the world health organization quality of life-bref (whoqol-bref) has generally been used for patients, few studies in migrants who move from rural to urban within one country. many studies asserted that social isolation presents a risk to individual health. poor social networks are associated with worse qol. this study examined health-related quality of life (hrqol) and social support in new-ge...

background: a cross sectional study conducted to identify the organizational factors associated to the occupational stress among lecturers in selected community colleges, peninsular malaysia. methods: study was conducted by using cluster-sampling method and 189 self-administrated questionnaires were distributed. a validated malay version of job content questionnaire (jcq) was used to obtain the...

Background: Nurses are responsible for maintaining and improving the health and quality of life of patients. Therefore, it is important to assess the quality of life of nurses in order to improve it. Quality of life is affected by many variables  and among them burnout, perceived social support and psychological hardiness are the leading ones. This study aimed at predicting the quality of ...