COMMUNICATION DISORDER
A mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities
Examples of anxiety disorders include panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Symptoms include stress that’s out of proportion to the impact of the event, inability to set aside a worry, and restlessness.
Treatment includes counseling or medications, including antidepressants.
Age Onset: Children or following strokes or brain injuries.
Symptoms: Not based on perception difficulties such as blindness or deafness; affecting understanding or production of speech.
Progression: Performance significantly lower than expectations for that age of child or adult.
Causes: Developmental in children; stroke or brain damage in adults may cause “aphasia,” the inability to understand or express language.
Therapies: Mostly by speech and language therapists.
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- The Psychoeducational Interventions: a valuable communication tool to support the caregiver of people with dementiaby Simona Cintoli on December 20, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: The evidence from this pilot study indicated that caregiver support interventions in both conditions significantly improved several and important outcomes: they showed a significant effect in reducing caregiver strain and improving ability and knowledge. Indeed, Psychoeducational Interventions contribute to effective coping strategies to mitigate caregiver burden so they can continue to provide care for loved ones.
- The therapeutic effects of probiotics on core and associated behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysisby Jen-Chin Lee on December 20, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: Our study supported probiotics use against the overall behavioral symptoms of ASD, mainly in individuals receiving multiple-strain probiotics as supplements. However, our results showed that probiotics use was only associated with improvement in adaptation and perhaps anxiety, but not core symptoms, highlighting the impact of adaptation on quality of life rather than just the core symptoms. Nevertheless, the limited number of included trials warrants further large-scale clinical...
- Correlation between measured oral health and oral health-related quality of life in people with epidermolysis bullosa: a prospective cohort studyby Theresa Joanning on December 20, 2024
CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study corroborate the challenges faced by patients with EB in the oral domain and the deterioration of their OHRQoL. These results emphasize the necessity for dentists to engage comprehensively in disease management, encompassing routine examinations, preventive dental care and oral hygiene education. Consequently, enhanced communication is required not only between dental and dermatological teams but also with caregivers.
- Adolescent experiences of weight-related communication: Sociodemographic differences and the role of parentsby Leah M Lessard on December 20, 2024
CONCLUSION: Weight-related communication is prevalent among adolescents and parents, with variation across sociodemographic characteristics. As healthcare professionals and parents were identified as the preferred sources for weight-related communication by adolescents across sociodemographic groups, it is important that paediatricians and parents are equipped to engage in these conversations without imparting stigma.