The relationship between healthcare professionals and the parents of chronically ill children: negotiating the boundaries between dependence and expertise

The relationships between psychiatric symptoms and life events scaled for the aetiological relevance of Chance, Self and Others were explored in a sample of 220 parents of chronically ill children. Psychiatrically impaired subjects reported a significant excess of life events in each of the three categories, and not just the Self-caused scale. Similar findings occurred when the aetiological contingency scalings were combined with scalings of Distress and Life Change. Impaired subjects reported an excess of Distress and Life Change attributable to Chance and Others, as well as to Self. The correlation between psychiatric symptoms and self-caused events was weaker than the correlation between a) symptoms and Others-caused events, and b) symptoms and the raw number of events. These findings are interpreted as support for the proposition that the relationship between events and symptoms in the present study is not found because of contamination of the former (independent) variable by the measure of the latter (dependent) variables.

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Trauma, Resilience, and Growth in Parents of Chronically Ill Children

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e610612010-001 ◽

2010 ◽

Author(s):

Kristi Pikiewicz

Keyword(s):

Chronically Ill ◽

Chronically Ill Children

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The impact of some disease related variables on the psychological problems of chronically ill children

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e627722013-478 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Ashiq Ali Shah ◽

Azizah Othman

Keyword(s):

Chronically Ill ◽

Psychological Problems ◽

Chronically Ill Children ◽

The Impact

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Hypovitaminosis D in chronically ill children in Greece and its management

Bone Abstracts ◽

10.1530/boneabs.2.p91 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Tsiamasfirou Damiani ◽

Tsakiropoulos Charalambos ◽

Vassilakis Alexandros ◽

Paspati Ioanna

Keyword(s):

Hypovitaminosis D ◽

Chronically Ill ◽

Chronically Ill Children

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Health Status of Healthcare Professionals Working in an Institute for Chronically Ill Psychiatric Patients

Physical Culture and Sport Studies and Research ◽

10.1515/pcssr-2015-0016 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 66 (1) ◽

pp. 43-52

Author(s):

Katalin Nagyváradi ◽

Zsuzsa Mátrai

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Working Conditions ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Chronically Ill ◽

Subjective Health ◽

The State ◽

State Of Health ◽

Subjective Health Status ◽

Objective Health

AbstractSeveral research works in the related international literature on sociology and health sciences deal with the state of health in one selected population. In these studies, the chosen sample is often connected with special jobs, especially with healthcare professionals and their working conditions. These studies predominantly examine the self-rated subjective health status using questionnaires. There are others that assess the state of health based not only on self-rated subjective indicators, but also using objective data gained by measuring. Considering the international experiences, we chose a special population in our research – healthcare professionals working in an institute for chronically ill psychiatric patients. Our choice was influenced by the fact that we wanted to include their unique working conditions when exploring and assessing their health status. Moreover, our approach was to assess the objective state of health alongside the subjective factors, as our hypothesis was that the majority of the indicators presumably coincided. The data were collected with the help of three questionnaires and some indicators of the objective health statuses were measured. The findings were processed using the SPSS 17.0 mathematical-statistical software package. Following the descriptive statistics, we applied hierarchic cluster-analysis based on results of the WHOQOLD-BREF26 life-quality questionnaire, the WHO WBI-5 Well Being Index, and on the body composition analysis. The results show the objective and subjective health status of population and the factors that influenced it; the working conditions and the interpersonal contacts in the workplace. The conclusion was that in the examined population the subjective and objective health status doesn’t coincide.

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Does Online Community Participation Contribute to Medication Adherence? An Empirical Study of Patients with Chronic Diseases

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18105100 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (10) ◽

pp. 5100

Author(s):

Jyh-Jeng Wu ◽

Yueh-Mei Chen ◽

Paul C. Talley ◽

Kuang-Ming Kuo

Keyword(s):

Medication Adherence ◽

Chronic Diseases ◽

Online Communities ◽

Emotional Support ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Online Community ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Informational Support ◽

Chronic Patients ◽

The Relationship

Effectively improving the medication adherence of patients is crucial. Past studies focused on treatment-related factors, but little attention has been paid to factors concerning human beliefs such as trust or self-efficacy. The purpose of this study is to explore the following aspects of patients with chronic diseases: (1) The relationship between emotional support, informational support, self-efficacy, and trust; (2) the relationship between self-efficacy, trust, and medication adherence; and, (3) whether chronic patients’ participation in different types of online communities brings about significant statistical differences in the relationships between the abovementioned variables. A questionnaire survey was conducted in this study, with 452 valid questionnaires collected from chronic patients previously participating in online community activities. Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling analysis showed that emotional support and informational support positively predict self-efficacy and trust, respectively, and consequently, self-efficacy and trust positively predict medication adherence. In addition, three relationships including the influence of emotional support on trust, the influence of trust on medication adherence, and the influence of self-efficacy on medication adherence, the types of online communities result in significant statistical differences. Based on the findings, this research suggests healthcare professionals can enhance patients’ self-efficacy in self-care by providing necessary health information via face-to-face or online communities, and assuring patients of demonstrable support. As such, patients’ levels of trust in healthcare professionals can be established, which in turn improves their medication adherence.

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