Factors beyond Workplace Matter: The Effect of Family Support and Religious Attendance on Sustaining Well-Being of High-Technology Employees.

Background: Apart from the workplace, drawing support from family and religion is critical to maintaining the well-being of high-technology employees. Relying on the job demands-resources model and the positive affective spillover effect, the aim of this study was to investigate the mediated relationship of family support, work engagement and subjective well-being, and the moderating effect of religious attendance on the mediated relationship.

Methods: A cross-sectional research design was adopted.

The Effect of Perceived Value, Trust, and Commitment on Patient Loyalty in Taiwan.

Increasing patient loyalty through improved health care quality and patient-provider relationships becomes the key factor in medical providers' successes. This study explored the mediated relationship of patients' perceived value, patient commitment, and patient loyalty and the moderating effect of patient trust on the mediated relationship. A cross-sectional research design was adopted.

Dual normative commitments mediating the relationship between perceived investment in employees' development and intention to leave among the healthcare workforce in underserviced areas of Taiwan.

Introduction: To study the factors affecting the intent to leave of healthcare workers who serve in underserviced areas of Taiwan, the authors tested the mediating role of both professional and organizational commitment in the relationship between perceived investment of employee development and intention to leave among these healthcare workers.

Method: This study was designed as a cross-sectional study using a well-organized questionnaire with major study variables consisting of perceived investment in employees' development (PIED), Meyer's occupational and organizational normative commitment, and intent to leave. In total, 692 healthcare workers from 48 health centers were enrolled for study; 616 people, including 415 (68.

Do healthier lifestyles lead to less utilization of healthcare resources?

Background: Governments are urged to determine methods to control the use of medical resources and curb the rise of healthcare costs. The question is, do health behaviors have an impact on the use of medical resources? This study aims to identify and understand the difference in the number of outpatient visits and health examinations based on various health behaviors and to determine whether patients seek medical care for illness from the same physicians.

Methods: This study used the dataset derived from the Department of Budget, Accounting and Statistics of Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 2005.

Nurses' perceptions of severe acute respiratory syndrome: relationship between commitment and intention to leave nursing.

Aims: This paper reports a study which aimed to: (1) investigate the relationship between nurses' commitment to the nursing profession and organization and their intention to leave; (2) investigate nurses' perceptions of the possibility of acquiring severe acute respiratory syndrome infection and its moderation of their commitment to the nursing profession and the organization and their consequent intentions to leave the profession and the organization following the severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak.

Background: The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003 resulted in a fatality rate of approximately 11%. Nurses in hospitals caring for patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome maintained close contact with the infected patients.