Partner interdependence and coping with life-threatening illness: The impact on dyadic adjustment.

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 702-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betsy L. Fife ◽  
Michael T. Weaver ◽  
William L. Cook ◽  
Timothy T. Stump
Keyword(s):  
Dyadic Adjustment ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
And Coping ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Antibiotic Susceptibility of Bartonella Grown in Different Culture Conditions

Pathogens ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 718
Author(s):  
Shiva Kumar Goud Gadila ◽  
Monica E. Embers
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Susceptibility ◽  
Acute Infection ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Growth Conditions ◽  
Culture Conditions ◽  
Intracellular Growth ◽  
Current Standard ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Impact

Bartonellosis is caused by a Gram-negative intracellular bacterium with a zoonotic transmission. The disease, caused by any of several genospecies of Bartonella can range from a benign, self-limited condition to a highly morbid and life-threatening illness. The current standard of care antibiotics are generally effective in acute infection; these include azithromycin or erythromycin, doxycycline, gentamicin, rifampin, and ciprofloxacin. However, treatment of chronic infection remains problematic. We tested six different antibiotics for their ability to stop the growth of Bartonella sp. in the standard insect media and in an enrichment media. All antibiotics (ceftriaxone, doxycycline, gentamycin, azithromycin, ampicillin, and azlocillin) had minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) below 0.5 µg/mL in the BAPGM enrichment media but were ineffective at inhibiting growth when the standard insect media was used. Azlocillin was the most potent, with a MIC of 0.01 µg/mL. When Bartonella was tested under intracellular growth conditions, none of the antibiotics were efficacious singly. However, growth inhibition was observed when azlocillin and azithromycin were combined. These studies illustrate the impact of growth medium and intracellular environment on antibiotic susceptibility testing and indicate that azlocillin combined with azithromycin may be an effective drug combination for the treatment of Bartonellosis.

Spirituality in the context of life-threatening illness and life-transforming change

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 653-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Young ◽  
Sheeba R. Nadarajah ◽  
Perry R. Skeath ◽  
Ann M. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Supportive Care ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Cardiac Events ◽  
Care Plans ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Higher Power ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Meaning And Purpose ◽  
And Coping

AbstractObjective:Individuals with life-threatening illness often engage in some form of spirituality to meet increased needs for meaning and purpose. This study aimed to identify the role of spirituality in persons who had reported positive, life-transforming change in relation to life-threatening cancer or cardiac events, and to connect these roles to palliative and supportive care.Method:A purposive sample of 10 cardiac survivors and 9 cancer survivors was recruited. Once the participants had given informed consent and passed screening in relation to life-transforming change and distress, they engaged in a semistructured one-hour qualitative interview on the theme of how their life-transforming change occurred in the context of their life-threatening illness. In the present article, our phenomenological analysis focuses on participants' references to purpose and meaning in their lives, with particular attention to the role and context of participants' spirituality.Results:Participants mentioned spirituality, meaning, and purpose in many contexts, including connecting with family and friends, nature, art, music, and sometimes creating a relationship with God. Participants often accessed spirituality by enhancing connections in their own lives: with a higher power, people, their work, or themselves. These enhanced connections gave participants greater meaning and purpose in their lives, and substantially helped participants to adjust to their life-threatening illnesses.Significance of results:Understanding the roles and contexts of spirituality among patients with a life-threatening illness allows us to develop better palliative and supportive care plans. Spiritually oriented supportive care may include support groups, yoga, meditation, nature, music, prayer, or referral to spiritual or religious counselors. A quantitative scale is needed to help healthcare clinicians assess the spiritual and coping needs of individuals with life-threatening illness.

Surviving childhood cancer: A descriptive approach to understanding the impact of life-threatening illness

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 235-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross E. Gray ◽  
Brian D. Doan ◽  
Peter Shermer ◽  
Annette Vatter Fitzgerald ◽  
Martin P. Berry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Cancer ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Understanding the impact of ‘wish-granting’ interventions on the health and well-being of children with life-threatening health conditions and their families: A systematic review

2021 ◽  
pp. 136749352110167
Author(s):  
Gemma Heath ◽  
Cassandra Screti ◽  
Helen Pattison ◽  
Rebecca Knibb
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Health Quality ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Study Designs ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Health And Well Being

This review aimed to explore how wish-granting interventions impact on the health and well-being of children with life-threatening health conditions and their families, using any study design. Six electronic databases (Medline; PsycINFO; CINAHL; Embase; AMED and HMIC) were systematically searched to identify eligible research articles. Studies were critically appraised using a Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Findings were synthesized narratively. 10 papers were included, reporting studies conducted across five countries, published from 2007 to 2019. Study designs were diverse (four quantitative; two qualitative and four mixed method). Results indicated improvements to physical and mental health, quality of life, social well-being, resilience and coping for wish children, parents and siblings. In conclusion, wish-granting interventions can positively impact health and therefore should not be discouraged; however, more research is needed to define and quantify the impact of wish fulfilment and to understand how it can be maximized.

Introduction to palliative care

2020 ◽  
pp. 623-628
Author(s):  
Susan Salt
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Disease Process ◽  
Underlying Disease ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
Difficult Conversations ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Palliative care shifts the focus of care from managing the underlying pathophysiological processes to one that looks at the individual and the impact of life-threatening illness on them and those important to them. It aims to prevent and relieve suffering by means of early identification, assessment, and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial, and spiritual. It focuses on interventions which might improve an individual’s quality of life rather than alter the underlying disease process, and routinely extends support to those important to the individual both during that individual’s lifetime and into bereavement. Challenges to the provision of effective palliative care include prognostic uncertainty, the necessity for engaging in difficult conversations, and the need to deal with a variety of ethical issues.

A nurse academic's lived experience with COVID-19: a reflective narrative

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Herbert Mwebe
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Life Threatening Illness ◽  
The World ◽  
Physical Threat ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Reflective Narrative

COVID-19 is incomparable in terms of its impact and reach across the globe. Every corner of the world has been affected by this virus in one way or another. The impact of COVID-19 poses an existential and physical threat to us all. This reflective narrative discusses my own experience having caught the virus and examines the impact that living with the disease has had and continues to have on my life. Battling distressing symptoms, and having had to face this life-threatening illness, evoked fear and panic within me, despite my usual level-headed, calm and easy-going personality. I ruminated whether I would be among the statistics of those who eventually recover from the disease or those who sadly do not. Therein was my mental anguish and self-torment; and I very much doubt if I am alone in this.

Emotions and health: The impact of emotions, emotions regulation, music, and acculturation on health

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Bongard ◽  
Volker Hodapp ◽  
Sonja Rohrmann
Keyword(s):  
Stress Responses ◽  
Physiological Stress ◽  
Anger Expression ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Cardiovascular Stress ◽  
Expression Behavior ◽  
Cardio Vascular ◽  
And Coping ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. Our unit investigates the relationship of emotional processes (experience, expression, and coping), their physiological correlates and possible health outcomes. We study domain specific anger expression behavior and associated cardio-vascular loads and found e.g. that particularly an open anger expression at work is associated with greater blood pressure. Furthermore, we demonstrated that women may be predisposed for the development of certain mental disorders because of their higher disgust sensitivity. We also pointed out that the suppression of negative emotions leads to increased physiological stress responses which results in a higher risk for cardiovascular diseases. We could show that relaxation as well as music activity like singing in a choir causes increases in the local immune parameter immunoglobuline A. Finally, we are investigating connections between migrants’ strategy of acculturation and health and found e.g. elevated cardiovascular stress responses in migrants when they where highly adapted to the German culture.

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