November 2009

Adult sickle cell diseased patients’ knowledge and attitude toward the preventive measures of sickle cell disease crisis

  Sickle cell crisis is preventable most of the times. However, in Bahrain sickling crisis is the most complained and cause of hospital admission. No data is available regarding the extent of knowledge and attitudes towards the sickling crisis’s preventive measures the adult Bahraini sickle cell patients have. The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of knowledge and attitude of Bahraini adult...

Author(s):   Dihya Ebrahim Jaffer, Fatima Khairallh Amrallah, Khadija Mohammed Ali, Nafeesa Abdulla Mohammed, Ridha Abdulla Hasan and Zainab Mahdi Humood  

November 2009

Relationship between levels of burnout of midwives who work in Sivas, Turkey province center and identified socio-demographic characteristics

  This study was conducted for the purpose of investigating the relationship between some burnout-related socio-demographic and professional variables and level of burnout of midwives working as health care workers. Burnout is a prolonged response to chronic emotional and interpersonal stressors on the job and is defined by the three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism and inefficacy. It a special...

Author(s): Ozgur Alparslan⊃ and Gulbahtiyar Doganer