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Wolff, Jennifer L.; Giovannetti, Erin R.; Boyd, Cynthia M.; Reider, Lisa; Palmer, Sara; Scharfstein, Daniel; Marsteller, Jill; Wegener, Stephen T.; Frey, Katherine; Leff, Bruce; Frick, Kevin D.; Boult, Chad – Gerontologist, 2010
Purpose: Guided Care (GC) is a model of health care for multimorbid older adults that is provided by a registered nurse who works with the patients' primary care physician (PCP). The purpose of this study was to determine whether GC improves patients' primary caregivers' depressive symptoms, strain, productivity, and perceptions of the quality of…
Descriptors: Nurses, Chronic Illness, Caregivers, Goal Orientation
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Wilson, Jacqueline I. – Issues in Educational Research, 2009
This study explores what motivates a student to enter medical school by first measuring students' strength of motivation and then by looking for relationships between motivation and career-related values and approaches to learning. Validated and reliable questionnaires were used to obtain data. This study found no differences in strength of…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Social Status, Medical Schools, Self Esteem