scholarly journals Interethnic partnerships of Western Europeans: between preferences and opportunities

2008 ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Braun ◽  
Ettore Recchi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Minor Importance ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Migrant Groups

Previous studies on determinants of social integration of migrants in the destination countries, and of interethnic partnerships in particular, converge in attributing importance to the same set of variables. This study aims at providing a further test of the generality of findings across different contexts using survey data of intra-European adult migrants, a group which differs in many respects from the hitherto mainly analyzed migrant groups. High-skilled labor, study, retirement, and “quality of life” migration are well represented, while low-skilled labor migration which dominates traditional research in the field is of minor importance, yet still present.

Improving the Quality of Survey Data on College Campus Woman Abuse: The Contribution of a Supplementary Open-Ended Question

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122097549
Author(s):  
Walter S. DeKeseredy ◽  
Danielle M. Stoneberg ◽  
James Nolan ◽  
Gabrielle L. Lory
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
College Campus ◽  
Woman Abuse ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Prevalence Rates ◽  
Methodological Challenge ◽  
Using Data

Obtaining accurate survey data on the prevalence of woman abuse in institutions of higher education continues to be a major methodological challenge. Underreporting is difficult to overcome; yet, there may be effective ways of minimizing this problem. One is adding a supplementary open-ended question to a primarily quantitative questionnaire. Using data derived from the Campus Quality of Life Survey (CQLS), this article examines whether asking respondents to complete such a question increases the prevalence rates of four types of woman abuse and provides information on behaviors that are not included in widely used and validated measures of these harms.

Feasibility of a telemedicine lifestyle-based rehabilitation program (HEAL) for gynecologic cancer patients.

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (15_suppl) ◽  
pp. e24033-e24033
Author(s):  
Nathalie Dauphin McKenzie ◽  
Nnamdi Ifekandu Gwacham ◽  
Julie W. Pepe ◽  
Sarfraz Ahmad ◽  
James Erasmus Kendrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Cancer Survivors ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Stress Management ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Gynecologic Cancer ◽  
Lifestyle Medicine ◽  
Rehabilitation Team

e24033 Background: General health related factors such as obesity, unhealthy diets disproportionate with sugary and highly processed foods, inactivity, and smoking have repeatedly been shown to negatively impact survival and quality of life outcomes in cancer survivors. The Healthy Eating Active Lifestyle (HEAL) – GYN “rehabilitation” cancer program was developed to provide intensive group lifestyle training on exercise, nutrition, sleep, social integration, and stress management via a telemedicine platform. The aim of this study was to determine the feasibility of such an intervention and its tolerability, in addition to its impact on short-term quality of life for gynecologic cancer patients. Methods: HEAL – GYN consists of 8 weekly group sessions offering experiential instruction and personalized goal setting for patients with diagnosis of gynecologic cancer. Components are drawn from the tenets of lifestyle medicine. An oncologist certified in lifestyle medicine along with a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team addressed diet, physical activity, strategies for sleep and stress management, smoking cessation, and alcohol intake. The intervention included training to address unmet psychologic, emotional, physical, sexual, social, and spiritual needs common to cancer survivors. American College of Lifestyle Medicine questionnaires were administered, utilizing Likert scales (1-5) in a pre- and post- fashion to assess improvements in physical activity levels, dietary habits, sleep hygiene, and quality of life. Medical records were reviewed including anthropometric data. Results: 26 patients have enrolled thus far, and we report outcomes on the first 20 participants. The mean age was 58.8 years; 22 were Caucasian, and 7 were on maintenance therapies for gynecologic cancers. Average total severity of reported symptoms (scale = 100 points) on a general medical symptom questionnaire (MSQ) decreased by 22% (61 vs 48). Eight patients reported increased perceived levels of health and 6 had stable perception of health. There were also notable improvements from baseline in item assessments of eating behavior (34%), perceived stress (20%), and resilience (21%). Patients also reported a notable trend towards improvement in anxiety (35%) and depression (34%), as well as social integration and connectedness (30%). 100% of participants would “highly recommend the program” and none complained of stress or altered mood associated with online instruction. Conclusions: The telemedicine HEAL – GYN peri-habilitation program is feasible and well tolerated. In addition, the program may improve quality of life and may prevent further decline for those on treatment or maintenance therapy. These preliminary findings support continued investigation of a telemedicine healthy lifestyle peri-habilitative program.

Democracy and Quality of Life in Asian Societies

2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-357
Author(s):  
SHINYA SASAOKA ◽  
KATSUNORI SEKI
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Hierarchical Modeling ◽  
Causal Effect ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Satisfaction With Democracy ◽  
Country Level ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article examines whether democracy affects quality of life. Scholars have conducted surveys to investigate whether democracy is likely to lead to good quality of life. There are two contested views to the relationship: some suggest that democracy has a positive causal effect on quality of life, whereas others contend that democracy does not play such a role. Previous findings are supported by cross-national statistical analysis with aggregated survey data. However, aggregated survey data may cause ecological fallacy. Also, in order to ascertain the extant research, it would be beneficial to test the hypothesis by incorporating both individual- and country-level variables. Therefore, this paper applied hierarchical modeling to investigate the regularity. Both individual-level perception of democracy and country-level political regime data were incorporated in our empirical model. Our findings suggest that individual-level satisfaction with democracy has positive causal effect on one's quality of life, whereas the country-level characteristic of the political regime has no effect.

scholarly journals Social integration: an important factor for health-related quality of life after critical illness

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 831-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotti Orwelius ◽  
Carl Bäckman ◽  
Mats Fredrikson ◽  
Eva Simonsson ◽  
Peter Nordlund ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Critical Illness ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related

scholarly journals A Theory of Social Integration as Quality of Life

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma C. Ware ◽  
Kim Hopper ◽  
Toni Tugenberg ◽  
Barbara Dickey ◽  
Daniel Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Integration

scholarly journals SOCIAL COHESION IN UKRAINE (THE EXPERIENCE OF APPLICATION OF BERTELSMANN STIFTUNG METHOD TO EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY DATA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 58-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bondarenko ◽  
S. Babenko ◽  
O. Borovskiy
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Quality Of Life ◽  
The Individual

The present article highlights the results of social cohesion study fulfilled on datasets collected during the sixth wave of the European Social Survey. The conducted study involved the explanation of the importance of social cohesion as a social phenomenon, caused by a paradigmatic shift of approaches to measuring the quality of life of societies. This involved the consideration of social cohesion as an important factor to measure the "social quality" of life. For this purpose, a technique implemented by Bertelsmann Stiftung was used, which was applied to available sixth wave of European Social Survey data, the latter, which included Ukraine, and further certified through the analysis of other additional sources. The study allowed to make a number of substantive conclusions about the level of social cohesion in Ukraine comparing to European countries and other countries of the world. Some recommendations for further research on social cohesion also have been given. The said phenomenon is important because it once can cover a wide range of socially important issues, being simultaneously at both the individual and the collective (macro) level of consciousness. The research of social cohesion highlights "problematic social spheres", so-called weak points of social relations, and conclusions provide knowledge about the direction, to which the efforts to improve the life of the society should be primarily directed.

scholarly journals The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality of life of Ukrainians

2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 132-151
Author(s):  
O. M. Balakireva ◽  
◽  
D. A. Dmytruk ◽  
◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Compulsory Vaccination ◽  
The Impact

The presented survey data reveals the impact of the pandemic in terms of public sentiments towards compulsory vaccination, perceptions of the prevalence of infection, the risk of a pandemic, the impact on the budgets of Ukrainian families and the public’s assessment of the Government’s efforts to overcome the pandemic.

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