PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To discuss the impact of cancer on families of patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES National reports on caregiving and research articles related to cancer and families. DATA SYNTHESIS Family caregivers are the bedrock of chronic care in the United States. They provide an enormous amount of unpaid care that is often invisible. Cancer can affect the emotional, social, physica...

Human factors are among the main elements affecting the reliability of nondestructive examinations (NDE). In a man-machine system, human reliability is affected by many factors (performance shaping factors) whose influence on reliability cannot be easily expressed quantitatively. This paper identifies and ranks 59 perform-ance shaping factors by using a fuzzy reasoning method and proposes a pro...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to investigate the effects of spiritual well-being and family protective factors on the family strength in a propositional structural model. METHODS The research population consisted of all the married people of the Isfahan, Iran, in 2012 with preschool-aged children and in the first decade of marriage with at least eight grades of educational level. Three hu...

The impact of disasters on human well-being extends beyond loss assets. Asset based compensation approach, usually in monetary form, that the governments adopt for reconstruction losses affected persons is marred by challenges identification compensable disasters; eligible claimants; losses; and valuation losses. largest asset a household possesses their house, which suffers major damage. Loss ...

The emergency transition from physical to online learning during COVID-19 has affected university students in various aspects, especially their academic performance. It can be caused by many factors, such as individual, environmental and social factors. Therefore, this study aims determine the impact of fear, stress, well-being, teacher parents’ support (independent variables) on undergraduates...

Older GLBTQ persons face many age-related challenges and opportunities. Some are shared with their heterosexual counterparts, while others more specifically relate to their GLBTQ status. These occur in the contexts of their personal lives, families, social networks, and community and social milieu. One major challenge is health. This article describes a range of issues at the interface of aging...

Despite many recent technical breakthroughs in health care, human behaviour remains the largest source of variance in health-related outcomes (Schroeder, 2007). People’s health and well-being are robustly affected by lifestyle factors such as smoking, hygiene, diet, and physical activity, all of which involve behaviours that are potentially controllable by the individual. In addition, outside o...