BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate the influence of social support and other psychosocial factors on mortality, adherence to medical care recommendations, and physical quality of life among hemodialysis patients. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Data on 32,332 hemodialysis patients enrolled in the Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (1996 to 2008)...

A retrospective, observational study of 3073 low income African American, Latina, and White women receiving comprehensive prenatal care at 26 provider sites was completed. The purpose of the study was to test three hypotheses. First, after adjustment for biomedical complications, the presence of maternal behavioral and psychosocial factors would be associated with an increased rate of low birth...

Besides the 'classic' cardiovascular risk factors (high blood pressure, dyslipidaemia, metabolic syndrome and diabetes), the work environment is playing an increasingly significant role in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Several elements contribute to the effect of the work environment: physical factors, chemical factors, shift work and psychosocial factors. The effects of psychosocial ...

BACKGROUND Health care workers are exposed to psychosocial work factors. Autonomy and social support are psychosocial work factors that are related to stress, and are argued to largely result from the psychosocial safety climate within organisations. This study aimed to assess to what extent the relation between psychosocial safety climate and stress in health care workers can be explained by a...

background: induced abortion is not only a serious threat for women’s health, but also a controversial topic for its ethical and moral problems. we aimed to evaluate the relationship between neutralization techniques and attempting to commit abortion in married women with unintended pregnancy. methods: after in-depth interviews with some women who had attempted abortion, neutralization themes w...

The effects of psychosocial factors on health have drawn growing attention. An important prerequisite for epidemiologic studies is that instruments to measure psychosocial factors be reliable and valid based on psychometric properties. The introduction of occupational stress models has made breakthroughs in conceptualizing real-life complex phenomena in the workplace. This article describes som...

OBJECTIVE To determine the use of psychosocial strategies by health care providers in treating patients with diabetes and the factors associated with use of these strategies. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Cross-sectional survey of national samples of generalist and diabetes specialist physicians (n = 2,705) and nurses (n = 1,122) from the multinational study of Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Ne...

Healthcare professionals spend a great deal of time evaluating prognostic indicators to improve the treatment and survival of patients. With the building evidence that depression is an independent prognostic factor, they should look to do what those in cardiology are attempting--intervention trials to treat depression and lower its risk. As patient advocates, oncology nurses should look at thei...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify and describe independent nursing actions in cooperative care. DESIGN Qualitative, descriptive, inductive study. SETTING The Nebraska Medical Center's Lied Transplant Center in Omaha, where lay care partners assume responsibility for acute care of transplant recipients in partnership with nurses. SAMPLE 12 cooperative care nurses. METHODS Two focus groups, ...