BACKGROUND Population aging has social, economic and political consequences. Most family caregivers prefer to care for their family member older person with chronic disease at home. Despite traditional culture within Iranian families, in some cases, hospitalization of the elderly in nursing home is inevitable, and this affects the old person and his/her family. The aim of this study was to expl...

INTRODUCTION In the context of a large, random assignment, controlled study evaluating the relative effectiveness and safety of antipsychotic medication (CATIE), we examined the relationship between treatment outcome and 2 family variables: their presence and their ability to support treatment adherence. METHODS Post hoc, we assessed the 50 study patients (40 of whom had families) and their f...

Family caregivers enable patients to be cared for and die at home whereas nurses aim support the family of these patients. Information on how this is provided documented in nursing files largely lacking. To gain insight nurses' reports supportive care caregivers. We studied 59 adult who had received hospice Netherlands from 4 organisations between August 2017 October 2018. was retrieved based a...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine the magnitude of selected obstacles and supportive behaviors in providing end-of-life (EOL) care to patients with cancer as perceived by oncology nurses. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING National survey sample. SAMPLE A geographically dispersed national random sample of 1,000 Oncology Nursing Society members who had cared for inpatient patients with c...

Abstract Family-friendly practices (FFP) are viewed as an important tool to achieve equal opportunities and a supportive culture, with potential benefits for the organizational image its employer branding. To date, however, there is imperfect understanding of whether FFP affect firm performance what mechanism possible association. This study tests comprehensive model investigate analyzes role p...

Intestinal epithelial stem cells (ISCs) are the focus of recent intense study. Current in vitro models rely on supplementation with the Wnt agonist R-spondin1 to support robust growth, ISC self-renewal, and differentiation. Intestinal subepithelial myofibroblasts (ISEMFs) are important supportive cells within the ISC niche. We hypothesized that co-culture with ISEMF enhances the growth of ISCs ...

The primary aim of this paper was to examine associations between supportive-responsive maternal/paternal–adolescent relationships and adolescents' coping strategies and whether associations vary across adolescent gender. It was hypothesized that supportive-responsive parent–adolescent relationships (indicated by high support and knowledge and low psychological control) would predict higher lev...

Existing research consistently shows that informal workplace support, such as family-supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSB), are more effective at reducing work–family conflict than formal organizational supports. The purpose of this study is to integrate propositions from the stereotype content model and social role theory understand how supervision related evaluations supervisors (i.e., perce...