Resilience as it Relates to the Young Adults with a Sudden Onset of Chronic Illness

Author(s):  
Melanie Morin
2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (8) ◽  
pp. 364-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Maslow ◽  
Abigail A. Haydon ◽  
Annie-Laurie McRee ◽  
Carolyn T. Halpern

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (49) ◽  
pp. 12-17
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Katarzyńska-Szymańska ◽  
Lidia Chmielewska-Michalak ◽  
Przemysław Mitkowski

Physical activity has a protective effect against cardiovascular disease. Population awareness has enhanced and more and more people practice not only competitive but also recreational sport. Cardiovascular causes of sudden death in athletes are rare, but still present. Sudden onset of participation in intensive leisure-time sport can lead to SCD during or directly after physical activity. Thus the ultimate goal is prevention of SCD and simultaneously not unnecessarily remove from sport which can deteriorates quality of life.


Author(s):  
Marla Morris

Curriculum means complex relations between teachers and students. Discourse on health and illness involves these relations. Health and illness are phenomenological states of being that can be fragile. Health might mean longevity, while illness could mean finality. It is not so clear, though, where health slips into illness. Illness can return in a circular fashion. So the line between health and illness is not entirely clear. When illness strikes, people’s narratives get interrupted; these narratives embody our identities. Narratives are stories that we tell ourselves. Narratives such as autobiography and biography have a long history in curriculum studies. In this field, autobiographies and biographies of teachers have historically been about happy occasions, occasions of triumph, and happy endings. Narratives of critical illness—which few curriculum scholars have dealt with—are without happy endings. Critical illness narratives concern grief, loss, and unhappy endings. Grief, bereavement, and melancholy have no timeline, no frame of reference, and sometimes no ending at all. Curriculum scholars have written about melancholy in mental illness but have not written much about it in the face of physical illness. During times of illness, some turn to the spiritual, some turn away. The spiritual can be put to use either to better understand endings or to avoid endings and deny what is happening. For some, avoidance helps the journey along. For others, facing head-on the catastrophe at hand becomes necessary. For those who slip from health into illness, radical Otherness is at hand. Being very sick isolates. Alterity, then, is key when thinking about such experiences. A phenomenology of alterity is key when thinking about health and illness. Chronic illness differs from a sudden onset of illness. People can be relatively healthy and yet suffer from chronic illness. People can be, on the other hand, very sick with chronic illness for many years. Some chronic illnesses are invisible. Grief over invisible illnesses tends not to be taken seriously by others because the illness is not visible. On the other hand, if there are physical symptoms that others can see, grief over that illness tends to be taken more seriously by others than illnesses which are invisible. Curriculum, or lived experience, is about health and illness because this is life’s trajectory. One cannot become educated in a disembodied way. Education happens in bodies that exist on a continuum between health and illness.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Zheng ◽  
Maureen George ◽  
Eugene Roehlkepartain ◽  
John Santelli ◽  
Jean-Marie Bruzzese ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND Developmental assets provide a framework for optimizing development among adolescents but have not been studied in adolescents with chronic illness and comorbid depression, which is a group at risk for poor health outcomes. YouTube postings provide valuable insights to understand this understudied population. OBJECTIVE This study aims to explore asset development from the perspectives of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with chronic illness and comorbid depression. METHODS YouTube was searched using 12 chronic illnesses (eg, diabetes) coupled with “depression” as keywords. Videos were included if they were uploaded by AYAs aged between 11 and 29 years and discussed living with chronic illness and depression during adolescence. Video transcripts were coded deductively for 40 internal and external assets that constitute the Developmental Assets Framework. Categories not captured by deductive coding were identified using conventional content analysis. Categories and their respective assets were labeled as being discussed either negatively or positively. RESULTS In total, 31 videos from 16 AYAs met the inclusion criteria. A total of 7 asset categories, support, constructive use of time, boundaries and expectations (external assets), identity, commitment to learning, positive values, and social competence (internal assets), reflecting 25 (13 internal; 12 external) assets, were discussed. Internal assets, particularly relating to identity, were commonly discussed by AYAs either in a negative way or fluctuated between positive and negative perspectives. CONCLUSIONS In this sample of AYAs with chronic illness and comorbid depression, internal assets were commonly discussed in a negative way. Future research is needed to better understand how assets develop and if the Developmental Assets Framework adequately represents the experiences of this population.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Krishna Prasad Koirala

 Background: Bell's palsy is defined as idiopathic, sudden onset, unilateral lower motor neuron facial paralysis. The etiology of Bell's palsy is unclear. It affects all age ranges with complete recovery in most cases. However, few patients are left with a considerable permanent functional deficit. The disease has variable progression ranging from few hours to days. Diagnosis is usually made when a patient presents with sudden onset unilateral lower motor neuron facial paralysis without an obvious cause. Different medical therapies such as steroids, antivirals, physiotherapy, acupuncture, etc. have been used to enhance the recovery of Bell's palsy. This study aims to find out the common age of presentation of people with Bell's palsy, and also to report their outcome with the use of steroids. Materials and methods: This study is a prospective observational study carried out in the department of ENT and Head and neck surgery at Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal. Patients of all ages and both sex with the diagnosis of Bell's palsy meeting the inclusion criteria were studied from 1st Jan 2015 to 31st Dec 2018. Data were taken and analyzed with the help of SPSS software and results were published. Results: Out of 45 patients of Bell's palsy enrolled in the study, females outnumbered the males. Bell's palsy was more commonly seen in young adults There was a significant short-term improvement in Bell's palsy with the use of steroids (p=0.00001). There was no difference in early recovery after Bell's palsy regardless of the time of presentation within a week or age of the patient at presentation. Conclusion: Bell's palsy is more common in young adults. Steroids have a definite role in the short-term improvement of facial nerve function. People presenting within a week of facial nerve palsy can be treated with steroids. People of all ages can equally improve with steroid treatment.


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