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Nanda de Knegt – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
Many people with intellectual disabilities (ID) depend on caregivers for pain identification and pain management decisions. Therefore, the aim was to explore caregivers' experience with pain in Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), Williams syndrome (WS), and Fragile-X syndrome (FXS). A questionnaire was developed to gather third-party reporting of mainly…
Descriptors: Pain, Intellectual Disability, Identification, Caregiver Role
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Ayed, Ahmad; Sayej, Sumaya; Harazneh, Lubna; Fashafsheh, Imad; Eqtait, Faeda – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Background: Palliative care (PC) is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-threatening illness through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification, impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems like physical, psychosocial and…
Descriptors: Nurses, Health Services, Knowledge Level, Case Studies
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Cavendish, Roberta – Journal of School Nursing, 2003
The Atlantic and Pacific coasts are the boundaries of Lyme disease with the Northeastern and Midwestern regions of the United States continuing to report the majority of cases. New reported cases of Lyme disease doubled from 1991 to 2001 according to statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2002). Within that…
Descriptors: Disease Control, Health Education, School Nurses, Diseases