abstract background: studies have shown that some personal characteristics such as perfectionism are associated with cardiovascular diseases. hence, this study was designed with the aim of doing a comparative evaluation of perfectionism in coronary heart disease patients and healthy individuals referred to shahid faghihi hospital in shiraz. methods: this is a case-control study carried out on 8...

This paper explores and contrasts personal philosophies based on two different core values, control and relation, with respect to expectations, social relationships, habits of perception and interpretation, and ways of feeling grounded in the world. The paradigm of control is widespread in medicine and certain other health professions, but because it fosters unrealistic expectations, evokes fea...

In traditional East Asian cultures, high value is assigned to family harmony and filial piety coupled with the expectation that elders will be honored and obeyed. A lifetime of such expectations shapes how elders perceive their role and status in the family. Problems can arise when younger, less traditional, generations do not share these expectations. This article describes a solution-focused ...

This paper explores and contrasts personal philosophies based on two different core values, control and relation, with respect to expectations, social relationships, habits of perception and interpretation, and ways of feeling grounded in the world. The paradigm of control is widespread in medicine and certain other health professions, but because it fosters unrealistic expectations, evokes fea...

conclusions the findings showed that personal, interpersonal, and functional skills can facilitate nurses’ career advancement. the effects of these skills on career advancement depend on a variety of conditions that require further studies. results the three themes extracted from the data included interpersonal capabilities, competency for career success, and personal capacities. the results sh...

a:4:{s:10:"Background";s:156:"The aim of this study is to assess women's attitudes toward the one-child and multiple children who refer to obstetric clinics in Jahrom, shiraz, Isfahan.";s:19:"MaterialsAndMethods";s:278:"The study is descriptive and was done on 1068 women who referred to the obstetric clinics of Jahrom, shiraz, Isfahan (214 women in Jahrom city, 427 in Shiraz, 427 in Esfahan). W...

OBJECTIVES To provide a survey over significant developments in the area of linking personal health informatics and clinical informatics, to give insights into critical advances and to discuss open problems and opportunities in this area. METHODS A scoping review over the literature published in scientific journals and relevant conference proceedings in the intersection between personal healt...

We develop a model that fleshes out, extends, and modifies existing models of reference dependent preferences and loss aversion while accomodating most of the evidence motivating these models. Our approach makes reference-dependent theory more broadly applicable by avoiding some of the ways that prevailing models—if applied literally and without ancillary assumptions—make variously weak and inc...

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