Barriers to health professionals detecting and referring cancer patients include a lack of time and self-confidence or experience in investigating distress and in using psychometric instruments [ 11].
The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 required that the NIH focus more on developing methods that lessen the use of research animals, reduce pain and distress in animals used, or avoid using animals altogether.
Recent analysis of survey data indicates that Indigenous adults are three times more likely to have very high levels of psychological distress than other Australians. 1 In using the term Indigenous we refer to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and acknowledge their diversity of language and culture.
States in India have launched 911-like systems for women in distress using the currently existing emergency call center platforms.
Partly under the influence of a Bradford University-based psychologist, Tom Kitwood, Beatitudes' carers have a policy of not contradicting - and even playing along with - the delusions of the residents, avoiding confrontations, de-escalating conflicts, and "redirecting" the attention of those in distress, using distractions and pleasurable activities.
State officials are weighing several options for money now committed to the overall grant program, like redistributing some of it to other hospitals in distress or using it to help cushion the restructuring of the Medicaid system that the administration envisions.
The nature of UNICEF's resource support to the Government also underwent a change from the provision of emergency support to children and women in distress, to using UNICEF resources to complement the rehabilitation process from resources generated by the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
Further studies should be conducted in a psychiatric population focusing on clients in severe distress, and using outcome measures that are not identical to the feedback measures.
Health professionals often fail to detect distress in their patients [ 12] due to time constraints, and a lack of confidence in assessing distress and using psychometric instruments [ 13].
A recruited sample of 405 women would provide 80% power to detect a 3.4 unit difference in psychological distress measured using the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) between those with and without chronic pain, assuming a s.d. of 10 units (Tasmuth et al, 1996).
