4296.0 Emerging clinical issues on the health of persons with disabilities

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
The presence of disability often makes prevention and control of other health issues, which occur secondary to the primary disability, difficult. The four papers in this session address such issues of secondary health conditions in persons with disabilities.
Session Objectives: Identify at least one emerging health issue for persons with disability.
Organizer:
Kiyoshi Yamaki, PhD
Moderator:
Meg Ann Traci, PhD

2:30pm
Welcoming Remarks
2:35pm
Medically improved group
Kathleen Thomas, PhD
2:53pm
Effects of pain on depression are mediated by fatigue, anxiety, and sleep in Multiple Sclerosis
Robert Askew, MPH, Dagmar Amtmann, PhD, Jiseon Kim, PhD, Hyewon Chung, PhD and Kurt L. Johnson, PhD
3:11pm
A RCT feasibility study of a Transitional Care Model that integrates physical and mental health care for individuals discharged from a psychiatric hospitalization
Nancy Hanrahan, PhD, RN, FAAN
     
3:29pm
Increased disability negatively affects the QOL and mental health of ALS patients while increasing caregiver burden
Richard Kimball, MSN/MPH, PHCNS-BC, RN, PhD
     
3:47pm
Discussion

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Disability
Endorsed by: Aging & Public Health, Mental Health, Chiropractic Health Care

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