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Admission of a loved one to the Intensive Care Unit is a profoundly stressful experience for family members. The unpredictable nature of critical illness, the unfamiliar environment, and the potential for adverse outcomes contribute to significant psychological distress. Understanding the stress...

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has been denoted as a place of uncertainty, fear, anxiety and sorrow as the experience of having a baby admitted to the NICUis seldom unexpected, traumatic and demanding. Previous studies have discovered that families of NICU infants often experience...

Background: Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world. It is the leading cause of adult-onset disability, and causes nearly 80% of all global stroke mortalities. After suffering from a stroke, patients, suffer from varying degrees of disability that require...

Introduction: Management of patients with Low Back Pain (LBP) may raise ethical issues in physiotherapy clinical practice that may affect practitioners‟ efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare delivery. The aim of this study was to explore and provide additional insight into the nature and...

Caring for a child who has an intellectual disability can be stressful on the part of caregivers within the family context. A limited number of studies conducted elsewhere on this subject have not focused on the entire family, but on parents of children with intellectual disabilities and results...

It is an undisputed fact that nearly every individual in Zambia has experienced or been affected by an act or omission that may amount to medical negligence. In the normal case of negligence the court is fully competent to lay down what the reasonable man should do in everyday circumstances,...

Many previous researchers on child sexual abuse (CSA) found that support and protec-tion from the caregiver provide the child an effective platform for quick recovery and improvement in mental health and social functioning (Lovett, 2004). Nonetheless, not all caregivers are supportive of...

The paper examines the problems consumers of adulterated food products who may wish to take legal action encounter in adducing evidence to prove facts of negligence and damage. To be successful negligence and damage must coexist. In this study six points have been identified at which problems...