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Family and Friends Treatment Report
See also: Children, Husband, son, grandson, daughter-in-law, Spouse's support
What is Family and Friends? The support and presence of family and friends during illness can be quite valuable, even essential, to an overall feeling of well-being.
Reasons used
161 patients in the community are using or have used Family and Friends.
Top 10 (Show all)
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
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| General health | 43 | 26% |
| Other | 36 | 22% |
| Support another treatment | 12 | 7% |
| Depression | 8 | 4% |
| happiness | 8 | 4% |
| Slow my ALS progress | 5 | 3% |
| Mobility | 2 | 1% |
| Loneliness | 2 | 1% |
| support | 1 | <1% |
| support network | 1 | <1% |
Other treatments patients are using for General health include Multivitamins, Omega 3 Fish Oil, and Vitamin C.
Schedules
Based on the patients currently using Family and Friends.
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| 0hours as needed | 0other as needed | 10000000 other all the time (24/7) | 1000minutes as needed | 100 min all the time (24/7) | 100other as needed | 10hours as needed | 1440 min all the time (24/7) | 15minutes as needed | 15 other all the time (24/7) | 1hours as needed | 1 min all the time (24/7) | 1minutes as needed | 1 other all the time (24/7) | 1 other as needed | 1other as needed | 1tbs. as needed | 20 other all the time (24/7) | 24 hr all the time (24/7) | 2hours as needed | 2 hr all the time (24/7) | 30minutes as needed | 365 other all the time (24/7) | 60 min all the time (24/7) | 60minutes as needed | all the time (24/7) | daily | 1 hr weekly | 1 other weekly | 2 other every other week | 2 hr weekly | 3 hr weekly | 5 hr weekly | 5 min weekly | 1 hr daily | 1 min daily | 1 other daily | 1.5 hours daily | 2 hr daily | 3 hr daily | 3 other daily | 4 hr daily | 60 min every other week | 5 hr daily | 6 hr daily | 7 hr daily | 8 hr daily | 9 hr daily | 10 hr daily | 12 hr daily | 15 hr daily | 15 min daily | 16 hr daily | 120 min weekly | 20 hr daily | 21 min daily | 24 hr daily | 30 min daily | 60 min daily | 90 min daily | 100 min daily | 100 other daily | 120 min daily | 180 min daily | 200 min daily | 300 min daily | 310 min daily | 720 min daily | 1000 hr daily | 1440 min daily | 1000000 other daily | ||
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Duration
How long current patients have been using Family and Friends or how long patients were using Family and Friends before stopping.
Currently Using Family and Friends
Stopped Using Family and Friends
| 0-1 month | 1-3 months | 3-6 months | 6 months-1year | 1-2 years | 2 years or more |
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Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 15 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 57% | 4 |
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| Moderate | 14% | 1 |
| None | 14% | 1 |
| Can't tell | 14% | 1 |
General health
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 0% | 0 |
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| Moderate | 20% | 3 |
| Mild | 20% | 3 |
| None | 60% | 9 |
Top reported side-effects include: Anxiety and frustration, parenting is overwhelming
Summary results are based on 15 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 15)
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- Nyrsaeans
- Sex: F
- Depression: 1
- Emotional: 1
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 3
- Physical: 2
- External Stress: Overwhelming
- 32 F
- Function: Moderate
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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by Nyrsaeans
Oct 24, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsMild
- General health
- Advice/Tips
- blood family is great, but chosen family is precious.
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
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- Seai
- Sex: F
- Depression: 3
- Emotional: 2
- Compulsion: 3
- Anxiety: 3
- Mania: 1
- Physical: 4
- External Stress: Severe
- 21 F
- Function: Low
- Distress: Moderate
- See profile
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by Seai
Dec 08, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Support another treatment
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
Report created on November 07, 2009.