BACKGROUND Health promotion volunteers (HPVs) who are expected to function as leaders in promoting community health in Japan feel both satisfaction and burden associated with their community engagement activities. The purposes of this study were 1) to describe the prevalence of volunteers with differing levels of activity satisfaction and burden; 2) to examine the association between satisfacti...

The sustainability of virtual communities is determined by the extent to which users are willing to continue using the supported virtual space. Building upon the information system continuance model and the information adoption model, a research model explaining user continuance intention to use virtual communities (e.g., Web-based Bulletin Board Systems) is proposed. The proposed model was tes...

BACKGROUND In Latin America, substance related disorders are highly prevalent and one of the treatment strategies is the Therapeutic Communities (TCs), however, in Latin America there is scarce data about this treatment strategies, their quality, drop-out rates and patient satisfaction. METHODS Based on a previous study in 5 Latin American countries, the TCs who had a score equal or higher th...

AIM To examine the effects of work participation, intergenerational transfers and savings on the life satisfaction of older community-dwelling Malaysians. METHOD Data from the 1999 Survey on Perceptions of Needs and Problems of the Elderly on people aged 60 and over were used. The life satisfaction score was constructed from 10 questions adopted from the Life Satisfaction Inventory-A by Neuga...

This study aims to determine the influence of planning, organizing, actuating and controlling management functions on community satisfaction service quality. The hypothesis proposed is that Planing affects satisfaction, Organizing influences Community Actuating Satisfaction, Controlling Planning Service Quality, Quality Satisfaction through Affects sample in this was all Tanjungpinang city resi...

OBJECTIVE Assertive community treatment (ACT) is a key component of mental health care, but recent information on its cost-effectiveness is limited. This article provides a cost-effectiveness analysis of assertive community treatment and usual care from community mental health teams (CMHTs) in the United Kingdom. METHODS Participants who had difficulties engaging with community services were ...

This study explored individual differences predictors of the positive facet of professional quality of life, i.e., compassion satisfaction (CS), in health care practitioners. A cross-sectional design was employed, based on 89 mental health care providers and 93 medical professional, drawn from 7 major community hospitals and 6 private clinics situation in Northern Israel. CS was significantly p...

BACKGROUND In Japan, the field of Basic Sciences encompasses clinical, academic, and translational research, as well as the teaching of medical sciences, with both an MD and PhD typically required. In this study, it was hypothesized that the characteristics of a Basic Sciences career path could offer the professional advancement and personal fulfillment that many female medical doctors would fi...

This study examines the quality of life in Crete, Nebraska, with the specific purpose of identifying the factors that play the largest role in determining residential satisfaction. The survey asks a number of questions pertaining to different aspects of living in Crete. The survey is adapted from a survey previously used for a similar study in Schuyler, Nebraska. Focus groups are used to identi...