Aim: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic progressive neurological diseases and is regarded as the non-traumatic cause of neurological disability in youth. The Multiple sclerosis patients need for family caregiver increasingly grows due to the progressive course of the disease, which worsens the symptoms over time. Family caregivers of this group of patients are subject to ...

OBJECTIVE to know the received or assisted social support by the family towards the necessity of care after acute myocardial infarction. METHOD qualitative and exploratory research. Data collection was carried out through observation and interviews with six families, from February to May, 2012. Data were also analyzed based on the thematic analysis. RESULTS three categories emerged: Immedia...

Even though social media technologies have been increasingly adopted in the workplace, few studies have looked at the consequences and contradictory outcomes of this adoption. This exploratory case study seeks to understand how organizations are using social media and what the consequences of this adoption are, from the perspective of managers and users. Ten in-depth, semi-structured interviews...

Over the years I’ve been asked lots of questions about analysis. Here are the most frequently asked questions and my answers. Keep in mind that my first answer for almost all of these questions is: “It depends.” Your situation or environment and the type of study you are doing are major factors that influence how analysis might best be done. OK, given that caveat, here is an attempt to answer t...

In this paper, we describe the result of the first part of a continuous effort to identify and validate factors influencing sociability of online social software. The concept of sociability was first refined and then a series of interviews were carried out to gain understanding of how users use social software to facilitate their social interactions and social relationships maintenance. We also...