This empirical study explores the influence of four extrinsic rewards, namely relationships with supervisor, relationships with co-workers, job security and financial rewards on nurses’ psychological empowerment. The study encompasses 395 nurses from both Greek public and private hospitals. Regression analysis is used to test the research hypotheses. The results of the study have shown that all...

BACKGROUND After surgery, patient reports or health care professional evaluations of heightened acute pain intensity should lead to extra analgesia provision, which is designated by rescue analgesia (RA). Whether RA is administered or not, it is not directly dependent on the patient but rather on clinical decisions, which should be based on pain management guidelines. There is a general lack of...

background: identifying the predisposing factors of neck and shoulder complaints and finding solutions to avoid them could improve the occupational health condition of the nurses. in this study, we aimed at determining the role of psychological and physical occupational factors in developing neck and shoulder complaints among the participants.   methods: this analytic cross-sectional study was ...

objectives: the main objective of this study was to investigate the association of psychological factors and life stressors with quality of life in caregivers of children with pku. methods: participants were caregivers of children with pku who were referred to a child and adolescent consultation-liaison psychiatry clinic for a clinical follow up. their demographic characteristics were recorded ...

 Background: Childbirth is a fundamental physical and emotional struggle. This study is an attempt to investigate the psychological factors related to the first delivery, and its relationship with the preference of the type of subsequent deliveries in women. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive-analytical study in which 380 pregn...

this research was done with the aim of analyzing the factors that influence the professional development of agricultural faculty members. methodologically, this explanatory research was carried out through survey method. the population of the research consisted of agricultural faculty members of iran universities (n=1190). using random stratified sampling method, 120 faculty members were select...

14 year-old male patient was referred to the endocrinology utpatient clinic for hypogonadism. He had an unremarkble family and personal history. He was born in China, and ad lived in Spain with his biological family since the age of hree. This boy was referred by the urology outpatient clinic ue to delayed genital development possibly due to hypergnadotropic hypogonadism with a total testostero...

26 Understanding psychological factors that affect immunity in sport might help to reduce 27 infection risk in athletes. The present study examined within-person changes and individual 28 differences in perceived coach control, intentions to drop-out, and saliva secretory 29 immunoglobulin A (SIgA). Thirty-two field hockey players completed questionnaires and 30 provided saliva samples over a t...