Pediatric oncology patients often experience fatigue and physical and mental deconditioning during and following chemotherapy treatments, contributing to diminished quality of life. Patient empowerment is a core principle of patient-centered care and reflects one's ability to positively affect his or her own health behavior and health status. Empowerment interventions may enhance patients' inte...

Abstract. An intranet increases in sophistication and complexity as it evolves. This evolution leads to an increasing need for control over the intranet. However, this is a contentious issue, as an intranet is deemed to be an empowering technology. Consequently, intranet control systems must balance empowerment and control so as not to negate each other. This paper investigates intranet control...

the purpose of this research is to explain the model of psychological empowerment of the employees based on thinking way of the managers in general office of sports and youths in isfahan. the method of this research was descriptive-explanatory in terms of data collection and applied in terms of purpose and field in terms of conducting. statistical society of this research consisted of the manag...

A longitudinal predictive design was used to test a model linking changes in structural and psychological empowerment to changes in job satisfaction. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed a good fit of the data from 185 randomly selected staff nurses to the hypothesized model. Changes in perceived structural empowerment had direct effects on changes in psychological empowerment and job...

BACKGROUND Women's empowerment is often used to explain changes in reproductive behavior, but no consideration is given to how reproductive events can shape women's empowerment over time. Fertility may cause changes in women's empowerment, or they may be mutually influencing. Research on women's empowerment and fertility relies on cross-sectional data from South Asia, which limits the understan...

This study examines the importance of the proposed components of Consumer Empowerment through User-Generated Content (UGC) in the travel industry. Researchers have argued that a single common conception of Empowerment is not appropriate across all disciplines and across all contexts. By employing the Uses & Gratifications and Dual-Process Theories, we propose that Consumer Empowerment in the co...

The enactive AI framework wants to overcome the sensemaking limitations of embodied AI by drawing on the biosystemic foundations of enactive cognitive science. While embodied AI tries to ground meaning in sensorimotor interaction, enactive AI adds further requirements by grounding sensorimotor interaction in autonomous agency. At the core of this shift is the requirement for a truly intrinsic v...