Goals

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The effects of collaborative goal-focused occupational therapy on self-care skills: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVE: This pilot study examined collaborative, goal-focused therapy to determine its effects on performance of self-care activities, including eating, grooming, bathing, upper body dressing, lower-body dressing, and toileting. METHOD: Thirty-one ...
Desirée Elizabeth Gagné, Steve Hoppes (Am J Occup Ther, 200303-04)
effects-collaborative-goal-focused-occupational-therapy-self-care.asp

52.

Southern womens response to a walking intervention.

The need to change the sedentary habits of many American adults is well recognized. Middle-aged women are an important target group for increased physical activity because of certain health risks such as osteoporosis. In the current study, 31 women ...
Mary A Nies, Catherine E Reisenberg, Heather L Chruscial, Kay Artibee (Public Health Nurs, 200303-04)
southern-women-s-response-walking-intervention.asp

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Multiple goals, motivation and academic learning.

BACKGROUND: The type of academic goals pursued by students is one of the most important variables in motivational research in educational contexts. Although motivational theory and research have emphasised the somewhat exclusive nature of two types of ...
Antonio Valle, Ramón G Cabanach, José C Núnez, Julio González-Pienda, Susana Rodríguez, Isabel Piñeiro (Br J Educ Psychol, 200303)
multiple-goals-motivation-academic-learning.asp

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Influenza vaccine uptake in the elderly: results from a rapid assessment of the effectiveness of new government policy in England for the winters 2000/2001 and 2001/2002.

Immunisation against influenza is an important means of reducing morbidity and mortality amongst high-risk groups, and especially the elderly. Although immunisation has been recommended for these groups for many years, no timely or comprehensive ...
Carol Joseph, Nichola Goddard (Vaccine, 200303)
influenza-vaccine-uptake-elderly-results-rapid-assessment.asp

55.

The psychological contracts of National Health Service nurses.

AIMS: Following the psychological contract model of the employee-employer exchange relationship is offered as a means of understanding the expectations of a UK sample of 223 National Health Service (NHS) nurses in association with their leaving ...
Lynne J Purvis, Mark Cropley (J Nurs Manag, 200303)
psychological-contracts-national-health-service-nurses.asp

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Coping and defending: age differences in maturity of defence mechanisms and coping strategies.

Previous studies have examined either coping strategies or defence mechanisms; however, few have considered both. This research examined age differences in the type of defence mechanisms and coping strategies that people employ. In addition, gender ...
M T Whitty (Aging Ment Health, 200303)
coping-defending-age-differences-maturity-defence-mechanisms-coping.asp

57.

Commentary: cognitive-affective mechanisms and processes in autobiographical memory.

This commentary highlights some of the interesting points to emerge from the preceding papers about the self, social, and directive functions of autobiographical memory. Additionally some cognitive functions are also considered and especially the way in ...
Martin A Conway (Memory, 200303)
commentary-cognitive-affective-mechanisms-processes-autobiographical.asp

58.

Life goals: the concept and its relevance to rehabilitation.

OBJECTIVE: Life goals are desired states that people seek to obtain maintain or avoid. These goals may influence motivation to participate in the rehabilitation process. The aim of this paper is to review the literature on life goals and the influence of ...
K P Sivaraman Nair (Clin Rehabil, 200303)
life-goals-concept-relevance-rehabilitation.asp

59.

Working-memory capacity and the control of attention: the contributions of goal neglect, response competition, and task set to Stroop interference.

Individual differences in working-memory (WM) capacity predicted performance on the Stroop task in 5 experiments, indicating the importance of executive control and goal maintenance to selective attention. When the Stroop task encouraged goal neglect by ...
Michael J Kane, Randall W Engle (J Exp Psychol Gen, 200303)
working-memory-capacity-control-attention-contributions-goal-neglect.asp

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Diagnosis and therapeutic goals. What are you actually treating?

BACKGROUND: Bad prescribing frequently involves writing a prescription for a symptom or a diagnosis and not considering the other steps in the prescribing process. OBJECTIVE: To illustrate the process of therapeutic goals. DISCUSSION: Therapeutic goals ...
Sepehr Shakib, Alison George (Aust Fam Physician, 200303)
diagnosis-therapeutic-goals-actually-treating.asp