OPTIMISM AND PSYCHOSOCIAL FUNCTIONING IN CARING FOR CHILDREN WITH BATTENS AND OTHER NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELISE E. LABBE
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Neurological Diseases

Optimism and Psychosocial Functioning in Caring for Children with Battens and Other Neurological Diseases,

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3_part_2) ◽  
pp. 1129-1135
Author(s):  
Elise E. Labbé ◽  
Irma Lopez ◽  
Lisa Murphy ◽  
Carol O'brien
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Life Orientation Test ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Disease Experience

Psychosocial functioning was compared between 32 caregivers of children with Batten's disease, a terminal, neurodegenerative illness, and with 20 caregivers of children with epilepsy or cerebral palsy. Caregivers’ optimism was expected to be associated with better psychosocial functioning, regardless of the children's illness. A multivariate analysis of covariance indicated caregivers of children with Battens disease had significantly ( p < .01) higher depression and anxiety scores on the Symptom Checklist-90 and demands on health and time schedule scores measured by the Caregiver Reaction Assessment than the comparison group. Pearson product-moment correlations were significant and ranged from –.52 to –.48 ( p < .01) for scores on Life Orientation Test optimism and psychosocial functioning as measured by the Family Environment Scale and the SCL-90 for all participants. Findings suggest that caregivers of children with Battens disease experience greater psychological distress than the comparison group and that optimism is positively related to better caregivers’ psychosocial functioning regardless of the type of illness.

Optimism and Psychosocial Functioning in Caring for Children with Battens and other Neurological Diseases

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1129-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elise E. Labbé ◽  
Irma Lopez ◽  
Lisa Murphy ◽  
Carol O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Neurological Diseases ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Depression And Anxiety ◽  
Life Orientation Test ◽  
Life Orientation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Disease Experience

Psychosocial functioning was compared between 32 caregivers of children with Batten's disease, a terminal, neurodegenerative illness, and with 20 caregivers of children with epilepsy or cerebral palsy. Caregivers' optimism was expected to be associated with better psychosocial functioning, regardless of the children's illness. A multivariate analysis of covariance indicated caregivers of children with Battens disease had significantly ( p < .01) higher depression and anxiety scores on the Symptom Checklist-90 and demands on health and time schedule scores measured by the Caregiver Reaction Assessment than the comparison group. Pearson product-moment correlations were significant and ranged from –.52 to –.48 ( p < .01) for scores on Life Orientation Test optimism and psychosocial functioning as measured by the Family Environment Scale and the SCL-90 for all participants. Findings suggest that caregivers of children with Battens disease experience greater psychological distress than the comparison group and that optimism is positively related to better caregivers' psychosocial functioning regardless of the type of illness.

Minocycline in neurological diseases ? Authors' reply

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-139
Author(s):  
L METZ ◽  
V YONG
Keyword(s):  
Neurological Diseases

Minocycline in neurological diseases

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
F BANDINI
Keyword(s):  
Neurological Diseases

Identification and Utility of a Short Form of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist-Youth Self-Report (PSC-17-Y)

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-64
Author(s):  
Paul Bergmann ◽  
Cara Lucke ◽  
Theresa Nguyen ◽  
Michael Jellinek ◽  
John Michael Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Parent Report ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Symptom Checklist ◽  
Factor Analyses ◽  
Youth Self Report ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Pediatric Symptom Checklist ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analyses

Abstract. The Pediatric Symptom Checklist-Youth self-report (PSC-Y) is a 35-item measure of adolescent psychosocial functioning that uses the same items as the original parent report version of the PSC. Since a briefer (17-item) version of the parent PSC has been validated, this paper explored whether a subset of items could be used to create a brief form of the PSC-Y. Data were collected on more than 19,000 youth who completed the PSC-Y online as a self-screen offered by Mental Health America. Exploratory factor analyses (EFAs) were first conducted to identify and evaluate candidate solutions and their factor structures. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were then conducted to determine how well the data fit the candidate models. Tests of measurement invariance across gender were conducted on the selected solution. The EFAs and CFAs suggested that a three-factor short form with 17 items is a viable and most parsimonious solution and met criteria for scalar invariance across gender. Since the 17 items used on the parent PSC short form were close to the best fit found for any subsets of items on the PSC-Y, the same items used on the parent PSC-17 are recommended for the PSC-Y short form.

Psychosocial Functioning of Fathers of Pediatric Oncology Patients

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina K. Hardy ◽  
Melanie J. Bonner ◽  
Katherine C. Hutchinson ◽  
Victoria W. Willard
Keyword(s):  
Pediatric Oncology ◽  
Psychosocial Functioning ◽  
Oncology Patients
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