Correlational study: illness representations and coping styles in caregivers for individuals with schizophrenia.

Background: Caring for individuals with schizophrenia can create distress for caregivers which can, in turn, have a harmful impact on patient progress. There could be a better understanding of the connections between caregivers' representations of schizophrenia and coping styles. This study aims at exploring those connections.

[The French version of Symptom Management Theory and its application].

Patients with chronic diseases remain a challenge for patient centered care in terms of symptom management. In advancing the nursing profession in this respect, organizing and providing such care in a structured and systematic way benefits from being grounded in a sound theoretical framework. Since 1994, University of California in San Francisco's Symptom Management Theory (SMT) holds promise to provide such theoretical foundation.

[Prevalence of violence reported by patients consulting an emergency service].

Violence and their consequences on health is increasingly part of the daily activities of health professionals. A large proportion of victims of violence do use emergency services according to the literature. Those services are often the first contact in the health care system for victims of violence.

[Local resources in management of adult victims of violence and abuse: a method of presentation and diffusion].

Always more health problems require integrated care. So professionals needs to be aware of local and regional network resources (social, legal, home care, etc.) and specific offers of each individual institution.