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Health anxiety by proxy - through the eyes of the parents

Abstract Health anxiety by proxy is a newly described phenomenon where parents worry excessively that their child suffers from a serious illness. In a former study, six parents with distressing worries about their child's health were interviewed to…

The need of patients living with cancer for palliative care

Background: A comprehensive assessment of patients' problems and needs is

Sleep quality moderates the association between family bereavement and heart rate variability

Two separate bodies of literature point to the link between family bereavement and cardiovascular health and between sleep quality and cardiovascular outcomes. However, less is known about the joint influence of family bereavement and sleep quality…

Psychological and Psychiatric Comorbidities in Youth with Serious Physical Illness

An estimated one in six children in the United States suffers from a mental disorder, including mood, anxiety, or behavioral disorders. This rate is even higher in children with chronic medical illness. This manuscript provides a concise review of…

Tags: 2022, anxiety, Calarge C, Children, Chronic Illness, Delirium, Depression, ill, Kentor R, Masood Y, medically, Nibras S, October 2022 List, Palliative Care, Price K, Psychological Distress, Schneider NM, Tenenbaum RB

Pediatric palliative care parents' distress, financial difficulty, and child symptoms

CONTEXT: Parents of patients with a serious illness experience psychological distress, which impacts parents' wellbeing and, potentially, their ability to care for their children. Parent psychological distress may be influenced by children's symptom…

Associated Factors of Psychological Distress among Japanese NICU Nurses in Supporting Bereaved Families Who Have Lost Children

PURPOSE: This study aimed (1) to examine the current status of psychological distress experienced by neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurses in supporting bereaved families, (2) to identify the factors associated with psychological distress, and…

Psychosocial functioning in pediatric cancer

2005

Tags: 2005, Adaptation, and multi-institutional cooperation will aid future pediatric psycho-oncology investigators., and special risk populations. Methodological challenges, appropriate methodology, Backlog, coping and adjustment, improving methodology, Journal Article, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Kupst MJ, late effects, Patenaude AF, PedPal Lit, procedural pain, psyc hosocial researchers will be better able to conduct longitudinal studies not only of adjustment and its predictors but also of the impact of the emerging medical treatments and interventions to ameliorate late effects of treatment. Additional funding, Psychological Child Communication Cost of Illness Family/psychology Humans Neoplasms/, Psychological Distress, Social Behavior%X OBJECTIVE: To describe the emergence of pediatric psycho-oncology and to summarize research on psychosocial aspects of childhood cancer and survivorship. METHODS: To review research into illness communication and informed consent, subsets of more vulnerable patients and family members exist. Factors predicting positive and negative coping have been identified. CONCLUSIONS: As the numbers of pediatric cancer survivors increase, therapy Pain/psychology Psychology Sick Role Social Adjustment

End-of-life Care Patterns Associated With Pediatric Palliative Care Among Children Who Underwent Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant.

Stem cell transplantation (SCT) is an intensive therapy offering the possibility of cure for life-threatening conditions but with risk of serious complications and death. Outcomes associated with pediatric palliative care (PPC) for children who…

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