Research on the association between social relationships and emotional functioning has emphasized the health-promoting effects o f social support. Yet there is reason to believe that the absence o f negative social interactions may be more important for mental health than the presence o f supportive interactions. In this investigation we clarify important characteristics concerning the source, ...

Premenstrual syndrome is a syndrome that includes behavioral and physical symptoms occurring in the second half of the menstrual cycle and this syndrome affects millions of women universal. With regard to the importance of spouse participation in promoting reproductive and women's health, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of educational intervention for spouse on women's premens...

Background: In the postpartum period, the highest risks for mood disorders include distress, depression and psychosis. Postpartum depression (PPD) is a syndrome which is more severe than postpartum distress with great influence on family. The aim was to determine the predisposing risk factors of PPD among fertile women. Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study with multi stage samp...

The presence of supportive others has been associated with attenuated cardiovascular reactivity in the laboratory. The effects of the presence of a spouse and others in a more naturalistic setting have received little attention. Blood pressure and heart rate reactions to mental stress were recorded at home in 1028 married/partnered individuals. For 112 participants, their spouse/partner was pre...

Supportive relationships are known to improve outcomes for persons with heart failure (HF). Supporters may do so by improving self-care, but little is known about the influence of supportive relationships on HF self-care. The purpose of this study was to explore background characteristics associated with supportive relationships, and the contribution of supportive relationships to HF self-care....

OBJECTIVES Although the quality of one's own social relationships has been related to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, whether a partner's social network quality can similarly influence one's cardiovascular risk is unknown. In this study we tested whether the quality of a partner's social networks influenced one's own ambulatory blood pressure (ABP). METHODS The quality of 94 couples' ...

Purpose: This study aimed to explain the family experiences of burn patients. Methods: was a qualitative with conventional content analysis approach. Purposeful sampling performed nine patients admitted unit Amir Al-Momenin Ali Hospital in Zabol, Iran, 2019. The data were collected using semi-structured in-depth interview. process is according steps proposed by Graneheim and Lundman. rigor trus...

Studies on the determinants of pain-related support are needed to enhance couples-based treatments for pain. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which pain catastrophizing and perceived entitlement to pain-related support (i.e., support entitlement) were associated with perceived and observed social support. Participants were 106 chronic pain couples recruited from the comm...

Objective: This research was conducted to examine the effect of spouse, mother/friend and routine clinical care support on delivery process at birth. Material Methods: descriptive/cross-sectional study completed with 300 primipara pregnant women who applied ?stanbul Esenler Gynecology Pediatrics Hospital. Participants are divided into 3 groups according people they want be there for support. Th...

The aim of this paper is to discuss pathways that interlink spouses’ well-being in a study of male Indian origin doctors and their wives where husbands experienced racism at work. This first study of its type was underpinned by Collins’ Afro-centric feminist epistemology and Lazarus’ cognitive mediational stress theory. Sampling: A sample of eight couples was recruited through advertising and s...