A study examined how maternal separation anxiety contributes to the mother's departure actions and how those behaviors affect the child during separation. Subjects were 40 mothers and their toddlers, age 15 to 24 months, who were observed before and during separation. After completing the Maternal Separation Anxiety Questionnaire, mothers were provided with information designed to heighten or d...

UNLABELLED Theme: Parenting/parenthood. INTRODUCTION As delivering care is an inherent part of becoming parents, providing high-level care to the child with health problems might be a burden for the caregiver. AIM This systematic review investigated the effects of caregiver burden of parents who are primarily responsible for the caring of children with asthma. METHODS PubMed, CINAHL, Web ...

BACKGROUND The usefulness of distress screening in cancer inpatient settings has rarely been investigated. This study evaluated a brief distress screening of inpatients in a breast cancer centre and a gynaecological cancer centre. PATIENTS AND METHODS Hospitalised patients with breast or gynaecological cancers were screened with the Distress Thermometer. Patients who scored above the cut-off,...

BACKGROUND Mental illness is a common phenomenon at all ages. Various independent studies have shown that psychopathology is often expressed on a continuum from youth to adulthood. The aim of our study was to demonstrate a) the frequency of admission of former child and adolescent psychiatry inpatients (CAP-IP) to adult inpatient mental health facilities, and b) a potential longitudinal diagnos...

This study explored the role of time since diagnosis and whether the care recipient was a child, a parent, or a spouse, on caregiver’s perceptions of the caring role, with a group of 269 female cancer caregivers. Questionnaire measures were used to explore psychological and social resources and psychological distress. Analysis of variance and hierarchical multiple regression were used and ident...

Main results 9 trials (n=1568) met the selection criteria. Follow up duration ranged from 2–24 months. Sample sizes ranged from 90–378 participants. Individual patient data were obtained for 4 trials (n=646). Patients allocated to day hospital care had a longer duration of index admission than those allocated to inpatient care (table). Day hospital and inpatient care did not differ for total nu...

The majority of adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are parents. Parents with PTSD report lower levels of parenting satisfaction, poorer parent-child relationships, and elevated incidence of child distress and behavioral problems in comparison with parents without PTSD. Although literature exists regarding parent-child communication about serious mental illness and physical health ...

Abstract Objective Though often a feature of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, Persecutory Ideation (PI) is also common in other psychiatric disorders as well among individuals who are otherwise healthy. Emerging technologies allow for more thorough understanding the momentary phenomenological characteristics that determine whether PI leads to significant distress and dysfunction. This study ai...

BACKGROUND The lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI)-associated hospitalization rate in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) children aged <5 years declined during 1998-2008, yet remained 1.6 times higher than the general US child population in 2006-2008. PURPOSE Describe the change in LRTI-associated hospitalization rates for AI/AN children and for the general US child population age...