Ungdomar spenderar stor del av sin tid i skolan och upplever en minskad tid till fritid på grund av skolarbete. Tiden utanför skoltid är viktig för återhämtning och för att upprätthålla aktivitetsbalansen samt motverka stressrelaterad ohälsa. Syftet med studien är att beskriva aktivitetsbalans i relation till den tid eleven spenderar på skolarbete utanför skoltid och stress. Studien har en kvantitativ design, 46 deltagare rekryterades genom ett icke-slumpmässigt bekvämlighetsurval. Deltagarna besvarade påståenden kring aktivitetsbalans med Occupational Balance Questionnaire (OBQ) och kompletterande frågor om tid spenderad på skolarbete utanför skoltid och stress. Deskriptiv statistik, Spearman´s rank correlation och Mann-Whitney U-Test användes för att sammanställa data. Resultatet visar att deltagargruppen uppnår generellt låga totalpoäng i OBQ. Kvinnor skattar betydligt lägre aktivitetsbalans än män. Generellt anger hela deltagargruppen många studietimmar/vecka, och kvinnor anger fler studietimmar/veckan än män. Majoriteten av deltagarna upplever stress. Deltagare som inte upplever stress anger alla höga poäng på påståendet balans mellan vila, återhämtning och sömn. Slutsatsen för studien är att flertalet av deltagarna upplever låg aktivitetsbalans. Det är inte troligt att det finns en relation mellan skolarbete utanför skoltid och ungdomars aktivitetsbalans.

Background: Recently, health plans have initiated pay-for-performance (P4P) programs to incentivize pharmacies to focus on medication-related quality measures. Little research exists as to what attributes help a pharmacy to perform well in a P4P program. Objectives: This study aimed to: (1) propose a conceptual framework evolved from theories pertaining to economic, psychology, and organizational behavior disciplines that may contribute to a pharmacy's performance in a financial incentive program; (2) develop theoretically-derived questionnaires designed to elicit from pharmacists and pharmacy management pharmacy characteristics and pharmacy personnel factors thought to be associated with achieving quality measures specified for a pharmacy P4P program; (3) psychometrically assess these two newly developed questionnaires designed to collect information from community pharmacies eligible to participate in a pharmacy P4P program; (4) assess the magnitude of the relationship between pharmacy-related and construct redundancy of latent variables identified in objective 3; and (5) examine pharmacy factors' association with community pharmacies achieving quality measures in a pharmacy P4P program. Methods: Two survey instruments were created from a theoretically-derived conceptual framework to measure pertinent pharmacy characteristics and pharmacy personnel factors using a multi-step, mixed-methods process. Questionnaire development entailed semi-structured interviews, item generation, expert content validation, and cognitive debriefings. Developed questionnaires were evaluated in a non-experimental, cross-sectional survey of pharmacists and pharmacy management. Pharmacy personnel surveyed for this study were affiliated with pharmacies in Inland Empire Health Plan's (IEHP's) community pharmacy network. Using items measured in each questionnaire, specified groups of items were hypothesized to have a certain underlying latent variable. Latent variables hypothesized for items measured in the pharmacist questionnaire included: (1)"adherence management -services," (2)"adherence management-counseling," (3) "asthma management," (4) "pharmacist-prescriber relationship," (5) "chronic disease management," (6) "non-dispensing ability," and (7) "workload impact". For items measured in the pharmacy management questionnaire, eight latent variables were hypothesized: (1) "program understanding," (2) "program financial salience," (3) "program involvement," (4) "organization's adaptability," (5) "organization's innovativeness," (6) "organization's proactiveness," (7) "organization's risk-taking." and (8) "organization's focal emphasis." For hypothesized latent variables with four or more items, the value thresholds of three assessment indexes were employed as criteria to evaluate each measurement model's goodness-of-fit. Indexes included: (1) 2 test statistic (i.e.,>0.05), (2) root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) (i.e., 0.05), and (3) comparative fit index (CFI) (i.e.,>0.95). The statistical significance of item factor loadings was assessed for latent variables with (1) four or more items deemed to have adequate model fit per index criteria and (2) only three items, for which goodness-of-fit may not be assessed. Structural modeling was used to explore associations between (1) pairs of latent variables with adequate model fit and/or statistically significant factor loadings; and (2) latent variables with medication-related quality measures. The strength of associations among latent variable pairs was measured with correlation coefficients. Latent variable pairs with significant correlations greater than 0.50 were evaluated for construct redundancy, for which a change in CFI was used as the comparison criteria to determine whether the latent variables are better represented as one (i.e., (CFI<-0.01) or two constructs (i.e., (CFI ≥ -0.01). Mediation-related quality measures specified as dependent variables in structural models included: diabetes medication adherence, hypertension medication adherence, hypercholesterolemia medication adherence, absence of controller therapy in patients with asthma, use of high-risk medications in elderly, and generic dispensing rate. Results: The empirically derived conceptual framework outlined four major domains proposed for consideration when evaluating pharmacy P4P programs: (1) incentive; (2) pharmacy; (3) other influencing factors; and (4) P4P program measures. From this framework, two questionnaires were developed with the aim of measuring pharmacists' and pharmacy management's pharmacy attitudes and perspectives of a community pharmacy P4P program. The pharmacist survey instrument consisted of five sections: (i) community pharmacy P4P program; (ii) pharmacy services; (iii) pharmacist workload; (iv) pharmacy practice site; and (v) pharmacist's background. The pharmacy management questionnaire consisted of four sections: (i) pharmacy P4P program; (ii) pharmacy organization's characteristics; (iii) pharmacy practice site; and (iv) respondent's background information. Among the 604 pharmacies invited to participate, pharmacists from 114 unique pharmacies (19%) and pharmacy management from 100 unique pharmacies (17%) participated in the survey. This study identified psychometrically validated measurement models for latent constructs with items measured in the pharmacist ("adherence management-counseling," "asthma management," "workload impact" ) and pharmacy management ("program involvement," "organization's innovativeness," "organization's proactiveness," "organization's risk-taking" ) questionnaires). With the exception of "program involvement," the latent constructs measured in the pharmacy management questionnaire were identified to be significantly correlated (𝛹>0.50, p<0.001) and more parsimoniously represented as one factor rather than two (∆CFI<-0.01). No significant associations were identified in exploratory analyses of validated measurement models from the pharmacist questionnaire with targeted medication-related quality measures in IEHP's community pharmacy P4P program. Conclusion: This study collected data for two questionnaires evaluating (1) pharmaceutical care services conceptualized to be associated with targeting medication-related quality measures and (2) pharmacy management's attitudes toward a pharmacy P4P program. Furthermore, psychometric assessment of each questionnaire supplied initial validity evidence for three constructs for the pharmacist questionnaire ("adherence management-counseling," "asthma management," and "workload impact" ) and four constructs for the pharmacy management questionnaire ("program involvement," "organization's innovativeness," "organization's proactiveness," and "organization's risk-taking" ). Subsequent validation of these latent constructs in larger sample sizes is required. Continued study of pharmacy factors and their association with medication-related quality measures is needed to improve our understanding of pharmacies' performance in financial incentive programs. As pharmacy organizations are increasingly integrated into more financial incentive programs aimed at targeting process- and outcomes-related quality measures, it is essential to be able to measure pharmacy and management factors in order to determine which factor(s) impact pharmacy performance.

The concept of Lean Construction has been introduced successfully into the Construction Industry to increase efficiency and profit by elimination of non-value adding activities or ‘Waste’. Lean Construction is an adaptation of Lean manufacturing principles and is the future of the Construction Industry in developing as well as developed countries. There has been much study and documentation conducted on ‘Lean Construction’ in USA. Even though people have started practicing Lean in India, there is lack of documented information available about it. Professionals within the Industry could already be minimizing ‘Waste’ and/or following Lean principles without the knowledge of the term ‘Lean Construction’. This thesis has reviewed and compared Lean Construction practices and awareness in India and USA. A questionnaire based study was used to examine practices and collect data about Construction for analysis. Descriptive statistics was primarily used to make inferences from the data. The Lean Construction characteristics of the construction professionals from both the countries were discussed and analyzed. It was inferred that the Construction Industry in both the countries could benefit further from the Lean practices and increase profitability by up to 25%. In general, personnel in the Construction Industry from both the countries need to receive regular knowledge and updates about Lean principles in order to optimize resources effectively.

The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between early perceptions of parent-child relations, as measured by the Roe and Siegelman Parent-Child Relations Questionnaire (PCR), and the occupational orientation of the child, as measured by the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB).

The present study investigated the relationship of 16 Personality Factor (16 PF) Scores to institutional adjustment, educational level, recidivism, and escapism of 665 prisoners in a maximum security prison. Two phases of data analysis were conducted. Multiple two-tailed Students' t tests resulted in significant differences on all 16 PF Factor Scores between prisoners and Cattell adult norm group. Significant differences were also found between prisoners and Cattell prisoner norms. In phase two, four multiple linear regression models were constructed. Significant 16 PF scales, age, and educational differences were found within the prisoner sample. Possible implications of the use of the 16 PF in regression models in paramorphic clinical prediction programs are discussed.

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Title: Hemps and its utilization at elementary schools and grammar schools Abstract: The thesis puts together a teaching aid concerning hemps. It is based on in-depth study of related literature, content analysis of schoolbooks and Framework Education Programmes for Basic Education and Higher Education, and a questionnaire survey aimed at teachers. The teaching aid is to be used mainly at grammar schools, and it includes a Power Point presentation, a suggestion for teamwork focusing on the use of scientific texts, a worksheet and a test. In addition, there are two more extension activities, and a list of recommended information sources for teachers. .

Drugs seem to be really hot topic discussed especially at high schools. Not only the particular drug addicted person but also the entire society and even the state have to face to many risks. School institutions should become one of the places where the primary steps of prevention should be implemented. In order to prepare proper topics and themes for discussions and meetings against drug use, it is important to know which drugs are used and preferred by young Prague citizens. The main aim of this thesis is to map the real situation that exists in the area of drug us in Prague. That is why a survey - based on a questionnaire - was carried out to gather the data to be able to analyze the differences that exist among the students of high schools, especially grammar schools and vocational schools as well as the boys and girls. The theoretical part of the thesis is focused on detailed information about particular drugs and mapping of the situation that exists in this area in Poland, Austria, Slovakia and Germany. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The main focus of the work is to search for the greatest Czech, according to opinion of the 9th grade students. Other goal was to create and apply a project, through which we gathered information. Another goal was to find out if the students are interested in these persons out of the school education. Two methods were used to fulfil these goals - a survey and a project. The results of survey are: 1st place - Charles Fourth, 2nd place - Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and 3rd place - Václav Havel. The survey also showed that students are in mostly interested in these persons. If they do, they use internet and documentary movies as main sources of information rather than specialised literature. The final reflection of the project indicates that students liked it and considered it as interesting.

Title: Participants' satisfaction with Salomon Trail Running Cup 2014 sports event Objectives: The main aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse current level of customer satisfaction with sports event, find out their opinions and potential shortcomings in each running event by using questionnaire survey. Define any problem areas and suggest appropriate management recommendations by evaluating empirical data obtained from own market research. This would lead to improvement of runners' satisfaction with this sports event. Partial goal of this diploma thesis is to find potential coherence between customers' satisfaction and whether they attended Salomon Trail Running Cup for the first time or repeatedly. Methods: Quantitative questionnaire research was used to obtain data from respondents. Respondents were interviewed either in person or in writing. Informal interviews were made with the management of the sports event. T-test method was used to find potential coherence between customers' satisfaction and their attendance in the past Salomon Trail Running Cup events. Results: Marketing research showed that runners were mostly satisfied with this sports event. On the other hand several important problematic areas were discovered that management of this sports event should work on to fulfil runners'...