The acute illness of 1 family member can then negatively affect all family members and lead to the disruption of family functioning and integrity. During the patient's hospitalization, nurses are in a key position to support family members, maintain family integrity, and ready them for assuming the role of caretaker during the patient's recovery and management of health at home. This article re...

In the early psychiatric literature, the family of the patient was often looked upon as a source of his mental illness as a reservoir of abnormal genes which produced the illness or as a group of individuals who paved the way for the illness through improper toilet training, faulty communication patterns or by being refrigerator-like emotionally. In spite of the fact that these theories were ba...

For a child, facing the imminent death of a parent is a highly stressful situation. This study assessed a preventive support program for children aged between 5 and 18 years and their families when a mother or father has an incurable form of cancer. We chose a family-based approach to reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors by increasing positive interactions between parents and chil...

Psychiatrists are giving increased attention to genetic counseling for mental illness. However, the burden of these illnesses are perceived by families and the degree to which families feel a need for genetic counseling have yet to be established. Attitudes and perceptions measured in this study focus on etiology, familial risk, and socioeconomic burden of schizophrenia, as well as childbearing...

BACKGROUND The most damaging effect of stigma is the internalisation of others' negative valuations. AIMS To explore the factors that mediate patients' emotional and cognitive responses to stigma. METHOD Based on responses to 10 open-ended questions about stigma appended to the Chinese version of the Camberwell Family Interview, trained coders rated the effect of stigma on both patients and...

study of a family with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney diseases (adpkd) in five generations, including 96 healthy and 47 affected individuals, has been carried out in tehran. investigation on individuals, including final diagnoses by clinical findings, sonography, radiography and laboratory results, have lead to the completion of genealogical chart of the family. the affected individuals h...

TION TO SOME CASES OF PRIMARY ATYPICAL PNEUMONIA IN MAN* FRANCIS G. BLAKE, MARION E. HOWARD, AND HUGH TATLOCKT On November 7, 1941, a young farmer from Jewett City, Connecticut, was admitted to the Medical Service of the New Haven Hospital with an illness which resembled primary atypical pneumonia of the type which has been increasingly prevalent since 1934 1, 5, 6, 10, 19-21, , 29, 31-33 , 337...

objectives: liver cirrhosis can change many aspects of life of the patients and their family and effects society. we aimed to study the utility of cirrhosis from the point of view of the patients, their family, and their care takers to find appropriate interventions, and training and counselling programmes to support patients. methods: in this cross-sectional study with a goal-based sampling me...