INTRODUCTION Unexpressed grief in health care providers who care for chronically ill children may lead to the development of some symptoms of compassion fatigue. The purpose of this study was to describe the scope of compassion fatigue in health care providers working on critical care units with children. A secondary aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of providing educational seminars on com...

A sensor network is one of the most adaptive research area that requires the optimization in term of energy effectiveness, load balancing etc. The sensor network is defined under the particular localization architecture and having the challenges in terms of load minimization, energy loss reduction, security etc. One of such common and most adaptive research problem is routing. In this paper, op...

PURPOSE The web-based computer-tailored Kanker Nazorg Wijzer (Cancer Aftercare Guide) supports cancer survivors with psychosocial issues during cancer recovery. The current study investigates whether the 6-month effects in increasing emotional and social functioning and reducing depression and fatigue hold at 12 months from baseline. Moreover, it explores whether patient characteristics moderat...

Background: Fatigue as a result of prolonged activity may increase injury risk and decrease performance. Purpose: To provide insight in the development of fatigue experiences during soccer matches and the extent to which general performance capacity (i.e. overall physical fitness, psychological fitness, and recovery) contributes to these fatigue experiences. Methods: 450 Soccer players from the...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is a common and troubling symptom for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). AIM To evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a six-session group-based programme for managing MS-fatigue (Fatigue: Applying Cognitive behavioural and Energy effectiveness Techniques to lifeStyle (FACETS)). METHODS Three-centre parallel arm randomised controlled trial with economic ev...

It is important to determine the enabling mechanisms that underlie locomotor performance to explain the evolutionary patterns and ecological success of animals. Our aim was to determine the extent to which calcium (Ca(2+)) handling dynamics modulate the contractile properties of isolated skeletal muscle, and whether the effects of changing Ca(2+) handling dynamics in skeletal muscle are paralle...

This study compared the visual fatigue caused by two smartphone displays with different blue light distributions based on a 90-min video watching task. The results showed that decreased when using low-blue display, reflected subjective questionnaires, ocular and electroencephalograph signals. display low is recommended for reducing fatigue.