Social Suffering, The Painful Wounds Inside

Social Suffering, The Painful Wounds Inside.

Living inside Mobile Social

In this paper I analyze what is emerging in the new frontiers of mobile media, where social media, global positioning systems (GPS)—including location-based services (LBS)—and mobile phones are merging. In addition, I will analyze the implications of the precious heritage that portable media might receive from the mobile phone. To substantiate my analysis, I take into account two examples: (1) ...

[The quality of life for people suffering from complex wounds in Cartagena, Colombia].

OBJECTIVE Estimating the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of people suffering complex wounds who were receiving care in an extramural health service provider institution in Cartagena during May-June 2010. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a quantitative, descriptive study where the population/sample consisted of 93 adults receiving care in an extramural health service provider institution'...

Measuring outcomes with complex patients: an audit of the effect of Actiform Cool on painful wounds

Background: There is growing awareness surrounding the importance of wound pain, recognised by the publication of recent international studies (White, 2008). Wound pain has been identified as an outcome important to patients, in addition to physiological endpoints. It can be difficult to use randomised controlled trials to measure subjective outcomes such as pain, particularly with complex pati...

Lived Experience of the Social Suffering of the Parents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Child

Expended Abstract Introduction: ASDs are classified as developmental neurological group disorders, which cause significant deficiencies in social interaction and communication. Restricted and repetitive behaviors are also present. Raising a child with ASD is a difficult experience, and it negatively affects both the child and his/her family. The parents of the child with ASD has are the ones w...