Sentences with phrase «improving psychosocial»
Coren E. and Barlow J. (2001) Individual and group - based parenting programmes for improving psychosocial outcomes for teenage parents and their children.
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These limitations are a cause for concern and have prompted researchers and clinicians to look at other possible ways of symptom management and improving psychosocial functioning.
In heterosexual couples in which men are entering outpatient treatment for alcoholism or other drug abuse, behavioural couples therapy was more effective than individual based therapy for improving the psychosocial functioning of their children.
Although some research is establishing a relationship between breastfeeding and improved psychosocial functioning, a large number of parent and family factors have also been shown to predict child psychosocial maladjustment.
A Translational Worksite Diabetes Prevention Trial Improves Psychosocial Status, Dietary Intake, and Step Counts among Employees with Prediabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
All of the NGOs interviewed noted that livelihoods interventions improve the psychosocial health of refugees by giving them productive activities to engage in.
Additionally, it appears that resilience is reflected strongly on mental health (Tugade & Fredrickson, 2004), since individuals with higher level of resilience are dealing with adversity more effectively (Bonanno et al., 2007), they are also more protected against depressive symptomatology and they can improve their psychosocial function (Pietrzak et al., 2010).
PCBR interventions improved the psychosocial functioning of children and parents compared with controls (standardized mean difference: 0.185; 95 % confidence interval: 0.077 to 0.293).
«Such timely interventions may improve psychosocial well - being during and after pregnancy by minimizing marital conflict and enhancing relationships at the start of a union,» said Urquia.
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for training, practice and reference, December 2007 IBFAN Training Courses on the Code ICAP, 2010 Improving Retention, Adherence, and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: Implementation Workshop for Health Workers IYCN Project, The roles of grandmothers and men: evidence supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project Mother - to - Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context of HIV.
Abrams E, Eliminating vertical transmission, Rights here, right now: Slide presentation at XVIII International AIDS Conference, July 18 - 23, 2010, Vienna, Austria ICAP Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV slide set ICAP Video, Saving two lives: Improving retention, adherence & psychsocial support within PMTCT services, Uploaded by ICAP Columbia on 3 Mar 2011 This video is a component of the «Improving Retention, Adherence and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: A Toolkit for Health Workers,»; reinforces key PMTCT messages; can be shown to a wide range of audiences, including PMTCT clients, family members, and caregivers of HIV - exposed and HIV - infected children; including in clinic waiting rooms, as part of group education sessions, and in the community.
Thus, although improving the economic status of families promotes more positive outcomes for children's cognitive development and academic achievement, direct services and therapeutic interventions may be a comparatively more promising alternative for improving children's psychosocial development and reducing behaviour problems.
Many epidemiologic studies consistently show that breastfeeding not only provides optimal bio-avaiable nutrients, but also protects against diarrhoeal, respiratory and other diseases [11][12][13][14], including the non-communicable disease of obesity in later life [15][16][17] and leads to improved cognitive and psychosocial outcomes [18][19][20].
Group - based parent training programmes for improving parental psychosocial health.
Thus, it is not surprising that breastfeeding has been consistently associated with improved central nervous system development, as indicated by improved visual acuity in relationship to formula - fed infants.4 Second, both biological properties and differences in maternal - infant interactions during the feeding process can lead to improved motor and intellectual development outcomes.5, 6 Third, breastfeeding appears to be protective against the onset of childhood obesity, 7 a condition that has enormous psychosocial consequences for children.
Breastfeeding has consistently been associated with improved cognitive scores and is likely to be able to prevent the onset of childhood / adolescent obesity, a condition that can seriously harm the child's self - esteem and overall psychosocial development.
Although breastfeeding has modest effects on blood pressure (51) and adiposity (52, 53) in later life, it has numerous other health benefits, including protection against infectious disease morbidity (54) and mortality (55) in infancy and a lower risk of type 2 diabetes (56) and improved neural and psychosocial development in the longer term (57, 58).
«The level of psychosocial morbidity and suicidality associated with BPD is as great, or greater, than that experienced by patients with bipolar disorder,» said Zimmerman, director of outpatient psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital and director of the Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project.
Provide and administer an improved - upon psychosocial and spiritual care model that is administered to patients and families during this stage of their illness.
Behavioral Science provides research - driven clinical care to promote a healthy lifestyle and encourage changes to reduce cancer risk, improve adherence to cancer treatment, enhance survivors» coping with long - term consequences of cancer treatment and provide a model of optimal care for cancer - related psychosocial and behavioral issues.
«Identifying caregivers in need, and connecting these caregivers to effective and accessible psychosocial services, are imperative next steps to improve comprehensive care for families facing cancer,» study leader Kelly Shaffer said in a news release from the American Cancer Society.
Psychosocial measures showed improved quality of life.
He also stated that, «Improved aerobic fitness from the exercise was a much better predictor of psychosocial benefits than weight loss or reductions in body fat... Throw away the scale and get out there and start moving, and the activity can improve your emotional well - being even if it does not lead to any measurable change in weight or body fat.»
In terms of evidence - based physiotherapy practice, cognitive - behavioural approaches for patients at high psychosocial risk are the recommended management to improve patient treatment outcomes.
Why would improving children's psychosocial skills increase their likelihood of voting?
The program's primary objective is to increase access for urban youth to school - based, culturally - sensitive, and trauma - informed mental health services that are aimed at raising students» awareness of the impact of trauma on well - being, enhancing students» positive coping skills, promoting students» attitudes toward school engagement, increasing graduation rates, and improving the overall psychosocial well - being of urban youth.
Summary: This article reports on anew Princeton study examined the long - term effects of a 20 - year - old program known as Fast Track, one of the earliest and largest programs designed to improve life outcomes for at - risk students by teaching psychosocial skills.
About Blog Interdem is a pan-European network of researchers collaborating in research on and dissemination of Early, Timely and Quality Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia aimed at improving the quality of life of people with dementia and their supporters, across Europe.
Given the significant impact that psychosocial risk factors seem to have on outcomes in weight management treatment, identifying and addressing parent mental health concerns, child behavior concerns, and family social resource needs upfront may help improve outcomes in children with obesity.»
A previous meta - analysis by the same first author focused on parent training using data on mothers found that parent training programmes improved mothers» psychosocial well - being, including depression, anxiety / stress, self - esteem and spouse / marital adjustment.1
Another area reviewed by Stein et al92 involved psychosocial interventions for improved adherence.
Routine use of a brief psychosocial screening instrument has been proposed as a means of improving recognition, management, and referral of children's psychosocial morbidity in primary care.
Background Routine use of a brief psychosocial screening instrument has been proposed as a means of improving recognition, management, and referral of children's psychosocial morbidity in primary care.
Intervention Group - based parent training programmes that help parents to manage children's behaviour and improve family functioning, relationships and psychosocial health.
The fact that our intervention impacted rates of psychotherapy but not medication use suggests that psychosocial interventions contributed to improved patient outcomes.
Personal therapy is a psychosocial intervention designed to help patients with schizophrenia recognize and respond appropriately to arousing stimuli improves function and reduces relapse.
«Behavioral Health Consultants, LLC seeks to improve day - to - day functioning by addressing psychosocial barriers and specific dynamics that necessitate therapeutic intervention.Vanessa has worked as a clinical therapist addressing specialty areas to include crisis intervention, trauma focused intervention, risk assessment and family skill building.
The principal finding of this study is that the mental health / psychosocial outcomes of critically ill children can be improved by enhancing their mothers» coping outcomes, during and after hospitalization, with the COPE program.
Thanks to QFFD's support, TYO has been able to create and implement a program that will allow women to focus on how they can improve themselves to also improve their relationship with their children with a focus on their psychosocial wellbeing and health.
Methods and analysis This randomised controlled trial will assess the effect of a multidimensional interdisciplinary lifestyle and psychosocial intervention aimed at improving the metabolic and mental health of 200 women with GDM and their offspring.
Adult health could be improved by targeting children's modifiable psychosocial risk factors.
A method to improve the primary care pediatrician's ability to recognize and appropriately refer children with behavioral or psychosocial problems is to systematically screen all children with a standardized instrument designed for this purpose.16, 21 One such screening tool, developed by Jellinek and Murphy, 22 is the 35 - item Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC), designed specifically for use by the pediatrician to screen for mental health problems in children ages 4 to 16 years in the primary care setting.
A systematic review of psychosocial interventions to improve cancer caregiver quality of life
A Cochrane review of group - based parenting interventions to improve parental psychosocial health found evidence to support the use of parenting programmes12 and a separate Cochrane review found some evidence that psychological therapies are beneficial for parents of CSHCN.13 Further evidence covering related issues have also been reviewed, for example, research on improving or supporting professional — parent collaborations in managing CSHCN, 5 14 nursing research on parenting children with complex chronic conditions, 15 the nature of family engagement in interventions for this population16 and the role of interactive media for parental education.17
An estimated 1,560 children died because of maltreatment, with the highest rates of victimization in the first year of life — 20.6 per 1,000 children.1 Research demonstrates that outcomes for children who survive child maltreatment (defined as neglect, abuse, or a combination of the two) are poor, with performance below national norms in a range of outcomes areas, including psychosocial and cognitive well - being and academic achievement.2, 3,4 The costs to society overall of these children not reaching their full potential and the lower than expected productivity of adult survivors of abuse are estimated at as much as $ 50 - 90 billion per year in the U.S. 5,6 These findings underscore the need for strategies to prevent child maltreatment in order to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.
Thus, although improving the economic status of families promotes more positive outcomes for children's cognitive development and academic achievement, direct services and therapeutic interventions may be a comparatively more promising alternative for improving children's psychosocial development and reducing behaviour problems.
For example, N - acetyl cysteine, a mitochondrial agent, has been shown to improve depressive symptoms by alleviating oxidative stress in the brain.47 This may improve long - term cognitive, psychosocial and functional impairment.
Review: psychosocial interventions improve early disruptive behaviour in very young children
Review: Adding psychosocial interventions to pharmacotherapy for opioid detoxification improves outcomes
The DAISY psychosocial intervention does not improve outcomes in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease or their carers