The Relationship between Psycho-Social Health and National-Religious Identity among Yazdi High School Students M. Paarsaamehr, Ph.D. V. Asghari Yengjeh To measure the relationship between psycho-social health and national-religious identity among Yazdi high school students a sample of 354 students was selected using a cluster sampling method. Measures used to assess the constr...

The design of Behavior Change Support Systems (BCSSs) is a multiand interdisciplinary process that involves a deep understanding of the user, mediator, social contexts and ultimately the socio-technical system. This paper attempts to demonstrate the benefit in the design process of combining four abstract modes of use (Trigger, Intervention, Assessment and Participation) from gaming, the Ludens...

the purpose of this study is to examine the psycho-social aspects, coping methods, as well as the quality of social relationship in two groups of patients with hiv infection. this study is ex-post-facto research. subjects are 10 patients (7 male, 3 female with mean age of 31.5) infected with hiv who lived with their families. the patients were screended by the well-being questionnaire and were ...

background: team-based learning is a structured type of cooperative learning that is becoming increasingly more popular in nursing education. this study compares levels of nursing students' perception of the psycho-social climate of the classroom between conventional lecture group and team-based learning group.   methods: in a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design 38 nursing stu...

Background: In the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), civilians have been heavily exposed to traumatic stressors. Traumatizing experiences cumulatively heighten the risk for trauma-related disorders, and with it affect cognitive and psycho-social functioning. Objectives: We aimed at investigating the association between trauma-related disorders and cognitive and psy...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of certain psychosocial factors - insight, psycho-education, family and social support, loneliness and social isolation - on the appearance of depression and suicidal risk in schizophrenia. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study that comprised hospitalized patients with schizophrenia in the initial remission phas...

Information systems are designed, constructed, and used by people. Therefore, a software design process is not purely a technical task, but a complex psycho-socio-technical process embedded within organizational, cultural, and social structures. These structures influence the behavior and products of the programmer’s work such as source code and documentation. This chapter (1) discusses the non...

OBJECTIVE Professionals in dementia-care ought to be able to work within a Bio-Psycho-Social model. The objectives were to examine whether dementia-care is delivered in a Bio-Psycho-Social way, to explore the influencing factors and to evaluate the factorial validity of the 'Bio-Psycho-Social-Dementia-Care scale'. DESIGN AND SETTING 413 healthcare-professionals completed the 'Bio-Psycho-Socia...