CONTEXT Measures of physical and cognitive function are strong prognostic predictors of hospital outcomes for older persons, but current risk adjustment and burden of illness assessment indices do not include these measures. OBJECTIVE To evaluate and validate the contribution of functional measures to the ability of 5 standard burden of illness indices (Charlson, Acute Physiology and Chronic ...

OBJECTIVE: To explore the demographic differences on caregiver burden, hopelessness, and psychological distress among caregivers of psychiatric patients. METHODS: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Pakistan Institute Medical Sciences Islamabad Nishtar Hospital Multan, eight months from 10th April 2019 to 20th November 2019. Purposive sampling technique used include 240 diff...

Travel-related illness is a burden for primary care, with more than two million travellers consulting a general practitioner each year. The annual cost of travel-related illness in the United Kingdom is 11 million Pounds. Travel agents are in a unique position to influence this burden as the most common and most serious problems are preventable with simple advice and/or immunisation. This study...

Patients’ illness might also affect their relatives’ psychological state. The present crosssectional study aimed at assessing the levels of burden, expressed emotion, psychological distress and quality of life in a sample of relatives of Mexican outpatients with psychosis and the possible effect of illness course assessed retrospectively. Sample included 65 participants: 73.8% female; mean age ...

AIM The present study was conducted to identify factors contributing to burden of care in 57 mothers caring for patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Members of the Federation of Families of People with Mental Illness in Nagasaki Prefecture were evaluated using well-validated scales to evaluate burden of care (eight-item short version of the Japanese version of the Zarit Caregiver Burden Inter...

as a rule, like other criminal legal systems, insane people are exempted from criminal liability in iranian criminal law. the previous penal code, replaced in 1982, had classified the mentally ill people into two groups. those completely insane were totally free from criminal liability and those suffering from less serious mental illnesses benefit to some extent liable to a certain lenient degr...

Dengue represents a substantial burden in many tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. We estimated the economic burden of dengue illness in Malaysia. Information about economic burden is needed for setting health policy priorities, but accurate estimation is difficult because of incomplete data. We overcame this limitation by merging multiple data sources to refine our estimates, inclu...

Tuberculosis (TB) affects mostly economically active population in underdeveloped and developing countries, therefore TB can have far reaching economic and social consequences among infected people and their household members. The objectives of this study were to estimate the household expenditure before and during the course of disease, to explore the direct and indirect cost burden of tubercu...

Gender differences in behavior problems and their relationship with family burden severe mental disorders were analyzed. The Behavior Problems Inventory (BPI) two items related to (FB 1: “Do you feel able endure the illness or disorder it causes?” FB 2: “How often are overwhelmed by these behavior/illness problems?”) administered 235 key informants under treatment a community health...

OBJECTIVES To provide summary estimates of gastroenteritis risks and illness burden associated with recreational water exposure and determine whether children have higher risks and burden. METHODS We combined individual participant data from 13 prospective cohorts at marine and freshwater beaches throughout the United States (n = 84 411). We measured incident outcomes within 10 days of exposu...