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BACKGROUND Family functioning in Huntington's disease (HD) is known from previous studies to be adversely affected. However, which aspects of family functioning are disrupted is unknown, limiting the empirical basis around which to create supportive interventions. OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to assess family functioning in HD families. METHODS We assessed family functioning i...

Objective We used the self-reported questionnaire FACES-IV (Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale–IV) to depict presence of a typical family-functioning profile in families with daughter affected by restrictive eating disorder. compared mothers' fathers' perceptions about their family each other's clinician's observations. Furthermore, we these results rigorous standardized evaluati...

The family plays a significant role in epilepsy management in sub-Saharan Africa and how this role is perceived by persons with epilepsy could influence epilepsy outcomes. The objective of the study was to assess perception of family function by adolescents with epilepsy (AWE). The sociodemographic and epilepsy characteristics of AWE in a rural Nigerian community were assessed and the Family AP...

Family researchers, clinicians, and family therapists agree that relations in a marriage dyad and parent-child relations are of key significance to the functional quality of family life. This has been confirmed in numerous research projects, involving both healthy and dysfunctional families, and most of all, is common theoretical and clinical knowledge. It is only recently that the significance...

BACKGROUND The Family APGAR has been widely used to study the relationship of family function and health problems in family practice offices. METHODS Data were collected from 401 pediatricians and family physicians from the Pediatric Research in Office Settings network and the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network. The physicians enrolled 22,059 consecutive office visits by children aged 4 to ...

BACKGROUND The impact of underlying parental psychological vulnerability on the future mental health of offspring is not fully understood. Using a prospective cohort design, we investigated the association between dysfunctional parental personality traits and risks of offspring self-harm, depression and anxiety. METHODS The association between dysfunctional parental personality traits (monoto...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that a problem-solving training program would lower depression, health complaints, and burden, and increase well-being reported by community-residing family caregivers of persons with traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING General community. PARTICIPANTS Of the 180 people who expressed interest in the study, 113 did no...

BACKGROUND Dysfunctional trauma-related cognitions correlate highly with chronic stress. Studies on maltreatment-related cognitions and their predictors in children and adolescents are rare. METHODS The study sample consisted of 231 children aged 8-17 years who had experienced maltreatment including domestic violence, emotional abuse, neglect, physical, and sexual abuse. Using multiple linear...