objectives: the purpose of this study was to explore the general health status in women as care givers of the elderly people with alzheimer who attending to the iranian association of alzheimer’s disease. methods & materials: in this descriptive –cross sectional study as a introductory stage of a randomized controlled field trial, 150 women were recruited with a consecutive sampling method. the...

a survey on quality of life in hemodialysis patient care givers h habibzadeh1, msc h jafarizadeh2, msc y mohammadpoor3, bsc p kiani4, bsc kh lak5, bsc a bahrechi6, bsc received: 22 april, 2009 accepted: 27 july, 2009 abstract background & aims: quality of life is a major concept in family, and changes in health care systems needs families to take care of their chronic patient at home. the prese...

Abstract Previous research was not able to identify an effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on family care-givers' wellbeing due cross-sectional data structures, care-giver-specific samples or non-probability sampling designs. In this article, by drawing longitudinal from a random and representative sample German population aged 40 older, we overcome methodological limitations previous research. We ...

BACKGROUND Training care givers reduces their burden and improves psychosocial outcomes in care givers and patients at one year. However, the cost effectiveness of this approach has not been investigated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost effectiveness of caregiver training by examining health and social care costs, informal care costs, and quality adjusted life years in care givers. DESIGN A ...

BACKGROUND Informal care givers support disabled stroke patients at home but receive little training for the caregiving role. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of training care givers in reducing burden of stroke in patients and their care givers. DESIGN A single, blind, randomised controlled trial. SETTING Stroke rehabilitation unit. SUBJECTS 300 stroke patients and their care gi...

Background: Primary care-givers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or intellectual disability (ID) have poorer health and quality of life than primary care-givers of typically developing children. We aimed to review original research which described factors impacting the health of primary care-givers of children with ASD or ID and to discuss how these factors might influence care-g...

Care-givers have always lived with the paradox that they are supposed to care deeply about their clients, but not get too involved. In addition, caring itself has been viewed as dangerous for the one caring, such that care-givers are urged not to care too much, for fear of burnout (Maslach, 1983). In spite of these admonitions successful care-givers and therapists continue to get involved with ...

background satisfaction with health care is an important criterion and variable in assessing the quality of medical care. especially mother’s satisfaction from childbirth care procedure is a determinant factor in psychological and social health the study aimed to assess mothers’ satisfaction in terms of education and information provided by maternal care givers. material and methods a descripti...

BACKGROUND With the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy, more HIV-infected children have lived longer. Many children are at the age that they should know the diagnosis. AIM To identify the prevalence and patterns of disclosure of HIV/AIDS diagnosis to HIV-infected children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 103 main care givers of HIV-infected children age...