BACKGROUND Satisfaction is the one of the most frequently reported outcome measures for quality of care. Assessment of satisfaction with maternity services is crucial, and psychometrically sound measures are needed if this is to inform health practices. This paper comparatively reviews current measures of satisfaction with care during labour and birth. METHODS A review of the literature was c...

satisfaction among chain community pharmacists: results from a pilot study. ABSTRACT * Objectives: The objectives of this study were to obtain pilot data concerning the job satisfaction of Tucson area retail chain setting and to identify the facets of community practice that have the greatest contribution to job satisfaction. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of chain pharmacists in the...

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C is published by the American Chemical Society. 1155 Sixteenth Street N.W., Washington, DC 20036 Article Self-Assembly of Lamellar Clays to Hierarchical Microarrays Jiang-Jen Lin, Yu-Min Chen, Wei-Cheng Tsai, and Chih-Wei Chiu J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112 (26), 9637-9643 • DOI: 10.1021/jp801733a • Publication Date (Web): 05 June 2008 Downloaded from http://pubs...

AIMS To develop a questionnaire that measures specific aspects of patient satisfaction with occupational health physicians. METHODS General patient satisfaction questionnaires, a literature survey, and interviews with patients were used. An initial questionnaire was distributed among sick listed patients (n = 432) of occupational physicians (n = 90) from different occupational health services...

The Consequences of technostress for end users in organizations: Conceptual development and empirical validation" (2008). T he research reported in this paper studies the phenomenon of technostress, that is, stress experienced by end users of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and examines its influence on their job satisfaction, commitment to the organization, and intention to ...

BACKGROUND The consultation satisfaction questionnaire and surgery satisfaction questionnaire, and the critical incident technique have been identified as examples of, respectively, quantitative and qualitative (interview) techniques with considerable theoretical merit regarding the measurement of patients' views in a general practice context. AIM This study set out to assess these techniques...

BACKGROUND Patients' satisfaction has been considered as a crucial measurement of health care quality. Our objective was to develop a reliable and practical questionnaire for the assessment of in-patients' satisfaction in Chinese people, and report the current situation of in-patients' satisfaction in the central south area of China through a large-scale cross-sectional study. DESIGN In order...

UNLABELLED A pilot study was conducted with the aim to test and develop a questionnaire which covers dental patients attendance, satisfaction with dental care, oral health self-evaluation, attitudes and knowledge about oral health, before applying it to a broad population. A total of 53 adult subjects (mean age 40.1) visiting Kaunas University of Medicine dental clinics, filled in the questionn...

abstract aim and materials: the aim of current study was to investigate the role of the personality traits and psychological health in staff's job satisfaction. methods and materials: using available sampling method 110 people of kharazmi university administrative staff were selected and assessed by big five factor of personality questionnaire, psychological health questionnaire and spector’s j...

The primary aim of the present study was to investigate parent satisfaction with a neonatal hearing screening program through use of a valid and reliable questionnaire developed for this purpose (Parent Satisfaction Questionnaire with Neonatal Hearing Screening Program; PSQ-NHSP). Eighty parents whose children had received hearing screening participated in this study. High levels of satisfactio...