patients and methods the study was performed on 40 tbi patients referred to the shahid beheshti hospital of kashan city and 40 normal controls in kashan. traumatic brain injured patients and normal controls were selected by convenience sampling. two groups filled out the demographic sheet, cognitive failures questionnaire (cfq) and meta-cognitions questionnaire 30 (mcq-30). the data were analyz...

OBJECTIVES Stressors in nursing put high demands on cognitive control and, therefore, may increase the risk of cognitive failures that put patients at risk. Task-related stressors were expected to be positively associated with cognitive failure at work and job control was expected to be negatively associated with cognitive failure at work. METHODS Ninety-six registered nurses from 11 Swiss ho...

cognitive rehabilitation is a group of designed techniques that is for the promotion of cognitive domains in people with disease or disability. cognitive rehabilitation therapy (crt) is the science of restoring cognitive processing and learning compensatory strategies and it affects the molecular and cellular recovery rehabilitation by integration of behavioral and cognitive changes. the promot...

BACKGROUND Patients with heart failure (HF) older than 65 years have a two-fold increased risk of cognitive impairment than elders without HF. Identifying factors affecting cognitive impairment in HF may present targets for intervention. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to determine cognitive function and related factors among elderly patients with heart failure. PATIENTS AND MET...

Researchers have studied problems in metacognition both in computers and in humans. In response some have implemented models of cognition and metacognitive activity in various architectures to test and better define specific theories of metacognition. However, current theories and implementations suffer from numerous problems and lack of detail. Here we illustrate the problems with two differen...

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Errors are frequent in health care. A specific model was tested that affirms failure in cognitive action regulation to mediate the influence of nurses' workflow interruptions and safety conscientiousness on near-accidents in health care. One hundred and sixty-five nurses from seven Swiss hospitals participated in a questionnaire survey. Structural equation modelling confirmed the hypothesised m...

extended abstract 1-introduction in recent years, the criminological community has witnessed a resurgence of interest in strain theory. “traditional strain theory (1955, 1960, 1970) posits that individuals are pressured into crime when they are prevented from achieving cultural goals like monetary success or middleclass status through legitimate means. this goal blockage may pressure some to pu...

Background: Cognitive failure is mental lapses in perception, attention, memory, and action. It occurs during routine tasks that one would usually have no difficulty in successfully completing. Cognitive performance is influenced by conditions and some individual and job characteristics and the identification of factors that affect human performance is essential to prevent human error. The purp...