Introduction. Elder abuse is often a hidden phenomenon and, in many cases, screening practices are difficult to implement among older people with dementia. The Caregiver Abuse Screen (CASE) is a useful tool which is administered to family caregivers for detecting their potential abusive behavior. Objectives. To validate the Italian version of the CASE tool in the context of family caregiving of...

This study aims to determine how the management of culture-based character education at Roudlotul Tholibin Islamic Boarding School in Sirau Kemranjen Banyumas. uses a qualitative method. The subjects research were caregivers pesantren, principal, teacher, and head student organization pesantren. Data collected by interview, observation, document analysis. results obtained this are 1) planning i...

The American Epilepsy Society and the Epilepsy Foundation jointly convened a task force to assess the state of knowledge about sudden unexplained death in epilepsy (SUDEP). The task force had five charges: (1) develop a position statement describing if, when, what, and how SUDEP should be discussed with patients and their families and caregivers; (2) design methods by which the medical and lay ...

This study explored the reliability and validity of a Dutch translation of the 10-item Filial Maturity Measure (FMM) in a sample of Dutch informal caregivers. The FMM was translated with a forward-backward method and completed by 93 informal caregivers (62 % response rate) with a need dependent parent. Dimensionality of the Dutch FMM was examined by principal component and internal consistency ...

BACKGROUND Principal caregivers (PCs) of cancer patients experience high levels of stress that may significantly impact their quality of life (QoL). PCs' QoL during early phases of the disease (when patients were still on chemotherapy) were assessed. PATIENTS AND METHODS The PCs of all patients meeting the inclusion criteria (chemotherapy, performance status 0/1) treated at our institution be...

conclusions family-oriented education on communication skills could reduce depression, anxiety, and stress in the elderly. therefore, such programs should be adopted as a non-pharmacological and cost-effective method for reducing depression, anxiety, and stress in older adults. patients and methods for this randomized controlled clinical trial, we enrolled 64 older adults from two healthcare ce...

objectives: the main objective of this study was to investigate the association of psychological factors and life stressors with quality of life in caregivers of children with pku. methods: participants were caregivers of children with pku who were referred to a child and adolescent consultation-liaison psychiatry clinic for a clinical follow up. their demographic characteristics were recorded ...

background: family caregivers usually report the reduction of their life quality due to one of the family member’s spinal cord injury. thus, the present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of psycho-educational interventions on the life quality of the family caregivers of the patients with spinal cord injury. methods: the present randomized controlled trial was conducted on 72 family c...

Extensive research has evaluated relations between stress and health. These studies have varied in the type of stress examined (acute vs. chronic) and in the way in which health has been operationalized. Here we examine relations between chronic stress and 25 indicators of various health dimensions (e.g., physiological indexes, medical records, and self-reports of global health; symptoms, funct...

OBJECTIVE Studies regarding natural caregivers' burden (CB) in palliative situations, as well as its determinants and consequences, have been numerous during the last 20 years. Yet, studies regarding how terminally ill cancer patients perceive their CB (self-perceived burden, SPB) are less common. This study aims to assess the links between CB and SPB evaluated by means of the very same items. ...