Purpose: This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Dyadic Relationship Scale
(DRS), which measures negative and positive dyadic interactions from the perspective of …

Background Evidence continues to build for the impact of the marital relationship on health
as well as the negative impact of illness on the partner. Targeting both patient and partner …

Illness does not ask. It demands. Families coping with childhood chronic illness face a
persistent threat: the illness may demand so much that it becomes the organizing principle of …

Based on family members' subjective accounts of the illness experience, this study identifies
unique styles of family response to childhood chronic illness. Drawing on principles of …

Because chronic, life-threatening illnesses consume increasing proportions of health
resources, investigators have focused efforts on understand-ing the processes by which …

This study is framed in theories of illness uncertainty (Babrow, AS, 2007, Problematic
integration theory. In BB Whaley & W. Samter (Eds.), Explaining communication …

Background Heart failure is a burdensome clinical syndrome, and patients and their
caregivers are responsible for the vast majority of heart failure care. Objectives This study …

Abstract focuses on the effects of chronic illness on the marital relationship, and ways in
which well partners affect their spouses' adjustment to the illness/describe theoretical …

Examining caregiving issues from a multigenerational, family life cycle perspective, this
volume deals with the broad spectrum of chronic illnesses that necessitate family caregiving …