This analytical descriptive study aimed at assessing the perception of people with chronic renal failure in relation to their daily and occupational activities. The sample was formed by 35 men and 35 women receiving hemodialysis treatment with ages between 17 and 60 years. The instrument used was the SAOF (Self Assessment of Occupational Functioning). The data were submitted to statistical anal...

Do Wages Really Compensate for Risk Aversion and Skewness Affection? Utility theory suggests that foreseeable risk should increase the compensation for work. This paper expands on this notion: on basis of utility theory, people should care not only about risk but also about the skewness in the distribution of the compensation paid. In particular, because the degree of risk aversion ought to dec...

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the meaning of occupational therapy groups focusing on occupational engagement, group process, and social-emotional learning for a purposeful sample of low-income urban youths attending after-school care. Interviews and participant observation were used to study how the children made sense of their experience. Qualitative data analysis ...

BACKGROUND According to the existential philosophers, meaning, purpose and choice are necessary for quality of life. Qualitative researchers exploring the perspectives of people who have experienced health crises have also identified the need for meaning, purpose and choice following life disruptions. Although espousing the importance of meaning in occupation, occupational therapy theory has be...

BACKGROUND Gender beliefs represent cultural schemas for interpreting or making sense of the social and employment world, as they can influence attitudes, career aspirations, and the vocational decision process of young people, especially the adolescence. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study examined the influence of gender stereotypes on the choice of career in adolescents. A group of 120 studen...

This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a “European economy” with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate and educational investments are analyzed both under full certainty and with income risks facing the ...

A model of adverse selection when teams form endogenously highlights the relationship between discrimination and occupational choice. It shows discrimination can persist even when management allocates credit fairly, if worker beliefs about discrimination in‡uence their decision to engage in teamwork. Furthermore, among those choosing to work as entrepreneurs or in other individualistic occupati...

The paper assesses gender differences in pre-labor market specialization among the college-educated and highlights how those have evolved over time. Women choose majors with lower potential earnings (based on male wages associated majors) subsequently sort into occupations given their major choice. These narrowed time, but recent cohorts of women still earnings. Differences undergraduate choice...

STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis. OBJECTIVES To describe the early health care utilization for occupational back pain. To identify factors associated with health care seeking and provider choice among persons with occupational back pain. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Back pain is the most prevalent work-related injury, yet little is known about patterns of care for occupational back pain....

OBJECTIVES This survey was conducted to determine the frequency with which different data analysis techniques are being used in occupational cohort studies. Of particular interest was the relative use of external and internal comparison groups, and the choice of multivariable model. METHODS Occupational cohort studies published in 1990-91 were located with Medline and Index Medicus, and the c...