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Patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and their spouses (N = 105 couples) reported on perceived spouse behavior and patient pain 5 times/day for 14 days using Personal Data Assistants (PDAs).
Although a questionnaire developed by Leidig 14 assesses perceived spouse response to pain and well behaviours, it is limited because it has never been used after publication, either in a German or any other sample and has not been further investigated for its psychometric properties.
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Spouses perceived the highest burden among caregivers.
However, some interesting patterns emerged, e.g. in two of the three couples with the largest within couple differences in HLQ scores, responses revealed discrepancies in how the men and their spouses perceived their situation.
'Push factors' discouraging rural practice included: lack of employment opportunities for spouses; perceived inadequate quality of secondary schools; age related issues (retirement, desire for younger peer social interaction, and intention to travel); limited opportunity for career advancement; unmanageable workloads; and inadequate access to CPD.
And such attitudes affect how couples, especially the trailing spouse, are perceived by their colleagues.
Lack of involvement in decision making about the care of a spouse was perceived by the participants in this study as a negative experience.
Some reports have suggested that the distress of mothers of PDD-affected children was correlated with perceived control by their spouses [ 14], expressed support from their spouses was the best predictor of quality of parenting [ 11], and mothers of autistic children expressed the need for additional support from their spouses [ 2].
Sessions can become a wedge between a musician and a nonplaying spouse, or even the source of jealousy when a spouse perceives a rival in the group.
Less-active spouses often perceived exercise only as a 'hobby' they had never enjoyed and only reluctantly taken part in, for example at school or in the army.
38, 39 For example, Bookwala and Schulz 18 investigated 1,040 elderly married couples and found that indicators of well-being for one spouse, such as perceived health, depressive symptoms, feelings about life as a whole, and satisfaction with life were significantly correlated with the well-being of the other spouse.
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