Sentence examples for distress behaviour from inspiring English sources

Approaches include improving the ward environment, providing opportunities for purposeful activity, improving the understanding and management of distress behaviour through staff training, integrating mental health expertise with general nursing and by developing partnerships with family carers [ 28, 29].

At a dose of 40 mg kg−1, sorafenib did not elicit any overt toxicity, as manifested by weight loss, unkempt appearance, mortality, and distress behaviour, in all sorafenib-treated animals during the course of treatment.

Following abrupt weaning, beef calves exhibit distress behaviours [ 3, 4], with alterations in hormonal mediators of stress [ 5, 6] and immune function [ 7- 9] evident up to 7 d post-weaning.

(Field notes, ward observation) Distressed behaviours were those that appeared to indicate that the person with dementia was suffering in some way and attempting to make this known.

The goals of care of the individual with dementia are to relieve distress, prevent behaviour that might result in injury, and optimize remaining physical and psychological faculties.

A study on praire voles, which are monogamous and mate for life, found that they will console one another by grooming when one individual is observed suffering from painful distress – a behaviour previously thought to be unique to a small number of highly intelligent species such as chimpanzees.

3. What factors do participants report as moderating the relationships between external stressors, distress and behaviour change?

Evaluation of the respiratory distress and behaviour indicated a direct correlation between the clinical score and the App lung lesion score at necropsy.

This fits recent acknowledgements that precounselling factors like past cancer stressors are important determinants for subsequent distress and behaviour (Zakowski et al, 1998; Baider et al, 1999; Erblich et al, 2000; Rees et al, 2001).

As well as observing general condition (e.g., respiratory distress, abnormal behaviour and no food/fluid intake), toxicity was assessed by using body weight measured every 3 4 days, as a surrogate marker.

In addition to assessing the physiological response to experimental real-life stressors, it is important to consider other key elements of the stress response, such as the individual's appraisal of the threat of the event, perceived distress, coping behaviour and personality characteristics [ 4].