Objective To examine the effect of family and academic satisfaction on self-esteem life among Peruvian university students. Method Of 1,182 students who participated, 364 were male; 818 female; ranged from 17 to 39 years age (mean = 20.67, SD 4.4). The scale (FSS), Escala breve de satisfacción con los estudios (EBSE; Brief Academic Satisfaction Scale in Spanish), Rosenberg’s (RSES), with (SWLS)...

OBJECTIVE To test the clinical equivalence and resource consequences of day care with inpatient care for active rheumatoid arthritis. DESIGN Randomised controlled clinical trial with integrated cost minimisation economic evaluation. SETTING Rheumatic diseases unit at a teaching hospital between 1994 and 1996. SUBJECTS 118 consecutive patients with active rheumatoid arthritis randomised to...

AIMS Alcohol Use Disorders (AUDs) are common in medical and surgical hospital wards. Brief Interventions (BIs) for reducing alcohol use and consequences are generally inefficacious in this population. Because there is evidence that receipt of formal treatment could be useful, we performed a systematic review to determine efficacious interventions for increasing subsequent alcohol treatment from...

The Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS), a 30-item self-report measure, is one of the most commonly used scales for the assessment of the personality construct of impulsiveness. It has recently marked 50 years of use in research and clinical settings. The current BIS-11 is held to measure 3 theoretical subtraits, namely, attentional, motor, and non-planning impulsiveness. We evaluated the factor st...

Deficits on two continuous performance test versions and the forced-choice span of apprehension task, which are potential vulnerability factors for schizophrenic disorders, were examined in relationship to particular symptoms of schizophrenic disorders, with emphasis on hypothesized relationships to formal thought disorder and negative symptoms. These interrelationships were determined concurre...

background: infertility is a global public health issue and may adversely affect life satisfaction. one of the most widely instruments used to assess life satisfaction is the satisfaction with life scale (swls). objective: the objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the swls in iranian infertile women. materials and methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional stud...

With a portion of healthcare reimbursement now dependent on the patient’s report of the hospital experience, healthcare systems are looking for ways to improve patient satisfaction scores. In this study, one inpatient physiatrist at an acute inpatient rehabilitation facility wore a button on the right lapel of his white coat at all times which read, “Ask ME about your TREATMENT and PROGRESS!!!”...

PURPOSE This prospective pilot study aimed to investigate patients' perception of information exchange and its associations with patient satisfaction, participation and safety at inpatient oncology wards. METHODS AND SAMPLE Consecutive patients with cancer who spent ≥3 days at an oncological inpatient ward at the Department of Oncology, Karolinska University Hospital during the study period (...