Time, age, gender and cultural measurement invariance of the CASP-12, a measure of psychological quality of life in adulthood.

Purpose: Whereas Quality of Life in older populations has long been conceptualized in regards to health or illness, the Control, Autonomy, Self-Realization and Pleasure scale (CASP-12) focuses on the positive facets of aging. Although the CASP is a widely used scale, its measurement invariance has seldom been examined. The present study aims to ascertain the measurement invariance of the CASP-12 over a period of 10 years and between age, culture and gender.

Stability and Change in Mental Health Profiles from Middle Adulthood to Very Old Age.

Objectives: This study investigates mental health (MH) through the dual-factor model, emphasizing both well-being and ill-being. Our objectives were to (1) identify MH profiles based on this model; (2) track these profiles over time; and (3) explore socio-demographic and physical health factors associated with these profiles.

Methods: We employed Latent Transition Analysis on data from 5,561 individuals aged 39-92, using two waves from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe.

Longitudinal development of attention and inhibitory control during the first year of life.

Executive functions (EFs) are key abilities that allow us to control our thoughts and actions. Research suggests that two EFs, inhibitory control (IC) and working memory (WM), emerge around 9 months. Little is known about IC earlier in infancy and whether basic attentional processes form the "building blocks" of emerging IC.

Child and parent predictors of picky eating from preschool to school age.

Background: Picky eating is prevalent in childhood. Because pickiness concerns parents and is associated with nutrient deficiency and psychological problems, the antecedents of pickiness need to be identified. We propose an etiological model of picky eating involving child temperament, sensory sensitivity and parent-child interaction.

Trajectories of self-evaluation bias in primary and secondary school: Parental antecedents and academic consequences.

Using a longitudinal approach spanning nine years of children's formal education, this study investigated the developmental trajectories of self-evaluation bias of academic competence. The study also examined how parenting styles were associated with the trajectories of bias in mid-primary school, and how those trajectories predicted academic outcomes at the end of secondary school and the beginning of college. A total of 711 children in 4th and 5th grades (mean age=10.

Music through the ages: Trends in musical engagement and preferences from adolescence through middle adulthood.

Are there developmental trends in how individuals experience and engage with music? Data from 2 large cross-sectional studies involving more than a quarter of a million individuals were used to investigate age differences in musical attitudes and preferences from adolescence through middle age. Study 1 investigated age trends in musical engagement. Results indicated that (a) the degree of importance attributed to music declines with age but that adults still consider music important, (b) young people listen to music significantly more often than do middle-aged adults, and (c) young people listen to music in a wide variety of contexts, whereas adults listen to music primarily in private contexts.

Testing and extending the triple match principle in the nursing profession: a generational perspective on job demands, job resources and strain at work.

Aim: The Triple Match Principle offers insight into the interactive interplay between job demands and job resources in the prediction of work-related strain. The aim of this article was to examine the interplay among job demands, job resources and strain in the nursing profession (the Triple Match Principle) and to gain insight into potential generational differences by investigating generation as a moderator of that interplay.

Background: No research has been done to evaluate generational differences in the Triple Match Principle.

Implementation of evidence-based practices in the context of a redevelopment project in a Canadian healthcare organization.

Purpose: The recent introduction of a project management office (PMO) in a major healthcare center, led by a nurse, provides a unique opportunity to understand how a PMO facilitates successful implementation of evidence-based practices in care delivery.

Design: A case study with embedded units (individuals, projects, and organization). In this study, the case is operationally defined as the PMO deployed in a Canadian healthcare center.

Families' and decision makers' experiences with mental health care reform: the challenge of collaboration.

Family-driven collaboration is fundamental to developing a new model of health care and eliminating fragmented services in mental health. The province of Québec (Canada) recently undertook major transformations of its mental health care system. These transformations represent an opportunity to improve collaboration between families and health care practitioners and to understand which factors facilitate this collaboration.

Project management office in health care: a key strategy to support evidence-based practice change.

This article describes the contribution of a Transition Support Office (TSO) in a health care center in Canada to supporting changes in practice based on evidence and organizational performance in the early phase of a major organizational change. Semistructured individual interviews were conducted with 11 members of the TSO and 13 managers and clinicians from an ambulatory sector in the organization who received support from the TSO. The main themes addressed in the interviews were the description of the TSO, the context of implementation, and the impact.

Nurse Executives' Perceptions of the Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) Program.

Background: To improve the overall quality and effectiveness of the Canadian health care system through better decisions supported by research-based evidence (RBE), the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) and partners have created the Executive Training for Research Application (EXTRA) program.

Objectives: To evaluate how nurse executive fellows perceive changes in their levels of knowledge of RBE and in their level of use of RBE following participation in the EXTRA program.

Methods: Nurse executives in the first four cohorts of the program (2004-2007) completed a survey during their 2-year fellowship period.

Contribution of the psychosocial work environment to psychological distress among health care professionals before and during a major organizational change.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between 4 dimensions of the psychosocial work environment (psychological demands, decision latitude, social support, and effort-reward) among health care professionals as well as their psychological distress during a reorganization process. A correlational descriptive design was used for this quantitative study. A total of 159 health care professionals completed the questionnaire at T1, and 141 at T2.

Further validation of the BDI-II among people with chronic pain originating from musculoskeletal disorders.

Objective: One criticism of the BDI-II for assessing depressive symptoms in people experiencing chronic pain has been the potential overlap between the physical or psychological origins of some of the symptoms. Furthermore, previous studies have reported both two-factor and three-factor solutions, so that the factor solution of the instrument in this population remains unclear. The main objective of the present study was to validate the BDI-II with a chronic pain population experiencing musculoskeletal disorders.