People with dementia in the early stages currently experience a care gap, which self-management may address. We explore perceived barriers to self-management. Using a systematic approach (logic mapping), 19 participants (people with dementia, carers, health care professionals and charity representatives) described self-management barriers facing people living with dementia. Thematic content ana...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We assessed perceived barriers and incentives to home hemodialysis and evaluated potential correlates with the duration of home hemodialysis training. DESIGN, SETTINGS, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Surveys were sent to the principal investigator and study coordinator for each clinical center in the Frequent Hemodialysis Network Nocturnal Trial. Baseline data were obt...

Foreign body ingestion is a common problem among elderly patients and can pose serious health risk, particularly for those with communication barriers, cognitive impairments, or obscure medical histories. This report presents the case of 67-year-old female inpatient who had language barrier accidentally ingested blister pack. Effective was facilitated through an interpreter, prompt endoscopic i...

The standard explanation of infants’ search failures with hidden objects, despite an apparent sensitivity to them, is a deficit in the means–end skill for retrieving objects from occluders. Studies equating means–end demands for retrieving toys from transparent and opaque barriers challenge this account by showing that infants succeed more with visible objects. However, they suffer from a criti...

Access to psychological therapies continues to be poor for people experiencing psychosis. To address this problem, researchers are developing brief interventions that address the specific symptoms associated with psychosis, i.e., hearing voices. As part of the development work for a brief Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) intervention for voices we collected qualitative data from people who hea...

Research suggests that community reintegration (CR) after injury and rehabilitation is difficult for many injured servicemembers. However, little is known about the influence of the contextual factors, both personal and environmental, that influence CR. Framed within the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and Social Cognitive Theory, the quantitative portion of a...

OBJECTIVE The study examined social-cognitive correlates of physical activity in a multi-ethnic cohort of girls from six regions of the United States who participated in the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls during their 6th and 8th grade school years. METHODS Girls completed validated questionnaires and wore accelerometers that measured weekly physical activity in the spring of 2002 and...

In 2002, women comprised 46.6% of the overall U.S. workforce; however, the percentage of women in the Information Technology (IT) workforce in 2002 was only 34.9%. In 1996, the percentage of women in the IT workforce was 41%. To help explain the declining and overall disproportionate number of women in IT, we designed an in-depth study to analyze the individual cognitions of women working in IT...

INTRODUCTION There is a growing trend in online education courses in higher education institutes. Previous studies have shown that high levels of self-direction are essential for successful online learning. The present study aims to investigate challenges of and barriers to self-directed virtual-learning among postgraduate students of medical sciences. METHOD 23 postgraduate virtual students ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether family physicians thought they could use cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) in their practices, and if so, how, and to discover what the barriers to implementation might be. DESIGN Qualitative study using taped interviews. SETTING British Columbia and Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Physicians practising family medicine in a variety of settings who attended an educ...