PURPOSE To examine associations between environmental and lifestyle factors and overweight or obesity. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey and an environmental scan of recreational facilities. SETTING Metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. SUBJECTS Healthy sedentary workers and homemakers aged 18 to 59 years (n = 1803) living in areas within the top and bottom quintiles of social disadvantage...

BACKGROUND Reflection is an important cognitive process in workplace learning; however, it occurs only rarely on its own and therefore needs additional support. OBJECTIVE In this study, we investigated the effect of software applications (apps) that aim to support reflection on hospital staff's actual reflection behavior. In doing so, we also analyzed the relationship between reflection and t...

The identification of gene-gene and gene-environment interaction in human traits and diseases is an active area of research that generates high expectation, and most often lead to high disappointment. This is partly explained by a misunderstanding of the inherent characteristics of standard regression-based interaction analyses. Here, I revisit and untangle major theoretical aspects of interact...

BACKGROUND Leadership and staffing are recognised as important factors for quality of care. This study examines the effects of ward leaders' task- and relationship-oriented leadership styles, staffing levels, ratio of registered nurses and ratio of unlicensed staff on three independent measures of quality of care. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of forty nursing home wards throughout Norway ...

Objectives The aim of the present study was to explore nurse perceptions of safety climate in acute Australian hospitals.Methods Participants included 420 nurses who have worked on 24 acute wards from six Australian hospitals. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) Short Form was used to quantify nurse perceptions of safety climate and benchmarked against international data. Generalised linea...

AIM To assess the prevalence of alcohol misuse in the night-time economy. METHOD A random sample of 893 people were interviewed and breathalysed in 24 repeated, cross-sectional surveys over the course of a year in the city centre streets of a European capital city between 11.00 pm and 3.00 am. RESULTS Median blood alcohol concentration (BAC) in men was 0.13% (min = 0%, max = 0.33%) and in w...

Many banks become entangled in the core banking system selection phase, misdirecting scarce resources and resulting in poor choices. Decision makers must fixate unwaveringly on criteria with the highest bank impact.

This study examines the role of organizational trust in the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB). A total sample of 191 employees was selected from Syrian private banks. The research findings indicate that there is a significant positive impact of organizational justice dimensions (distributive, procedural, and interactional) on OCB. Similar...

BACKGROUND The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) was planned and designed to quantify the educational environment precisely for medical schools and health-related professional schools. DREEM is now considered a valid and reliable tool, which is globally accepted for measuring the medical educational environment. The educational environment encountered by students has an impact ...