PURPOSE AND DESIGN Most of the 5.4 million Americans with dementia are cared for by family members who experience care needs and time constraints. This quasi-experimental study examined the experience of using a psychosocial assessment instrument to understand caregiver needs delivered in an interview versus a self-administered web-based format. METHODS Ten family caregivers were randomized t...

INTRODUCTION Adolescent Inpatient Units are now an established component of leading tertiary children's hospitals in the developed world. While different methods have been used to provide psychosocial support in these settings, there is little recent literature about these programmes. We aimed to identify programme goals and to explore the features that are thought to underpin an effective prog...

Background Monitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programs is critical to facilitating learning and providing accountability to stakeholders. As part of an inter-agency effort to develop recommendations on MHPSS monitoring and evaluation, this scoping review aimed to identify the terminology and focus of monitoring and evaluation frameworks in this field. ...

background : this study aimed at revaluating the psychosocial disabilities in schizophrenic patients. methods : in an analytic-descriptive setting, schizophrenic patients were evaluated in razi university hospital during a one-year period (2009-10). the study group consisted of male and female patients aged 18-65 years, with the onset of disease for a minimum of 2 years and at least one psychol...

The effects of video games on children's psychosocial development remain the focus of debate. At two timepoints, 1 year apart, 194 children (7.27-11.43 years old; male = 98) reported their gaming frequency, and their tendencies to play violent video games, and to game (a) cooperatively and (b) competitively; likewise, parents reported their children's psychosocial health. Gaming at time one was...

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and unpredictable disease, largely uncontrolled by current treatment. Its effects vary from a mild course with minimal disabilities to a rapidly progressing or fluctuating course with devastating disabilities. No reliable indicators exist to assure patients that their status will remain stable or that disabilities will not emerge or progress. Furthermore, pa...

aim and background: it is estimated that coronary heart diseases (chd) will be the major cause of mortality by the year 2020. the traditional factors such as age, genetics, smoking and obesity, account only half of the variance in chd.  therefore, regarding increasing concern about the psychosocial factors, the purpose of present study was to evaluate the role of personality, stress and social ...

BACKGROUND Recent studies on pharmacoresponsive epilepsies demonstrate specific memory, executive functions (EF), and psychosocial deficits in this group. These deficits are often undertreated, and little is known about the neuropsychological factors that may support moderation of the deficits through intervention. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of a structured cognitive behav...

The number of children who have received cochlear implants (CIs) has increased dramatically in the past two decades. In view of potential concerns about their psychosocial adjustment, our aim was to assess the effect of implants on the adolescents' psychosocial functioning among a group of 57 deaf adolescents with and without CIs, using published and validated measures completed by the adolesce...

OBJECTIVE To examine prospectively the relation between psychosocial work characteristics and changes in health related quality of life over four years in a cohort of working women in the United States. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS 21 290 female registered nurses who completed the Karasek's job content questionnaire and a modified version of the sh...