Chronic illness is currently the outstanding health issue in the United States. It creates increased family stress, requires constant adaptation by the family members and poses a challenge to nurses to better understand and meet the needs of the family as well as the individual. This paper presents a psychosocial typology of chronic illness and discusses the importance of time phasing of the ch...

OBJECTIVE The Family-to-Family Education Program (FTF) is a 12-week course offered by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) for family members of adults with mental illness. This study evaluated the course's effectiveness. METHODS A total of 318 consenting participants in five Maryland counties were randomly assigned to take FTF immediately or to wait at least three months for the ne...

background a child's hospitalization in intensive care units causes stress and worry in other family members. this study aimed to determine the effect of family presence during pediatric icu bedside on family general health. materials and methods in this clinical trial study, 46 family members of the pediatrics hospitalized in the icu in teaching hospital affiliated with the lorestan unive...

objective: educating families and caregivers of schizophrenic patients on controlling and managing the disorder, has found particular importance in clinical psychology. the present study aims to examine the effect of psychoeducational interventions on illness management in families of schizophrenic patients. methods: the present study is a quasi-experimental research with pretest-posttest desig...

the protection of households against catastrophic medical payment always has been one of the most important objectives in any health care system. this study assessed the performance of iranian health insurance schemes in protection the patients against catastrophic medical payment. this is an analytical study which performed in a cross sectional design on 400 patients that hospitalized in selec...

BACKGROUND Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a condition which can have major effects on the life of both the sufferer and their family members. Previous research has shown that the impact of illness on family members is related to their conceptualisation of the illness. In the present study we used qualitative methods to explore illness perceptions in family members of people with OCD. ...

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) ...