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From the patient perspective, medicine burden is more than the number of medicines, or the complexity of medicine regimens they need to manage. Relationships between the number of medicines, regimen complexity and patient perception of medicine burde...

Background: Due to the increasing care needs of older adults, family caregivers are more and more solicited. This can have a negative impact on their quality of life related to a lack of preparedness for caregiving and feelings of burden. Objectives:...

There is limited information on knowledge, perceptions, and management of sickle cell disease (SCD) in Africa in general and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in particular. This study explored knowledge, perceptions, and burden of 26 par...

The COVID-19 pandemic burdened the working and living conditions of seafaring personnel with particular challenges. The present study investigated the health and occupational burden of 301 multinational seafarers from merchant ships using self-admini...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has a significant impact on the life of patients undergoing chronic periodic hemodialysis. It negatively affects their social, economic and family status, and particularly their psychological well-being. The aim of this s...

Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic affected neuro-oncological patients and their caregivers regarding tumor care and emotional functioning, including Quality of Life (QoL). This study aimed to understand how COVID-19 affected their psychological state...

Background: COVID-19-associated restrictions impact societies. We investigated the impact in a large cohort of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients. Methods: Pediatric (pIBD) and adult patients and pIBD parents completed validated questionnaires...

Breast cancer (BC) diagnosis and treatment have become a cumulative long-standing chronic disease impairment, causing stress and turning into an allostatic load (AL) framework. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between physical issues...

Environmental health literacy (EHL) includes knowledge of health effects due to environmental exposure and skills to protect health from environmental risks. This study investigated some aspects about EHL of the Italian adult population. Data were co...

Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) can be considered as an element in the third phase of environmental risk management. Its focus is on providing inclusive descriptions of multiple impacts from multiple stressors in such a way...

Aim: This scoping review aimed to synthesize the quality of life (QoL) and perceived burden among caregivers of patients with Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Background: The QoL and burden among caregivers of patients with OCD is an import...

Background/Objectives: The beliefs about a disease and its treatment determine how patients and caregivers manage and adapt to the illness. The study aimed to explore the QoL and mental health of children with food allergy (FA), and parental illness...

People with end stage renal disease and undergoing hemodialysis experience a high symptom burden that impairs quality of life. This study aimed to assess the prevalence, dynamicity and determinants of symptom burden among middle-aged and older adult...

Background: Vascular strokes are the leading cause of long-term disability for adults. They impose high levels of burden on the patient, the family, and national healthcare systems worldwide. This study aimed to assess the effects of patients’ and ca...

This study aims to identify the social and psychological burdens placed on educators during the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan and to propose an optimal form of support. We investigated educators’ perceptions of psychological and...

The aim of this study was to assess the adequacy of dietary folate intake and perceptions of pill burden among Saudi patients on maintenance hemodialysis (MHD). This was a cross-sectional study of adults (>18 years) on MHD (>3 months) attending...

(1) Background: Spouses of individuals with bipolar disorder (BD) experience significant burdens, and the perception of the burden may affect dyadic adjustment. We aimed to investigate the sexual functions, alexithymic traits, marital satisfaction, a...

Background/Objectives: Burden Syndrome, also known as Caregiver Syndrome, particularly affects those who serve in the role of informal caregiver in the presence of family members with conditions. The ABCX dual model examines the impact on the caregiv...

COVID-19 has caused a public and international health emergency, leading to isolation and social distancing. These restrictions have had a significant impact on the caregivers of people with dementia, increasing the burden of patient management. The...

Background/Objectives: Socioeconomic stressors, such as financial strain, rising living costs, and perceived price burden, have gained relevance in the post-pandemic period and may adversely affect adolescent mental health. This study examined the as...

Environment perception technology is the most important part of driverless technology, and driverless vehicles need to realize decision planning and control by virtue of perception feedback. This paper summarizes the most promising technology methods...

Providing refugees with psychosocial support is particularly important considering the high level of mental health problems prevalent in this population. A psychosocial walk-in clinic operating within a state reception and registration center in Germ...

Objectives: To investigate the illness perceptions of patients with occupational skin diseases (OSDs). Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Specialised healthcare centre for inpatient and outpatient individual prevention in occupational dermatolog...

Background: Pandemics are related to changes in clinical management. Factors that are associated with individual perceptions of related risks and decision-making processes focused on prevention and vaccination, but perceptions of other healthcare con...

Wildlife damage can impose both material and non-monetary burdens on residents living near protected areas. Although associations between perceived wildlife damage and conservation attitudes are well documented, less is known about whether threat- an...

Background: As people age, their physical functions decline, and changes in social roles and life experiences put older adults at a higher risk of social isolation. Methods: In this study, we employed both snowball and purposive sampling techniques t...

Background: Critical Care Providers (CCPs) experience situations that challenge their ethics and professional standards and may entail moral distress (MD). Aim: To analyze MD perceived by CCPs in intensive care units (ICUs) or emergency departments (...

The purpose of this study was to analyse the subjective perception of stress burden in family caregivers, especially those caring for disabled and elderly persons. The tool for quantifying the burden was the Meister questionnaire, which describes the...

Background/Objective: Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have become deeply embedded in global dietary patterns. However, their widespread consumption conceals the dual hidden risks of delayed physiological health effects and long-overlooked environmental...

(1) Background: The aim of this work is to investigate the extent to which pregnant women’s well-being is burdened by the diagnosis of gestational diabetes, as well as their sensitivities and illness perceptions. Since gestational diabetes is a...

Background/Objectives: HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer continues to have a significant impact on patients’ lives. The HERmione project was conducted in France to identify patients’ needs for support and information, understand serv...

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and their risk factors are increasing with associated disability and mortality burden globally, especially in low- and middle-income countries, including Cameroon. Physiotherapist-led health promotion (PLHP)...

This study focuses on the concrete role of the presence of a ward’s service climate in cultivating nurses’ collaboration with family members. Accordingly, this study examined the moderating role of the service climate in the link between...

Smoking combustible cigarettes causes an enormous health and financial burden in the U.S. Across tobacco and nicotine products, cigarettes are ranked as the most toxic. Any harm reduction efforts rely on smokers understanding nicotine’s absolut...

Background: Adults on maintenance hemodialysis experience multiple physical and psychological symptoms that can affect confidence in self-management and perception of care received from healthcare providers. Understanding the interplay between sympto...

This study examines how individuals’ perceptions of the importance of their health insurance benefits (Insurance Importance) influence their overall job satisfaction (Job Satisfaction), with health insurance satisfaction (Insurance Satisfaction...

The surrender of cats to animal shelters results in financial, social and moral burdens for the community. Correlations of caretaking and interactions with surrendered cats were calculated, to understand more about humans’ relationships with surrende...

Only a few studies, mainly qualitative thematic analyses of interviews, have dealt with the psychological experience of parents of children and adolescents with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a rare genetic syndrome involving skeletal fragility and in...

The care crisis has become a global trend, and the demand for child and elderly care is increasing worldwide. The increasing number of home care workers plays a significant role in meeting this demand in developing countries. The mental health of the...

The rapid and widespread of COVID-19 has caused severe multifaceted effects on society but differently in women and men, thereby preventing the achievement of gender equality (the 5th sustainable development goal of the United Nations). This study, u...

Vehicle–road–cloud collaborative perception improves perception performance via multi-agent information sharing and data fusion, but it faces coupled trade-offs among perception accuracy, computing resources, and communication bandwidth....

The experience of burden among family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia may be deleterious for their health and well-being. Little is known, however, about the degree to which internal positive psycholog...

Family caregivers of people with mental disorders face a number of burdens and stressors, such as associative stigma and burnout. These burdens are often a result of their caring role coupled with insufficient support or ineffective coping strategies...

The aging population in developing countries is a reality which has given rise to degenerative diseases, among them dementia. The changes undergone during dementia cause a loss of functions which makes the person affected more dependent on others in...

Background: The aim of this study was to describe the correlations between the psychosocial burden on male caregivers and their perception of social support, as well as distress, anxiety, and depression among their partners in the first six months af...

To analyse how patients with chronic diseases would interpret their illness, and how these interpretations were related to spirituality/religiosity, life satisfaction, and escape from illness, we performed a cross-sectional survey among patients with...

Background/Objectives: Family caregivers of individuals with schizophrenia often face considerable psychological and physical strain due to the complexity of caregiving. Although psychoeducation has demonstrated benefits in alleviating this burden, i...

Providing child and family health (CFH) services that meet the needs of young children and their families is important for a child’s early experiences, development and lifelong health and well-being. In Australia, families living in regional an...

African cities are at increasing risk for disasters, including floods. Pikine, Senegal—located on the outskirts of the Dakar metropolitan region—has experienced regular floods since 2005 due to a rising water table, dense settlement, and inadequate d...

Background/Objectives: This study aims to examine the impact of the caregiving role on quality of life, perceived burden, gender dissonance, and self-stigma among male caregivers of individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) in Andalusia, Spain. Method...