Sentences with phrase «caregiver psychological distress»

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This study examined self - reported child attachment quality alongside caregivers» report of their own psychological distress, parenting stress and attachment style, amongst 24 children with high - functioning autism or Asperger's disorder (ASD; aged 7 — 14 years) and 24 typically developing children (aged 7 — 12 years), and their primary caregiver.

Functional expectations of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is high.6, 7 Levels of distress have also been shown to be higher than those reported by patients themselves.8

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: Investigating Factors Associated With Distress Among Custodial Grandparent Doley, Bell, Watt, & Simpson (2015) Journal of Family Studies, 21 (2) Explores the psychological health of grandparents raising grandchildren and examines the results of a study that showed caregivers raising children with emotional or behavioral issues have higher levels of stress, anxiety, and depression.

There are well - documented associations between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and intimate relationship problems, including relationship distress and aggression, 1 and studies demonstrate that the presence of PTSD symptoms in one partner is associated with caregiver burden and psychological distress in the other partner.2 Although currently available individual psychotherapies for PTSD produce overall improvements in psychosocial functioning, these improvements are not specifically found in intimate relationship functioning.3 Moreover, it has been shown that even when patients receive state - of - the - art individual psychotherapy for the disorder, negative interpersonal relations predict worse treatment outcomes.4, 5

Problems with communication, specifically non-verbal cognitive ability, are a strong predictor of externalising behaviour problems.3 Children with ASD exhibit more severe internalising and externalising behaviours than non-ASD children, as well as a high prevalence of aggressive behaviour.3 These behavioural challenges can often cause caregivers more distress and mental health problems than the core ASD symptoms.4, 5 Increased child behaviour problems and parental (especially maternal) psychological distress compared with children without autism is established early in life — by the time that children are aged 5 years.6 These co-occurring, behaviour problems are of concern in early childhood because of the importance of these early years for longer term child developmental outcomes.7

Grandparent caregiver of a child with possible developmental delays, health problems, and behavior problems; possible elevated psychological distress levels; possible health issues

Increased symptom severity was associated with greater dysfunction in terms of family cohesion and flexibility (β coefficient − 0.13; 95 % CI − 0.23, − 0.03), increased caregivers» EE levels on the form of emotional overinvolvement (β coefficient 1.03; 95 % CI 0.02, 2.03), and psychological distress (β coefficient 3.37; 95 % CI 1.29, 5.45).

Family functioning was evaluated in terms of cohesion and flexibility (FACES IV Package), expressed emotion (FQ), family burden (FBS) and caregivers» psychological distress (GHQ - 28).