BACKGROUND Blood diseases and cancer are part of a group of rare conditions in pediatrics. In general, cancer treatments are prolonged (months or years), so psychosocial support has been introduced to provide comprehensive care to these patients. OBJECTIVE To explore psychosocial care provided at the public hospitals of Argentina to children and adolescents with cancer. Population and Methods...

OBJECTIVES To identify psychosocial factors that Black women think should be addressed in prenatal care assessment and develop a Prenatal Event History Calendar to assess these factors. DESIGN A qualitative descriptive study. SETTING Two inner city hospital prenatal care clinics in Southeastern Michigan. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-two Black women who had attended at least 2 prenatal care visits....

Using 2003 Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) data for Medicare and Medicaid certified facilities (N = 14, 184) and multinomial logistic regression this study investigated if (1) psychosocial care quality was better in facilities where State requirements for qualified social services staffing exceeded Federal minimum regulations and (2) facility service environments are associate...

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s: Thematic Session Disaster Psycho-Social Care and Management 1 THEMATIC SESSION E2: DISASTER PSYCHO-SOCIAL CARE MANAGEMENT Chairperson: Prof. K. Sekar National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro-Sciences, Bangalore PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE SURVIVORS OF DISASTERS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE K. Sekar Department of Psychiatric Social Work, NIMHANS, Bangalore Email: [email protected] Psychosocial ...

OBJECTIVES Women who combine formal and informal caregiving roles represent a unique, understudied population. In the literature, healthcare employees who simultaneously provide unpaid elder care at home have been referred to as double-duty caregivers. The present study broadens this perspective by examining the psychosocial implications of double-duty child care (child care only), double-duty ...

Psychosocial distress is understood as a continuum ranging from normal distress levels such as fear, grief etc. up to high levels of distress and psychiatric comorbidity [5]. A recently published study on 4 weeks prevalence of psychiatric disorders in cancer patients in Germany showed an average prevalence rate of 36% of any psychiatric diagnosis across all diagnoses and treatment settings [6]....

BACKGROUND: Relief of suffering is a central goal for palliative care. Achievement of this goal can be difficult, however, due to the complex nature of suffering. METHODS: A psychosocial perspective is used to understand suffering and to identify interventions to relieve suffering in patients with advanced disease. RESULTS: Clinical experience and research suggest that attending to the psychoso...