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Spouse's support Treatment Report
See also: Family and Friends
What is Spouse's support? 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
232 patients in the community are using or have used Spouse's support.
Top 10 (Show all)
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients |
|---|---|---|
| General health | 45 | 19% |
| Support another treatment | 44 | 18% |
| Other | 44 | 18% |
| Fibromyalgia | 23 | 9% |
| Depression | 8 | 3% |
| Assistive communication | 5 | 2% |
| Pain | 2 | <1% |
| He is the only person who has ever really stuck by me with my horrific depression. | 1 | <1% |
| We are a team. | 1 | <1% |
| Overwhelming Emotions | 1 | <1% |
Other treatments patients are using for General health include Multivitamins, Omega 3 Fish Oil, and Vitamin C.
Duration
How long current patients have been using Spouse's support or how long patients were using Spouse's support before stopping.
Currently Using Spouse's support
Stopped Using Spouse's support
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Patient Reported Evaluations
Results from 30 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.
Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)
| Major | 86% | 12 |
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| Slight | 7% | 1 |
| None | 7% | 1 |
Other
Side-effects (as an overall problem)
| Severe | 3% | 1 |
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| Moderate | 27% | 8 |
| Mild | 13% | 4 |
| None | 57% | 17 |
Top reported side-effects include: not always sensitive to my needs, he can be preoccupied and unavailable, Husband may yell at me
Summary results are based on 30 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.
Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 30)
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- WysOne
- Sex: F
- Pain: Most
- Fatigue: Most
- Sleep: Most
- Stiffness: Most
- function: Little
- external_stress: None
- Stickman: most
- Description:F63y
- FM:12y Dx
- CFS:?y
- See profile
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by WysOne
Dec 08, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Support another treatment
- Advice/Tips
- Having my husband understand my problems is very important. I was able to retire 4 years ago, long before my "retirement age" and have been able to set my own pace throughout the day.
- See full evaluation
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1 helpful mark
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- Voo
- Sex: F
- Depression: 0
- Emotional: 0
- Compulsion: 2
- Anxiety: 2
- Mania: 2
- Physical: 1
- External Stress: Moderate
- 31 F
- Function: High
- Distress: Low
- See profile
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by Voo
Oct 02, 2008
- EfficacyMajor
- Side-effectsNone
- Other
- Advice/Tips
- Remember that *you're the crazy one and that means that you're going to have to trust his (or her, if it's your wife) judgment a lot of the time.
- See full evaluation
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0 helpful marks
Report created on November 07, 2009.