Diabetics To Seek Mental Counseling To Cope With Stress
Diabetics should make it a point to seek mental counseling. Experts say diabetics under mental distress raise their risk for heart disease // because of unhealthy habits they implement to deal with the stress. The study, which sampled 4,241 diabetics, showed nearly 13 percent of respondents experience psychological symptoms such as stress, depression, anxiety or other emotional problems....HIV-positive Parents Require More Counseling
In a study done to evaluate the effect of diseases on contact with children it was seen that children of parents with HIV // were less likely to get the kind of affection other kids received. Results also showed about a quarter of HIV-positive parents report avoided certain types of physical contact with their kids out of fear they might transmit the disease to their children or pick up...Trained Counselors Counseling Pregnant Smokers To Quit May Not Work
A research report presented in the latest BMJ said that results of a randomized controlled trial of home based motivational interviewing by midwives to help pregnant smokers quit or cut down had yielded not significant improvement in the smoking habits of the mothers//. A third of pregnant women smoke and current guidelines recommend that they should be offered intensive support to hel...Family Counseling To Encourage Children Eat Healthy
Counseling the family at home can effectively encourager the children to eat healthy. This is specifically true for children suffering from diseases. Researchers from Finland’s University of Turku had found that home-based counseling could lead to healthier eating habits among children with a family history of cardiovascular disease. // Genetic predisposition and unhealthy...Home Based HIV counseling in African Countries
Christopher Smith, Member of African Subcommittee, House Committee on International Relations has urged the African countries to implement house to house AIDS testing and counseling as done in Uganda. //Uganda is conducting this program and as been found very effective in early diagnosis of HIV and also helps in avoiding social stigma of violence against HIV positive person due to ignorance about...