Cancer Medicine, 2022 Background Symptoms of depression and anxiety are elevated among parents of children with cancer. However, knowledge of parents' psychotropic medication use following child's cancer diagnosis is scarce.
Niina S. Metsä‐Simola +3 more
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The impact of providing care to relatives with a severe mental illness : the caregivers’ experience [PDF]
, 2014 The purpose of this study is to explore the impact on Maltese family caregivers in providing care to a relative with a severe mental illness (SMI). Purposive sampling and in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven caregivers (four ...
Fenech, Michelle, Scerri, Josianne
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RCareWorld: A Human-centric Simulation World for Caregiving Robots [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 We present RCareWorld, a human-centric simulation world for physical and social robotic caregiving designed with inputs from stakeholders, including care recipients, caregivers, occupational therapists, and roboticists. RCareWorld has realistic human models of care recipients with mobility limitations and caregivers, home environments with multiple ...
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Efficacy of a self-help manual in increasing resilience in carers of adults with depression in Thailand [PDF]
, 2016 Caring for a person with a mental illness can have adverse effects on caregivers; however, little is known about how best to help such caregivers. The aim of the present study was to examine the efficacy of a cognitive behaviour therapy-guided self-help ...
Fan Y. C. +9 more
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Learning From Peers: A Survey of Perception and Utilization of Online Peer Support Among Informal Dementia Caregivers [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Informal dementia caregivers are those who care for a person living with dementia (PLWD) without receiving payment (e.g., family members, friends, or other unpaid caregivers). These informal caregivers are subject to substantial mental, physical, and financial burdens.
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2019 ObjectiveStudies have shown preliminary support for mindfulness-based interventions benefitting people with dementia and their caregivers. However, most studies focus on these two groups separately.
Lotte Berk +10 more
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SPARCS: Structuring Physically Assistive Robotics for Caregiving with Stakeholders-in-the-loop [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Existing work in physical robot caregiving is limited in its ability to provide long-term assistance. This is majorly due to (i) lack of well-defined problems, (ii) diversity of tasks, and (iii) limited access to stakeholders from the caregiving community. We propose Structuring Physically Assistive Robotics for Caregiving with Stakeholders-in-the-loop
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Assessing posttraumatic stress disorder in children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities [PDF]
European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2016 Background: Evidence suggests that children with mild to borderline intellectual disabilities (MBID; IQ 50–85) have an elevated risk for both being exposed to potentially traumatic events and developing a posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Liesbeth Mevissen +3 more
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Opportunities in Mental Health Support for Informal Dementia Caregivers Suffering from Verbal Agitation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 People with dementia (PwD) often present verbal agitation such as cursing, screaming, and persistently complaining. Verbal agitation can impose mental distress on informal caregivers (e.g., family, friends), which may cause severe mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety disorders.
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Evaluating the Possibility of Integrating Augmented Reality and Internet of Things Technologies to Help Patients with Alzheimer's Disease [PDF]
, 2023 People suffering from Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their caregivers seek different approaches to cope with memory loss. Although AD patients want to live independently, they often need help from caregivers. In this situation, caregivers may attach notes on every single object or take out the contents of a drawer to make them visible before leaving the ...
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