The aim of this study was to investigate the actual situation of low back pain (LBP) prevention in care workers with questionnaires, and this data were used to clarify and decrease LBP factors. Subjects were 52 care workers (30.7 ± 10.0 years old) in a nursing home who filled out two kinds of questionnaires about LBP, one about the prevalence of LBP (QN1) and the other about LBP control measure...

OBJECTIVE Widowed fathers and their children are at heightened risk for poor coping and maladaptive psychosocial outcomes. This exploratory study is the first to explicitly examine the psychological characteristics of this population of fathers. METHOD Some 259 fathers (mean age = 46.81; 90% Caucasian) with dependent-age children and whose wives had died from cancer within the previous five y...

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: S. NEWCOMB, Mathematics; R. S. WOODWARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, Astrononmy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THURSTON, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; J. LE CONTE, Geology; W. M. DAVIS, Physiography; 0. C. MARSH, Paleontology; W. K. BROOKS, Invertebrate Zoology; C. HART MERRIAM, Vertebrate Zoology; S. H. SCUDDER, Entomology; N. L. BRITTON, Botany; HENRY F. OSBORN, ...

3 L IFE-SPAN developmental psychologists and gerontolo-gists know age is more a convenient marker of developmental progress and maturity than a cause of developmental change per se. At the same time, they readily acknowledge the infl uence of interactions between persons and larger environments. Such an interaction occurs in many societies when a person turns 65 years of age and both the person...

OBJECTIVE to gain more insight in the perceptions and experiences of care providers and clients with the organisation of emergency transfer in maternity care, with regard to transportation, responsibilities and communication between caregivers. BACKGROUND in the Netherlands a woman with an uncomplicated pregnancy can choose to give birth at home, assisted by her own midwife. However, when com...

Background: Their knowledge of preventive health, coupled with their dynamic roles in the community, puts public health professionals in a key position to expand their roles in the health promotion and support of breastfeeding as optimal infant feeding. This online tutorial was created to increase public health professionals’ knowledge about breastfeeding and to assess their attitudes in suppor...

Este artículo propone una relectura de la conocida referencia Aristóteles al miedo y a compasión en términos identificación empatía respectivamente: (intencional proposicional) como forma experiencia que el espectador se pone posición del personaje actualiza su (identificación) desde afuera hacia adentro ; sentimiento moral contiene necesariamente momento empatía: ocupación intencional e imagin...

The detection of influential observations has attracted a great deal of attention in last few decades. Most of the ideas of determining influential observations are based on single-case diagnostics with ith case deleted. The Cook’s distance are most commonly used among the other single-case diagnostics and successfully applied to various statistical models. In this article, we propose Cook’s di...