The concept of caring is central to the practice of nursing. Recent focus on patient-centred care highlights the importance of viewing caring from the patient’s perspective. A comparative descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to determine if there was a difference in oncology patients’ and nurses’ perceptions of caring. The Caring Behaviors Inventory-Elders (CBI-E) directly derived fr...

This paper introduces an “ethics of care” lens to the literature on Transformative Services Research (TSR) understand how service users and providers co-create transformational value well-being. In considering six food poverty organizations—categorized as market-oriented, faith-oriented, or neighborhood-oriented—the authors argue that intention behind enacting ethics care drives different possi...

Respite aims to alleviate the stress and burden of caring for someone with an intellectual disability and/or autism. Respite can take place in a number of different ways, but most commonly occurs in a residential setting. Based on survey and interview data with carers (CAs), service users and stakeholders (STs) in a northern city in England, this article explores some of the perceived or actual...

OBJECTIVES To assess available data on the numbers of technology-dependent children living at home in the UK and estimate the costs of caring for them. DESIGN Data were obtained from all known secondary sources, including surveys of children with specific conditions known to specialist paediatric departments and the database of applicants to the Family Fund Trust. The costs of all services re...

Understanding the public transportation users’ preferences to long-distance travel modes would contribute to reasonable developing policies and resource allocation. This paper aims to explore the influencing mechanism of potential factors on the long-distance travel mode choice. A survey was conducted to collect the data. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) approach was applied to analyze the corr...

BACKGROUND We implemented a community-run and GP-supervised self-care for minor illnesses (CGPSC) program in a mountainous area where medical resources for caring for minor illnesses were scarce. In this paper, we reported the residents' experiences and evaluations of this program. METHODS The CGPSC program was implemented through easy-access self-care medical spots (ESCMSs) that were set up ...

Introduction [1] It is the intimacy with which he speaks which arrests me. This silver haired Augustinian priest, pried from the parish rectory on a weekday afternoon by my journalistic entreaties, leans over the back of the blond wood pew between us and, in a voice gentled with tenderness, speaks of the polychrome wooden figure set in the marbled side altar before us. Rising above an ornate Eu...

Rest is a health-related phenomenon. Researchers have explored the phenomenon of rest, but further concept development is recommended. The aim of my study was to develop and describe a concept of rest, from interviews with a total of 63 participants about their lived experiences of rest. I performed the developing process in two stages: first with descriptive phenomenology and second with a her...