Objective: This study aimed to identify the process by which continuing peer support activities supported the recovery of persons with mental illness.Methods: Semi-structured interviews were ...conducted with 12 peer supporters belonging to an outpatient mental health facility. The peer supporters were asked how their ways of daily living and thoughts changed through the peer support activities, and the content was integrated using the KJ method.Results: The content as stated by peer supporters was integrated into six categories: “I could maintain good conditions,” “I could understand people around me,” “I want to help my peers,” “I want to continue working,” “I want to contribute to society,” and “I was able to accept myself.” According to the subject narratives, working freed them from their own worries and symptoms, and they learned to understand others as they came to realize that they had a lot in common in terms of their individual worries. They then followed the process of continuing to engage in peer activities that were helpful for their peers, finding a goal of contributing to society, and ultimately learning to accept themselves while co-existing with illness.Discussion: In this process, it was suggested that the recovery of people with mental illness was supported by their intention to share and make good use of their own experiences with their peers.
This publication examines nonfatal injuries and illnesses resulting from support activities for crop production and animal production workers in Florida. Written by Robert Overstreet, Cassandra Ward, ...and Serap Gorucu, and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, July 2022.
During the early stages of the teaching profession, pre-service and beginning teachers often participate in individual support activities intended to develop their teacher self-efficacy. These ...individual support activities (modeling, feedback on lesson plans or lessons, and reflection) are provided as part of an intervention by a mentor, cooperating teacher, instructor, or supervisor. We conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the effectiveness of these interventions and the individual support activities for pre-service and beginning teachers’ self-efficacy. We found a medium-sized overall effect of interventions on teacher self-efficacy based on 28 studies (49 effect sizes) in our meta-analysis. Providing feedback on lesson plans amplified the intervention effect (large effect). However, this moderator effect slightly missed the significance level of 0.05. The moderator effect of providing feedback on lesson plans was stable after controlling for mastery experiences and methodological moderator variables. Implications for future interventions regarding teacher self-efficacy for early career teachers are discussed.
•In our meta-analysis, we explored 28 intervention studies for early career teachers.•We found a medium overall effect across interventions on teacher self-efficacy.•Individual support activities include feedback, modeling, and reflection.•Feedback on lesson plans (as moderator) can increase the overall effect.
Purpose: Entrepreneurship is a process that plays a vital role in the continuity of national growth and even economic development of the world. Therefore, the goal of the present study was "Analysis ...the entrepreneurship value chain of sports sciences students in Tehran universities."Methodology: The research method in the study was the descriptive – correlative type. The study's statistical population included all professors and graduate students of sports universities in Tehran (N=1000), among whom 270 individuals were selected using stratified random sampling proportionate to volume. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire based on a value chain model. Also, path analysis was used by Lisrel to design the model.Findings: The results showed that the basic infrastructure of the sports entrepreneurship value chain directly affected support activities with a path coefficient of 0.67 and executive activities with a path coefficient of 0.53 (P<0.05). Besides, value chain support activities of sports entrepreneurship directly affected executive activities related to sports entrepreneurship value chain with a path coefficient of 0.41 (P<0.05). Due to the direct and indirect impact of basic infrastructure on organizational activities of the sports entrepreneurship value chain, the officials of Tehran universities must take appropriate measures to reinforce the essential infrastructure for graduate students of sports sciences in Tehran universities.Originality: This article is valuable and unique because it analyzes the Value Chain of Sports Sciences Students in Tehran Universities.
The functions performed by facility management practitioners and their classification have evolved over the last decades. The practice of Facility Management integrates many professions; however, ...certain authors have pointed out that heterogeneous views are generated by those responsible for the facilities and this has caused confusion about the understanding of the discipline in recent years. In addition, different attitudes about the discipline have been presented depending on the vision of the British or American schools of FM, which face the objectives and tasks throughout these years in different ways. This causes diffuse areas that prevent the identification of the entire spectrum of functions related to support activities in a facility management system. The objective of this research was to identify and classify the functions performed until the present time by facility managers in the literature to establish the scope of a facility management system. In this work, the authors carried out a review of the literature and an analysis of the different documents that gave rise to a proposal of the different functions performed and their classification into main areas. Later, a validation of the proposal was requested through an expert consultation in facility management in Latin America, which reached 94% approval. The validated proposal is composed of at least 37 functions performed by facility management professionals, and these functions can be classified into six main areas: Asset and Maintenance Management; Real Estate and Property Management; Energy and Sustainability Management; Corporate Project Management; Workplace Management; and Facilities Services Management.
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the activities to support balancing treatment and the occupational life of employees provided by occupational health service organizations. We also aimed ...to collect suggestions from these organizations for improving support activities in enterprises. Methods: Questionnaires about support activities (status, required external support, collaborative external facilities) were sent to 121 occupational health service organizations in Japan in 2018. Completed questionnaires were collected from 76 organizations (Response rate: 63.0%). The organizations were categorized as small (fewer than 99 employees), medium (100–199 employees), and large (200 employees or more). Results: More than 20% of the organizations had already started to provide several kinds of support activities. There were no significant differences in the status of support activities by size of occupational health service organization. To promote support activities, the organizations required external support, like educational programs, for occupational health specialists (59.5%), staff in client enterprises or health insurers (50.0%), or managers in the organizations themselves (48.6%). The most common external facility for referral or cooperation was prefectural occupational health total support centers (40.0% for referral and 24.0% for cooperation). Conclusions: This study found that some occupational health service organizations have already started to provide support activities for their clients. To promote these support activities, more educational programs should be provided for occupational health specialists, managers within the organizations, and staff of their clients.
In order to examine the possibility of utilizing vacant houses as bases for social support activities of community residents, I carried out a survey targeting adult guardians managing vacant houses, ...aiming to understand more about these houses and the conditions required for adult guardians to volunteer renting them out. 45.8〜57.2% of vacant houses were adequate as bases for activities and 35.8% were above adequate. Approximately 60% of the participants would possibly consider renting out the vacant house to organizations for free or with a discount as long as there were no disputes and the organizations exceeded standard conditions as tenants.
The purpose of this article is to explore shared service center (SSC) implementation. Shared service is a key concept by which corporations organize their resources. Research indicates that some ...organizations struggle with implementing SSC and sometimes entirely fail to implement them. Although prior research exploring the determinants of implementation success is relatively scarce, researchers have conducted several SSC implementation case studies. However, these valuable findings remain isolated in stand-alone case studies. We aggregated the results of these studies using a qualitative meta-synthesis to identify, extract, and synthesize variables, their interrelations, and their relationships to SSC success. The outcome is a theoretical model that describes which factors are important and how and why they are related to SSC success. Overall, we make important contributions to the growing SSC research by shedding theoretical light on SSC implementation. We also provide a set of propositions and make suggestions for future research.
Objectives This research aims to ascertain the kinds of support cancer peer supporters at medical institutions currently receive and the support they actually need.Methods Participants in the study ...were ten cancer peer supporters who were recommended by a patient association and who agreed to participate in the study. Using a qualitative descriptive method, interviews were conducted using an interview guide from July to October 2014. Codes were extracted from the interview transcript and divided into categories and subcategories. Accuracy was ensured by checking the data with the participants. The study was conducted with the approval of the Ethics Committee of Mejiro University.Results Research participants consisted of two men and eight women aged forty to seventy years, who were private counselors, telephone counselors, or members of cancer salons at hospitals. Four categories were generated on the basis of the support that cancer peer supporters are currently receiving: mutual learning and support among peer supporters, learning and encouragement from patients, self-improvement in peer supporters, and cooperation with hospitals and the government. Seven categories were generated on the basis of the support that cancer peer supporters need: opportunities for peer supporters to learn from and support each other, further studies on cancer peer support, reliable and up-to-date information, society's understanding and cooperation regarding cancer, financial support for support activities and patient associations, improvement of cancer peer support system, and quality assurance of peer supporter training courses.Conclusion Cancer peer supporters were supporting each other, gaining encouragement from patients, improving themselves, and gaining support from others. However, they also needed additional assistance such as opportunities for supporters to learn from and support each other and reliable and up-to-date information. Moreover, peer supporters needed advice and emotional support from hospital staff as they experienced difficulties during consultation. Various other types of support were needed, such as society's understanding and cooperation regarding cancer, financial support for support activities and patient associations, institutionalization of peer supporter placement in hospitals, and quality assurance of peer supporter training courses. Overall, support for cancer peer supporters is still not sufficient; thus, further help is necessary.
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