Not exact matches
Similar conclusions were reached by Radloff from data from a community survey of depressive symptoms conducted in Kansas City, Missouri, and Washington County, Maryland; by Porter in a study of depressive illness in a Surrey, England,
general practice; by a National Health Survey of psychological
distress; and by Manheimer and associates in a California survey of factors related to psychotropic drug use.
Iowa's headline - making may well lead other courts to take a close look at
similar cases and consider the application of their existing law as well; it may also embolden clients to seek emotional
distress damages when they otherwise would have expected the
general rule against them to be followed.
These results are
similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not
distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the
general population, children's development was particularly poor in the
distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal
distress.
This proportion is approximately double that of children found to be at high risk in the
general New South Wales population (15 %) 27 but
similar to the proportion noted in other studies of Aboriginal children (24 %, 5 22.5 % 28 and among Aboriginal participants in the New South Wales Population Health Survey).27 There is only one other study to date that has measured the factors associated with Aboriginal child and adolescent mental health.5 SEARCH makes an important, new contribution to this emerging area of research by considering, for the first time, the impact of carer psychological
distress.
Regarding our second hypothesis, we found that the factors that are linked cross-sectionally to
general psychological
distress among partners are
similar to those that are linked to
general psychological
distress among patients.
Hence, a broad range of
similar general life circumstances are linked to
distress among both partners and patients and not just to diabetes - related problems alone.