The emerging need to view improved quality of life as an outcome measure from human service programs was described, and a Quality of Life Index was proposed that can be used as either an outcome measure or the criterion for the goodness-of-fit between persons and their environments. Data were presented ...

The terms "cross training" and "multi-competency" have been much confused--Ms. Wright clearly defines the terms and gives some observations on the manpower shortage. Since cost containment will be a fact of life for the '90s, she presents thoughtful strategies to increase productivity and to combat the shortage. Her perspective on ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a life satisfaction scale (LSS) suited for elderly Finnish people. The subjects were non-institutionalized elderly living in rural and urban areas in south-western Finland. They were interviewed for a prospective follow-up study (TURVA project) concerned with the psychosocial development of elderly people ...

Housing programs should be designed to meet the personal and interpersonal needs of the growing number of older people in the population. Our understanding of these needs is based on our understanding of "normal aging," or more appropriately what makes for successful aging. Attention to what is required for that ...

In everyday life, the existence of personal goals is indicated by the activities in which people are engaged, such as leisure interests, occupation and relationships. Incompatibility between goals was predicted to be one source of conflict associated with poor mental health symptoms. A series of studies using different methods (interviews ...

The Chinese version of the Purpose in Life Questionnaire (PIL) was administered to 2,140 secondary school students. The PIL was found to have high internal consistency as a scale and high item-total correlations for most of the items. Factor analysis with a five-factor solution showed that five factors were abstracted ...

A key component of the channeling evaluation was its focus on the life quality of program clients and their caregivers. In this article, life quality results in the areas of mortality, functioning, and client and caregiver well-being are presented for research treatment and control group members. Results show no significant ...

Eighty-nine of the largest U.S. corporations have downsized and survived. So, clearly, there is life after downsizing. But what will be the quality of that life, and how can it be improved? A consultant who has guided many companies through the downsizing and postdownsizing process and an internal program manager ...

"This paper details the authors' selection, design, and use of a life history calendar (LHC) to collect retrospective life course data. A sample of nine hundred [U.S.] 23-year-olds, originally interviewed in 1980, were asked about the incidence and timing of various life events in the nine years since their 15th ...

A program has been written to compute life tables with fittings to the Coale and Demeny West, and Weiss table survivorships for the purposes of comparison between populations. A graphics option allows for the plotting of the various life table functions, thus allowing for the immediate assessment of the patterns ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) is the federal agency solely responsible for issuing weather forecasts and warnings of weather hazards. Additional facets of NWS operations that pertain to public safety are dissemination of weather warnings, weather hazard awareness, and the weather preparedness program. These are interrelated to form a successful ...

To test whether dietary or hereditary factors affect paracetamol metabolism, two groups of Venda and a group of Caucasian medical students were investigated. The Venda groups were selected as traditionally living villagers and those who followed a Western life-style. Salivary concentrations of paracetamol and urinary amounts of the glucuronide and ...

Noncompliance of hypertensive patients to their treatment program is a common problem. The basis of this noncompliance is multifactorial, but a large component is related to the adverse symptoms produced by the commonly prescribed antihypertensive agents. There is increasing evidence that one can use social and behavioral science techniques to ...

It is the dual aim of this presentation to explore the scope and to define the limits of what psychoanalysis can offer to the field of biography. In pursuit of these goals emphasis is placed upon the influence of the writer's emotional attachment to his subject, which, despite intensive psychoanalytic ...

"The temporary and repetitive character of contemporary labor migration is explained by assuming that immigrants have a preference for location. A life-cyle model of immigrant behavior is developed to determine net lifetime income, total time allocated to home-country and foreign-country residence, and the number of migratory trips. Because of income ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that those whose daily work requires knowledge and skills in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) not only be trained in ACLS, but also be given a refresher training at least every 2 yr. However, AMA offers no recommended course for retraining; no systematic studies ...

A CELSS (Controlled Ecological Life Support System) is a device that utilizes photosynthetic organisms and light energy to regenerate waste materials into oxygen and food for a crew in space. The results of theoretical and practical studies conducted by investigators within the CELSS program suggest that a bioregenerative life support ...

To increase the survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, improvements in training must be made so that lay rescuers are motivated and have the ability to get involved. To overcome some of the fear and lack of involvement, better education strategies are needed. Adults learn didactic information through understanding and ...

We developed an objective evaluation tool for grading students' performances in the advanced cardiac life support mega code. Specific functions for each student role are delineated. Each function is linked to a point system yielding an actual grade for each role, and pass/fail criteria are based on this grade. Use ...

The contents and design of a psychodermatology training programs (PTP) preparing future dermatologists to cope with the psychosomatic features of their practice are discussed. This program focuses on the psychosocial factors that may provoke, precipitate, and aggravate dermatoses. It singles out the secondary illness reaction which is the result of ...

Ten couples from a marriage enrichment program for newlyweds and 68 female graduates from a high school course on family life were surveyed about their involvement in and their perceptions of the effectiveness of premarital counseling for preparing them for the realities of married life. Perceived effectiveness of premarital counseling ...

This study examined the effects of vocational training noise on subjective battery life and on battery current drain, in 5 different class B hearing aids worn by students at a school for the deaf. Each S used a mercury battery in the morning in an average listening school environment with ...

Despite the widespread use of propoxyphene products as analgesics, there is no profile of a typical abuser of propoxyphene. Propoxyphene is structurally related to methadone and has central nervous system effects similar to those of opioids. The patient with dependence needs professional help in withdrawing from propoxyphene, in finding an ...

The acquisition of life skills is a high priority for adults disabled by autism who are living in community-based residential programs. A training program was implemented and evaluated that consisted of analyzing life skills into component steps and providing increasing levels of assistance according to a predetermined schedule. Five adults ...

Fifty-four patients of a Veterans Administration Medical Center were assigned to either a life-skill training program that emphasized psychoeducational instruction and skill building or to a group counseling control condition. Subjects assigned to life-skill training were provided with 28 hours of instruction in interpersonal communication, purpose in life problem solving, ...

Quality of work life (QWL) programs can improve employee morale and organizational effectiveness. But implementing a successful QWL effort in a healthcare setting is not easy because of the unique administrative structure and inherent complexities of modern hospitals. This article describes a joint union-management quality of work life program that ...

Regenerative life support systems based on the use of biological material have been considered for inclusion in manned spacecraft since the early days of the United States space program. These biological life support systems are currently being developed by NASA in the Controlled Ecological Life Support Systems (CELSS) program. Because ...

The majority of child life programs offer some type of student practicum experience. At present there are no programmatic guidelines for hospital supervisors to follow in their task of training professionals. There is growing concern within the child life profession that students are being trained in field programs that have ...

The goal of NASA's Exobiology Program is to understand the origin, evolution, and distribution of life, and life-related molecules, on Earth and throughout the universe. Emphasis is focused on determining how the rate and direction of these processes were affected by the chemical and physical environment of the evolving planet, ...

With the increased demands placed on hospital resources, the need for a comprehensive documentation and program accountability system becomes paramount. In addition to the provision of services, the child life specialist must generate written program description and policy and procedure manuals, participate actively in patient charting, maintain quantitative records of ...

Entry level knowledge and skills of professionals become outdated with technological advances and the accumulation of practical skills. Participation in programs offering continuing education units (CEU's) has been the most widely accepted way to combat the obsolescence problem and to document life-long learning. However, research has yet to establish improved ...

Microcomputers are invading every aspect of life including the practice of pathology. This first in a series of articles is designed to help neophytes make effective use of these new tools. A list of references, intended to provide readers with more information on the subject of microcomputers and their applications ...

An action-research project with hospital nurses is reported which explores the utility of social network analysis for understanding and enhancing the quality of work life. Based on a framework for conceptualizing work stressors, we present a rationale for developing resource-support groups. These groups combine emotional support, group problem-solving, and participatory ...

The Good Neighbor Rescue Program utilizes volunteers who pay for their basic life support training. Acting as first responders during cardiac emergencies, they become involved in the emergency care of seriously ill patients. In the program described, they participated in saving two lives during the first two years of the ...

A person-years at risk life-table analysis system of computer programs has been developed by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and is available with detailed documentation. The system was specifically designed to analyze occupational cohort mortality data. These programs require more computer core space and processing time ...

The present study investigated the reported feelings of power and dependency of chronic neuropsychiatric patients in a sheltered workshop. Self-evaluations of dependency were assessed in relation to one real-life role (i.e. disabled welfare recipient), and evaluations of power feelings were assessed in relation to another real life role (i.e. worker ...

A small group workshop, developed for Big Sisters of Colorado, Inc. to complement their traditional program, was evaluated to determine its effectiveness for working-class and underclass adolescent girls. The "Life Choices" program was successful with working-class Ss, resulting in increased internality and perceived competence for school success, social relationships and ...

Through a secondary analysis of existing data, the authors researched the question of what types of aggressive behaviors are learned from an individual's social environment. The findings included data on three student groups: 1) students who had never been in military service; 2) students who had been in military service ...

The delivery of fully qualified Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLS) flight hardware for the Spacelab Flight Unit was completed in 1979, and the first Spacelab flight is scheduled for mid 1983. With Spacelab approaching its operational stage, ESA has initiated the Follow-on Development Programme. The future evolution of ...

A low-cost minicomputer system was designed to simulate certain medical emergencies that require basic and advanced life support treatment. The simulation required students to use both didactic and psychomotor skills to treat various emergency situations within a realistic time period. The minicomputer system provided the signs and symptoms of the ...

Conflict in the workplace can have a beneficial effect. That is if appropriately resolved, it plays an important part in effective problem solving, according to author Michele Stimac, associate dean, curriculum and instruction, and professor at Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology. She advocates confrontation--by way of negotiation ...

The author describes a component of a freshman psychiatry course in which students are permitted in lieu of final examinations to pursue independent study in any aspect of the human life cycle. Examination of student topics over a three-year period revealed that many chose areas of study relating to significant ...

Child Life, Play Therapy, and Recreational Therapy Programs in Canadian hospitals were surveyed to determine: (1) the nature of the programs (goals and philosophy), (2) the children involved, (3) the staff resources (roles and qualifications), and (4) perceived training needs. Results are discussed in terms of pertinent issues relating to ...

Appropriate death was defined as the kind of death a person might choose for himself/herself, if given a choice. Ss were 382 college students who stated their preferences for (a) age at time of death; (b) cause of death; (c) site of death; and (d) means of disposal of remains. ...

Using the New York home office of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States as a model for corporations in general, this paper addresses four major areas concerning the psychology of success or failure of minorities in newly acquired "corporate elite" jobs: (1) the nature of the corporate ...

Americans have been getting taller for more than a century, and within this century their life expectancy has risen markedly. Descendants of some of the immigrants who arrived from Europe early in this century have heads with shapes that differ from those of relatives back in the Old World. Before ...

The author presents a personal perspective on attempts to reduce aircraft accidents resulting from human failure in the cockpit. The premise is that accidents result from an imbalance between performance ability and performance demand. Advances in decreasing pilot-induced accidents must come from methods that will prevent the stresses that diminish ...

As part of a larger study, information was obtained about the life events which had occurred in the one-and-ten-year periods prior to entrance into a study of 169 students at a large midwestern university. Different methods of calculating life change were utilized, and these measures were correlated with the students' ...

The life-after-death phenomenon has created student interest and is often a topic initiated by students by students in death education courses. The article summarizes some popular publications about the life-after-death phenomenon and extracts commonalities that potentially affect other topic areas in a death education course or unit. Topic areas such ...

The initiation of the shuttle program, with the possibility of flying older persons and persons other than trained astronauts, makes it necessary to examine the effects of the weightless environment throughout the life cycle. The model of a hypothalamic clock as the timing mechanism for lifespan suggests that weightlessness and ...