Giriş: Hayatı tehdit eden hastalıklarda, hastaların ve ailelerinin yaşam kalitesini artıran yaklaşım olarak tanımlanan sonu bakımın temel hedeflerinden birisi iyi ölümdür. Amaç: Araştırma, bakımda çalışan lisansüstü hemşirelik öğrencilerinin ölüm algısına yönelik görüşlerini belirlemek amacıyla yapıldı. Yöntem: nitel tipte tasarlandı. Veriler, 10 Ekim-10 Kasım 2020 tarihleri arasında aktif 17 ö...

While a positive view of calling has been ubiquitous since its introduction into the literature over two decades ago, research remains unsettled about extent to which it contributes various aspects good life: an optimal way living well via worthwhile endeavors. Further, scholars have identified conceptual types calling, marked by internal versus external foci; yet their differential impact on o...

The terms 'quality-of-life', 'wellbeing' and 'happiness' denote different meanings; sometimes they are used as an umbrella term for all of value, and the other times to denote special merits. This paper is about the specific meanings of the terms. It proposes a classification based on two bi-partitions; between life 'chances' and life 'results', and between 'outer' and 'inner' qualities. Togeth...

There is growing interest in using Sen's Capability Approach to assess quality of life and to evaluate social policies. This paper describes the formative stages of developing a quality of life measure: the selection of the relevant capabilities. This measure is intended to provide a more comprehensive outcome measure for the evaluation of complex interventions such as Maimwana womens' groups, ...

While well-being and happiness have become focal topics of psychological research, questions of good life have been mainly left to philosophers. This is an untenable state of affairs, as it leads to an overemphasis on one dimension of good life while failing to acknowledge that there are centrally important sources of value beyond one’s own happiness that people deeply care about. Therefore, we...

This paper assesses hypothesis that sufficient sleep duration and proper circadian rhythms during the early stages of life are indispensable to a successful life. Successful life was defined according to the famous cohort studies of Mischel's and Dunedin. To assess the hypothesis, neuronal elements presumably affecting early daily habits and successful life are reviewed. The effect of sufficien...

Abstract This paper draws on data from one strand of a six-strand, exploratory study end life care for adults using substances (AUS). It presents the key informant (KI) that aimed to identify models practice in UK. Participant recruitment was purposive and used snowball sampling recruit KIs range health social care, policy backgrounds. Data were collected 2016–2017 20 semi-structured interview ...

Many methods have been proposed for making use of multiple experts to predict uncertain events such as election outcomes, ranging from simple averaging of individual predictions to complex collaborative structures such as prediction markets or structured group decision making processes. We used a panel of more than 2,000 forecasters to systematically compare the performance of four different co...