The job interview is an important step toward successful employment and often a significant challenge for people with psychiatric disability. Vocational rehabilitation specialists can benefit from a systematic approach to training job interview skills. The investigators teamed up with a company that specializes in creating simulated job interview training to create software that provides a virt...

Traditional statistical analyses of interviewer effects on survey data do not examine whether these effects change over a field period. However, the nature of the survey interview is dynamic. Interviewers’ behaviors and perceptions may evolve as they gain experience, thus potentially affecting data quality. This paper looks at how interview length and interviewer evaluations of respondents chan...

Developments in religion and spirituality in the world of mobile technology seem to flourish with the increasing of thousand applications that assisting daily spirituality practices and experience. At the same time, world scenario shows drastically increasing number of older people worldwide. In conjunction with the intertwined scenario between increasing number of elderly and rapid development...

The job interview is an anxiety-provoking situation, and it is often a significant challenge for the long-term unemployed. We have created software that provides a virtual reality experience with which individuals who have been jobless for 12 months or longer could systematically improve their job interview skills, reduce their fears, and increase their confidence about going on job interviews....

Patients and methods Patients with cr-FMF or their caregivers (paediatric patients) (N=16) were recruited through rare disease experts and patient support groups. Patients completed a 20 page pre-interview questionnaire and an in-depth 90 minute interview. Complete data (n=14) were quantified with topics focused on symptoms, diagnosis process, treatment experience, treatment needs and impact on...

The interview of a patient attending physical therapy is the cornerstone of the physical examination, diagnosis, plan of care, prognosis, and overall efficacy of the therapeutic experience. A thorough, skilled interview drives the objective tests and measures chosen, as well as provides context for the interpretation of those tests and measures, during the physical examination. Information from...