Relevance: The article is devoted to the socio-philosophical comprehension of personal identity problem in Internet. situation our time, characterized by “fluidity,” variability self-images, “masks”, has a resemblance virtual space, which allows individual “try on” various social roles. requires understanding modern world. Purpose: reflect vision sociologists and philosophers concept identity, ...

Socio-technical systems are an interplay of social (humans and organizations) and technical components interacting with one another to achieve their objectives. Security is a central issue in such complex systems, and it cannot be tackled only through technical mechanisms: the encryption of sensitive data while being transmitted, does not assure that the receiver will not disclose them to unaut...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to identify 10-year longitudinal predictors of overweight incidence during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. METHODS Data were from Project EAT (Eating and Activity in Teens and Young Adults). A diverse, population-based cohort (N = 2,134) completed baseline surveys in 1998-1999 (mean age = 15.0±1.6, 'adolescence') and follow-up sur...

BACKGROUND Patient satisfaction is the most important criterion in evaluating the quality of care. Besides, its assessment in patients with severe mental disorder treated by electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is highly appropriate. The ECT is accompanied by lower satisfaction and may exacerbate the patients' condition. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to determine the effect of supportive nurs...

Our aim in this SIG is to discuss the role human-computer interaction can play in bringing about peace by influencing socio-economic factors that affect the likelihood of conflict as well personal values involved in making decisions to support conflict.

There is a lack of psychological autopsy studies assessing the influence of axis II disorders on other risk factors for suicide. Therefore, we investigated if the estimated suicide risk for axis I disorders and socio-demographic factors was modified by personality disorders. Psychiatric disorders were evaluated by a semi-structured interview including the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-I...

BACKGROUND Self-management is rarely studied 'in the wild'. We sought to produce a richer understanding of how people live with diabetes and why self-management is challenging for some. METHOD Ethnographic study supplemented with background documents on social context. We studied a socio-economically and ethnically diverse UK population. We sampled 30 people with diabetes (15 type 1, 15 type ...