Background:A considerable number of patients infected with HIV also have mental health problems. Individual psychotherapy is an effective way to treat these issues. Lack of social acceptance is a barrier to patients receiving proper medication and emotional/psychological support.Objectives:The purpose of this study was to examine the individual factors of social acceptance in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus.Patients and Methods:Fifty HIV-infected patients who were registered in the Behavioral Consultation Center entered the study. Each of them filled out a questionnaire based on the Crown-Marlow social acceptance scale. Their answers were evaluated according to the questionnaire key.Results:Forty-five patients (90%) were male and five (10%) were female. Their ages ranged between 28 and 52 years old. Other variables researched in this study include patients’ age, sex, education, occupation, place of living, marital status, family history of HIV, and family history of psychological disorders. Employed patients experienced more social acceptance than housewives and people who were unemployed or retired.Conclusions:This study showed that HIV-infected patients with jobs enjoy a great deal of acceptance from the people around them and a higher quality of life in general. It also led to suggestions for further study with the purpose of finding more effective solutions for HIV prevention and better strategies for dealing with psychological disorders. Such research could also help in providing an enhanced understanding of the potential psychological impact that AIDS has on patients in Iran.
The main objective of this study is to explain the relationship between human resource management (HRM) and psychological empowerment among the employees who worked for the National Iranian oil company (NIOC). The study population includes all NIOC's 950 employees, where 276 people were randomly chosen as sample study. The survey uses a questionnaire originally developed by Spreitzer (1995) [Spreitzer, G. M. (1995). Psychological empowerment in the workplace: Dimensions, measurement, and validation. Academy of management Journal, 38(5), 1442-1465.] to measure psychological empowerment and designs another questionnaire for measuring HRM. Cronbach alphas for psychological empowerment and HRM are 0.856 and 0.839, respectively. The results have indicated that there was a positive and meaningful relationship between psychological empowerment and HRM.
In every industry, improvement of efficiency is one of the main priorities of managers. Increased efficiency has more importance in service based industries, because in these industries improvement of efficiency turns into a software category and in fact, in these industries increased assets can not necessarily lead to increased efficiency. In such conditions, the focus should be shifted towards software development. One of the most important service providing sections is the section of healthcare. Both at the macro level of nations, especially Iran and the micro levels including families, healthcare services are crucially important. This section is in contact with the vast majority of people and as a result it can affect the views and satisfaction of people and therefore, is highly emphasized. In spite of that, there is several information flows embedded in the section of healthcare and especially in hospitals. Hospitals include a large flow of information and management of this information requires advanced systems. Management information systems can be crucially useful in terms of management of this information. Every year, hospitals spend huge costs for implementation of management information systems. For organization managers it is important to know that to what extent these systems can impact the quality of services. In this research it has been tried to fulfill this question and for this purpose, the existing information in Madayen hospital is utilized. For the purpose of analysis of results, the approach of analysis of structural equations was applied through the LISREL and SPSS software. Results indicated that management information systems have impacts on financial dimensions, customer orientation, quality of services and quality of internal processes.
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