Sentences with phrase «of psychosocial stressors»

Measures included the Child Behavior Check List (CBCL), Global Assessment of Functioning Scale, and the Severity of Psychosocial Stressors Scale for Children and Adolescent.

Because they are exposed to a wide range of psychosocial stressors, low - income children have been found to be at greater risk for developing emotional and behavioral difficulties than their middle - income peers.

The burden of psychosocial stressors and urgent mental health problems in a pediatric weight management program.

The prevalence of psychosocial stressors and alcohol abuse is high in many HIV - infected (HIV +) populations.

We believe these findings may be useful to inform preventive interventions for this high - risk population facing a multitude of psychosocial stressors and suggest that caregiving should be a specific target.

Our objective was to evaluate the effects of psychosocial stressors and alcohol abuse on birth outcomes in HIV - infected women.

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Meanwhile, the researchers also are beginning a multidisciplinary study to follow pregnant women and their infants to see whether psychosocial stressors and adversity experienced during pregnancy and the first three years of a child's life also affect brain development and overall health.

«This study shows that the combination of physical and psychosocial stressors during fetal development magnifies the effect of each exposure,» says lead author Frederica Perera, DrPH, PhD, director of the Center.

The participants self - reported psychosocial stressors including child abuse, parental divorce, death of a parent, or having a parent suffering from depression or anxiety disorder.

«Psychosocial stressors are strongly linked to cardiovascular risk, and this kind of stress may represent an indirect pathway through which prejudice contributes to mortality.

Dr. Zota's work focuses on using innovative, multi-disciplinary methods to: 1) identify sources and consequences of human exposure to environmental contaminants; 2) illustrate how environmental hazards may interact with social disadvantage and psychosocial stressors to exacerbate health disparities; and 3) evaluate the impact of NGO and regulatory action on emerging environmental health problems.

«These findings extend evidence to the cancer caregiving context, known to have many psychosocial stressors and challenges, and highlight the importance of depression specifically to caregivers» premature physical health decline,» the authors reported.

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.

The model specifies three categories of risk factors: (1) disease and disability parameters (e.g., severity of handicap); (2) functional independence; and (3) psychosocial stressors (e.g., daily hassles), as well as three categories of resistance factors: (1) intrapersonal (e.g., problem - solving ability); (2) social - ecological factors (e.g., social support); and (3) stress processing (e.g., coping strategies).

These social benefits may buffer children and families with low socioeconomic status from exposure to some of the physical hardships and psychosocial stressors associated with poverty.

This is a review of the literature that examines the exposure to violence as a psychosocial stressor that is independently associated with asthma morbidity even after adjustment for income, housing, and other adverse life events.

Children exposed to institutional rearing exhibited reduced SNS activation to social stressors, blunted vagal withdrawal to a nonsocial stressor, and blunted cortisol reactivity, indicating a consistent pattern of reduced engagement of stress response systems to environmental challenges following early psychosocial deprivation.

Effect of alcohol consumption and psychosocial stressors on preterm and small - for - gestational - age births in HIV - infected women in South Africa: a cohort study

Only a limited number of well - validated screens suitable for use in primary care for broad screening of family psychosocial risk and family support and functioning are available, although a few show promise.54 — 56 There are screening measures for specific psychosocial stressors, such as maternal depression, and these have been shown to be feasible in pediatric settings.57, 58 Family screening for psychosocial risk within pediatric settings, however, raises a number of dilemmas, including concerns about liability and payment and who is responsible for an adult's well - being after a problem is detected.59

Psychoeducation is thought of as a useful adjunct to other therapies for behavioral illnesses or ongoing psychosocial stressors.

New psychosocial interventions have emerged in response to studies that showed associations between socioenvironmental stressors and remission - relapse cycles of the illness.

The research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and early brain development has demonstrated that psychosocial stressors are «toxic» to the developing brain and metabolic systems of the young child, resulting in poor mental health, cognitive disability, and chronic disease.

Interventions to reduce long - term mental problems should address both PWE stressors (psychosocial model) and specialised mental healthcare (trauma model) and consider both models of intervention as complementary.

The Multiaxial Approach - review of Axis III (Physical Conditions and Considerations), Axis IV (Psychosocial Stressors), Axis V (Developmental Competence) and Cultural Context

Their model proposes that the manifestation of the adverse effects of certain risk factors (e.g., parameters of the disease / disability, functional independence, and psychosocial stressors) on children's psychosocial adaptation (e.g., mental, physical, and social functioning) may be attenuated by a variety of resistance factors (e.g., intrapersonal, social — ecological, and stress - processing variables).

On the one hand, relatives» stress outcome was independent of the objective stressors (severity of the illness, kind of symptoms, level of psychosocial functioning at admission).

Their model proposes that manifestation of the adverse effects of certain Risk Factors (e.g., parameters of the disease / disability, functional independence, and psychosocial stressors) on Adaptation (e.g., mental, physical, and social functioning) may be attenuated by a variety of Resistance Factors (e.g., intrapersonal, social — ecological, and stress processing variables).

A growing body of evidence suggests that stressors associated with war - related events may predispose youth to adverse outcomes.10 - 17 This stream of research is consistent with family systems theory, which suggests that the experiences of a military - connected parent will affect the functioning of youth in that family system.18 Although some studies have considered the impact of military life during wartime, 12,17,19 to our knowledge, most researchers have examined negative outcomes associated specifically with deployments.1, 7,20 These studies have examined the psychosocial functioning of children during the deployment of a parent4, 14 or following 1 or multiple deployments.11, 13,21 Although many military - connected youth fare relatively well despite stressors, these studies concluded that a sizeable proportion appears to struggle with experiences of deployment and other war - related stressors.

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].

On average, even amongst those who successfully cope with psychosocial risk factors, the experience of such psychosocial stressors appears to reduce people's resilience against subsequent negative life events [12].

Second, because we did not measure postwar stressors, we can not rule out the influence of unmeasured aspects of the current psychosocial environment on the relation between attachment and mental health symptoms.