BACKGROUND A large number of bereaved family members, surviving students, and their relatives as well as school staff and the wider community were in need of psychosocial support as a result of a school shooting in Kauhajoki, Finland, 2008. A multilevel outreach project provided psychosocial care to the trauma-affected families, students, schools staff, and wider community for 2 years and 4 mon...

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. ...

Stigma and associated discrimination against persons with psychosocial disabilities constitute a considerable barrier to the realisation of highest attainable standard health in South Africa, further afield, constituting significant human rights violation. This situation is evidenced exacerbated by mental as whole remaining under-prioritised law, policy resource allocation. States parties have ...

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...

Background One would assume that infection outbreaks such as the COVID-19 pandemic have a deleterious effect upon physical, mental, and/or social functioning of people with intellectual disabilities (ID).Methods A systematic search four databases produced 18 articles. General information pertaining to topics under consideration, related infectious diseases and ID were extracted.Results All but ...

Around 15% of the world's population lives with some form functional and/or intellectual disability (FID). Nursing staff often face threats and violence in care patients FID. This study aimed to illuminate registered nurses’ experiences challenging situations their psychosocial working environment home disabilities. Nine nurses/district nurses municipal settings were interviewed using a qualita...

Abstract. Treatment of extremital sarcoma patients may be associated with significant functional disabilities and psychosocial distress affecting return to work (RtW) quality life (QoL). In this exploratory study we prospectively investigated the RtW rate, explored biomedical predictors RtW, compared generic QoL Swiss population norms. Forty people (89 %) returned work. Full-time employment bef...

In the last decade robotic devices have been applied in rehabilitation to overcome walking disability in neurologic diseases with promising results. Robot assisted gait training (RAGT) using the Lokomat seems not only to improve gait parameters but also the perception of well-being. Data on the psychosocial patient-robot impact are limited, in particular in the real-world of RAGT, in the rehabi...