Psychosocial - Science topic

Innovations can be created by only human. Human is the innovative and creator of artificial intelligence.

Your argument is very valid nowadays. Using integrated and/or mixed methods provides some degree of assurance. Examples are attached.

But I’m also confused as you can’t run nominal data through a correlation, so would I just be comparing means?

What are the values to be demonstrated by the office holder, given the type of political office they hold and the context around it? If form follows function, what is the office holder to accomplish through their service? Please define the general system in which the office holder would operate, i.e. democratic

republic; democratic socialism; progressive liberalism; conservatism, other? From my perspective the little country of Bhutan with it’s Gross National Happiness Index seems to be headed in the right direction with an interest in the well-being of it’s citizens. Look at the research on employment selection of leaders.

you are right. is better for the researchers to involve the local scholars to prove the clarity on data provided by respondents.

I have some ideas about this issue.

And really appreciate if we can have a discussion about it.

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Estimada Sara Concepción

Un saludo cordial. Primero debería hacer un marco teórico y por mi parte te aconsejaría investigar el comportamiento de la ansiedad y la depresión en las pacientes con diabetes gestacional, con test validado por expertos.

We have two possible ways for that, either to do pilot study on it or to categorize our main outcome variables and take its mean.

Hi Dr. Abba-Aji,

You may find these articles in American Psychological Association relevant-

Prajjita

Hi,

Maybe some of these articles be of help to you:

Spinhoven P, Elzinga BM, Hovens JG, Roelofs K, Zitman FG, van Oppen P, Penninx BW. The specificity of childhood adversities and negative life events across the life span to anxiety and depressive disorders. J Affect Disord. 2010 Oct;126(1-2):103-12. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.02.132

Levy O, Buckley LB, Keitt TH, Smith CD, Boateng KO, Kumar DS, Angilletta MJ Jr. Resolving the life cycle alters expected impacts of climate change. Proc Biol Sci. 2015 Aug 22;282(1813):20150837

Krammer S, Kleim B, Simmen-Janevska K, Maercker A. Childhood trauma and complex posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in older adults: A study of direct effects and social-interpersonal factors as potential mediators. J Trauma Dissociation. 2016 Oct-Dec;17(5):593-607. doi: 10.1080/15299732.2014.991861

First of all, it is very greatful to take part of this discuss. I'm very commited to understand of this fenomenal of confinament on health of persons on general. The Technologies contributed on high, to straight the distances between persons. It helps but not substitutes.

Andréia Ramos Thanks a ton for sharing this. I'll read up

A researcher has wrongly claimed co-authorship of my publication is well described topic at R^G Help Center page:

Different models serve not only as a frame for communication, they can help to rise problems as well as discuss them. Communication is not only transportation of messages, nowadays communication is more of sharing ideas and feelings and willingness to participate.

1. Aristotle Model of Communication

2. Shannon and Weaver’s Model of Communication

3. Berlo’s Model of Communication

4. Schramm’s Interactive Model of Communication

Shannon & Weaver’s and Scramm’s models as the key to succeed in intercultural communication by adding to the model the element of interpretation and confirmation of the feedback. Circulation from Schramm’s model gives us feedback, the interpreted decoding, which is the representation of the meaning received. However, confirmation of the feedback seems necessary to keep the communication ongoing and make sure that the message is understood as it was aimed.

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The sample size depends on the power of results that your study wants to demonstrate. Therefore, the results do affect the sample size you need.

I want to express my opinion, but this opinion will be very different from the usual view. In my understanding, the development of music has stopped and has long been in a great crisis. Well, see for yourself. When did the first conservatories appear? They began to appear in the second half of the 19th century, however, by the end of the 19th century, all classical music was practically composed, and musicians as performers performed from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day the repertoire of previous centuries from the time of Bach. It is believed that atonal music killed classical music and new compositions are miserable similarities to atonal music. For example, some well-known musicians as performers try to compose music, but their cospositions do not inspire and leave only miserable impression. Firstly, in their compositions the concept of “melody” is practically absent, it simply does not exist. Secondly, there is no improvisation. All that remains is a pile of sounds, devoid of any logic. Therefore, musicians perform mainly the old repertoire, which has passed the test of time and the performance of this repertoire guarantees success. One famous pianist, Nikolai Lugansky, once said the phrase "At my concerts in Europe, I see people in the hall who are mostly over 60 years old." This is a very sad fact. Now I want to state the main reason from my point of view. There is a huge difference between passive listening to music as a musical background and active listening to music as your own performance. This difference is huge. It is believed that children with disabilities, such as autists, do not perceive music as just passive listening, but they begin to understand music when their fingers come in contact with a musical instrument for playing music, such as a piano. At the same time, their behavior changes dramatically when their fingers extract music from the instrument. Modern education is trying to prepare more people as consumers than creators. This also applies to music. Now we see tens of millions of musicians as performers, and practically do not see composers, there are no new composers at all, or practically none. From my point of view, a good understanding of music can only come through the stage of their own performance of this music. The more people will play music, the better they will begin to understand this music. I just want to express my belief that even any lively performance of classical music can give a million times more emotions than just passive listening to this music, even in the performance of ingenious musicians. From this point of view, I foresee a situation where pianists like Nikolai Lugansky will perform classical music in empty halls.

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I have a published article based on Bio-psycho social model titled " Needs Assessment of a woman with disability after completing the rehabilitation program from Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed and possible solutions through bio-psychosocial model: A case study". You can go through it if you would like to and you can get it either from Research gate or google scholar indexed.

Psychosocial is a term which was generated at first in the US mental Health-movement and the so called humanistic psychology around Carl Rogers and Fritz Pearls. Later on in western countries we had a lot of psycho-social movements. Especially in Germany we had the "psychiatry enquette" (1975) and the first Institute for psychsocial Health in Germany (Zentralinstitut für seelische Gsundheit (ZI) in Mannheim). Within this the psychiatry becomes more and more 'decentral' and 'participative' which means smaller Hospitals, and a lot of different structures in the social psychiatry.

In our modern regarding of psychiatric illness we have the so called bio-psych-social model of illness. Every disease can be seen in a biological (genetic, brain-network-Dysfunktion, transmitter-dysfunction), psychological (in Depth for example the psychoanalysis (and many more as well)) and social (e.g the work of Marianne Krüll) context.

Today we cross the borders to new lands of psychosis:

Psychosis Definition: Three aspects must come together:

1. From the social norm aberant behavior

2. subjective suffering

3. reduced daily competences

But what is Point 1 - the social norm? … it is represented by the psychiatrist who defines it depending on his diagnostic Manuals (DSM, ICD)

What means "suffering" and in this context subjective and objective?

Which competences are needed to "survive" in our daily context?

Questions which are not yet fully answered! Questions which remains unclear!

The psychosicial desire is the desire to answer these Questions with the mind and to understand all this in a cognitive manner. But this is impossible. Therefore these questions are not answered yet. But we cross some borders now:

We have the epigenetics and the Quantum Physics, two new additional concepts which lead us more and more to a holistic understanding. The last step we need is the "spiritual understanding, knowing, awareness"...

To 'understand' social power we do not only need the models of social Sciences. We have to expand to Quantum Physics, the morphogenetic field, Concept of Karma (predestination AND free will) or our collectice field of resonance and many more which must be included in ourunderstanding of this which becomes more and more a sort of "feeling-awareness" when we go this journey.

Some first steps were already done by C.G. Jung (a Student of FREUD) (...the collective unconsciousness) but not new… many old traditions (Hopi Indians or the toltecs already knew a lot about the power of the Society and their psych - psychosocial power).

Hope that I could give you some inspiring thoughts,

Kind regards

Christian Jost

Dear Mary, thanks a lot. I have found some info about Karasek and JCQ, it looks really helpful for my study. I am grateful for the link from Switzerland.

Thank you so much everyone for the responses.

Dear Beatrice,

Going through now. I will give feed back shortly

Thanks for the weblink! Nancyruth

Thank you so much

I would!

Bibliotherapy usually consists in encouraging clients to make poetry or stories as a therapeutic means of self-expression.

Butler (2007, 2009) finds that linguistic self expression *increases* emotional tension among East Asians descended subjects.

I argue (Takemoto, 2017) that Butler's finding may be due to cultural differences in the main modality of self expression, and that just as mirrors increase suicide ideation among Westerners (Selimbegović & Chatard, 2013)but are used to reduce it among Japanese, so linguistic self-representation may actually be *causing* mental illness among those from cultures who do not have, primarily, a Western-style, cogito, or narrative self.

Incidentally, African Ubuntu philosophy strongly resembles the "interdependence" (Markus & Kitayama, 1991) argued to pertain in East Asia.

Butler, E. A., Lee, T. L., & Gross, J. J. (2007). Emotion regulation and culture: Are the social consequences of emotion suppression culture-specific? Emotion, 7(1),

30.Butler, E. A., Lee, T. L., & Gross, J. J. (2009). Does Expressing Your Emotions Raise or Lower Your Blood Pressure?: The Answer Depends on Cultural Context. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40(3), 510–517. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022109332845

Selimbegović, L., & Chatard, A. (2013). The Mirror Effect: Self-awareness alone increases suicide thought accessibility. Consciousness and Cognition, 22(3), 756–764. Retrieved from http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810013000573

Takemoto, T. (2017, March). Modality of Self and Suicide Prevention. Oral Presentation presented at the CLASS Annual Research Conference, University of Guam. Retrieved from http://nihonbunka.com/docs/modality_of_thought_and_saving_lives.pptx

thanks to both of you for providing such informative answers! :)

Hi Noura,

Here are some attached PDF Qeustionaires you might found helpful for your Research and also I am providing you some links to web search so you can select your required Questions.

Links are:

Regards,

We touch upon Erikson:

Have you considered salivary DHEAS? It maybe more stable. The other option to consider is the cortisol/DHEAS ratio although I am not sure of circadian variation of the ratio.

Dear Panpan Yang

I suggest you read the follow research papers. Maybe do not be what you looking for but can help you to understand the role of physical environment on motor development children.

Regards

Hello Thankyou Kathryn!

Thank you so much Amanda, I will try it

Muchas gracias estimads César y Dolores!

Thanks everyone, for your answers. When I chat to SLP colleagues (or SLTs as we call ourselves in the UK) there does seem to be real variation. So many things to consider when assessing psychosocial workload...

Dear Petar,

I found some articles which I hope will assist you. James

A risk management approach to work-related stress. 

Psychosocial Hazards and Occupational Stress

Towards the Development of a European Framework for Psychosocial Risk Management in the Workplace,

International Labour Organization

Rosario et al (2016). Standardized assessment of psychosocial factors and their influence on medically confirmed health outcomes in workers: a systematic review, Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology201611:19

You can also USSD to automate them. My candidate is looking for an app for the patients to have on their own mobiles which will be more interactive. Thanks for your response.

 Here's one possibility 

Household energy conservation from elementary science teacher candidates’ perspective.

By Sahin, Elvan

College Student Journal, Vol 50(2), 2016, 302-313.

This study was conducted to understand the complex nature of gender differentiation in household energy consumption, and uncover the factors characterizing Turkish female university students’ contribution on household energy conservation. Specifically, the study hypothesized that energy-related attributes would significantly differentiate female and male students, and tested the effectiveness of Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory in explaining female’s household energy conservation behaviors. Participants were 986 elementary science teacher candidates (74% female) from public universities in Turkey. The data were collected by administration of a survey designed to assess constructs regarding household energy conservation in the framework of VBN theory. The results supported the claim that females differ significantly from males in household energy conservation behaviors. Females were more likely act as role models for pupils in terms of household energy conservation. The results also provided some clues relating to the determinants of engagement in energy conservation for female university students. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)

The answer is yes, at least technically, you can add two numbers together to get a sum for each subject.  I am curious about why you would want to combine these two scales.  What would that represent?  Is there some compelling reason to combine them?

Upon examination of the items in the COPSOQ II it was found that each scale, social support from colleagues and social support from supervisors were composed of only three items.  They are quite parallel in their construction where the same wording (in the English version) is used in each scale with one exception. That exception is the substitution of “nearest supervisor” for “colleague” in each of the three items of their respective scales.  Otherwise the items appear to be identical.  Both scales have reported pretty high reliability (Cronbach’s alpha = .70 and .79, respectively.)  These seem really high in my experience for three item 5-point scales.  The average inter item correlation within each scale is much lower (as would be expected) but is quite similar to the correlation between scales.  (see references)  This leads me to believe that they are probably measuring something, but not the same thing.  Therefore combining them does not make a lot of sense from a classical psychometric theory point of view.  I don’t know what that combined score would represent.  It is not universal in the sense that it represents social support from any source.  If that is what you want, then why not use the COPSOQ II item structure and substitute “someone” for colleague or “nearest supervisor.”   At least the content of the items would then be consistent, if you want to know about universal social support from any source.  Whether that particular construction works psychometrically can not be known without data and making some estimates of reliability, etc. 

The bottom line answer is yes, you can combine them, but I would not do it knowing only what I now know. 

There may be a very interesting study possible by making several substitutions in the object word of the items and develop a scale of sources of social support, i.e., friend, spouse, parent, teacher, clergy, physician, etc.  The ultimate question would be whether particular sources of social support differ in their effectiveness to buffer stress.  You could do a similar study examining characteristics of social supporters, rather than the role they play.  Do you think that people who pay attention support differently than advice givers, feedback providers, evaluators, nurturers, task masters, entertainers, consultants, coaches, etc.  It is, however, a very different question than the one you asked.

Best wishes,

David Drehmer

References:

This is from my attached paper:

While deployed MH modules in complex emergencies clearly showed qualitative and anecdotal benefits, enthusiastic research was soon confronted by the boring but unavoidable questions about standards of care, empirical research, measurable outcomes and quality control.

An example of the current state of affairs is the array of competing views on the outcome indicators. The opinions range from advocating for the use of formalized but highly controversial GAF (Global Assessment of Functioning), as suggested by Van Ommeren, & Wietse (2011), and, on the other extreme, to statements that standardized evidenced-based practices are inapplicable in complex emergencies by definition. These apologists argue that every situation is unique, and that there is no general tool to measure individual suffering, and any assistance makes victims feel supported and thus has humanitarian value just by virtue of doing something. Other widely used efficacy criteria based on self-reported satisfaction, symptom reduction, or simply the number of sessions provided and persons served. The limited progress and lack of consistency in demonstrating the programs’ effectiveness to the professional communities, organizations, and donors continued to force the question of the overall impact and value of this work.

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One of the major psychosocial concerns in bipolar relapse is "Expressed Emotion," which is characterized by a high level of negative interaction/criticism and overinvolvement of family members.  Although there are some problems with the construct, it does seem to predict relapse after initial recovery.

Dear Mary,

I would like to recommend you my paper "The Clinical Application of the Biopsychosocial Model in Mental Health. A Research Critique".

Kind regards

Ani

Hello,

Forward a contribution and I hope to be useful. My best regards!

there is a recent review of effectiveness in a Canadian psychiatric journal

An updated meta-analysis of randomized controlled evidence for the effectiveness of community treatment orders.

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Authors:

Kisely S; Professor, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia; Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Hall K; Researcher, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

Abstract:

Objectives: It is unclear whether community treatment orders (CTOs) for people with severe mental illnesses can reduce health service use, or improve clinical and social outcomes. Randomized controlled trials of CTOs are rare because of ethical and logistical concerns. This meta-analysis updates available evidence.

Method: A systematic literature search was performed of the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group Register, Science Citation Index, PubMed, MEDLINE, and Embase to November 2013. Inclusion criteria were studies comparing CTOs with standard care including those where control subjects received voluntary care, for most of the trial.

Results: Three studies provided 749 subjects for the meta-analysis. Two compared compulsory treatment with entirely voluntary care, while the third had control subjects receiving voluntary treatment for the bulk of the time. Compared with control subjects, CTOs did not reduce readmissions (risk ratio 0.98, 95% CI 0.82 to 1.16) or bed days (mean difference [MD] -16.36; 95% CI -40.8 to 8.05) in the subsequent 12 months (n = 749). Moreover, there were no significant differences in psychiatric symptoms (standardized MD -0.03; 95% CI -0.25 to 0.19; n = 331) or the Global Assessment of Functioning (MD -1.36; 95% CI -4.07 to 1.35; n = 335). Only including the 2 studies that compared compulsory treatment with entirely voluntary care made no difference to the results.

Conclusions: CTOs may not lead to significant differences in readmission, social functioning, or symptomatology, compared with standard care. Their use should be kept under review.

You have to view this against the background of the times.  I am 75 years old and have had (still having) a productive professional career.  I was an obese child and I could write a book about it!

There was no meaningful health education then.  Sweet rationing had just ended so my waistline swelled and my teeth rotted.  I was one of two 'fatties' in my peer group and we were known as 'Tweedledum & Tweedledee'  It was only the onset of puberty and a poor self-image that prompted me to put myself in order.  I crash dieted and had my buck teeth extracted (they were too far gone for orthodontics) but I carried an obese and generally poor self-image for almost my whole life even though I am actually slim, healthier and more active than many of my age.  Being happily married has contributed enormously, of course.

I was completely useless at sporting activities but I have a good scientific mind and I hid behind that 'geeky' image to a large extent.  I was in my twenties when I discovered potholing and I am to this day Hon. President of the Westminster Spelaeological Group.  Activities such as long-distance hiking, caving, climbing etc. are cooperative and not competitive and those who participate generally have a similar mindset to my own.

I can only point towards todays obvious differences.  My genetic family are all tending towards obesity however my wife's (2nd marriage) are not at all.  so yes, nature and nurture both play an equal part.

But one thing I will say most emphatically.  "Don't let your children become obese.!" As a parent it is one of your highest duties to see that they live a healthy physically active life and develop the vital life-skills to achieve it

Hi Julie,

Thanks for clarifying the setting in which your experiment is situated.

Further questions to be answered in order to be better able to select an appropriate task would be (i) whether individuals will be able to move and/or talk while being enclosed in the chamber?, and (ii) whether they can somehow be presented with (audio)visual stimuli and (iii) give feedback (verbally and/or through a selected input device (keypad, mouse, etc.)).

Is your intention to measure the stress reaction solely at a physiological level, or will you also include the participants' subjective response to the stressor presented?

(I would suggest to include subjectively experienced stress reactions, to capture the subjective aspect of psychosocial stress).

Kind regards,

p.s. I attached some publications of our research group for further reading, although they may not necessarily represent the most relevant work for your specific query here.

p.p.s. A concept of relevance to the phenomenon of psychosocial stress is ‘social defeat’, and paradigms developed to induce/measure this may therefore also be interesting in regard to your study. 

Erikson implies a number of conditions to be fulfilled by parents, like (1) a necessity to develop to meet the challenge of a new stage of a child (2) prepare conditions for making child at least "twice-born", (3) learn necessity to enable "moratorium" in development, etc. So altogether it is an issue of the quality of reading this model. I have inserted a number of criticisms concerning image  of Eriksonian model in various  manuals of psychology in my recent book (in Polish), entitled: "VERSUS. On structural duality of developmental stages in the life cycle ecology in a psychodynamic model by Erikson" (Impuls, Cracow, 2015, pp. 427). 

Mary,

Please see the article attached. We induced psychosocial stress in participants in this study by manipulating expectation (Jones et al. 1998) and close evaluation of individual contribution to a task (Smith et al. 1998).

Relevant references:

Jones, G., Swain, A., and Cale, A. (1990). Antecedents of multidimensional competitive

state anxiety and self-confidence in elite intercollegiate middle-distance runners. The

Sport Psychologist, 4, 107-118.

Smith, R. E., Smoll, F. L., & Wiechman, S. A. (1998). Measurement of trait anxiety in sport. In J. Duda (Ed.), Advances in Sport and Exercise Psychology Measurement (pp.105–127). Morgantown, WV: Fitness Information Technology.

Hi,

This is not my field of expertise, but any paper on Psychological Resilience should do as well. There is a lot of social variables in that phenomenon. This is not a key answer, but a theoretical background that could be helpful.

Good luck !

Dear Jose MANUEL Bezanilla,

Look the link, please, may be useful.

Regards, Shafagat

Dear Farooq,

You're welcome. Please keep me informed about your CBT-based group program for bipolar disorders.

Regards,

Stephen

Best Mario

You make an excellent Point of the psychiatrist´s `double Agency` and indeed a quite peculiar one. Coercive psychiatric care is, at least to me, easier to accept when it is based on the patient-psychiatrist relationship, i.e. when the life, health and function of the patient is at risk. The minute coercive psychiatric care is based on assessment of the patient being potential risk to society, I find it more or less outrageous.

Especially considering all research that show that severe mental disorder (e.g. psychosis) is small potato in comparison to substance abuse etc. The fact that a severe mental illness is a necessary condition to be locked up TO PREVENT bad things (e.g. violent crime) is in my opinion nothing but wrong (morally, legally, scientificallly).

Nevertheless this is the case in a majority/all European countries and it leds to stigma of an already vulnerable Group in our society.

Until further notice, Pontus

Dear Jose, 

something on power and victims: 

Right, Francis Leslie is specialized researcher in personality, spirituality, and religiosity. 

To do power analysis to calculate your sample size, you have to write your hypothesis, and based on that you decide what statistical test you will use. It should be one of the inferential statistics. so you need to determine the following: alpha {standard to be .05}, power [standard to be .80], effect size {small, moderate, or large, each test has its own value, you can find these values in the net}. Then download free programs to calculate the sample size such as G. power.

Dear Ghislain, 

perhaps you find it in these papers:

Dear Ricardo,

maybe you can use the following studies:

Kukaswadia A, Pickett W, Janssen I. Time since immigration and ethnicity as predictors of physical activity among Canadian youth: a cross-sectional study. PLoS One. 2014;9(2):e89509. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089509. http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0089509&representation=PDF

Besharat Pour M, Bergström A, Bottai M, Kull I, Wickman M, Håkansson N, Wolk A, Moradi T.Effect of parental migration background on childhood nutrition, physical activity, and body mass index. J Obes. 2014;2014:406529. doi: 10.1155/2014/406529. http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jobe/2014/406529.pdf

Gualdi-Russo E, Zaccagni L, Manzon VS, Masotti S, Rinaldo N, Khyatti M. Obesity and physical activity in children of immigrants. Eur J Public Health. 2014 Aug;24 Suppl 1:40-6. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cku111. http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/eurpub/24/suppl_1/40.full.pdf

Greier K, Riechelmann H. Effects of migration background on weight status and motor performance of preschool children. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2014;126(3-4):95-100. doi: 10.1007/s00508-013-0474-4. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00508-013-0474-4

Im EO, Chang SJ, Nguyen G, Stringer L, Chee W, Chee E. Korean immigrant women's physical activity experience: a situation-specific theory. Res Theory Nurs Pract. 2015;29(1):10-24. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/rtnp/2015/00000029/00000001/art00003

Goulão B, Santos O, Carmo Id. The impact of migration on body weight: a review. Cad Saude Publica. 2015;31(2):229-45. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/csp/v31n2/0102-311X-csp-31-02-00229.pdf

Palos-Lucio G, Flores M, Rivera-Pasquel M, Salgado-de-Snyder VN, Monterrubio E, Henao S, Macias N. Association between migration and physical activity of school-age children left behind in rural Mexico. Int J Public Health. 2015;60(1):49-58. doi: 10.1007/s00038-014-0630-2. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00038-014-0630-2

Wieland ML, Tiedje K, Meiers SJ, Mohamed AA, Formea CM, Ridgeway JL, Asiedu GB, Boyum G, Weis JA, Nigon JA, Patten CA, Sia IG. Perspectives on physical activity among immigrants and refugees to a small urban community in Minnesota. J Immigr Minor Health. 2015 Feb;17(1):263-75. doi: 10.1007/s10903-013-9917-2. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10903-013-9917-2

Chang SJ, Im EO. Testing a theoretical model of immigration transition and physical activity. Res Theory Nurs Pract. 2015;29(3):177-88. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/springer/rtnp/2015/00000029/00000003/art00002

Best wishes from Germany

Martin

I might be interested. But would like to hear more about it. 

Please sendo e mail to fischer.frida@gmail.com

Thank you all

My opinion is that SF-36 is not perfect but why not. 

Hello

Thank you for the interest carried in this current mobilizing the expérientiel knowledge of the patients. There are still to my knowledge no studies psychological in oneself, however, we used tools of occupational psychology (1) which allowed us to measure the impact of the quality of life in the work of the healthcare professionals and the involved administrators. As for the patients, an article was published in the review Plos one (2)

(1) DCPP, 201DCPP, 2014, Programme partenaires de soins, rapport d’étape (2011-2014) et perspectives, Direction collaboration et partenariat patient du centre de pédagogie appliquée aux sciences de la santé, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal. Accessible en ligne à l’adresse Internet : http://medecine.umontreal.ca/doc/PPS_Rapport_2011-2013.pdf, (Dernière consultation le 23/07/2015).

(2) Pomey M.-P., Ghadiri D. P., Karazivan P., Fernandez N., Clavet N. (2015), «  Patients as partners : a qualitative study of patients engagement in their health care : patients as Partner in their health care », Plos one, PLOS ONE | DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0122499 April 9, 2015.

Hi,

there are many journals in stress, psychosocial and illness such as the following

of course you need Literature to support your variables selections

It is about 1500 miles away, but perhaps we could talk on the phone.

Thank you so much Guilherme! I can never understand why the mental health community is largely ignoring this approach to treat psychosis. 

Hi!

This questionnaire is, partly, developed on the basis of the QPS-Nordic, and is a highly comparable questionnaire on psychosocial factors at work. For your information I attached the QPS-Nordic, which is also validated in more studies.

Some years ago I did a study comparing the semantic differential ratings of repeated exposure to a written word vs. a drawing of its reference object.

Jakobovits, L.A. (now Leon James) and Lambert, W.E. Stimulus-characteristics as determinants of semantic changes with repeated presentation. American Journal of Psychology, 1964, 77, 84-92.

Dear Béatrice,

Thank you so much! I will check them out.

Best wishes,

Vanessa

I believe it's very important to work in a team with social workers and to answer actual needs(for medical theatment, relevant information etc) as much as possible.

But regarding you question I agree with BSFT-ideas and, considering limited communication also'd like to share ideas of Glen Wixson here http://dulwichcentre.com.au/letters-in-the-street/

There is a study of Martin Teicher`s Harvard group on the neurobiological effects  of permanent child physical abuse to the prefrontal cortex. The effects regarding stress regulation are similar to those observed in children with ADHS.

There are a lot of researches on this topic.

I would suggest to start checking the work of the main authors in the field: Stephen and Rachel Kaplan, Hartig, Staats, Roger Ulrich, Korpela

Have a nice work!