Domains measured included cognitive appraisal of threat, coping, psychological adjustment, quality of life and perceived aim of treatment.
The main perceived aim of task shifting is to improve access to health care services in places with acute shortages of health personnel without compromising its quality [ 3].
In Latin America, for example, reforms were perceived as aiming to undermine the fundamental values that had inspired the design of the system, and sparked off a wave of resistance and strikes in El Salvador and Mexico.
Ms. Quinn also joined gay rights advocates who protested the pope's visit to St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1995, and fought against antipornography rules introduced by Mr. Giuliani, which were widely perceived as aimed at gay men.
Patients who perceived their aim of treatment to be cured, who did not use avoidance as a coping strategy or who were concerned about their disease experienced longer periods without relapse.
In his 1989 race for agriculture commissioner, for instance, he emphasized his opponent's endorsement of Jesse Jackson for president, running a commercial that many perceived to be aimed at white voters in East Texas.
Patients were asked to indicate the number of RT treatment and outpatient appointments they had attended; whether they had experienced a second diagnosis and/or recurrence; and whether they perceived that the aim of their treatment was to cure the cancer, prevent the cancer from coming back or control symptoms of cancer (cure is not possible).
When it was written in the early 1980s, Caryl Churchill's Top Girls seemed to be about the perceived conflict between the aims of feminism and the ideals of socialism.
Our findings highlight the relevance of paying attention to both objective and perceived neighbourhood crime measures when aiming to prevent smoking.
He is not alone in taking aim at perceived abuses of short-selling.
In the Nixon era, the corruption, encouraged by the White House, was aimed at perceived enemies of the Administration.
