ABSTRACT Research into the decisionmaking process of families faced with investigating alternatives to institutionalizing frail aged members could yield valuable information for service planners and providers. To analyze the extent to which its original service plan remained responsive to the changing needs of the frail elderly service population, interviews were conduted with 36 family caregiv...

While the United States child protection system is widely recognized as probably the most sophisticated and wide-ranging in the world, it nevertheless has some inherent problems. This article addresses some of the negative effects of mandatory reporting and the lack of fit of a short-term crisis intervention treatment approach for a substantial proportion of the protective services population. ...

background health care workers (hcws) are at high risk for acquisition of hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection due to occupational exposure to potentially infectious body fluids. this study was carried out to determine the prevalence of hbv markers and vaccination compliance among different categories of hcws in fars province, iran. patients and methods a total of 346 hcws working at gerash and ev...

INTRODUCTION Studies have reported associations between diaries kept for intensive care unit (ICU) patients and long-term quality-of-life and psychological outcomes in patients and their relatives. Little was known about perceptions of healthcare workers reading and writing in the diaries. We investigated healthcare worker perceptions the better to understand their opinions and responses to rea...

background: to establish a balance between work (physical exercise) and human, the aerobic capacity (vo2max) could be used as a measure. assessing heart rate in association to physiological symptoms is the most commonly used tools for the assessment of fatigue during physical exercise. this study aimed to investigate the association between the aerobic capacity and the heart rate of workers fro...

This article begins with a brief history of two decades U.S. workplace basic skills efforts that laid foundation goals, content, policies, and practices for subsequent worker education programs. It then draws on program records to present case study work-related in the New York City public transit workers’ union early 2000s. describes why how was begun, learners served, jobs focused on, stakeho...

materials and methods in this descriptive and analytical study, we used a static and direct method. cluster sampling method was used to select the subjects. participants were 1600 randomly-selected iranian male (n = 568) and female (n = 1031) workers of five hospitals in bandar abbas. thirty seven static dimensions were measured in the individuals aged 20 - 60. for anthropometric measurement, t...

background and aims: the aim of present study was to investigate the molecular characteristic of staphylococcus aureus to detect mec a gene and to type sccmec in strain isolated from healthy worker at larestan hospital. material and methods: this study was carried out from the 250 nasal swab healthy worker  at larestan hospital. multiplex polymerase chain reaction for meca gene was performed in...

Recent welfare reform legislation requires increased parental work effort and imposes time limits on the receipt of federal assistance. These changes were based in part on assumptions that parental welfare receipt may be negatively related to family processes and children's attitudes and behaviors. Currently, researchers know little about the effects of welfare by itself relative to the effects...