Extant research is ambivalent about whether or not working outside the home provides mothers of children with special needs a buffer against the stressful effects of caregiving. The empirical evidence of a respite effect is based primarily on small, non-probability samples.
Objective: To examine whether increased provision of community-based services is associated with decreased psychiatric hospitalizations among children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).Design: Retrospective cohort study using discrete-time logistic regression to examine the association of ser
Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are at risk for having higher stress and lower marital quality than other parents.
The magnitude of stress and associated health consequences experienced by caregivers compromises their ability to effectively provide care to children, especially children with disability.
BACKGROUND: The changing scope of women’s roles in combat operations has led to growing interest in women’s deployment experiences and post-deployment adjustment.
Sexual infidelity has a high prevalence in both representative community and treatment-seeking samples, and has been identified by experienced therapists as one of the more difficult couple problems to treat.
While much has been written about the role of caregiving for the elderly and chronically ill and for children with special needs, little is known about “military caregivers”—the population of those who care for wounded, ill, and injured military personnel and veterans.
Objective: Distressed marriages enhance risk for a variety of health problems. Immune dysregulation is one potential mechanism; cross-sectional studies have demonstrated that marital distress is linked to maladaptive immune alterations.
This study investigates unintended negative effects of health communication campaigns surrounding intimate-partner violence.
Objective: To evaluate the campus-wide administration of the Know Your Power bystander-oriented social marketing campaign.