BACKGROUND In intensive care environments, patients' families are often encouraged to participate in their loved one's care; however, many family members feel anxious, depressed, and unsure about how to help patients. OBJECTIVES To determine (1) the feasibility of teaching family members a simple intervention combining hand massage with essential oils in a trauma intensive care unit and (2) a...

DMFT index is one of the best dental epidemiological indices, which represent the oral health status of the population and has been accepted by authorities and international organizations such as the World Health Organization. The aim of this study was to assess the permanent teeth DMFT index in guidance school students to determine the influencing factors such as brushing, tea and sugar consum...

2 Introduction In most applications of formal models of categorization, category learning is portrayed as the building-up of a representation in memory for members of the category that have been observed. This assumption is perhaps the most basic that is made for models of categorization, that the representation of a category describes its observed members. Yet if category representations are t...

BACKGROUND The aim of this research was to investigate factors affecting different family members' decisions regarding the placement of relatives in long-term car (LTC) facilities in Taiwan. The objective was to investigate the correlations between family members' personal traits, the living conditions of residents in the LTC facilities, and family members' experiences with LTC facilities. ME...

When Dr Salman sent me some reference photos, I instantly knew had to choose the photo this painting is based on - although it was a complex scene with several figures, narrative presented very powerful and emotional. wanted avoid sentimentality, think that bold impasto technique used, thick oil paint large brush, helped this. It mostly about conveying raw emotion in an expressive way, without ...

BACKGROUND Home visiting by public health nurses and family visitors is promoted as an important intervention for enhancing parent and child development. Mothers of children at-risk for developmental delays tend to be the most difficult to access and engage, and commonly drop out of home visiting programmes prematurely. PURPOSE This paper reports a study developing a theory that describes the...

Widow remarriage practices in the Punjab-Haryana region of northern India are described as frequently mismatched and undesirable alliances, without widow choice, which serve to support the practice of polygamy. The average spacing between arranged spouses could be 10 years, with the younger spouse being the brother-in-law (this customary practice of remarriage within the husbands' family is ca...