Title of Study: When darkness falls at mid-day: Young Patients' Perceptions and Meanings of Chronic Illness and Their

Implications for Medical Care Author: Aim: Findings: Recommendations: Deborah Atobrah To examine the Young adults had very Health workers and social implications of such low knowledge of workers need to pay ample perceptions and chronic illnesses and did attention to their peculiar constructions for medical not consider themselves counseling needs care. at risk to chronic particularly with respect to diseases. Families of their health seeking young patients were more behavior. likely to make future search for "spiritual diagnosis" than elderly patients and their families keeping silent and maintaining secrecy about diagnosis are important ways by which young adult patients cope with their condition and young patients nurture a strong hope of cure.

Title of Study: Family Member's uncertainty About Parental Chronic Illness: The relationship of Hemophilia and HIV Infection to Child Functioning Author: Aim: Findings: Recommendations: Ric G. Steele, Gail To examine the Family members' illness Child's perception of Tripp, Beth Kotchick, relationships among uncertainty was inter parental illness and his/her Pete Summers, and Rex parental and child correlated, that child's perception or expectations Forehand uncertainty about Father's uncertainty about the of the outcome of the illness and child father's illness predicted illness should be internalizing problems. both anxiety and considered. depressive symptoms in the child, and that mother's uncertainty predicted child-reported anxiety beyond the child's uncertainty.

Tile of Study: Children and Young Adults with Parents with Cancer: a Population based study Author: Aim: Findings: Recommendations: Astri Suse, Gjoril B. To find out the leading It was found out that An understanding of health Aas, Jon H. Loge cause of parental death paternal death is more and welfare systems may and whether maternal or likely to happen than help navigation and thus paternal death affects a maternal death. The most improve coping and reduce child more. common maternal stress, benefitting the diagnoses are breast children involved. cancer, skin cancer, and cervical cancer. Whereas the most common paternal diagnoses were testicular cancer, skin cancer and colorectal cancer.

Title of Study: Differential outcomes of Adolescents with Chronically Ill and Health Parents. Authors: Aim: To examine the Findings: Adolescents Recommendations: In Dominik Sebastian Sieh, outcome differences in with parents affected by congruence with a family Johanna Maria Augusta behavioral, psychosocial CMC displayed more centered approach (Gorter Visser-Meily, Anne and academic outcomes internalizing problems et al, 2008) We recommend Marie Meiler between 161 adolescents than the comparison group professionals to from 101 families with a and scored higher on communicate with parents chronically ill parent. frequency of household ad children about the chores, care giving diagnosis and the short and responsibilities, activity long term impact of restraints, isolation, daily parental illness in the hassles and stress. family

Title of Study: Problem Behavior in Children of Chronically Ill Parents: A Meta-Analysis Authors: Aim: Finding: Recommendations: D.S. Sieh, A.M. Meijer, To examine whether The smallest sample To receive education about F.J. Oort, J.M.A. Visser children of chronically ill consisted of 23 children how illness can impact on - Meily and D.A.V. Van parents differ from norm from the target group families and how to treat der Leij groups in problem and the largest sample undesirable behaviors and behavior. We report included 336 children. emotions of family moderator effects and Illness duration or mean members., overall effect sizes for time since diagnosis internalizing, ranged between 2 moths externalizing and total and 9.5 years and was problem behavior 3.7 years on average. assessed by children and parents.

Title: Parental Involvement of Chronically Ill Mothers and its Impact on the Child's Education Author: Aim: Findings: Chen, Yung-Chi Determine how maternal Majority of students of chronic illnesses may mothers with chronic affect children's academic illness were able to functioning through function adequately in parental involvement. terms of academic achievement. Children of chronically ill mothers with higher academic efficacy tended to do better academically than those of mothers with lower levels of efficacy.

Title: How Children Handle Life When Their Mother or Father is Seriously Ill and Dying Author: Aim: Finding: Recommendations: Dorte Buchwald RN Describe and understand Analysis produced and The qualifications of the PHD, how children handle their overarching theme of adult professionals must be Charlotte Delmar RN life when a mother and death's waiting room, enhanced. Training and PHD, father is dying with following subsupervision should be Birgitte Shantz - Laursen themes: Relating to offered to nurses and RN PHD death, when death teachers to better prepare becomes even more them for counseling such clearly manifest, and children and to discover handling life in death's more about children's life. waiting room

Title: Risk factors for problem behavior in adolescent of parents with chronic medical condition Authors: Aim: Findings: Recommendations: Dominic Sebastian Sieh, To identify those factors Adolescents with a Future research should Johanna Maria Augusta with the highest impact chronically ill parent examine culturally diverse Visser-Mely, on internalizing problem display slightly more sample, apply an illness FransJoroencort, Anne behavior and internalizing problems classification system and Meijer externalizing problem than other children. This make use of comparison behavior is due to adolescents group. feeling of isolation, daily hassles affecting their social and school life and lower quality of mother child attachment.

Title: Differential outcomes of adolescents with chronically ill and healthy parents. Authors: Aim: Findings: Dominic Sebastian Sieh, Determine the different The target group scored Johanna Maria Augusta behavioral, psychosocial higher on internalizing Visser-Mely, and academic outcomes problem behavior, care FransJoroencort, Anne between adolescents with giving variables, daily Meijer chronically ill hassles and stress

Recommendations: It should be evaluated whether children need assistance for care giving tasks, leaving sufficient time for their leisure and school activities.

Title: An exploration study of Effectiveness of child parent relationship therapy (CPRT) on Children internalizing behavior problems. Author: Aim: Findings: Recommendations: S. Alizadeh, M. Talib, R. To determine the There is a significant To use a longitudinal study Abdullah. differences of difference in the to fully realize the impact M. Mansor internalizing children's internalizing symptoms of the training overtime. behavior problems between pre and post text between parents exposed in the experimental to CPRT and those who group: also demonstrated are not among Iranian that CPRT as a treatment mothers in Tehra in the experimental group was effective and led to a significant change in maternal perspective as reflected by a decrease in internalizing behavior problems of children.

Title: Implementing a knowledge application program for anxiety and depression in comunity based primary mental health care Authors: Aim: Findings: Paquale Roberge, Louise To implement and evaluate No results yet. The study Fournier, Helene this evidence based will be conducted until Brouiller, Catherine knowledge application October 2014 Hudon, Jamie Houle, program to examine the Martin D. Provencher, contextual factors Jean Frederic Levesque associated with the selection of local quality improvement strategies; To explore barriers and facilitators associated with the implementation of local quality monitoring strategies.

Title: How Chronic Illness Affects Family Relationships and the Individual Author: Aim: Findings: Jacquelyn J. Thompson To present a Many chronically ill comprehensive overview people spend more time of the current research in isolation. regarding chronic illness A chronic illness can so that individuals in the cause resentment and helping professions can jealousy to occur gain awareness about the between siblings. effects of chronic illness Healthy siblings have on the individual and its been shown to develop impact on the family. In adjustment problems and addition, this review will display more aggressive provide an outline of behaviors in an attempt current treatment options to obtain more parental and examine how culture attention. Some healthy influences the manner in siblings could develop which a family deals with enhanced coping skills chronic illness. and have an increased sense of family due to growing up with a chronically ill sibling (Weiss et aI., 2001). In regards to counseling individuals with a chronic illness, all family members should be part of the therapeutic process. EFT can be very effective in helping individuals and families in treatment deal with the consequences of a chronic illness. It helps people deal directly with the negative emotions, such as anger and grief, and help to establish a secure attachment between family members.

Recommendations: how chronic illness affects the sibling relationships and the individual with the chronic illness Evaluation on the effectiveness of other service models when working with this population. How the children with a chronic illness and the healthy sibling are coping with the illness. More research needs to be conducted to better illustrate how a chronic illness impacts the family relationships, function, and structure, as well as give a more comprehensive understanding of how different cultural factors directly impact chronic illness