Participants in longitudinal studies on the effects of drug treatment and criminal justice system interventions are at high risk for institutionalization (e.g., spending time in an environment where their freedom to use drugs, commit crimes, or engage in risky behavior may be circumscribed). Methods used for estimating treatment effects in the presence of institutionalization during follow-up c...

BACKGROUND Older people usually prefer staying at home rather than going into residential care. The Belgian National Institute for Health and Disability Insurance wishes to invest in home care by financing innovative projects that effectively help older people to stay at home longer. In this study protocol we describe the evaluation of 34 home care projects. These projects are clustered accordi...

Patients with schizophrenia requiring long-term institutionalization represent cases with poor outcome, often leading to high costs for patients and family and constituting a huge economical burden for society if patients are young. The aims of the study were identification of characteristics and predictors of institutionalization in schizophrenia. Retrospective study of all institutionalized p...

BACKGROUND Since Goffman's seminal work on psychiatric institutions, deinstitutionalization has become a leading term in the psychiatric debate. It described the process of closure or downsizing of large psychiatric hospitals and the establishment of alternative services in the community. Yet, there is a lack of clarity on what exactly the concept of institutionalization means in present-day ps...

In present time there are a growing number of people at older age. Dementia is strongly correlated with age. Delaying older adults’ transition from living at their home to institutionalization is of major public health issue. Older individuals at the early stages of illness would prefer to remain living in the community. Our study aimed to determine predictors for institutionalization in patien...

OBJECTIVE to ascertain the influence of the length of institutionalization on older adults' balance and risk of falls. METHOD to evaluate the risk of falls, the Berg Balance Scale and the Timed Get Up and Go test were used; and for measuring postural balance, static stabilometry was used, with acquisition of the elliptical area of 95% and mean velocities on the x and y axes of center of press...

We seek to deepen understanding of the micro-foundations of institutionalization while contributing to a sociological theory of markets by investigating the puzzle of price bubbles in financial markets. We find that such markets, despite textbook conditions of high efficiency – perfect information, atomistic agents, no uncertainty – quickly develop patterns consistent with institutionalization ...

abstract: this paper investigates the factors accelerating smes' adoption of e-commerce. initially we proposed a model that included three categories of factors including external environmental factors, internal environmental factors and technology specifications. in addition, we proposed ecommerce adoption stages in two levels of early adoption and institutionalization. based on surveying...