Chronic Illnesses
Correlates of Depression among Patients Diagnosed with Chronic Illnesses in Saudi Arabia
... and chronic illnesses appears vital to public health assessment and health care delivery ...with chronic illnesses given the increased patients’ demands and cost of health ...to chronic ...
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Association between chronic illnesses and self perception of Health in elderly people
... of chronic illnesses the indication in health units is yet weak, prioritizing treatment and neglecting ...of chronic illnesses and that show the importance of physical exercise in reducing ...
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Just regionalisation: rehabilitating care for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses
... with chronic illnesses often do not receive appropriate follow up services and assistance either because of lack of availability or lack of awareness of these of these services ...with chronic ...
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Health Care Preferences and Priorities of Adolescents With Chronic Illnesses
... The purpose of this study was to use items directly derived from adolescents with chronic illnesses to create a measure of health care preferences that could guide and help monitor new approaches to ...
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Psychosocial Health Status of Patients Diagnosed with Chronic Illnesses in Jordan
... with chronic illness were ...with chronic illnesses and that incidence of depression is almost twice among patients with diabetes mellitus, others [25] reported that depressive symptoms was less ...
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Psychological Wellbeing of Saudi Patients Diagnosed with Chronic Illnesses
... with chronic illnesses in Saudi ...with chronic illnesses has been used to collected data in regards to depressive symptoms, psychological distress and life ...with chronic illness ...
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Mortality in a cohort of complex patients with chronic illnesses and multimorbidity: a descriptive longitudinal study
... When we consider end-of-life patients under palliative care, there is a tendency to think of patients with ter- minal cancer; indeed, in practice, palliative care is mainly focused on this type of patient. However, given ...
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Quality of Life in Childhood Migraines: Clinical Impact and Comparison to Other Chronic Illnesses
... Headaches are common in children and adoles- cents. This report validates the use of PedsQL 4.0 in migraine patients who are aged 2 to 18. It further demonstrates that headaches in children and adoles- cents affect QOL ...
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Telehomecare for patients with multiple chronic illnesses
... to chronic disease care, collaborative team approaches, and increasing use of clinical information systems in primary care can only enhance future telehomecare ini- ...
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Culture, Ethnicity, and the Family: Critical Factors in Childhood Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities
... Specific Domains of Family Functioning Anglo- American Aboriginal Cluster Native American Indian Native American Hawaiian Parent-focused responsibility Child rearing Work roles Education[r] ...
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Monitoring and Evaluating Managed Care for Children With Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities
... Evaluation and monitoring strategies should focus on outcomes in a number of domains in- cluding: (1) access to care; (2) utilization of services; (3) quality of care; (4) satisfaction w[r] ...
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Race and Ethnicity: Issues for Adolescents With chronic Illnesses and Disabilities. An Annotated Bibliography
... health services to culturally diverse emotionally dis- turbed children, adolescents, and their families. Tech- nical assistance is provided to states so that programs[r] ...
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Community Physician's Role in Case Management of Children With Chronic Illnesses
... be effective case managers, alterations in the current system of care will be required including continuing ed- ucation related to chronic illness, information about com- munity resource[r] ...
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Informing Schools About Children's Chronic Illnesses: Parents' Opinions
... strongly believed that the school needed informa- tion about recognizing the physical aspects of a child’s illness and treatment (Table 1). They least strongly believed that the school n[r] ...
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Pain severity predicts depressive symptoms over and above individual illnesses and multimorbidity in older adults
... Patients with multi-morbidity are typically on a number of medications to try and manage their underlying chronic illnesses. Hence, the most common treatments prescribed in general practice for depression ...
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Multimorbidity in a Mexican Community: Secondary Analysis of Chronic Illness and Depression Outcomes
... more chronic illnesses is a significant predictor of comorbid ...the chronic illnesses examined, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, asthma, heart attacks in the past, emphysema, and ...
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Accuracy of Triage for Children With Chronic Illness and Infectious Symptoms
... with chronic illnesses are triaged in the same manner as previously healthy ...with chronic illnesses has not yet been ...with chronic illnesses who presented to the ED with ...
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Disability incidence and functional decline among older adults with major chronic diseases
... and chronic conditions, in- cluding the ‘big four’ NCDs, in all ...and chronic lung disease in 1998 or at any point during the observation period are thus categorized as persons with major chronic ...
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Rates of pneumonia among children and adults with chronic medical conditions in Germany
... certain chronic illnesses, were at increased risk of pneumococcal disease prior to the widespread introduction of seven-valent pneumococ- cal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in the US and western Europe, recent ...
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Alternative or complementary attitudes toward alternative and complementary medicines
... Background: Integrative and complementary health approaches (ICHA) are often pursued by patients facing chronic illnesses. Most of the studies that investigated the factors associated with ICHA consumption ...
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