BACKGROUND To evaluate the relationship between quality of life (QOL) and physical as well as psychological variables in Chinese breast cancer patients. METHODS This multicenter cross-sectional study enrolled 254 Chinese breast cancer patients in different stages and treatment phases. They answered standard instruments assessing QOL (EORTC), somatic symptom severity (PHQ-15), depression (PHQ-...

Just over ten years ago, Gatehouse (1994) provided research evidence of the powerful impact that psychological variables may have on adjustment to hearing loss, as well as hearing aid benefit, use, and satisfaction. Using a regression model analysis, Gatehouse found that none of the audiological variables that he included in his study actually entered into the equation for social and psychologi...

PURPOSE To evaluate pathways through which sociodemographic, clinical, attitudinal, and perceived health control variables impact psychiatric patients' adherence to psychopharmacological medications. METHOD A sample of 966 consecutive psychiatric outpatients was studied. The variables were sociodemographic (age, gender, and education), clinical (diagnoses, drug treatment, and treatment durati...

In order to manage the outdoor thermal environment with regard to human health and the environmental impact of waste heat, quantitative evaluations are indispensable. It is necessary to use a thermal environment evaluation index. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between the psychological thermal responses of the human body and winter outdoor thermal environment variables...

BACKGROUND Assessment of health related quality of life (HRQL) has become central to assessing the self-perceived impact of physical and mental impairment on patient's health. Studies have reported a high rate of psychological disturbances among asthmatics; however, the impact of these psychological factors on HRQL remains unexplored. OBJECTIVES To assess the health related quality of life am...

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....................................................................................................v CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION...........................................................................1 Social Changes and Their Impacts on Gender Relations – A Case of the United States........3 Changes in Work and Family........................................................................3 Dem...

Previous research has revealed a persistent association between social structure and mental health. However, most researchers have focused only on the psychological and psychosocial aspects of that relationship. The present paper indicates the need to include the social and structural bases of distress in our theoretical models. Starting from a general social and psychological model, our resear...

A comparative study was conducted examining CRNA feelings of deprivation or resentment as they relate to their job satisfaction. Deprivation is described in Faye Crosby's Theory of Relative Deprivation (1976), which posits that six psychological preconditions (wanting, comparison other, deserving, past expectations, future expectations, and lack of self-blame) have an impact on individual perce...

Background: The high workload of nurses in hospitals has been identified as a patient safety and worker stress problem. Psychological empowerment is a motivational concept demonstrated in four dimensions: meaning, competence, self-determination, and impact. Objective: This study investigated the relationship between nurses’ workloads and psychological emp...