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Taking aim on empowerment research: On the distinction between individual and psychological conceptions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1990-02)
Empowerment theory need not remain a mystery. Efforts, such as those described in this special section, to outline more clearly the nomological network of empowerment at multiple levels of analysis will advance empowerment ...
Organizational determinants of psychosocial treatment activity of providers in Va mental health facilities
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-12)
Objective : To identify the determinants of level and intensity of psychosocial treatment activity among staff who deliver services to the severely and mentally ill. Methods : The study sample consisted of 769 treatment ...
Balanced centralized and distributed database design in a clinical research environment
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2000-06-15)
Clinical research databases can meet both research and clinical needs, but this ideal is seldom achieved. Priorities often differ for those who collect and ultimately use the data and those who develop data systems. ...
Self-certification in lay midwives' organizations: A vehicle for professional autonomy
(Elsevier, 1990)
The recent resurgence of lay midwifery in the United States has been intimately connected with the establishment of grassroots organizations which address women's health issues and make the reappearance of the lay midwife ...
Psychosocial aspects of changes in cigarette-smoking behavior
(Elsevier, 1985-09)
This paper examines the relationships between patients' perceptions of susceptibility to illness, self-efficacy, anxiety, social support and subsequent changes in cigarette-smoking behavior through a prospective study ...
On weighting the rates in non-response weights
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2003-05-15)
A basic estimation strategy in sample surveys is to weight units inversely proportional to the probability of selection and response. Response weights in this method are usually estimated by the inverse of the sample-weighted ...
Variance estimation for clustered recurrent event data with a small number of clusters
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-10-15)
Often in biomedical studies, the event of interest is recurrent and within-subject events cannot usually be assumed independent. In semi-parametric estimation of the proportional rates model, a working independence assumption ...
Patient and physician perceptions of their relationship and patient satisfaction: A study of chronic disease management
(Elsevier, 1993-01)
This study investigated patient and physician perceptions of their relationship and examined how their perceptions related to patient satisfaction. Data are based on 134 patient physician interactions. Study participants ...