PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine healthcare providers' (HCPs') perceptions of the supportive care needs of men with advanced prostate cancer (APC). RESEARCH APPROACH A qualitative, descriptive study. SETTING Healthcare facilities caring for men with APC in a south-central region of Ontario. PARTICIPANTS 19 nurses, physicians, and allied health providers who cared for men with APC in outpatie...

BACKGROUND Parents caring for a child with a rare disease report unmet needs, the origins of which are varied and complex. Few studies have systematically attempted to identify the supportive care needs of parents with a child with a rare disease comprehensively. We have used the widely accepted Supportive Care Needs Framework (SCNF) as the structure for this review. OBJECTIVE The purpose of ...

OBJECTIVE Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) assessments can assist health professionals to tailor their health practices to the individual needs of patients and improve patient care over time. The present study assessed prospective predictors of unmet supportive care needs in cancer patients over a six-month period. METHODS Participants were recruited from a regional cancer treatment centre in A...

This study aims to examine the integration of relationship between internal marketing dimensions (supportive and participative leadership, training development, information communication, selection appointments) compensation with job satisfaction their impact on performance PLN employees in North Sulawesi, Central Gorontalo, especially during COVID-19 post-pandemic. Data was collected from 322 ...

PURPOSE To determine the effects of provision of information on mother's problem focused coping ability during their child's intravenous procedure. METHODS Data were collected from 56 mothers whose children have admitted to pediatric ward in the hospital. The participants included 27 intervention group mothers and 29 control group mothers. For the information intervention, "Programmed Informa...

Aflatoxins are toxic and carcinogenic polyketide metabolites produced by certain fungal species, including Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus. Many internal and external factors, such as nutrition and environment affect aflatoxin biosynthesis; therefore, we analyzed the transcriptome of A. flavus using expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from a normalized cDNA expression library constructed from ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationships among work environment, psychosocial factors, and physical activity (PA) among information technology (IT) professionals. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of 576 IT professionals from three IT companies in Taiwan. Structural equation modeling was used to test a theoretically supported model using social cognitive theory, incorporating variables ...