BACKGROUND Humanistic burden considers the impact of an illness on a patient's health-related quality of life (HRQoL), activities of daily living (ADL), caregiver health, and caregiver QoL. Humanistic burden also considers treatment satisfaction and adherence to treatment regimens. Pompe disease is an autosomal recessive, progressive, multisystemic neuromuscular disease. Approval of enzyme-repl...

In this paper we describe and evaluate two on-line courses on Conceptual Graphs and Prolog+CG given to 2 and 3 year students of Humanistic Informatics at Aalborg University, Denmark. The average student had no prior experience with formal languages, nor did they have any advanced mathematical background, but nevertheless they succeeded in achieving skills to read and write Conceptual Graphs of ...

Background In the past century, maternal support during childbirth has been changed according to the different approaches suggested by various health care paradigms. Objective The aim of this review was to argue the maternity supportive care paradigms of the past century and to closely analyze each paradigm. Methods This is a historical review, in which published articles were retrieved fro...

Purpose Physician burnout is associated with decreased wellbeing, loss of empathy, and reduced quality of patient care. Despite high rates of burnout among physician trainees, few studies have explored strategies to address this problem. We examined the skills and habits associated with decreased burnout among physicians who participated in the Humanistic Elective in alternative medicine, Activ...

In Europe, humanistic psychotherapy is becoming increasingly widespread. Not only are the explicitly "humanistic" psychotherapies being robustly used, they are increasingly being integrated into approaches not traditionally viewed as humanistic. One can therefore observe a progression in the personalization of methodology within European modes of practice. In the past several decades, humanisti...

Authors of American psychology textbooks habitually refer to the “existential-humanistic” or “humanistic-existential” approach to treatment, while therapists in the UK and Europe say that this usage is inaccurate, and that the differences between the existential and humanistic approaches outweigh their similarities. To assess the merit of these competing claims, we must distinguish between lite...

BACKGROUND Self-efficacy is the most influential among factors affecting nurses' performance. Yet, understanding of the constituent elements of the caring self-efficacy concept was not considered. This study was to introduce altruism as one of the main aspects of caring self-efficacy in pediatric nurses. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is part of a larger study on the concept of caring self-effica...

Humanism and multiculturalism are partners in an evolutionary alliance. Humanistic and multicultural psychotherapies have historically influenced each other. Humanism represents the third force in psychotherapy, while multiculturalism embodies the fourth developmental stage. Multiculturalism embraces humanistic values grounded in collective and social justice contexts. Examples of multicultural...