There are significantly elevated parental stress levels in Japanese parents of children with Asperger's syndrome or autism. In addition, the total parental stress levels were significantly higher in parents of children with Asperger's syndrome than in parents of children with autism.
Variation from the norm in eating, sleeping and exercise behaviors showed a relationship with a distorted perception of body image in Japanese adolescent girls. These findings are of potential importance in understanding the underlying mechanisms involved in the development of body image and for exploring interventional approaches.
To conduct a study of nurses to reveal the effects of quality of life QOL and self-efficacy on their intention to quit. Method A questionnaire was distributed to 625 nurses and data from the 300 nurses who responded to all of the questions were included in the study. The questionnaire was comprised of questions about the attributes of the respondents, the Japanese translation of the WHO/QOL-26 as a measure of QOL , the General Self-Efficacy Scale GSES as a measure of self-efficacy , and the Intention to Quit Scale as a measure of intention to quit. Results In a comparison by number of years of experience, nurses with three to five
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