Medical-Legal Partnership Impact on Parents' Perceived Stress: A Pilot Study.

Medical-Legal Partnership Impact on Parents' Perceived Stress: A Pilot Study. Behav Med. 2018 Jun 26;:1-18 Authors: Rosen Valverde JN, Backstrand J, Hills L, Tanuos H Abstract Stress has adverse effects on health, and prolonged stress exposure is a risk factor for several mental and physical illnesses. 1 Families living in poverty face many stressors created and maintained by economic hardship and unaddressed legal and social needs. Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLPs) aim to improve health and well-being by addressing health-harming legal and social needs of patients. This pilot study examined whether MLP-involved parents perceived themselves as stressed; to what they attributed their stress; and whether they reported a reduction in stress when their MLP cases were closed. The study shows improvements in perceived stress following receipt of MLP interventions. PMID: 29944063 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Behavioral Medicine - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Behav Med Source Type: research