The framework includes attention to protective experiences and characteristics and promotes research and evaluation design in a way that explicitly is intended to create a rhythm or pattern of questioning that enhances resilience and decreases distress and potential re-traumatization.
We have therefore taken a more conservative approach with view to minimise distress and potential harm.
Failure of such techniques often result in a child receiving further distress and potential risk of a general anaesthetic.
Nevertheless, high levels of parental distress and potential influence of parents on child well-being highlight the importance of attending to parental reactions when assessing children.
Complete data on sleep in late pregnancy, birth weight, fetal distress and potential confounders were available for 633 women; 194 Māori women and 439 non-Māori women (46% and 57% of the original cohort).
We did not consider dystocia and fetal distress as potential risk factors because of the poor reliability of their definition and because this diagnosis may reflect post ad hoc justifications of cesarean use, rather than objectively assessed conditions [ 17, 18].
Patients undergoing mechanical ventilation experience significant stress superimposed on their acute medical problem, ranging from anxiety about their surroundings and condition to distress with potential pain from necessary nursing care and procedures.
Calls from the desk phone answered by HCWs were perceived by most patients to be relevant to healthcare services, with the assumption that HCWs exercised professionalism and would not attend to personal calls during their clinical duties.HCWs expressed their concerns and distress about potential medical errors due to phone-calls interrupting their clinical tasks and thinking processes.
Interviews focus on the family and social network of the deceased, the ways in which relatives and friends interpreted and responded to his/her distress, the potential for intervention that may have existed within the lay network and the knowledge, skills and other resources that would have helped members to support the distressed individual more effectively.
The alarm call, given when shocked or distressed by potential danger, is an explosive snort, made by expelling air through the nostrils.
