Short-term and long-term effects of a psycho-educational group intervention for family caregivers in palliative home care - results from a randomized control trial

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 795-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Holm ◽  
Kristofer Årestedt ◽  
Ida Carlander ◽  
Carl-Johan Fürst ◽  
Yvonne Wengström ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Reid Parks ◽  
Nadia Doutcheva ◽  
Dhivya Umachandran ◽  
Nawang Singhe ◽  
Sofia Noejovich ◽  
...  

Family caregivers use tools and technology to provide care for children with medical complexity (CMC) in the home. It is unclear what barriers families experience when using the tools and technology integral to the care and wellbeing of CMC. Our objective was to identify the barriers family caregivers experience in using tools and technology to provide care to CMC in the home. We used contextual inquiry to interview 30 caregivers in their homes and analyzed our data using a deductive content analysis informed by the patient work system (PWS) model and an inductive content analysis to identify emergent barriers. Through these combined analyses, we identified four categories of barriers families experienced using tools and technology to care for CMC: 1) Access and Cost; 2) Usability, which includes the subcategories Functionality, Tool design, Ease of use, and Reliability; 3) Short-term tool impact; and 4) Long-term tool impact. Our results point to the need for further interventions to reduce or mitigate tools and technology barriers to the in-home care for CMC.


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-496
Author(s):  
Ruth E. K. Stein ◽  
Dorothy Jones Jessop

The increased survival of youngsters with chronic physical disorders has led to concern about their long-term psychological adjustment. Few data are available on how to reduce the psychological morbidity that occurs in the presence of chronic childhood illness. An earlier report of a randomized controlled trial of a pediatric home care program demonstrated that this program, combining comprehensive biomedical and psychosocial care, reduced the short-term psychological morbidity of those receiving home care. However, data have not previously been available on whether the short-term improvement in adjustment is associated with any long term benefits. This report presents long-term follow-up data collected 4½ to 5 years after enrollment on 68% of the original sample. After this interval there were even larger differences between the experimental and control groups than those previously observed at 6 months and 1 year. This finding provides strong evidence that a comprehensive family-oriented outreach program for youngsters with chronic physical disorders can have long term mental health benefits. It should encourage clinicians to develop similar programs and investigators to look for long-term effects of other interventions.


Author(s):  
D.E. Loudy ◽  
J. Sprinkle-Cavallo ◽  
J.T. Yarrington ◽  
F.Y. Thompson ◽  
J.P. Gibson

Previous short term toxicological studies of one to two weeks duration have demonstrated that MDL 19,660 (5-(4-chlorophenyl)-2,4-dihydro-2,4-dimethyl-3Hl, 2,4-triazole-3-thione), an antidepressant drug, causes a dose-related thrombocytopenia in dogs. Platelet counts started to decline after two days of dosing with 30 mg/kg/day and continued to decrease to their lowest levels by 5-7 days. The loss in platelets was primarily of the small discoid subpopulation. In vitro studies have also indicated that MDL 19,660: does not spontaneously aggregate canine platelets and has moderate antiaggregating properties by inhibiting ADP-induced aggregation. The objectives of the present investigation of MDL 19,660 were to evaluate ultrastructurally long term effects on platelet internal architecture and changes in subpopulations of platelets and megakaryocytes.Nine male and nine female beagle dogs were divided equally into three groups and were administered orally 0, 15, or 30 mg/kg/day of MDL 19,660 for three months. Compared to a control platelet range of 353,000- 452,000/μl, a doserelated thrombocytopenia reached a maximum severity of an average of 135,000/μl for the 15 mg/kg/day dogs after two weeks and 81,000/μl for the 30 mg/kg/day dogs after one week.


Psibernetika ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Devina Calista ◽  
Garvin Garvin

<p><em>Child abuse by parents is common in households. The impact of violence on children will bring short-term effects and long-term effects that can be attributed to their various emotional, behavioral and social problems in the future; especially in late adolescence that will enter adulthood. Resilience factors increase the likelihood that adolescents who are victims of childhood violence recover from their past experiences</em><em>,</em><em> become more powerful individuals and have a better life. The purpose of this study was to determine the source of resilience in late adolescents who experienced violence from parents in their childhood. This research uses qualitative research methods with in-depth interviews as a method of data collection. The result shows that the three research participants have the aspects of "I Have", "I Am", and "I Can"; a participant has "I Can" aspects as a source of resilience, and one other subject has no source of resilience. The study concluded that parental affection and acceptance of the past experience have role to the three sources of resilience (I Have, I Am, and I Can)</em></p><p><em> </em></p><p><strong><em>Keyword : </em></strong><em>Resilience, adolescence, violence, parents</em></p>


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