The growing trend towards individual career management requires understanding the driving forces of changes. In current study we explore how personal resources, namely hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and social support are associated with motivational construct empowerment, which in turn predicts employees’ behavioral (OCB, performance appraisal) attitudinal (job engagement, life satisfaction) o...

BACKGROUND Patient empowerment is crucial in the successful self-management of people with chronic diseases. In this study, we investigated whether discussions about medicine use taking place on online message boards contribute to patient empowerment and could subsequently result in the more effective use of medicines. We discuss the extent to which patient empowerment processes occur in discus...

This thesis investigates the importance of higher education for women of Babati, Tanzania. The research has been carried out by focusing three research questions; What does an education at the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) mean for the female students on a personal level? What is the female students’ perception on the importance of women’s higher education for development? How can the femal...

background: today, women empowering is an important issue. several methods have been introduced to empower women. health information seeking is one of the most important activities in this regard. a wide range of capabilities have been reported as outcomes of health information seeking in several studies. as health information seeking is developed within personal-social interactions and also th...

OBJECTIVE Hierarchically organized board-and-staff-run consumer-operated service programs (COSPs) are viewed as organizations that promote recovery while working in concert with community mental health agencies (CMHAs). This study's objective was to determine the effectiveness of such combined services for people with serious mental illness. METHODS A board-and-staff-run consumer-operated dro...

BACKGROUND Today, women empowering is an important issue.  Several methods have been introduced to empower women. Health information seeking is one of the most important activities in this regard. A wide range of capabilities have been reported as outcomes of health information seeking in several studies. As health information seeking is developed within personal-social interactions and also th...

BACKGROUND The study was conducted to investigate the diet barriers perceived by patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes and examine the associations between diet barriers and sociodemographic characteristics, medical condition, and patient-centered variables. METHODS Secondary subgroup analyses were conducted based on the responses of 246 adults with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes...

OBJECTIVES This paper describes a research program that has operationalized the links between empowerment at personal/family, group/organizational and community/structural levels and successful mechanisms to address Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing issues such as family violence and abuse, suicide prevention and incarceration. METHODS A two-pronged approach, involving the Family Well...