Chronic illness adjustment scale (CIAS): Development and validation.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to (i) develop a self-report instrument to measure adjustment to chronic illness, (ii) evaluate its core structure and (iii) study various psychometric properties in the development of this instrument.

Method: The entire process of developing and validating the instrument is conducted in different phases: item writing and content validation; exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to extract dimensions of the instrument; reliability and validity testing. A total of 1095 participants were included in the study.

Enhancing adherence and management in patients with hypertension: Impact of form and frequency of knowledge intervention.

Background: The alarming rise in prevalence of hypertension warrants psychosocial methods supplementing pharmacotherapy for better management and prevention of cardiac emergencies. The objective of the study was to assess the differential impact of the form and frequency of knowledge intervention on management of primary hypertension.

Materials And Method: The study was conducted on 256 hypertensive patients recruited through purposive sampling at health centers in Hyderabad, India.

Impact of psychosocial intervention on prognosis of cardiac surgery patients.

The study examined the impact of two types of psychosocial intervention on prognosis and psychological distress of patients subjected to Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), and investigated whether such impact was direct or mediated. A sample of 300 participants (243 men and 57 women; mean age: 56.1 years) was recruited into three groups.

Development and Preliminary Testing of the Biopsychosocial Prognosis Scale for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.

Background: The present study attempted to develop a self-report scale called Biopsychosocial Prognosis Scale for Coronary Artery Bypass grafting (BIPROSCAB) that measured patients' prognosis in an integrated manner, a month after they had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

Method: The development and preliminary testing of the psychometric properties of BIPROSCAB followed five phases involving 450 patients in total.

Results: Findings gave rise to a 25-item scale which was subjected to an exploratory factor analysis using principal component analysis with varimax rotation.

Enhancing Hospital Well-being and Minimizing Intensive Care Unit Trauma: Cushioning Effects of Psychosocial Care.

Context: Hospitalization has the potential to induce hospital anxiety, while admission in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is found to surpass the anxiety and result in what is termed as "ICU Trauma."

Aims: This study aimed to determine the impact of psychosocial care and quality of ICU on ICU trauma and hospital well-being in patients who underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG).

Settings And Design: This correlational study involved 250 CABG patients, who were recruited from five major corporate hospitals.

Care givers' depression, anxiety, distress, and somatization as predictors of identical symptoms in cancer patients.

Context: The critical condition of the cancer patient and the stringent medical procedures do not often warrant the accessibility of the patient for psychological evaluation. Therefore, the study is conceptualized to assess the psychological problems of caregivers, which in turn have their impact upon cancer patients.

Aims: The objective of the study was to explore the relationships between depression, anxiety, distress, and somatization in cancer patients and their caregivers along with age, gender, and relationship; and to measure whether these psychological problems of caregivers were predictors of the identical symptoms of the cancer patients.

The intensive care unit psychosocial care scale: Development and initial validation.

The main objective of the current study was to construct a new self-report scale - ICU-PC Scale - to measure the psychosocial care (PC) of patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and examine different psychometric issues in the development and initial validation of this scale. The findings indicate that the ICU-PC Scale has established high internal consistency. A three-factor structure - protection of human dignity and rights, transparency for decision making and care continuity and sustained patient, family orientation - has been identified with a substantial number of subjects (N=250) in hospital settings.

Role of psychosocial care on ICU trauma.

Context: Patients treated in intensive care units (ICU) though receive the best medical attention are found to suffer from trauma typically attributed to the ICU environment. Biopsychosocial approach in ICUs is found to minimize ICU trauma.

Aims: This study investigates the role of psychosocial care on patients in ICU after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG).