INTRODUCTION The goal of this study was to characterize the prevalence and intensity of supportive care needs and interest in specific supportive care services among individuals with lung cancer. METHOD Participants (n=109) were recruited from two medical centers in Southern California to complete questionnaires on physical and psychological functioning following diagnosis of lung cancer. R...

Sustainable agricultural and rural development requires knowledge and information, skills, attitudes and technologies, which run through a network of actors to produce, distribute and use it in a particular place. The model of the Agriculture Knowledge and Information Systems (AKIS) is designed based on this recognition. In Iran, There are about decades of experience in the development of this ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate changes in unmet supportive care needs and factors affecting those needs in Taiwanese women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal survey. SETTING Two general surgery outpatient departments at a large medical center in northern Taiwan. SAMPLE 124 women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. METHODS Needs were assessed with the ...

In recent years, a holistic understanding of business process management (BPM) has evolved in Information Systems (IS) research. This understanding considers organizational factors such as strategic alignment, governance, people, and culture as important aspects of BPM beyond Information Technology (IT) and methods. Particularly, organizational culture has been increasingly recognized as a crit...

Dose and schedule are important factors in the therapy of cancer. Animal model and clinical data show that there is a significant correlation between dose-intensity and survival; moreover, the shortening of interval between chemotherapy cycles prevents from tumor regrowth and maximize the effect of chemotherapy on cancer cells (Gregory SA, Trumper L, 2005). Most of anti-cancer drugs are non-sel...

Although the literature on the influence of memory on decisions is well developed, research on the effects of decision making on memory is rather sparse and scattered. Choice-supportive misremembering (i.e., misremembering choice-related information that boosts the chosen option and/or demotes the foregone options) has been observed in several studies and has the potential to affect future choi...

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abstract background: the emotional bond that a mother feels towards her infant is critical to their social, emotional, and cognitive development. this concept has a major influence on an infant’s future health, and growth, so the assessment of parental-fetal attachment and related factors is of great importance. this study aimed to examine the effect of psychological intervention on attachment ...