Health care management has really become a burning question of the day and the current health scenario of our rural India is a story of utter deprivation. On one side there are hi-tech medical facilities and use of state-of-art-medical technologies with five star deluxe facilities in a few urban centers’ but in the rural counterpart the stories of helplessness and callousness have become too ap...

Some individuals are resilient, whereas others succumb to despair in repeated stressful situations. The neurobiological mechanisms underlying such divergent behavioral responses remain unclear. Here, we employed an automated method for mapping neuronal activity in search of signatures of stress responses in the entire mouse brain. We used serial two-photon tomography to detect expression of c-F...

This study examined the causes of stress experienced by National Health Service nurses in England over the course of a single week with the aim of generating a cognitive structural model. Qualitative data served as the foundation of a network study which employed inductive eliminative analysis. These data were also analysed using conventional qualitative methods and by content analysis. The res...

BACKGROUND Various risk factors for depression in lung cancer patients have been suggested but have been examined separately in studies with relatively small sample sizes. The present study examined the biopsychosocial risk factors of depression in lung cancer patients, focusing on psychological factors in the largest patient sample reported to date. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 1334 conse...

BACKGROUND Although psychometrically sound pain assessment tools are available, there is a paucity of research that comprehensively defines chronic pain from the perspective of patients. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of a combination of qualitative methods (Photovoice, one-on-one interviews, and focus groups) in examining the daily experiences of primary care patients liv...

OBJECTIVE Although various factors thought to be correlated with anxiety in cancer patients, relative importance of each factors were unknown. We tested our hypothesis that personality traits and coping styles explain anxiety in lung cancer patients to a greater extent than other factors. METHODS A total of 1334 consecutively recruited lung cancer patients were selected, and data on cancer-re...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of an interactive self-help workbook in reducing distress, and improving quality of life (QOL) and coping for women recently diagnosed with breast cancer. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial comparing the use of the workbook and that of an information booklet. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING 49 women with Stage 0 to II breast cancer diagnosed in the previous month...

This paper investigates what happens when managers’ identity is centred on caring, an underappreciated aspect of leadership. Drawing a case study managers in elderly care, we distil ideal-typical caring leader as well contextualised interpretations that suggest both problematic and constructive aspects. The implies self-understanding being highly present, supportive helpful to subordinates’ dev...