Sentences with phrase «psychological morbidity»

The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) was used to determine levels of psychological morbidity.

Psychiatric and psychological morbidity as a function of adaptive disability in preschool children with aggressive and hyperactive impulsive inattentive behavior

One review (Gamble et al., 2002) concludes that a one - off debriefing session is not effective in reducing psychological morbidity in women who have experienced a traumatic childbirth, and may even be harmful.

Children's clinical severity did not explain parents» psychological morbidity over time.

In a longitudinal study, Lawoko and Soares studied psychological morbidity and its determinants in parents of children with CHD, with a 1 - year follow - up interval.

The death of a child by suicide is a severe trauma, placing parents at greater risk of psychological morbidity and physical health problems compared to other causes of death.

Socio - economic factors did not, however, explain the higher proportion of psychological morbidity among children with stepparents, or the strong relationship between parents» and children's psychological morbidity.)

Greek adolescents in custody: Psychological morbidity, family characteristics and minority groups.

Tim Luckett, David Goldstein, Phyllis Butow, Val Gebski, Lynley Aldridge, Joshua McGrane, Weng Ng, Madeleine King (2011) «Psychological morbidity and quality of life in ethnic minority patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta - analysis» The Lancet Oncology, Volume 12, Issue 13, Pages 1240 -1248.

Cancer populations suffer a high rate of psychological morbidity (35 to 45 per cent) and report high levels of unmet needs.

Born into adversity; the intergenerational transmission of psychological morbidity in second generation Irish children living in Britain

As in Marriott et al's trial, previous research has shown important, albeit low, levels of psychological morbidity among carers.

Main outcome measures Physical symptoms in the previous year (chronic), in the previous month (recent), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ - 12) measured psychological morbidity.

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

The majority of patients with Alzheimer's disease live outside institutions and there is considerable serious psychological morbidity among their carers.

However, there was also some evidence from our review that parental psychological or psychiatric problems might have a greater influence on the child's psychological morbidity than obesity or gender.

We can conclude that obese children are more likely to experience psychological or psychiatric problems than non-obese children, that girls are at greater risk than boys, and that risk of psychological morbidity increases with age.

In January 1999, 411 doctors, 330 surgeons and 400 randomly sampled community pharmacists were surveyed in New Zealand regarding their job satisfaction, psychological morbidity and stress level.

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The American Journal of Nursing paper concludes: «We believe that in tackling the significant burden of post critical illness physical, psychological, and cognitive morbidity, the CCRC presents a bold and innovative step to modify these PICS symptoms and to improve ICU survivors» quality of life.

However, in natural experiments, multiple environmental factors tend to change simultaneously (e.g. mortality, morbidity, resource scarcity and distribution of kin), making it difficult to isolate causal relationships, or describe the underlying psychological mechanisms.