Summary: The questionnaire “Quality of Life with Chronic Disease” (German: “Profil der Lebensqualität chronisch Kranker”, PLC) measures the quality of life experienced by patients with chronic diseases on the physical, emotional and social levels, making ...
Indicators of school-related well-being of healthy and chronically ill children: Psychometric examination and validation of adapted FEESS-scalesAbstract. School-related well-being (SRWB) is an important ...
Abstract. Background: COVID-19 has led to a change in care for patients with chronic conditions, involving a transfer of drug administration from an outpatient to a community setting. Aim: To investigate patient ...
Everyday life of adolescents with sickle cell disease – A qualitative, explorative and participative photovoice studyAbstract.Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited haematological condition ...
Community health nursing in urban setting (CoSta): Development of a care concept for people with chronic conditions in primary careAbstract.Background: Community Health Nursing (CHN) is currently being discussed in German-...
Clinical Youth PsychologyAbstract: Clinical youth psychology deals with deviant developmental pathways for the period from adolescence to early adulthood. Problematic development is caused by smoking and alcohol abuse. Special demands and stress arise ...
Trends and Fields of Application in Clinical Child PsychologyAbstract: In many different areas of the still new discipline of clinical psychology considerable progress has been made. Developmental and intelligence diagnostic, support/care of chronically ...
Family time as a protective factor for emotional and behavioral problems of children and adolescents with diabetes mellitus type IAbstract. Diabetes mellitus type I is a chronic disease, often diagnosed in ...
Despite insufficient data, multimorbidity is in Switzerland an emerging issue on the agenda of public health and medical institutions. In this article the most current issues for and obstacles towards valid prevalence figures are discussed. Available ...
Patients suffering form chronic diseases have to deal with several problems, the illness itself only being one of them. Health care providers have to undergo a paradigm shift to be able to meet the new challenges which differ from those in acute care. ...
Anemia in the ElderlyAbstract. Anemia is an increasing cause of morbidity in the elderly. In 70–80 % of cases the cause can be identified as either due to iron deficiency, chronic disease, renal insufficiency or vitamin B12-/folate-deficiency. Up to one ...
Rare Findings in the Workup of Abdominal PainAbstract. Atypical symptoms such as abdominal discomfort or epigastric pain can be misleading in patients presenting conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension or ...
Abstract. Research activities of the Department of Rehabilitation Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, mainly focus on psycho-social distress of patients with chronic somatic diseases. Examples of current or recent research projects are: ...