Sentences with phrase «psychosocial distress screening»

In order to meet new cancer program accreditation standards, institutions have placed new focus on patient navigation, psychosocial distress screening, and survivorship care plans.

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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.

Finally, the MECSH programme, unlike other trials, identified mothers with psychosocial distress during pregnancy using a population - based screening tool (EDS) rather than identifying them post hoc using specific research - based measures.1 14 An issue to be faced in widespread implementation is how mothers with lower psychosocial resources can be identified in the population.1 14 The MECSH trial demonstrates that this group can be easily identified and enrolled in effective intervention programmes embedded with comprehensive services at the population level.

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.