OBJECTIVE To determine whether home care givers can accurately measure plasma sodium in children with diabetes insipidus (DI) by using an I-STAT portable clinical analyzer (PCA) and to collect preliminary data on home PCA use. STUDY DESIGN Care givers of 4 children with DI and impaired thirst or inability to access water freely were instructed in PCA use. During an initial preclinical phase, ...

Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents? It has been suggested in the literature that a source of incompleteness in the agency relationship between the doctor and the patient is that the provider may respond to an incomplete or biased perception of the patient’s interests. However, this has not been shown empirically. This paper is novel in presenting an empirical test of ...

Objective: The aim of the study was to report the perception of the care givers of the patients who have come across clinical pharmacists in their treatment course in a developing country like Pakistan. Methods: A cross sectional survey was conducted in leading tertiary health care settings of Pakistan from March 2013 to November 2013 which targeted the care givers of patients treated in those ...

In the “Group homes”, one care giver is assigned to three patients placed therein, there are concerns about physical and mental health, such as stress or burnout of care givers due to overwork. This study is intended to elucidate actual conditions of mental health and burnout among care givers of dementia patients. Subjects were 107 care givers working in 12 group homes in the northern Kyushu. ...

Identification of risk factors through screening is an important tool in the fight against chronic diseases. We have used a unique model, named Saantwanam (to console) in Malayalam language, for health screening in Kerala, India. Under the Saantwanam programme, government selects suitable women care-givers who are trained and equipped by a nongovernmental organization through loans from a publi...

Previous research on the care-giver burden experienced by adult children has typically focused on the adult child and parent dyad. This study uses information on multiple informal care-givers and examines how characteristics of the informal care-giving network affect the adult child's care-giver burden. In 2007, 602 Dutch care-givers who were assisting their older parents reported on parental a...

Introduction: The elderly population has increased rapidly in recent decades, and consequently, admission to nursing homes is growing, but their experiences of this transfer have not been paid adequate attention. The aim of this study is to explain the elderly and care givers’ experiences of transfer to nursing homes in Bam city, Kerman Province, Iran. Methods: This study was conducted u...

This study was conducted in order to observe interactions among twenty children living in a sheltered home and their care-givers. Using ethnographic methodology, these children (between ten months and five years old) were observed during half-hour meetings held twice a week for three and a half months. The findings indicate a lack of training among the care-givers, reflected in verbal hostility...