Care-givers have always lived with the paradox that they are supposed to care deeply about their clients, but not get too involved. In addition, caring itself has been viewed as dangerous for the one caring, such that care-givers are urged not to care too much, for fear of burnout (Maslach, 1983). In spite of these admonitions successful care-givers and therapists continue to get involved with ...

How does one decide on the perfect gift? We look at an important tradeoff between desirability and feasibility in gift giving using construal level theory as a framework. We propose that givers construe gifts abstractly, and therefore choose gifts high on desirability attributes over gifts high on feasibility attributes. Support for these propositions emerges in studies examining giver and rece...

Prosocial actions often involve giving something that represents one’s essence, be it one’s name (e.g., signature), personal possessions, or body (e.g., blood donation). This research compares such ‘‘self-giving’’ to the giving of resources of comparable value that are less connected to one’s essence. We show in five studies that self-giving embeds givers with a sense of commitment and generosi...

Reciprocity and reputation are powerful tools for encouraging cooperation on a broad scale. Here, we highlight a potential side effect of these social phenomena: exacerbating economic inequality. In two novel economic games, we manipulated the amount of money with which participants were endowed and then gave them the opportunity to share resources with others. We found that people reciprocated...

BACKGROUND With the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy, more HIV-infected children have lived longer. Many children are at the age that they should know the diagnosis. AIM To identify the prevalence and patterns of disclosure of HIV/AIDS diagnosis to HIV-infected children. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted among 103 main care givers of HIV-infected children age...

In the “Group homes”, one care giver is assigned to three patients placed therein, there are concerns about physical and mental health, such as stress or burnout of care givers due to overwork. This study is intended to elucidate actual conditions of mental health and burnout among care givers of dementia patients. Subjects were 107 care givers working in 12 group homes in the northern Kyushu. ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether home care givers can accurately measure plasma sodium in children with diabetes insipidus (DI) by using an I-STAT portable clinical analyzer (PCA) and to collect preliminary data on home PCA use. STUDY DESIGN Care givers of 4 children with DI and impaired thirst or inability to access water freely were instructed in PCA use. During an initial preclinical phase, ...

Identification of risk factors through screening is an important tool in the fight against chronic diseases. We have used a unique model, named Saantwanam (to console) in Malayalam language, for health screening in Kerala, India. Under the Saantwanam programme, government selects suitable women care-givers who are trained and equipped by a nongovernmental organization through loans from a publi...

Agency in Health-Care: Are Medical Care-Givers Perfect Agents? It has been suggested in the literature that a source of incompleteness in the agency relationship between the doctor and the patient is that the provider may respond to an incomplete or biased perception of the patient’s interests. However, this has not been shown empirically. This paper is novel in presenting an empirical test of ...