Exploring end of life priorities in Saudi males: usefulness of Q-methodology
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Exploring end of life priorities in Saudi males: usefulness of Q-methodology
BACKGROUND Quality end-of-life care depends on understanding patients' end-of-life choices. Individuals and cultures may hold end-of-life priorities at different hierarchy. Forced ranking rather than independent rating, and by-person factor analysis rather than averaging may reveal otherwise masked typologies. METHODS We explored Saudi males' forced-ranked, end-of-life priorities and dis-prio...
متن کاملTypology of end-of-life priorities in Saudi females: averaging analysis and Q-methodology
BACKGROUND Understanding culture-and sex-related end-of-life preferences is essential to provide quality end-of-life care. We have previously explored end-of-life choices in Saudi males and found important culture-related differences and that Q-methodology is useful in identifying intraculture, opinion-based groups. Here, we explore Saudi females' end-of-life choices. METHODS A volunteer samp...
متن کاملsecuritization of mortality risks in life annuities
insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...
15 صفحه اولDefining priorities for improving end-of-life care in Canada.
BACKGROUND High-quality end-of-life care should be the right of every Canadian. The objective of this study was to identify aspects of end-of-life care that are high in priority as targets for improvement using feedback elicited from patients and their families. METHODS We conducted a multicentre, cross-sectional survey involving patients with advanced, life-limiting illnesses and their famil...
متن کاملexploring motivation and english test preparation strategies of iranian pre-university candidates during and at the end of test preparation period for konkur examination
the current study aimed at investigating the relationship between motivation and test preparation strategies (tpss) used by iranian pre-university students in their preparation period for the university entrance exam (uee). due to the importance of uee in iran, this study also attempted to show its impact on these two important variables. to this end, 100 pre-university students in an iranian p...
ذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMC Palliative Care
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1472-684X
DOI: 10.1186/s12904-015-0064-5