BACKGROUND Chronic pain is associated with increased stress in families and has its own impact on the relationship between members of the family. Among couples, if one of them suffers from chronic pain, this may influence marital satisfaction in both of them and given the importance of marital satisfaction in the prediction of successful treatment outcome, it is important to investigate pain an...

Using discriminant analysis, this study attempts to construct profiles of two types of teachers: those with a low level of job satisfaction and those with a high level of job satisfaction. In addition to their background and demographic characteristics, teachers’ perceptions of their occupation and of their principals’ leadership styles (transformational or transactional) are examined as predic...

aim : to compare the conventional gi endoscopy and using general anesthesia during the procedure regarding the satisfaction and acceptance among iranian patients. background : ability to measure and assess the patients’ satisfaction with colonoscopy and upper endoscopy will improve the quality of health care provided by gastroenterologists and thus resulting in better acceptability of endoscopy...

⋅Received:9 December 2014 ⋅Revised:29 December 2014 ⋅Accepted:29 December 2014 ⋅Correspondence to:Young-Joon Seo Dept. of Health Administration, Yonsei Univ. Yonsei Univ. Wonju Campus, Maeji-ri, Heungeop-myeon, Wonju-si, Gangwon-do, 220-710 Tel:+82-33-760-2415, Fax:+82-33-760-2519, E-mail:[email protected] Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the determinants of inpatients satisfaction ...

Three studies were conducted to examine the role of global life satisfaction in the discrepancy between specific and global domain satisfaction. Participants rated both global (e.g., education) and the corresponding, specific domain (e.g., professors, textbooks) satisfactions. In 3 studies, we found that individuals with higher life satisfaction evaluated global domain as a whole as more satisf...

The recent interest in developing subjective wellbeing aggregation rules transport research has triggered dialogue across disciplines. Here we analyze how 10 different result day-level indicators of satisfaction based on separate measures for each activity and trip the day compare resulting distribution scores with those life satisfaction. We find that normative outperform heuristic are best us...

Taking into consideration the fact that new removable dentures are prepared for edentulous patients of varying ages to improve life-important functions, dominant criterion evaluating patient’s satisfaction is patient's subjective feelings about dentures. This study aimed at assessing level with dentures, manufactures less than a year ago.
 The included 40 prostheses within time period 3 mo...