This research aimed to establish the level of consumer experience with pastoral/spiritual care provision in a large tertiary private hospital. Two hundred and twenty-seven patients and bereaved carers of deceased patients who had received pastoral care were surveyed, with a response rate of 20% (n1⁄4 44). The key finding was the positive impact of pastoral care encounters, with the majority of ...

An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the Spanish Labour Market In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty five Spanish towns. Discrimination against the older waiters, corresponded to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, for racial discrimination. ...

PURPOSE This study is aimed at identifying the relationships between medical school students' academic burnout, empathy, and calling, and determining whether their calling has a mediating effect on the relationship between academic burnout and empathy. METHODS A mixed method study was conducted. One hundred twenty-seven medical students completed a survey. Scales measuring academic burnout, m...

Methods The study is based on observations and data was conducted November 2008. Fifteen patients were included whereas five were stratified as medical patients, five were orthopedic and five were general surgical patients. There were nine male and six female patients with an age range of twenty-seven to ninety-one years. A neutral observer followed the patients with a semi structured observati...

Preschool can have positive effects on the development of a healthy lifestyle. The present study analysed to what extent different conditions, structures and behavioural models in preschool and family-children's central social microsystems-can lead to differences in children's health resources. Using a cross-sectional mixed methods approach, contrast analyses of "preschools with systematic phys...

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BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to integrate relevant goal-setting theory and to identify if trainees' goal orientations have an impact on the assigned goals-performance relationship. METHODS Trainees attended 1 of the 3 goal-training activities (do your best, performance, or learning goals) for knot tying (KT) and camera navigation (CN) during the 3rd-year clerkship rotation. Questi...

Several observational and objective methods are available to assess sedation depth; however, data regarding their accuracy in differentiating deep sedation are limited. In this study we compared 3 sedation tools in children from birth to 18 yr of age and determined their relative value in detecting deep levels of sedation. Bispectral index monitoring (BIS), Modified Maintenance of Wakefulness T...

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of a new stair sprinting power (SSP) test and, in addition, develop norms for college-age students. Two hundred twenty-seven college-age volunteers participated in the study (ages: males, [Latin capital letter X with macron above] = 21.6 +/- 2.264 years; females, [Latin capital letter X with macron above] = 22.3 +/- 4.214 yea...

The object of this study is to present our experience in dealing with coarctation of the aorta and to discuss policy in the management of individual patients who have widely varying ages and symptoms, sometimes complicated by additional lesions. Surgical treatment, which is on a national basis, was developed rather hesitantly at first, but is now practised with confidence. Forty-four cases have...