Abstract As the ageing population in China continues to grow, more people will be living with long-term health conditions and require support from family care-givers. This scoping review therefore aims explore sources of stress coping mechanisms adopted by care-givers older relatives mainland China. Literature searches were conducted English (CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, PsycINFO SCOPUS) Chinese (C...

the research was aimed at finding out the effects of the implementation of writing feedback techniques and students’ writing anxiety on students’ writing ablity. experimental method of 3x2 factorial design was employed in the research. there were three experimental groups of students who were taught by using teacher feedback, peer feedback and the combination of peer and teacher feedback writin...

Prior research on gift giving has often treated “making recipients happy” as interchangeable with “improving recipients’ welfare.” We propose givers’ motive to make recipients happy is better understood as a desire to induce positive affective reactions, such as a smile from recipients. This “smile-seeking” motive yields a mismatch between gift choices and recipients’ preferences, because attri...

background satisfaction with health care is an important criterion and variable in assessing the quality of medical care. especially mother’s satisfaction from childbirth care procedure is a determinant factor in psychological and social health the study aimed to assess mothers’ satisfaction in terms of education and information provided by maternal care givers. material and methods a descripti...

Intervention 72 care givers accompanied by >1 family member were allocated to the intervention and given group training in 7 weekly, 2 hour workshops based on a stress and coping theoretical model, by a multidisciplinary team including a nurse, educator, family therapist, and occupational therapist. Participants were told that the training was similar to that which a clinician or nurse’s aid wo...

This study examined whether formal care services delivered to frail older people's homes in France and Israel substitute for or complement informal support. The two countries have comparable family welfare systems but many historical, cultural and religious differences. Data for the respondents aged 75 or more years at the first wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHA...

The main objective was to determine motivating factors for community care givers (CCGs), the services they provided to the community, and to identify sources of CCGs' material supplies. A cross sectional qualitative study was done using in-depth key informant interviews with community cares givers and traditional leaders. Analysis was based on themes utilizing content analysis. Most of the CCGs...

Employees make decisions every day about whether to contribute to others--and their willingness to help is crucial to group and organizational effectiveness. But in a competitive, often zero-sum, world of work, generosity can be a dangerous path. How can leaders foster it without cutting into productivity, undermining fairness, and allowing employees to become doormats? The key, explains Wharto...