HIV-prevention intervention effectiveness depends on understanding whether clients with highest need for HIV-prevention counseling accept it. With this objective, a field study with a high-risk community sample from the southeastern United States (N = 350) investigated whether initial knowledge about HIV, motivation to use condoms, condom-use-relevant behavioral skills, and prior condom use cor...

This study is aimed at determining the training needs and qualification levels of counseling candidates concerning invitation to speak, reflecting feelings, minimal encouragement, reflection content, personalization, self- addition, self-disclosure, summarization confrontation skills during psychological process. In present study, summative content analysis was used. 20 students (12 female, 8 m...

This community service aimed to improve psychological, economic, and social resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic for members of KUB Sendang Rejeki, Sribit, Sendangtirto, Berbah, Sleman. The methods implementation included providing counseling training in managing psychological resistance, physical health resilience, optimizing local potential community. Data were collected through interviews...

Objective: Because of various types of psychological distress, cancer patients are encouraged to attend outpatient psycho-oncological and psychosocial counseling. The aim of this prospective study was an analysis of the impact and success of existing counseling resources. Methods: All cancer patients who had applied at a central counseling center were given a standardized questionnaire (FBK-R23...

OBJECTIVE Because of various types of psychological distress, cancer patients are encouraged to attend outpatient psycho-oncological and psychosocial counseling. The aim of this prospective study was an analysis of the impact and success of existing counseling resources. METHODS All cancer patients who had applied at a central counseling center were given a standardized questionnaire (FBK-R23...

BACKGROUND Clinical genetic testing is becoming an integral part of medical care for inherited disorders. While genetic testing and counseling are readily available in high-income countries, in low- and middle-income countries like Kenya genetic testing is limited and genetic counseling is virtually non-existent. Genetic testing is likely to become widespread in Kenya within the next decade, ye...

objectives the aim of this study was to identify the health-related counseling needs of adolescent girls to assist them in this period of development. materials and methods forty teenage (13 - 19-year-old) girls, who had at least experienced 3 menstrual cycles, participated in this qualitative study. in-depth semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. the content analysis method ...