Hello Visilios

Some of these papers discuss the psycho-social aspect as a major topic:

Edwards, L. Y., & Edwards, C. L. (2010). Psychosocial treatments in pain management of sickle cell disease. Journal of the National Medical Association, 102(11), 1084-94.

http://www.nmanet.org/publications/November2010/OC1084_oct.pdf

Barakat, L. P., Schwartz, L. A., Salamon, K. S., & Radcliffe, J. (2010). A family-based randomized controlled trial of pain intervention for adolescents with sickle cell disease. Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology, 32(7), 540.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/45505825

Badr, H., & Krebs, P. (2013). A systematic review and meta‐analysis of psychosocial interventions for couples coping with cancer. Psycho‐Oncology, 22(8), 1688-1704.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232223353_A_systemic_review_and_meta-analysis_of_psychosocial_interventions_for_couples_coping_with_cancer

Harding, G., Campbell, J., Parsons, S., Rahman, A., & Underwood, M. (2010). British pain clinic practitioners' recognition and use of the bio-psychosocial pain management model for patients when physical interventions are ineffective or inappropriate: results of a qualitative study. BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 11(1), 51.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/42344125

Gallagher-Thompson, D., Coon, D. W., Solano, N., Ambler, C., Rabinowitz, Y., & Thompson, L. W. (2003). Change in indices of distress among Latino and Anglo female caregivers of elderly relatives with dementia: site-specific results from the REACH national collaborative study. The Gerontologist, 43(4), 580-591.

http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/43/4/580.long

This meta-analysis may have one or two useful references:

Cochran, J., & Conn, V. S. (2008). Meta-analysis of quality of life outcomes following diabetes self-management training. The Diabetes Educator, 34(5), 815-823.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2822439/

And this is a review:

Chesla, C. A. (2010). Do family interventions improve health?. Journal of family nursing, 16(4), 355-377.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47679328_Do_Family_Interventions_Improve_Health

In this paper, the adolescent and her caregivers were involved in discussions  and included as collaborative team members:

Schwartz, L. A., Radcliffe, J., & Barakat, L. P. (2007). The development of a culturally sensitive pediatric pain management intervention for African American adolescents with sickle cell disease. Children's Healthcare, 36(3), 267-283.

http://www.researchgate.net/publication/26778031

Very best wishes

Mary

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Wow Vasilios, you have a lot of things to read above but, my sugestion is to find something about spiritual interventions like 40 days spiritual workshops. We are working with obesity and hypertensive people. It consists of 8 week for changing bad habits but we have only in portuguese language. Sorry!

Hello

Thank you for the interest carried in this current mobilizing the expérientiel knowledge of the patients. There are still to my knowledge no studies psychological in oneself, however, we used tools of occupational psychology (1) which allowed us to measure the impact of the quality of life in the work of the healthcare professionals and the involved administrators. As for the patients, an article was published in the review Plos one (2)

(1) DCPP, 201DCPP, 2014, Programme partenaires de soins, rapport d’étape (2011-2014) et perspectives, Direction collaboration et partenariat patient du centre de pédagogie appliquée aux sciences de la santé, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal. Accessible en ligne à l’adresse Internet : http://medecine.umontreal.ca/doc/PPS_Rapport_2011-2013.pdf, (Dernière consultation le 23/07/2015).

(2) Pomey M.-P., Ghadiri D. P., Karazivan P., Fernandez N., Clavet N. (2015), «  Patients as partners : a qualitative study of patients engagement in their health care : patients as Partner in their health care », Plos one, PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0122499 April 9, 2015.