PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe common practices and shared meanings of sleep-wake disturbances in individuals with newly diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) before treatment and evaluate their preexisting sleep disturbances. RESEARCH APPROACH Open-ended interviews of patients newly diagnosed with lung cancer. SETTING A Veterans Administration hospital and a comprehensive cancer cen...

Abstract Children have a right to their views sought and given due weight on all matters affecting them, including at times of emergency crisis. This article describes the process findings ground-breaking CovidUnder19 survey (“Life Under Coronavirus”) which was co-designed with children for children, capturing experiences over 26,000 in 137 countries as realisation human rights during first six...

Historic contexts remind us of an era when cities were built based on the needs, goals, and preferences of their inhabitants. In other words, the mental world of both the builders and the inhabitants was closely interrelated. But by ignoring citizens' memories and interests and their mental needs, today's interventions with rapid developments within historic contexts have led to amnesia and the...

(received 2 dec 2012, accepted 31 dec 2012) family photography is a genre of photography which is created in the context of everyday life and includes the photographs that families produce and gather through their lifetime and often keep them in their homes, workplaces and family albums, they documentsome moments in family life. these collections include the photographs which are taken by the p...

This qualitative study describes how immigrant survivors of torture in the United States built relationships among each other to form a psychological sense of community. Eight men and seven women from 11 different countries were recruited through a torture treatment center and a survivor-led advocacy and support coalition. This qualitative study explored how participants described their experie...

background: behavioral disorders are common in the pediatric age group. this study aims to assess the relationship between the frequency of behavioral and mental disorders and counseling with family members and friends in a representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: in this nationwide study, 14880 school students, aged 6–18 years, were selected by cluster and stratified...