BACKGROUND In the Norwegian context, higher mental distress has been reported for the non-Western immigrants compared to the ethnic Norwegians and Western immigrants. This high level of distress is often related to different socio-economic conditions in this group. No efforts have been made earlier to observe the impact of changed psychosocial conditions on the state of mental distress of these...

Being an intensive care patient has been described as a feeling of being trapped in a life-threatening situation in which the care system assumes control over one's life. This experience is conditioned not only by the medical treatment, but also by the entire interaction with the caregivers and the environment [1]. Intensive care patients often experience dependency and powerlessness due to ser...

Caring for good people is difficult enough; to care for people who are either aggressive or violent is even more difficult. This is what psychiatric nurses working in the psychiatric institution in which research was done are exposed to on a daily basis. The aim of the research was to explore and describe the lived experience by psychiatric nurses of aggression and violence from patients in a G...

Aim The aim of this study was to explore the effects of a flexible and participatory peer support intervention in a clinical setting for adults with type 1 diabetes treated with an insulin pump, focusing on enhancing diabetes-specific social capital. The key questions were as follows: 1) what effects are appropriate to expect, according to participants? and 2) to what extent did these effects o...

After the collapse of Soviet Union, and in fi rst democratic national elections 1993, voter turnout Latvia was 89.9 per cent. However, by late 90s, participation levels had signifi cantly decreased. Scholars have pointed out that this decrease a result people gradually learning limits governance while tackling feeling political powerlessness decreasing trust politicians institutions – all which...

This research investigated the consequences of powerlessness when consumers experience service failure with a company that has high-exit barriers. The specific consequences investigated were three types of secondary control, which are grudge-holding, avoidance (predictive avoidance), and retaliation desire. These secondary control coping strategies highlight consumers’ ability to control their ...