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Mother Support Groups
... practical support of the baby’s father and their family, relatives, and neighbors, and the wider ...mother-to-mother support groups are so ...
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Experiences of parents of substance-abusing young people attending support groups
... drug abusing relative in the family affects its functioning, and may lead to high levels of stress and trauma, [7] placing all family members at risk of increased medical problems and healthcare utilisation [8]. ...
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Evaluation of support groups for women with breast cancer: importance of the navigator role
... not support groups of any kind might yield benefits not only for HQOL, but also for ...from support groups to individual or couple counseling, and concluded that, rather than an effect on ...
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A survey of participants in two internet support groups for people with hair pulling
... internet support groups were helpful in terms of learning about the symptoms and treatment of TTM, tips on how to decrease hair pulling, and in giving a name to their hair-pulling ...
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Heterosexual couples and prostate cancer support groups: a gender relations analysis
... One in seven Canadian men are diagnosed with prostate cancer (PCa), an illness accompanied by diverse and significant physical and mental health issues [1]. For many men PCa is experienced as a chronic, long-term illness ...
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Support groups for individuals with early stage dementia: An exploration of group experiences and processes
... the support group has long been established as a means of supporting carers for people with dementia (see for example Monini, Tognetti, Cinque, Di Franco, & Bartorelli, 2001; Morris, Woods, Davies, Berry, ...
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An ethnographic study of support groups : The pain accounts of older members
... The literature recommends that a group should provide informational support to its members (Hatzidimitriadou, 2002). However the standard of the information that is available at support groups may ...
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Using support groups to improve behaviour : an evaluation of an intervention to support pupils perceived as having SEBD
... Over a five-year period, the study followed the progress of four cohorts of secondary 2 (S2) pupils aged 12–14 years (69 in total) who participated in support groups over the period of the study, and their ...
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Are online support groups always beneficial? A qualitative exploration of the empowering and disempowering processes of participation within HIV/AIDS related online support groups
... online support groups can be a useful venue where individuals living with HIV/AIDS can share information and personal experiences, connect with similar others, and to obtain emotional ...online ...
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The cutting edge of clinical psychology? : the internet, mental health & self harm support groups
... individuals' support and well-being. From the online support groups used within the empirical paper, and feedback from individuals who access them, it appears that they are being used in a safe and ...
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A single blind randomized control trial on support groups for Chinese persons with mild dementia
... The support group involved in this study was structured, time limited, and allowed participants to share on different ...The support group lasted for ten sessions, with one session a ...three support ...
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Patterns of engagement with inflammatory bowel disease online support groups: comparing posters and lurkers
... online support groups as frequently or for as long each time as compared with ...not support earlier studies that appeared to suggest a relationship between lurking and length of time being a group ...
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Cancer-related electronic support groups as navigation-aids: Overcoming geographic barriers
... electronic support groups (ESGs) may be regarded as a complement to face-to-face groups when the latter are available, and as an alternative when they are ...face-to-face groups include an ...
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The Role of Self-Care Management Support Groups for Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease.
... between groups. Results indicated that support group participation was not significantly related to any self-care management ...that support groups alone may not be the only contributors to ...
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Online support groups for head and neck cancer and health-related quality of life.
... for support, information and advice related to many aspects of health [15], and there is an expanding number of online support groups (OSGs) available for different health conditions including cancer ...
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Living with Breast Cancer: Emotion-Work Strategies in Breast Cancer Support Groups
... found support groups to function in this way, the present study identifies another way it can occur, that is, by seeking and sharing medical information, and using it to redefine illness in less threatening ...
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Benefits of peer support groups in the treatment of addiction
... This article builds upon these reviews by the specificity on peer support groups, which is a common platform in treat- ment. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first article to date to take such an ...
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ALZHEIMER S SUPPORT GROUPS
... Stage Support Groups are groups created for both the Patient in the Early Stages of Alzheimer’s disease, or those with MCI, and their ...caregivers. Groups are given at the same time and ...
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Peer to peer user support in electronic support groups
... Electronic Support Groups (voortaan: “ESG”) laten gebruikers dus met elkaar in contact komen middels het Internet, vaak in de vorm van een Webforum 1 of een USENET groep 2 ...
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Characteristics and benefits of Online Support Groups.
... Some support groups had their own website which was returned in the results set and others were linked from a general site about the ...Several support groups were located for each ...all ...
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