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PubMed2026

A risk-need-responsivity (RNR)-informed systematic review of needs during the pretrial period.

OBJECTIVE: Pretrial risk assessments are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. Despite the importance of assessing and intervening around "needs" in the risk-need-responsivity model, few pretrial risk assessments include comprehensive assessment of needs. We aim to provide a systematic review of the prevalence of and predictive utility of needs within the pretrial population. HYPOTHESES: There were no hypotheses given the nature of the study. METHOD: We conducted searches for articles in the EBSCO, ProQuest, and Google Scholar databases using key words related to 11 needs domains: antisocial personality, procriminal attitudes, procriminal associates, substance use, family/marital relationships, school/work, prosocial recreational activities, self-esteem, housing, mental health, and physical health. We identified 215 articles that reported on the prevalence of needs or explored their predictive associations with pretrial misconduct outcomes in adult populations. RESULTS: Overall, we find few comprehensive investigations of needs in the pretrial domain, apart from substance use. Variation in methodology and operationalization contributes to wide variability in prevalence estimates. We found only 15 articles that examined predictive associations between pretrial needs and outcomes, which were limited to investigations of behavioral health, employment, and housing needs. Substance use and housing needs emerged as the only consistent predictors of pretrial misconduct. CONCLUSIONS: Researchers should more directly assess the prevalence and predictive utility of needs within the pretrial period to bolster the evidence base for including these factors in pretrial risk assessments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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Comparison of manifest needs of nurses and physicians in primary care practice.

Nurses, among other professionals, have been tested extensively using the Edwards Personal Preference Schedule. High scoring needs found in previous studies were order, deference, and endurance. In this study, questions focused on whether these needs remained prominent in a group of nurses, whether there were shifts in the need patterns over time, and how the nurses' needs compared with the needs of physicians. In this study 127 graduate nurses enrolled in a medical nurse practitioner program and 31 physician colleagues completed the EPPS. The rank order of needs among nurses was strikingly different from those collected in previous samples. Need for heterosexuality, dominance, intraception, change, and achievement consistently appeared highest since 1973, whereas need for deference, order, and endurance scored consistently among the lowest six needs. The rank-order correlation between nurses and physicians in this sample, all of whom were working in primary care settings, was high (r = .9). Only one of the 15 needs, intraception, differed significantly between the nurse and the physician groups, the nurses scoring higher. The shift in needs of the nurses and the high similarity of needs of the nurse and physician groups suggest an emerging assertiveness on the part of the nurses and a trend toward similarity of need patterns with physicians practicing in primary care.

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Needs of relatives of critically ill patients: a descriptive study.

Relatives of critically ill patients were able to identify their needs during the intensive care phase of hospitalization. The universal need identified as very important was the need for hope. Other important needs were concerned with receiving adequate and honest information and feeling that the hospital staff members were concerned about the patient. Although several of the needs appeared to be of great concern to relatives, all the needs were considered very important by at least one relative. The majority of needs were perceived as being met consistently. Various resources were used by the relatives to meet their needs; however, specific needs were expected to be met by physicians and nurses. Since many relatives have similar needs, the use of a group process to deal with them should be investigated. A group process allows for sharing and support among the relatives and also allows one staff member to work with several relatives. The relatives perceived the role of health care personnel to be patientcentered only. If the patient is a member of a family, then the family and staff should recognize that the health care personnel are helping relatives because it is a crucial part of total patient care. This area in providing total patient care needs to be studied carefully. The relatives of critically ill patients have important needs in this crisis period. By recognizing these needs and evaluating how they are being met, total patient care will involve the family. Such involvement is essential to the care of the critically ill patient.

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Professional development of nurse practitioners as a function of need motivation, learning style, and locus of control.

This study assessed the relationship of loci of control, learning styles, and motivational needs of 53 graduates of the Wichita State University Nurse Clinician Program to amounts and types of professional activities performed in a clinical setting. A self-appraisal was also considered in the analyses. Motivational needs assessed included the needs for achievement, affiliation, and power. Findings revealed that nurse clinicians with moderate need for achievement, high need for affiliation, and moderate need for power performed significantly (p less than .03) more professional activities than nurses with high need for achievement, low need for affiliation, and high need for power. Other findings showed a significant (p less than .04) negative relationship between chance locus of control and self-appraisals. Amounts and types of professional activities performed were not significantly related to loci of control or to learning styles.

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PubMed2026

Psychological Capital and Perceived Stress in Nurses: The Mediating Role of Need for Recovery and Recovery Experiences.

AIM: To examine whether recovery experiences and need for recovery mediate the association between psychological capital and perceived stress in nurses. DESIGN: Cross-sectional online survey. METHODS: A total of 184 nurses currently practicing in France completed an anonymous online questionnaire administered in January 2023. Participants completed the French versions of the Psychological Capital Questionnaire, the Recovery Experience Scale, the Need for Recovery Scale, and the Perceived Stress Scale. Two mediation models were estimated using ordinary least squares regression with percentile bootstrap inference for the indirect effects. RESULTS: Psychological capital was positively associated with recovery experiences and negatively associated with need for recovery. Need for recovery was strongly and positively associated with perceived stress, while psychological capital showed no direct association with perceived stress. The indirect effect of psychological capital on perceived stress through need for recovery was statistically detectable, whereas a complementary indirect effect through recovery experiences was in the expected direction but did not meet the bootstrap criterion for statistical significance. CONCLUSION: In this cross-sectional sample, psychological capital was associated with lower perceived stress primarily through its association with reduced need for recovery rather than through a direct association with stress. Interventions intended to protect nurse well-being should therefore be conceived as combining individual resource-building with organizational architectures that enable effective recovery. IMPLICATION FOR NURSING PRACTICE: Psychological capital should be seen as one element in integrated interventions rather than a stand-alone solution to nursing stress. Brief recovery-focused interventions for nurses need to be combined with scheduling practices and organizational policies that protect rest and make recovery feasible, a configuration that appears more promising than psychological capital training alone. REPORTING METHOD: The study followed the STROBE Statement for the reporting of cross-sectional studies. NO PATIENT OR PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION: This study focused on nurses as study participants. No patient or public stakeholder was involved in the design, conduct, or interpretation of the research, since the research question concerns occupational psychological resources rather than clinical practice or care delivery.

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PubMed1978

Oral conditions and need for dental treatment in an elderly population in northern Norway.

Oral conditions and dental treatment needs were investigated in a group of persons aged 65--79. A sample comprising 280 persons was drawn systematically to cover all persons in this age category living in the county of Troms in Norway. 241 persons attended, leaving a participation-rate of 86. The participants were examined mainly in their homes by dentists in graduate training. Sixteen percent of the group were in constant need of assistance or care due to a poor general state of health. In all, 80% were edentulous: 72% of the men and 87% of the women. Ninety-two percent wore removable dentures, 5% had natural teeth only, and 14% had natural teeth combined with a denture. Furthermore, 4% had neither teeth nor dentures, while dentures in both jaws were found in 66%. The "objective" treatment needs were extensive and had mainly accumulated due to neglectec care. Forty percent of the total group needed new complete dentures and 20% a more comprehensive correction of their dentures. By contrast only 30% intended to seek treatment in the near future. There seemd to be a definite need for a dental program to overcome or reduce the economic and other situational barriers.

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PubMed1978

Periodontal treatment need in a Finnish industrial population.

A periodontal study was conducted in a paper mill in Finland. To adapt the Periodontal Treatment Need System (PTNS) to a Finnish adult population the estimates of Finnish periodontologists were used. The mean estimate of periodontal treatment need was 97 +/- 58 (s.d.) min per person and 32 +/- 18 min per jaw segment. Periodontal treatment need increased with age. No significant differences in periodontal treatment need by sex, education, type of employment, regularity of working hours or frequency of dental visits were observed. Adjusted family income and toothbrushing frequency did not produce significant differences in periodontal treatment need, except in the group having four dentulous jaw segments. The groups using sugar, other sweetening agents or neither of these, mainly in coffee or tea, differed significantly: the non-users of sugar had lowest treatment time and those who used other sweetening agents than sugar had highest treatment time.

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A survey of health needs of older adults in northwest Johnson County, Iowa.

In 1975, the 1972 survey by the DuPage County, Illinois, Health Department (Managan et al. 1974) was replicated in an eight-township area of Johnson County, Iowa, to compare and document areas of nursing needs for the nursing division of a rural health center and to determine if the Illinois findings were generalizable to a setting which included both similarities and differences. The DuPage County population was urban, while the Johnson County population had a strong farm background and the majority of the subjects still resided on a farm. The DuPage County sample of 1,466 represented approximately 5 percent of the elderly population. The sample size in the Johnson County study was only 82; however, it represented approximately 10 percent of the elderly in the eight townships of the study area. The method of interviewing in the resident's homes was replicated as was DuPage's method of statistical analysis. Comparison of data from the two counties showed striking similarities in all parameters: health condition, physical functioning accessibility of medical care, social isolation, and service needs. Both studies found need for additional health services. A multiple disciplinary service approach to health needs would assist the elderly to remain in their own homes longer and to improve the quality of their lives. In the Iowa study, four questions to determine satisfaction with present living facilities and with adequacy of income for needed medical and dental costs were added. When these answers were compared to two previous Iowa studies, findings were similar.

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PubMed1977

Infants in a public school system: the indicators of early health and educational need.

The Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP) is a demonstration model in which a public school system in collaboration with a pediatric center has extended teaching and diagnostic services to the earliest days of life. In most cases, enrollment and data collection began three months before the children were born. A comprehensive diagnostic component including health, neurologic, sensory, developmental, and psychological assessments was performed periodically. The present study, the first of several reports, is an analysis of positive indicators of health and developmental need during the first six months of life. At the time of initial surveillance, age 2 weeks, a high yield of physical and demographic findings, along with perinatal stresses, was observed. It was noted that demographic, neurologic, physical, and perinatal stress factors appeared as independent variables. At the three- and six-month checkpoints, there were more overlapping findings between the categories of physical assessment, developmental examination, and neurologic evaluation. Over the six-month period, there was a tendency toward instability of findings: The group of youngsters thought to have special needs at the age of 2 weeks, 3 months, and 6 months differed in composition from each other. Likewise, there was significant flux in membership between the three- and six-month groups with needs. The study may have public policy implications, insofar as early education services should not be constructed to admit only "high-risk newborns" since this would exclude many children whose needs would become manifest later and would take in a number of children falsely identified as in need but with the resiliency to overcome this. The BEEP program has relevance for pediatric practice in demonstrating a component of health care with greater diagnostic and therapeutic responsibility for educational competence in young children.

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PubMed1978

Dental health status and treatment needs of students at a disadvantaged secondary school, Victoria, Australia--1975.

The dental health status and treatment needs of 302 secondary school students (182 boys, 120 girls: age range 11-16 years) were surveyed. Restorative, exodontic, periodontic, prosthetic, and orthodontic treatment needs were assessed at the time of examination. The dental health status was poor and the amount of treatment needed was high. Treatment needs increased with age and were dominated by resorative work. The average student required 19.8 relative value units of work, taking 2 3/4 hours and costing A$ 93.00.

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PubMed1978

The definition and identification of need for health care.

Some definitions of need for health care as a basis of planning health services are discussed. A model proposed by Donabedian (1974) relating need to resources is used to consider the problems faced by the Resource Allocation Working Party (RAWP) (Department of Health and Social Security, 1976). The paper concludes that need should be defined in relation to the procedures available to meet it and the resources that permit those procedures to be used. The procedures include the whole gamut of prevention and screening, cure and care, research and development. This necessarily raises moral and ethical issues which stretch beyond the limits of medicine and concern patients, their relatives, and the public in general. Neither the medical profession nor the lay public can be expected to help define need for health care unless they understand the underlying issues. This is a challenge to those responsible for professional and public education.

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PubMed1979

Some thoughts on epidemiologic indexes for assessing the need for treatment of periodontal diseases.

Various indexes have been developed and used to collect information on the prevalence, aetiology and prevention of periodontal disease, but few efforts have been made to utilize this information to assess treatment needs in the populations examined. Recently, Johansen et al. (1973) have developed the Periodontal Treatment Needs System and Møller and Beck (1976) included an assessment of treatment requirements in the Collaborative Study of Dental Manpower Systems sponsored by WHO and the USPHS. The value of these various indexes and the problems encountered in their application to field studies are discussed in detail. The lessons learned have been incorporated into the second edition of the booklet Oral Health Surveys (WHO, 1977), but it is contended that the methods advocated are still less than perfect. Particular doubt is cast on the recommendation for the use of a periodontal probe in field surveys often conducted in primitive conditions and by examiners with minimal training and experience. It is suggested that the critical depth of 3 mm is too small to be regarded as requiring radical treatment. The need for a treatment index is questioned in the light of the probability that treatment needs could not be fully met even in developed countries.

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PubMed1979

Training in rehabilitation: basics needs and considerations.

Rehabilitation is an integral part of medicine. It includes physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy. It involves nurses, social workers, clinical and educational psychologists. It also involves resettlement into the community and to work. Each patient, whether temporarily or permanently disabled, requires a comprehensive service to meet all his needs at the appropriate time. Although there are some multidisciplinary teams providing comprehensive rehabilitation services the needs are so wide and complex that many patients do not achieve optimum rehabilitation. Most doctors believe that the best rehabilitation stems from high standards of general medical care, but many patients require care and counselling extending into social and community aspects of their lives. The clinician must be trained to understand these needs and accept the responsibility for, at least, initiating appropriate rehabilitation and resettlement procedures and thus reducing clinical and social morbidity. Rehabilitation is more than the practice of special techniques. Most therapists can contribute considerably by the assessment of potential functional capability and by exploiting residual capability by alternative techniques of activity, or the use of aids and appliances. The behavioural aspects of response to illness or injury and the patterns of recovery thus determined need to be more clearly understood and the rehabilitation programme reappraised in the light of the knowledge.

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PubMed1978

[Measuring nursing needs of older people related to actual nursing time in institutions for the aged (author's transl)].

A great many of the elderly people are in need of care. In offering services accordingly it is necessary to acquire relevant data. The following article gives results of a study which determined 1) the real amount of given nursing care and 2) the measured amount of nursing needs of these patients. The research was done at 10 nursing stations with 210 persons. The results make clear 1) that need of care must be seen in a multidemensional perspective and 2) that much of the psychological and social needs of the patients are not yet satisfied.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1978

Need of orthodontic treatment in 7-year-old Finnish children.

The purpose of the investigation was to determine the need of orthodontic treatment in 7-year-old Finnish children. The series consisted of 200 Finnish children, 100 girls and 100 boys. With regard to the main lines of occlusion a close agreement was observed between the prevalence of malocclusion in this and other. Scandinavian series. The need of orthodontic treatment was assessed using a treatment scale for the age group concerned. No treatment was required in 42% of the children, while 23.5% were in immediate need of orthodontic treatment. In 34.5% it was considered necessary to follow the occlusal development.

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