This qualitative study aimed to identify the feelings patients presented when confronted with the news about the need to undergo cardiac surgery and, later, during the preoperative period. Twenty male patients were interviewed. The case study methodology was adopted and the analysis process resulted in two theme categories: Feelings of apprehension (fear, worry, anxiety, suspicion and jittery) ...

The background of the paper is process digitalization economic relations and its consequences when people face different threats arising during use digital tools in society economy. study aimed to analyse intercountry differences people’s perception digitalization. investigation external internal factors that form interregional apprehension may help evaluate risks digitalization, develop measur...

Thirty hospitalized, acute, male, psychiatric patients (15 schizophrenics and 15 nonschizophrenics) were administered a full-report span of apprehension task. Contrary to previous studies which had employed a partial-report task, no differences were found between these two groups. From the two sets of findings, an explanation of schizophrenic deficit in terms of iconic (unprocessed) memory deca...

Most of the frequent techniques in text mining are based on the arithmetic scrutiny of a idiom, either word or slogan. Arithmetical scrutiny of a term incidence captures the consequence of the term within a manuscript only. However, two provisos can have the similar regularity in their documents, but one term contributes more to the connotation of its sentences than the further term. Thus, the ...

This paper presents a public speaking training plan adapted from Toastmasters International’s Handbook of Competent Communication to reduce students’ communication apprehension. The draws on Kolb’s (1984) experiential learning theory, which links experience, perception, cognition and behaviour, making it particularly well suited for developing practical skills such as speaking. programme engage...