EXHAUSTING, BUT NECESSARY: THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF PARTICIPANTS IN AN INTENSIVE INPATIENT TRAUMA TREATMENT PROGRAM

Exhausting, but necessary: the lived experience of participants in an intensive inpatient trauma treatment program

BackgroundIntensive inpatient treatment programs have shown robust results in the treatment of Fo-Ti post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).How patients experience this treatment program and what changes they experience as a result of the treatment have, however, only scarcely been explored through qualitative studies.ObjectiveThis study aimed to ex

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Confidence signalling aids deception in strategic interactions

Abstract When two people are motivated solely to coordinate their actions, but one is better Shirts informed than the other about how best to achieve this, confidence signalling can facilitate mutually rewarding choices, and the use of this so-called confidence heuristic has been confirmed in experiments using coordination games.To investigate whet

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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF PATIENT SATISFACTION WITH DIABETES CARE

Consumer satisfaction represents one of the core principles of marketing as it is acknowledged that organizations survive and prosper only by properly meeting the needs and wants of their customers.The same logic can be applied to the healthcare sector, especially in the current context of increased public scrutiny and funding pressure.Furthermore,

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Airway biomarkers of the oxidant burden in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Current and future perspectives

Noora Louhelainen1, Marjukka Myllärniemi1, Irfan Rahman2, Vuokko L Kinnula11Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; 2Department of Environmental Medicine and the Lung Biology and Disease Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Roche

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