Value co-creation (VCC) has gained momentum in recent years due to the dramatic growth of digital technology. There is an ever-growing surge academia and industry understand dimensions outcomes VCC through various platforms. However, there sparse literature on bottom pyramid (BoP) context, especially for technology-driven healthcare. Drawing service-dominant (S-D) logic consumer culture theory ...

INTRODUCTION Disclosure of cancer diagnosis is one the main challenges in caring of patients with cancer since it may have negative effects on the spiritual health of patients. No study has ever been performed in Iran to investigate the relationship between awareness of cancer diagnosis and spiritual health in cancer patients. Therefore, the present study aimed to review the effects of awarenes...

Hip dysplasia is a significant public health issue, representing the single largest cause for total hip arthroplasty in young adults. To gain insight into patient concerns and impact of on adults, we developed patient-centred outcome measure, 'Quality Life Impact Concerns' (QoLI&C) measure. This short report provides additional evidence test-retest reliability suggests refinements to measure en...

Pages with reference to book, From 109 To 110 Javaid A. Khan, Imran Hassan ( Departments of Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. ) Shahid Pervaiz ( Department of Pathology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. ) Wasim Jafri ( Department of Medicine, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. ) Shaista Khan ( Departments of Surgery, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. )

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effect of psychotherapy based on quality of life improvement (QoLI) on emotion regulation and the prevention of relapse in addicts under methadone maintenance therapy (MMT). Methods: This research is a semi-experimental pretest-posttest study with a control group. Eight sessions of psychotherapy training based on QoLI were implement...

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Chaitali Khan is the first author on ‘The initiator caspase Dronc plays a non-apoptotic role in promoting DNA damage signalling in D. melanogaster’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Chaitali ...

OBJECTIVE Randomized comparisons of acceptance-based treatments with traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for anxiety disorders are lacking. To address this gap, we compared acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to CBT for heterogeneous anxiety disorders. METHOD One hundred twenty-eight individuals (52% female, mean age = 38, 33% minority) with 1 or more DSM-IV anxiety disorders b...