Sentences with phrase «of psychosocial distress»

Examination of couples» attachment security in relation to depression and hopelessness in maritally distressed patients facing end - stage cancer and their spouse caregivers: a buffer or facilitator of psychosocial distress?.

The high rate of comorbid functional impairment reported in this study suggests a high rate of other forms of disability mixed with psychosocial disability although this cross-sectional study can not ascertain directionality and causation (it is likely that those with functional impairment are also at higher risk of psychosocial distress).

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The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.

Older adults with cognitive and physical impairments or psychosocial distress are also at increased risk of elder abuse.

A number of other psychosocial variables appear to be associated with distress, including self - criticism, dependency, situation appraisals and attachment style, but these have only been explored by one or two studies at most.

Mothers were eligible to participate if they did not require the use of an interpreter, and reported one or more of the following risk factors for poor maternal or child outcomes in their responses to routine standardised psychosocial and domestic violence screening conducted by midwives for every mother booking in to the local hospital for confinement: maternal age under 19 years; current probable distress (assessed as an Edinburgh Depression Scale (EDS) 17 score of 10 or more)(as a lower cut - off score was used than the antenatal validated cut - off score for depression, the term «distress» is used rather than «depression»; use of this cut - off to indicate those distressed approximated the subgroups labelled in other trials as «psychologically vulnerable» or as having «low psychological resources» 14); lack of emotional and practical support; late antenatal care (after 20 weeks gestation); major stressors in the past 12 months; current substance misuse; current or history of mental health problem or disorder; history of abuse in mother's own childhood; and history of domestic violence.

Four a priori analyses were undertaken comparing outcomes for the hypothesised subgroups using 2 × 2 factorial ANOVA to assess main (intervention vs comparison group) effects and interaction (intervention by subgroup effects for mothers who were Australian - born vs overseas - born, first - time vs multiparous, had one vs multiple risk factors, and scored EDS ≥ 10 (antenatal psychosocial distress) vs EDS < 10), while maintaining the power of the whole sample.

Mothers assessed antenatally as having psychosocial distress showed benefit from the MECSH programme across a number of areas, including child development, their experience of being a mother, and small effects in a number of domains of the quality of the environment from a child development perspective; emotional and verbal responsivity, organisation of the environment and provision of appropriate play materials.

A review and recommendations for optimal outcome measures of anxiety, depression and general distress in studies evaluating psychosocial interventions for English - speaking adults with heterogeneous cancer diagnoses

Predicting which people with psychosocial distress are at risk of becoming dependent on state benefits: analysis of routinely available data

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

The project is a psychosocial intervention that aims to reduce psychological distress and deteriorated social functioning in both members of the couple in the months following diagnosis of early prostate cancer, and if the cancer becomes advanced.

Importantly, the findings of the present study demonstrate that while brief tele - based psychosocial interventions are effective at reducing psychological distress in cancer patients, patient characteristics play an important role in influencing the efficacy of the intervention.

Physicians underestimated substantially the prevalence of intrafamilial violence, maternal psychosocial distress, and associated behavior problems in children compared with use of a questionnaire for this purpose.23 The use of a clinic questionnaire identified significantly more mothers with potential risk factors for poor parenting compared with review of medical records.24 Shorter versions of this questionnaire for evaluating parental depressive disorders, 25 substance abuse, 26 and parental history of physical abuse as a child27 compared favorably to the original measures in terms of accuracy.

The objective of this study was to examine the objective need as well as the subjective request for psychosocial support and to investigate the relationship between the need for psychosocial counselling and psychological distress, quality of life and optimism.

The two - session psychoeducation intervention was offered to groups of parents of children (mean age 12.3 years, 60.8 % female) who had been screened for elevated psychosocial distress.

Chemical Coping was significantly correlated with an increased intake of pain medication (P ⩽ 0.01), defiance of medical intake instructions (P ⩽ 0.01), and highly associated with experienced withdrawal symptoms (P ⩽ 0.001), fear (P ⩽ 0.05), hypochondria (P ⩽ 0.01), psychosocial distress (P ⩽ 0.001), and alexithymia (P ⩽ 0.001).

After attending to the basics of physical health (A-B-C: Airway, Breathing, Circulation), you can promote psychosocial recovery by paying attention to the D - E-F (Distress, Emotional Support, Family).

Negative life events, maternal distress and child psychosocial functioning measures were completed by 185 mothers of children, aged 4 — 12 years.

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the potential utility of using the information that PCPs are likely to have about negative events in their patients» lives as well as their perception of maternal distress, to help them identify child psychosocial problems.

Diabetes management during childhood and adolescence places substantial burdens on the youth and family, necessitating ongoing assessment of psychosocial status and diabetes distress during routine diabetes visits (10 — 12).

Findings indicate that, regardless of age, children of authoritative parents perform better in school, display fewer conduct problems and show better emotional adjustment than those raised in non-authoritative homes.12 Adolescents with authoritative parents who balance appropriate levels of supervision, nurturance and democratic decision - making tend to achieve better psychosocial outcomes.12 Studies reveal that adolescents with authoritative parents are associated with less psychological distress, higher self - esteem, higher academic achievements, lower levels of delinquency and less substance use.13 Gray and Steinberg13 found that emotional and behavioural problems tended to be associated with the degree of behavioural control and supervision or monitoring.

Furthermore, it could be prudent consider the role of other psychosocial variables on postpartum depression like social support perception, global psychological distress of partners, marital satisfaction, etc..

With respect to their response to psychosocial stressors (e.g. major life events, childhood trauma, and milder daily hassles), which have been shown to contribute to the development and maintenance of psychosis in retrospective and prospective studies [31, 32, 33], FHx and ASz children aged 11 — 14 years reported greater exposure to negative life events and daily hassles, respectively, compared to TD children, and were more distressed by these experiences [34].

The measurement of these indicators and the mitigation of underlying distress by adequate psychosocial interventions should be encouraged.

Use of information about maternal distress and negative life events to facilitate identification of psychosocial problems in children.

Much of the research examines the grandparents» functioning and suggests that they experience heightened psychosocial distress.

The results do not show higher average risk levels for psychosocial adjustment problems, even though a minority of the cases is at risk for social impairments (7.7 %), internalizing (23.1 %), externalizing (3.8 %) and total difficulties (11.5 %) and for distress in the parent — child system (15 %).

The most robust studies are those that used longitudinal designs and controlled for time 1 levels of distress or well - being before examining the predictive effect of time 1 psychosocial variables on time 2 psychological adjustment.

Three of these studies reported that none of their psychosocial variables were significant predictors of subsequent psychological adjustment after existing distress levels were controlled for (Newton et al., 1990; Fisher et al., 2008; Verhaak et al., 2010).

There were 36 studies were identified which aimed to explore associations, or predictive effects of, psychosocial factors on emotional distress.

A review of psychosocial predictors of infertility - related stress was published 3 years ago (Gourounti et al., 2010) collating the findings of 19 empirical studies that had explored the relationship between psychosocial factors and a negative emotional outcome measure (distress, stress, depression, etc.).

The majority of studies exploring marital quality however (Newton et al., 1990; Litt et al., 1992; Fisher et al., 2008; Baor and Soskolne, 2010) reported no significant relationships between this psychosocial factor and emotional adjustment, even after controlling for pre-IVF distress levels.

Psychosocial predictors of distress in parents of children undergoing stem cell or bone marrow transplantation

This review highlights key psychosocial factors to assist the identification of patients at high risk of psychological distress.

All other psychosocial factors were explored by only two studies at most, with the exception of baseline anxiety and / or depression which were either controlled for or used to predict subsequent distress by 11 of the 23 studies.

All studies that explored pre-IVF distress consistently report it to be a significant predictor of post-IVF distress, usually accounting for a far higher proportion of the variance in distress outcomes than any of the psychosocial factors investigated.

Whilst some psychosocial variables appear to be consistently associated with distress for IVF patients, two - thirds of the variables tested to date do not appear to be associated with emotional adjustment.

The remaining seven studies reported significant psychosocial predictors of emotional adjustment, after having controlled for pre-existing distress levels.

Psychosocial factors that were positively related to distress include personality traits, coping strategies, social situations and cognitive appraisals of the situation.

This review highlights several key psychosocial factors that could be used to assist in the identification of prospective IVF patients at high risk of psychological distress.