[jounal] Best, M. / 2001 / Parental distress during pediatric leukemia and posttraumatic stress
symptoms after treatment ends / Journal of Pediatric Psychology 26 (5): 299 ~ 307
Not exact matches
After his six - month trial
ended, however, several patients in the
treatment group became psychotic, raising the question of whether the
treatment was preventing schizophrenia or simply controlling its
symptoms.
Almost all patients get sick with flulike
symptoms, including high fever and pain, a week or so
after the
treatment; some
end up in intensive care.
The Institute links four research initiatives that will focus on finding and quantifying the virus within body tissue hideouts; learning more about how the virus becomes dormant or active; developing new assays to measure the reservoir; and developing and testing a new
treatment regimen that can eliminate even hidden HIV from the body, or at least prevent the virus from replicating and causing
symptoms after drug
treatment ends.
There was a significant score reduction (42.5 %) of the MMDQ as the main effect parameter; however,
symptoms gradually returned
after treatment ended.
One evaluation conducted in Queensland, Australia, reported moderate reductions in depressive
symptoms for mothers in the intervention group at the six - week follow - up.89 A subsequent follow - up, however, suggested that these benefits were not long lasting, as the depression effects had diminished by one year.90 Similarly, Healthy Families San Diego identified reductions in depression
symptoms among program mothers during the first two years, but these effects, too, had diminished by year three.91 In Healthy Families New York, mothers at one site (that was supervised by a clinical psychologist) had lower rates of depression at one year (23 percent
treatment vs. 38 percent controls).92 The Infant Health and Development program also demonstrated decreases in depressive
symptoms after one year of home visiting, as well as at the conclusion of the program at three years.93 Among Early Head Start families, maternal depressive
symptoms remained stable for the program group during the study and immediately
after it
ended, but decreased just before their children entered kindergarten.94 No program effects were found for maternal depression in the Nurse - Family Partnership, Hawaii Healthy Start, Healthy Families Alaska, or Early Start programs.
«NIMH - funded researchers recently completed a pilot study showing that an Internet - based, self - managed cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help reduce
symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, with effects that last
after treatment has
ended.»
Smoking cessation at the
end of
treatment and at 6 months
after the start of
treatment: measured by self - report and / or biochemical verification (expired carbon monoxide (CO) level); reduction in nicotine dependence at the
end of
treatment and at 6 months (measured by change in expired CO level and self - reported number of cigarettes smoked, and other biochemical measurements such as serum cotinine levels); change in positive, negative and depressive
symptoms at the
end of
treatment measured using validated tools; adverse events.
Objective: To evaluate prospectively the association between parental anxiety during
treatment for childhood leukemia and posttraumatic stress
symptoms (PTSS)
after treatment ends.