PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to investigate the pursuit of achievement goals in medical students and to assess the relationship between achievement goals, learning strategy, and motivation. METHODS Two hundred seventy freshman and sophomore premedical students and sophomore medical school students participated in this study, which used the Achievement Goals Scale and the Self-Regulate...

BACKGROUND Older adults are at high risk for cancer treatment-related symptoms but often accept them as inevitable. This may have a negative impact on patient outcomes.
. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to examine symptom self-management strategies used by older adults receiving cancer treatment, determine the effectiveness of these strategies, and examine relationships between sympto...

INTRODUCTION Every year more than 15,000 newly diagnosed cases of colorectal carcinoma are recorded in Poland. AIM The objective of the study was an assessment of coping strategies and pain management, acceptance of illness, and adjustment to cancer in patients diagnosed with colorectal carcinoma. The analysis was extended to include the effect of socioeconomic variables on the above-mentione...

OBJECTIVE To describe the development of the Oxford Food and Activity Behaviors (OxFAB) taxonomy and questionnaire to explore the cognitive and behavioral strategies used by individuals during weight management attempts. METHODS The taxonomy was constructed through a qualitative analysis of existing resources and a review of existing behavior change taxonomies and theories. The taxonomy was t...

Objective: To use principal-components analysis to obtain a shorter and therefore more clinically useful version of the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ). Subjects: A British sample of 214 chronic back pain patients attending outpatient spinal assessment. Results: A 4-factor solution was discovered that incorporates Catastrophizing, Diversion, Cognitive Coping, and Reinterpreting factors. A...

Trial management is dominated by the three Rs recruitment, retention and responses. While much research goes into strategies to increase recruitment, retention and responses receive less attention. As trial managers we adopt several strategies to increase questionnaires response rates despite a lack of supportive evidence. The majority of participant responses are collected via postal questionn...

the present study aimed at presenting a model of knowledge management success in order to increase organizational creativity and learning in the ministry of sport and youth of iran. the study was a survey which used a correlation method. the statistical population consisted of expert staff of the ministry and 160 subjects were randomly selected by stratified random sampling method. a research-m...