Abstract The cultural integration of immigrants conditions their overall socio-economic as well natives’ attitudes towards globalisation in general and immigration particular. At the same time, excessive integration—or assimilation—can be detrimental that it implies forfeiting one’s ties to origin country eventually translates into a loss diversity (from viewpoint host countries) global connect...

PURPOSE To test the feasibility and acceptability of a caring-based nurse home visit intervention for women pregnant after perinatal loss (PAL), the goal of which was to provide a safe, supportive environment, normalize the pregnancy after loss, reduce anxiety and depression through stress reduction skills, and facilitate prenatal attachment. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS This mixed methods study ...

Homesickness is the distress and functional impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home and attachment objects such as parents. It is characterized by acute longing and preoccupying thoughts of home. Almost all children, adolescents, and adults experience some degree of homesickness when they are apart from familiar people and environments. Pediatricians and other health ...

BACKGROUND As infant disorganized attachment is a serious risk factor for later child psychopathology, it is important to examine whether attachment disorganization can be prevented or reduced. METHOD In a randomized intervention study involving 130 families with 6-month-old adopted infants, two attachment-based intervention programs were tested. In the first program, mothers were provided a ...

Homesickness is the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home. It is characterized by acute longing and preoccupying thoughts of home and attachment objects. This study extended previous research on the phenomenology of childhood homesickness by assessing a sample of 316 boys, ages 8-16, who were spending 2 weeks at a single-sex residential summer camp. Some...

AIM The purpose of the present study was to identify characteristics of visiting nurse agencies (VNA) in Japan with high home death rates by a prefecture-wide survey. METHODS A cross-sectional study of visiting nurse agencies (n = 101) in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, was completed. Data included the basic characteristics of each VNA, the type of services provided, level of coordination with oth...

OBJECTIVES To explore clinician beliefs and attitudes about home haemodialysis in global regions where the prevalence of home haemodialysis is low, and to identify barriers to developing home haemodialysis services and possible strategies to increase acceptance and uptake of home haemodialysis. DESIGN Semistructured interviews, thematic analysis. SETTING 15 dialysis centres in Italy, Portug...

Abstract The reintegration of return migrants has been an important issue in migration studies for several decades. While much research done to identify returnees’ strategies and their labour market situation country origin, little attention devoted attachment, especially quantitative studies. This paper seeks address this gap, analysing predictors place attachment belonging among Polish Lithua...

Mobile IP is the proposed standard for IP mobility support. A mobile node registers its current location with its home agent when it moves across IP subnets in a foreign network. When a mobile node is far away from home, registration with its home agent can cause a long handoo delay. We have extended Mobile IP with routing agents. The routing agent of a mobile node serves as the current locatio...