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Showing 1 to 20 of 311 for “"chronic illness"”.
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Childhood Chronic Illness: Impact on Well Siblings
<p>Chronic illness incidence is escalating in our society. Chronic conditions and illnesses affect not only the individual but the entire family. Health care research has shown interest toward this topic. The familial response to a childhood chronic condition has been studied by a variety of …
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Gender Differences in Coping with Chronic Illness.
… populations. Many patients with life-threatning illnesses have frequent suicidal thoughts. The difference in reasons for living between men and women with and without chronic illness was investigated. The suicide ideation was determined by ratings on a 48 item Reasons for Living questionnaire. …
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The role of school nurses and chronic illness
… the child has survived, they have developed chronic illnesses due to these advances. These conditions they must live with everyday and depending on how severe the illness may be, they will impact the child's social and educational life. The role of the school nurse should be to ease the …
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Integrating Chronic Illness into One's Life: A Phenomenological Inquiry
<p>Chronic illness is currently the number one health problem facing the United States; however, little is known about the experience of making chronic illness a part of one's life, particularly from the perspective of the chronically ill person. If nurses are to assist people in living with …
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Children's participation in chronic illness decision-making: an interpretive description
… the participation of one group of children—chronically ill school-age children— in decisions related to their health care. Adopting interpretive description as methodology, data were collected and analyzed through interviews and participant observation with 31 chronically ill children (ages …
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Medical and Parental Predictors of Self-Efficacy in Pediatric Chronic Illness
… particularly important in youth struggling with chronic illness (CI) given its association with poorer adherence and worse prognosis. Parental factors such as income and marital status, and youth factors such as number of hospitalizations have been examined as contributing to self-efficacy in …
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Preliminary Validation of the Pediatric Rating of Chronic Illness Self-Efficacy
… We created the Pediatric Rating of Chronic Illness Self-Efficacy (PRCISE) to measure self-efficacy in children and adolescents dealing with a chronic illness (CI). Method: Data were collected from 217 families where one child aged 7-20 (Mage = 13.62, SDage = 2.92; 62.7% Latino, 58.1% …
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A qualitative exploration of family members’ experiences of paediatric chronic illness
… of living with a child who has a paediatric chronic illness (PCI) and one part that also reflects on the research process. The systematic review utilised a thematic meta-synthesis approach to analyse 12 studies, consulting 373 healthy siblings regarding their experiences of living with a PCI. …
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Chronic Illness: Its Effects on the Patient, Spouse and Their Relationship
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Living with chronic illness. A biographical analysis of a family's account.
… in the number of adults with at least one chronic illness condition (Carrier, 2009). The turn to caring for those with a chronic illness at home has resulted in carers having an increased risk of developing health problems (Ohman & Soderberg, 2004). As such there is a need to understand how …
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Self-directed learning to promote healthy lifestyles for adults with chronic illness
… opportunities to help manage and reduce their illness can be challenging due to many perceived barriers. Often, these struggles can limit access to medications, quality healthcare, and the resources needed for self-directed learning to decrease symptoms. Access to obtaining information within …
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Differentiation of psychosocial issues between chronic illness groups : development of a scale
… to measure psychosocial status of people with chronic illness, resulting in an overall measure of attitude to life post diagnosis, to gauge a measure of physical mobility, and to determine differences and similarities in areas of concern and need, across three diagnostic groups: diabetes, …
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Patient perspectives on health care system navigation : the chronic illness multi-morbidity experience
Meeting the health care needs of people with chronic conditions presents one of the greatest challenges for 21st century health care system renewal. Appropriate redesign of health care delivery with this complex patient population in mind requires information from many sources. Although much is …
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IMPROVING CHRONIC ILLNESS MEDICATION ADHERENCE: A COUNTERFACTUAL THINKING-BASED MODEL OF PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION
… the number of Americans affected by at least one chronic condition requiring medication therapy will grow to 157 million. Effective medications are a cornerstone of prevention and disease treatment, yet only about half of patients take their medications as prescribed, resulting in a common and …
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Blogging Chronic Illness and Negotiating Patient-hood: Online Narratives of Women with MS
… narratives about women's everyday lives with chronic illness are mapped onto the landscape of social media through blogging. Social media is facilitating an already-existing shift in patients' roles as they are increasingly enabled and expected to self-educate themselves about their illness, …
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