Delivering the bad news of a cancer diagnosis to adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients who display strong emotions is particularly challenging not the least because AYAs are at a vulnerable developmental stage. Due to the lack of research on how to personalize the delivery of bad news to AYA patients' emotions we report a case study of the communicative behavior of oncologists in two such c...

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at MGH. The Schwartz Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery that provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and encourages the healing process. The Center sponsors th...

This paper is an initial study on the impact of positive psychology on IT project management. Prior studies have found that High Psychological Positive Capital (PsyCap) of individuals is positively correlated with their work satisfaction and higher performance. PsyCap comprises individual’s positive capacities of optimism, hope, resilience and efficacy. Drawing from Beck’s cognitive theory, the...

editorial Breaking bad news in oncology: like a walk in the twilight? While communicating good news is a pleasurable experience in our everyday lives, professional or private, communicating bad news is an uncomfortable experience for both the giver and the receiver. The expression 'bad news', used to describe difficult communications, is open to interpretation and misunderstanding since it seem...

INTRODUCTION Breaking bad news may be affected not only by insufficient knowledge of a physician, but also by his attitude, religious beliefs, fears, lack of experience, etc. This survey was aimed to test the relation between physicians' fear of own death and philosophy of life and their inclination to break bad news. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred seventy students of the last year of medic...

This paper looks at 800,000 messages on the Unicredit stock, exchanged by 7,500 investors in the Finanzaonline.com forum, between 2005 and 2012 and measured collective interpretations of stock market trends. We examined the correlation patterns between market uncertainty, bad news and investors' network structure by measuring the investors' communication patterns. Our results showed that the in...

in this research the asymmetric and non-linear correlation between the market returns and trading volume variables has modeled with the dcc-garch approach; and the impacts of market shocks, weekend and calendar effects on the market returns and trading volume are surveyed. the estimation results of parameters of the model by the maximum likelihood method show that previous day’s market return h...