Patients' attitudes and values, their concept of illness and health as well as their previous experiences with medication may significantly affect the subjective response to antipsychotics. Quality of Life (QOL) has holistic concept that includes consideration of economic development, social vitality and environmental health. For most of the researches, QOL has an umbrella concept, which covers...

INTRODUCTION We aim to understand the perception about discrimination within the LGBT population when accessing oral health services, from their perspective as well as that of the oral health professional. METHODS A qualitative study from a phenomenological perspective was conducted by means of 37 in-depth interwiews (19 in health service providers and 18 in LGBT members). The script used in ...

UNLABELLED The purpose of this one-year observational study was to evaluate quality of life in patients at the Medical University of South Carolina Family Medicine clinic who were followed by a clinical pharmacist diabetes educator. METHODS Patients who have been seen by the clinical pharmacist for diabetes education and management services were contacted by telephone and asked to complete a ...

BACKGROUND Recovery in mental health care is complex, highly individual and can be facilitated by a range of professional and non-professional support. In this study we will examine how recovery from mental health problems is promoted in non-medical settings. We hypothesise a relationship between involvement in decisions about care, social support and recovery and quality of life outcomes. ME...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) is increasingly recognized as a critical outcome parameter in mental health studies. The aim of this study was to investigate different domains of the QoL in persons with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) before and after a multimodal, disorder-specific in- and outpatient treatment. METHODS Data of 73 persons with OCD treated in an inpatient setting followed...

This study was conducted to explore care-seeking for perceived serious morbidities and users' perceptions about quality of care at different facilities in Matlab, Bangladesh. This is a secondary analysis of baseline community survey data of the Matlab Essential Obstetric Care Project conducted in 2001. Principal component and factor analysis methods were used for computing summary quality and s...

BACKGROUND There has been a shift in mental health services from an emphasis on treatment focused on reducing symptoms to a more holistic approach involving quality of life (QOL) and overall well-being. Many psychosocial variables are associated with QOL but a parsimonious framework is needed to deepen our understanding about the contribution of psychosocial factors in influencing the QOL of As...

ID: 303 UNDERSERVED POPULATION: RURAL MEXICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WHO HAVE ASTHMA Author Information: Authors List: Presenting Author: Sharon Horner Presenting Author: Sharon D Horner Address: 1700 Red River Austin, TX 78701-1499 USA Ph: 512-471-7951 Fax: 512-475-9179 Email: [email protected] Institution: The University of Texas at Austin Abstract InformationInformation Present...

The purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual framework that captures aspects of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for caregivers of individuals with military-related traumatic brain injury (TBI). We analyzed qualitative data from nine focus groups composed of caregivers of wounded warriors with a medically documented TBI. Focus group participants were recruited through hospital-ba...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationships among physiologic variables, fatigue, and quality of life (QOL) in patients with multiple myeloma. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory. SETTING Outpatient ambulatory care clinics at a tertiary oncology center. SAMPLE 56 patients with multiple myeloma were accrued consecutively via nonprobability sampling strategy. METHODS ...