Parents' Views of Psychological Services for Children With a Disability

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
Tim Connell ◽  
Violetta Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Physical Disability ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Support Worker ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychological Coping

AbstractThe greater risk of mental health issues for all members of a family when a child has a physical disability is well established. Families' views of the type of psychological services that will be most helpful were surveyed. Parents of 69 children with physical disabilities (primarily cerebral palsy) completed a postal survey of psychological issues they had experienced in the past, value of any help received, and their descriptions of experiences with support workers that were either helpful or unhelpful to their psychological coping. Parents indicated strongly that the help for the psychological issues was helpful. Of all categories of support worker identified, the percentage of psychologists being helpful was highest. One distinctive quality of the parent-identified features of effective support services reported in this study is their simplicity. Parents want to be supported by workers who are caring, do their jobs well, provide good information about the issues and help them connect with other families.

A Content Analysis of Common Concerns of Persons with Physical Disabilities

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irmo Marini ◽  
Madhuri V. Bhakta ◽  
Noreen Graf
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Americans With Disabilities Act ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Secondary Conditions ◽  
The Third

A content analysis was conducted of letters to the editor of two physical disability-related magazines: New Mobility and Paraplegia News. Over 160 letters to the editor published from February 2001 through March 2007 were reviewed. Results indicated that despite the over 18 year old Americans with Disabilities Act, the most frequently categorized issue addressed in the letters pertained to accessibility. Adaptive aid equipment was the second most frequently cited issue, with contributors inquiring or providing information regarding low- and high-end cost adaptive aids/assistive technology. The third most frequent concern was health issues, with letter writers inquiring or providing information about treating secondary conditions for persons with physical disabilities. The implications for these and other related concerns for persons with physical disabilities are explored. Recommendations to rehabilitation counselors for engaging in advocacy efforts are provided.

scholarly journals SEXUALITY OF INDIVIDUALS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES - SOCIAL MYTHS AND PREJUDICES

10.23856/3714 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 140-147
Author(s):  
Zuzana Ivanová ◽  
Terézia Harčaríková
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Physically Handicapped

Sexuality and the life of an individual with a physical disability is a strange and unique phenomenon associated with many myths and prejudices for many people. The article defines sexuality with all  functions and impact on the quality of life of both the intact population and individuals with physical disabilities. The next part describes sexuality of physically handicapped and its specifics. Finally, the article defines the most common social myths and prejudices about sexuality of individuals with physical disabilities and partner life, which is also described in the section „z výskumu“.

scholarly journals Biomaterials for Pelvic Floor Reconstructive Surgery: How Can We Do Better?

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Gigliobianco ◽  
Sabiniano Roman Regueros ◽  
Nadir I. Osman ◽  
Julio Bissoli ◽  
Anthony J. Bullock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune Responses ◽  
Surgical Repair ◽  
Physical And Mechanical Properties ◽  
Pelvic Organ ◽  
Host Responses ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Major Health ◽  
The Past

Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) are major health issues that detrimentally impact the quality of life of millions of women worldwide. Surgical repair is an effective and durable treatment for both conditions. Over the past two decades there has been a trend to enforce or reinforce repairs with synthetic and biological materials. The determinants of surgical outcome are many, encompassing the physical and mechanical properties of the material used, and individual immune responses, as well surgical and constitutional factors. Of the current biomaterials in use none represents an ideal. Biomaterials that induce limited inflammatory response followed by constructive remodelling appear to have more long term success than biomaterials that induce chronic inflammation, fibrosis and encapsulation. In this review we draw upon published animal and human studies to characterize the changes biomaterials undergo after implantation and the typical host responses, placing these in the context of clinical outcomes.

scholarly journals Applications of Virtual Reality in Mental Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 3735-3739
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Artificial Environment ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Cost

This objective of this research is to study the application of virtual reality in health care and to especially comprehend its role in mental health care. The methodology employed in qualitative in nature, mainly descriptive that takes in to consideration the databases of various journals and academic websites. The research paper aims at providing a review and analysis on how virtual reality or the artificial environment is used to treat various health related issues, paying specific attention on the mental health and related ailments. Virtual reality has taken a great leap in the past two decades where its various applications are being used to not only treat different medical conditions but also provide training to the medical professionals, thereby reducing the cost of training manifold. The use of artificial environment has improved the quality of health care in the recent years. However, there are still few challenges that the virtual reality world faces and needs to address. The applications of virtual reality need to be communicated widely as to increase the awareness among people and lessen the stigma attached with getting help for mental health issues.

scholarly journals Depression in multiple sclerosis: Review and theoretical proposal

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 691-724 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER A. ARNETT ◽  
FIONA H. BARWICK ◽  
JOE E. BEENEY
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Theoretical Work ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
The Past ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Proposal

Because of its high prevalence and implications for quality of life and possibly even disease progression, depression has been intensively studied in multiple sclerosis (MS) over the past 25 years. Despite the publication of numerous excellent empirical research papers on this topic during that time, the publication of theoretical work that attempts to explain depression in a comprehensive way is scarce. In this study, we present a theoretical model that attempts to integrate existing work on depression in MS and provide testable hypotheses for future work. The model suggests that risk for depression begins with the onset of MS. MS results in disease-related changes such as increased lesion burden/brain atrophy and immunological anomalies that are associated with depression in MS, but explain only a relatively limited proportion of the variance. Common sequelae of MS including fatigue, physical disability, cognitive dysfunction, and pain, have all been shown to have an inconsistent or relatively weak relationship to depression in the literature. In the model, we propose that four variables—social support, coping, conceptions of the self and illness, and stress—may moderate the relationship between the above common MS sequelae with depression and help to explain inconsistencies in the literature. (JINS, 2008, 14, 691–724.)

Resilience, pain and quality of life in people with physical disabilities: A systematic review

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S733-S733
Author(s):  
P. Aranguren
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Pain Beliefs ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
The Individual ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities

IntroductionMore than a thousand million people live with a certain type of disability over the world (more than a 15% of the population worldwide). In Spain, 2.5 millions of people suffer from a physical disability. Disability can be understood as an interaction of the individual's health condition (disease, illness…) and his/her environmental and personal factors. Resilience could be included as a powerful personal factor, which would play a major role in the individual's quality of life. Resilience can be defined as a universal basic capacity to prevent, minimize or overcome life's adversities, even reaching a change in the life of the individual.AimTo determine the association among resilience, pain and quality of life in people with physical disabilities.Materials and methodsAn electronic search of several databases (Psycinfo, Medline, Pubmed…) was performed using the terms resilience, physical disability, and physical illness among others.Results– Pain and resilience show an important relationship. Factors as acceptance, pain beliefs and self-efficacy are directly related with a lower pain interference.– Resilience and quality of life show a strong positive relationship.ConclusionSeveral factors are related to resilience in people with physical disabilities. Resilience seems to be an important capacity that helps individual with physical disabilities overcome adversities. Further analyses are required.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

LONELINESS OF PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES

2006 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 681-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ami Rokach ◽  
Rachel Lechcier-Kimel ◽  
Artem Safarov
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Physical Disabilities ◽  
Population Sample ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
People With Physical Disabilities ◽  
Social Intercourse

Physical disability has a profound effect on one's quality of life, social intercourse and emotional well-being. Loneliness has been found to be a frequent companion of those afflicted with chronic illnesses that result in physical disabilities. This study examined the qualitative aspects of that loneliness. Five hundred and ninety-three participants volunteered to answer a 30-item yes/no questionnaire. Those with physical disabilities were compared to the nondisabled (general population), and then further divided into five homogeneous subgroups (i.e., those with multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, Parkinson's, arthritis, and “other” disabilities) which were compared to each other and to the general population sample who are healthy and not chronically ill. Results indicate that the loneliness of those with physical disabilities differs significantly from that of the general population.

scholarly journals Psychological Assistant Bot Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Individuals' Mental Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shomoita Jahid Mitin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Quality Of Experience ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Psychological Issues ◽  
Text Input ◽  
The People ◽  
Clinical Support ◽  
Psychological Knowledge

The ignorance of mental health has caused many lives. But there is no awareness among the peoplebecause most of the people of our country do not treat mental health issues as equally they treat the physicalissues and disagree to consult with any psychologist or spend money for psychological issues. The proposedidea is to create a psychological assistant bot using Artificial Intelligence based on supervised learning methodthat can diagnose the disease and provide basic instructions before consulting a doctor. To reduce thehealthcare costs and improve accessibility to psychological knowledge the Psychological Assistant Bot (PAB)is built. I have tried to build a prototype of a system that will take text input and give an output afterprocessing. Chabot is computer programs that mimic human conversation to interact with users through avariety of messaging channels. Chabot have also been employed for research and clinical support in everysector - domain. In the field of psychology, chatbots have been applied to informative research where surveyor interview data collection are substituted with chatbots that can interact with the subjects in web messagingapps in a psychological setting. This paper examines the design and development of a Chabot for a psychologyresearch study. The stakeholders, functionality, perspectives and technical challenges are presented anddiscussed. I apply a quality of experience framework to explore the factors that impact stakeholders andinfluence design priories.

Immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in positively stained frozen sections

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-169
Author(s):  
K. T. Tokuyasu
Keyword(s):  
Surface Tension ◽  
Water Surface ◽  
Thin Layers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Positive Staining ◽  
Frozen Sections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrathin Frozen Sections ◽  
Definition Of

During the past investigations of immunoferritin localization of intracellular antigens in ultrathin frozen sections, we found that the degree of negative staining required to delineate u1trastructural details was often too dense for the recognition of ferritin particles. The quality of positive staining of ultrathin frozen sections, on the other hand, has generally been far inferior to that attainable in conventional plastic embedded sections, particularly in the definition of membranes. As we discussed before, a main cause of this difficulty seemed to be the vulnerability of frozen sections to the damaging effects of air-water surface tension at the time of drying of the sections.Indeed, we found that the quality of positive staining is greatly improved when positively stained frozen sections are protected against the effects of surface tension by embedding them in thin layers of mechanically stable materials at the time of drying (unpublished).

Exercise Capacity in Chronic Heart Failure

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina G Mentzer ◽  
Alex J Auseon
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Heart Failure ◽  
Exercise Training ◽  
Exercise Capacity ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Pharmacologic Therapy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diagnosis And Prognosis ◽  
Future Therapy

Heart failure (HF) affects more than 5 million people and has an increasing incidence and cost burden. Patients note symptoms of dyspnea and fatigue that result in a decreased quality of life, which has not drastically improved over the past decades despite advances in therapies. The assessment of exercise capacity can provide information regarding patient diagnosis and prognosis, while doubling as a potential future therapy. clinically, there is acceptance that exercise is safe in hf and can have a positive impact on morbidity and quality of life, although evidence for improvement in mortality is still lacking. specific prescriptions for exercise training have not been developed because many variables and confounding factors have prevented research trials from demonstrating an ideal regimen. Physicians are becoming more aware of the indices and goals for hf patients in exercise testing and therapy to provide comprehensive cardiac care. it is further postulated that a combination of exercise training and pharmacologic therapy may eventually provide the most benefits to those suffering from hf.

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