Employee assistance programs have grown at a dramatic rate, yet the effectiveness of these programs has been called into question. The purpose of this paper was to assess the effectiveness of employee assistance programs (EAPs) by reviewing recently published EAP evaluations. All studies evaluating EAPs published since 1975 from peer-reviewed journals in the English language were included in th...

INTRODUCTION Physical training for United States military personnel requires a combination of injury prevention and performance optimization to counter unintentional musculoskeletal injuries and maximize warrior capabilities. Determining the most effective activities and tasks to meet these goals requires a systematic, research-based approach that is population specific based on the tasks and d...

Although a plethora of studies have examined the antecedents of creativity, empirical studies exploring the role of individual behaviors in relation to creativity are relatively scarce. Drawing on the model of perspective taking, this study examines the relationship between help-giving during creative problem solving process and employee creativity. Specifically, we test perspective taking as a...

PURPOSE Although nursing homes (NHs) are criticized for offering poor quality continence care, little is known about the organizational processes that underlie this care. This study investigated the influence of organizational culture on continence care practices in two NHs. DESIGN AND METHODS This ethnographic study explored continence care from the perspectives of NH stakeholders, including...

On January 26, 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced the launch of the Better Care. Smarter Spending. Healthier People: Why it Matters initiative. According to HHS, this is the first time the agency has identified specific goals and a timeline for transitioning the Medicare program away from the historic fee-for-service model and toward a system that ties Medi...

The field of EAP is continuing to expand and the number of investigators and potential users that are joining this effort is steadily growing. A reflection of this growth has been seen in the number of abstracts that were submitted to the upcoming SPIE EAPAD 2001 Conference. While in the first two years about 50 abstracts were submitted, for the upcoming conference over 70 abstracts were submit...

Initially, this study indicated that DAIP staff could work with other professionals in the community to develop and implement an assessment protocol that would enable these professionals to identify a higher percentage of women who were experiencing domestic violence. The results reported in Section A indicated that EAP counselors significantly increased the percentage of women clients identifi...

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