OBJECTIVE Although social support has been recognized as an important factor in the quality of life of head and neck cancer patients, there has been little investigation of the buffering effect of social support on these patients' social distress or of the coping skill of self-efficacy. The aim of this study was to examine how social support and self-efficacy mediate the relationship between so...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to develop and test an explanatory model for sleep disorders in people with cancer. A hypothetical model was constructed on the basis of a review of previous studies, literature, and sleep models, and 10 latent variables were used to construct a hypothetical model. METHODS Data were collected from April 19 to June 25, 2010, using self-report questionnaires. T...

PURPOSE This study seeks to establish causal models of diet which maintain the appetite of head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy. SAMPLE AND METHODS We collected data from 208 patients at two radiation doses, 30/50 Gy, using a questionnaire on appetite and analyzed the items using structural equation modeling. RESULTS In the causal model for 30 Gy, we established a path ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine the symptomatic dimensions of depression in a large sample of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) in the primary care (PC) setting by means of a factor analysis of the Zung self-rating depression scale (ZSDS). METHODS A factor analysis was performed, based on the polychoric correlations matrix, between ZSDS items using promax oblique r...

PURPOSE This study was performed to assess the reliability and validity of the Korean version of European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire - Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy 20 items (EORTC QLQ-CIPN20) in patients receiving neurotoxic chemotherapy. METHODS A convenience sample of 249 Korean cancer patients, previously or currently, bein...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to identify the association between occupational stress and depression-well-being by proposing a comprehensive and flexible job burden-capital model with its corresponding hypotheses. METHODS For this research, 1618 valid samples were gathered from the electronic manufacturing service industry in Hunan Province, China; self-rated questionnaires were administered to...

This study aimed to evaluate the relationships between oxidative stress and heavy metal exposure (lead [Pb] and cadmium [Cd]), as well as co-factors such as physical activity and age, in Japanese women. This study was conducted with female subjects from a rural agricultural community in Japan. Subjects were asked to complete lifestyle-related questionnaires and undergo a group health examinatio...

La investigación tuvo por objetivo evaluar la validez de estructura interna y fiabilidad del cuestionario \Satisfacción Laboral Warr, Cox Wall" para ser aplicado a docentes educación superior. Método: Mediante el Análisis Factorial Confirmatorio con método estimación Mínimos Cuadrados Libre Escala en modelos medida unifactorial bifactorial, una muestra 242 Resultados: Obteniendo los indicadores...