Serious illness puts pressure not only on individual family members but also on the family itself. The care of an acutely ill child requires the family to channel many of its resources toward a single member--an arrangement that can usually be sustained for a while but that cannot continue indefinitely while the other members do without. Illness disrupts ordinary familial functions and, if it i...

PURPOSE Stigma towards people with mental illness is believed to be widespread in low and middle income countries. METHODS This study assessed the attitudes towards people with mental illness among psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, involved family members of patients in a psychiatric facility and the general public using a standard 43-item survey (N = 535). Exploratory factor analysis identi...

BACKGROUND: This study examines the impact of mental illness on the labor market performance of family members of afflicted individuals. Numerous research projects have attempted to measure the impact of mental illness and related disorders on the ill individual, yet have traditionally neglected estimating potential costs accruing to family members of the ill. AIMS OF THE STUDY: Previous resear...

human parvovirus (hpv) b19 induced aplastic crisis in a family leading to the diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis (hs) is a very rare condition being barely reported in the literature. we herein report a 4-year-old girl, her brother, and their mother who all presented with progressive pallor and jaundice after a febrile illness. the hpv b19 was diagnosed using polymerase chain reaction (pcr) ...

In this paper, we report the findings of a qualitative study that, aims to understand family members’ subjective experiences with perceived stigma mental illness. The theoretical standpoint and research method for employed are social constructivist theory narrative inquiry respectively. We conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews members others accompanying patients an outpatient unit psyc...

Background and Objective: Caring for children with autism is associated with parental stress and puts them at risk for depression and anxiety. Increasing resilience may help reduce the parents’ stress. The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between resilience and anxiety, depression, and stress in families with autistic children in 2018. Materials and Methods: In ...