BACKGROUND Although many advances in the management of hypertension have been made, success in hypertension control in real-life practice is limited. Control of hypertension is paramount in primary as well as secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Poor adherence to antihypertensive medication is one possible reason why success in clinical trials has not been translated into everyday pr...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to test predictive models of schizophrenia caregiver burden and infectious illness episodes for caregivers who had regular contact with their mentally ill family members. METHODS A nurse interviewer, blind to the patient's symptoms, caregiver burden, and psychosocial status, administered the Health Review to 70 caregivers. A second family interviewer, ...

BACKGROUND Carer burden is high during First Episode Psychosis (FEP) and evidence suggests that this is a predictor of poor long-term outcome. However our understanding of factors associated with higher burden is poor. We propose that carers' cultural backgrounds and health belief models will influence their perceived burden of care, over and above that explained by severity of illness. METHO...

Psychiatric disorder is now recognised as Psychiatric disorder is now recognised as one of the greatest causes of human one of the greatest causes of human suffering. The burden to society of various suffering. The burden to society of various diseases has been quantified recently using diseases has been quantified recently using disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), a disability-adjusted lif...

INTRODUCTION Using cross-sectional survey data, we assessed the association between chronic illness burden and health-related self-efficacy, evaluating whether patient-centered communication is associated with self-efficacy and if that relationship varies by chronic illness burden. METHODS Data were from the Health Information National Trends Survey, a cross-sectional survey of the US adult p...

Studies on burden of disease and cost of illness investigate life loss and economic loss caused by a disease. 1 They determine the degree of economic loss following a disease, to establish governmental policies and to identify research topics in a new area. Comparison the studies among the cost of illness, burden of disease, and economic evaluation clarifies their characteristics. They use simi...