction: Adherence to the treatment regimen is among the key principles in chronic diseases, like thalassemia. The difficult treatment of these patients and the significant biopsychosocial changes that occur during adolescence may lead to numerous psychosocial changes. Such issuesmay affect their adherence to the treatment regimen. Objective: The current study aimedto deter...

background: disasters have adverse impacts on different aspects of human life. psychosocial rehabilitation is one of the fields which is usually overshadowed and ignored by physical rehabilitation or its importance does not receive proper attention. this research attempts to study some lessons learned from psychosocial rehabilitation based on disaster experiences in iran. materials and methods:...

This article discusses how biological and psychosocial perspectives might integrate into a unified framework - the bio-psychosocial model - that can be used to explain how mental health problems at work are generated and that can be subsequently employed in workplace intervention. It concludes with a brief review of the advantages and ethical pitfalls that arise with this approach.

Epilepsy is a chronic disease that may significantly affect family members in a variety of ways. Psychosocial problems can occur in a family if one of its members has epilepsy; however, literature on this topic is sparse. Most commonly, siblings’ or parents’ psychosocial adaptations to a child with epilepsy are studied. There are few attempts to determine toddlers’ and preschoolers’ reactions t...

The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of mental health-related problems in a low-income primary care setting, as well as the demographic and economic variables associated with these problems and contact with treatment resources. A total of 346 patient records were randomly selected among patients at an urban Iowa primary care clinic serving lower-income and uninsured individua...

In this study, we explored informant characteristics as determinants of parent-teacher disagreement on preschoolers' psychosocial problems. Teacher characteristics were included in the analyses, in addition to child and parent factors. Psychosocial problems of 732 4-year olds from a Norwegian community sample were assessed by parents and teachers (CBCL-TRF). Furthermore, teachers reported on th...

Women with breast cancer experience various psychosocial problems throughout the continuum of the disease. The psychosocial impact and adjustment of women with breast cancer during the phases of pretreatment, primary treatment, adjuvant therapy, recurrence, and advanced disease have numerous implications for nursing practice and research.