This study elucidated Japanese home care nurses’ experiences of supporting clients and families with anxiety. We interviewed 10 registered nurses working in home care agencies and analyzed the data using grounded theory to derive categories pertaining to the nurses’ experiences of providing care. We conceptualized nurses’ approaches to caring for anxiety into three categories: First, they attem...

Entrepreneurial activity di ers substantially across countries. While cultural di erences have often been proposed as an explanation, measuring a country's cultural characteristics su ers from various problems. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that cultural factors in uence entrepreneurial behavior by looking at di erences in self-employment rates between immigrant groups within the same m...

Winnicott ( 1953) was the first investigator in the Western literature who paid due attention to the rather common phenomenon of a “security” blanket. In his report he introduced the term “transitional object” and described it as the first not-me possession of a child which plays an important role in ego development. Since then, many reports on this topic have appeared, mainly in the psychoanal...

Honey-based mixtures used in home medicine by nonindigenous population of Misiones, Argentina. Medicinal mixtures are an underinvestigated issue in ethnomedical literature concerning Misiones, one of the most bioculturally diverse province of Argentina. The new culturally sensitive politics of the Provincial Health System is a response to cultural practices based on the medicinal use of plant a...

With increasing chronic diseases, the use of home care is rising in the world. Home care in Iran has many challenges and to improve that, we should identify the challenges and barriers of home care. The aim of this study was to identify and explore the barriers of home care in Iran. This is a qualitative study with content analysis approach that was conducted in Iran in 2015. Fourteen key infor...

one of the by-products of globalization is the need of english spread as a lingua franca. according to the linguistic relativism and world englishes theories, one expects then, a certain proportion of anglo-american cultural values and viewpoints will be projected to the outer circle societies. while this transmission could enhance the cultural quotient (cq) of the learners, it can also bear ne...