Trust Relationships Research Articles

Features and evaluations of organizational support provided by occupational health nurses in private practice for the implementation of sustainable health and productivity management in medium-sized enterprises

This study aimed to clarify the features and evaluations of the organizational support provided by occupational health nurses (OHNs) in private practice to promote sustainable health and productivity management (HPM) in medium-sized enterprises. Corporate managers and employees of four enterprises with fewer than 300 employees received support from an experienced OHN in private practice through five support sessions per company, primarily targeting company managers. The OHNs documented their support steps and evaluations. After completing the support process, we conducted semi-structured interviews with company managers and OHNs to evaluate the support provided by the OHNs. The support processes were organized for each company according to an analytical framework based on the consolidated framework for implementation research; the support features of OHNs were extracted. The evaluations of the support provided by OHNs from the perspective of company personnel were categorized using content analysis. Six features of support by OHNs for the promotion of HPM were extracted, including clarifying corporate needs while focusing on relationships of trust with company representatives, providing appropriate health information, and introducing external resources to facilitate independent and continuous efforts in the company to promote sustainable HPM. The managers' evaluations of the support provided by the OHNs included the following six categories: 1) identified and recognized current internal health issues; 2) received specific assistance tailored to the company; 3) gained an opportunity to work on health promotion measures; 4) considered the development and continuation of future health promotion measures; 5) learned about the existence of OHNs as easy to consult with; and 6) identified aspects of support from OHNs that were different from what they expected. This study clarified the features and evaluations of the support provided by OHNs in private practice in medium-sized enterprises for the promotion of HPM. Our findings suggest that the involvement of OHNs in private practice may increase the number of medium-sized enterprises that can autonomously commit themselves to HPM in a sustainable manner.

Delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution: enablers and barriers

ABSTRACT The social work profession recognises the value of trauma-informed care for women with multiple disadvantage. For women involved in street-based prostitution this is mostly descriptive in nature with limited practice-based investigation. Guided by the principles of qualitative feminist research, this article explores the enablers and barriers in delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution. Semi-structured interviews with six outreach workers and ten women involved in street-based prostitution indicated that a trauma-informed approach to outreach facilitated the building of mutually trusting and effective relationships. This was underpinned by a commitment to working at the women’s own pace and on their terms, which meant the outreach workers, in time, moved beyond addressing immediate needs. Despite the dynamic skillset required, the low status of outreach work presented challenges for securing a consistent and experienced workforce, which affected the sustainable delivery of trauma-informed outreach. This article highlights the complexity that is involved in delivering trauma-informed outreach to women involved in street-based prostitution and contributes to a more generalised conception of trauma-informed outreach work for shared learning and development within social work.

“Mr. Thiers’ Republic” in the Assessments of Russian Diplomatians, August 1871 – October 1872

The author explores the history of the establishment of the republican system in France in the early 1870s. The period is associated with the activities of the first President of the Third Republic, Adolphe Thiers (1871–1873). Russian diplomats in Paris, Ambassador Prince Nikolai Orlov and Embassy Counselor Grigory Okunev, witnessed first-hand Thiers’ efforts to stabilise France after its defeat in the War of 1871. They developed a trusting relationship with Thiers, who initiated Russian diplomats into his plans. For this reason, the study of dispatches, letters, and analytical notes regularly sent from the Paris Embassy to St. Petersburg is of particular interest to those who study the initial period of the formation of the Third Republic. Until recently, this type of sources has attracted little attention on the part of researchers. This article fills up this obvious gap. The study of diplomatic communications demonstrates that Russian diplomats were quite objective in their analysis of the internal political processes taking place in France after the end of the Franco-German War. They gave a balanced assessment of Thiers’ work, tracing the evolution of his views from constitutional monarchist to conservative republican. The chronological framework of the article covers the period from Thiers’ election as President of the Republic in August 1871 to October 1872, when a crisis arose in his relations with the monarchist majority of the National Assembly.

In risk we trust? Making decisions about knee replacement

Risk communication is a key legal and ethical component of shared decision-making. Decisions about total knee replacement, a common surgery, must contend with the fact that a minority of cases result in unintended outcomes, some of which have devastating effects. To understand how risks are communicated during decision-making, we audio-recorded and analysed 62 consultations between surgeons and patients. Various communication methods were evident, including listing risks without elaboration, discussing them in a conversational manner, abrogating discussion of risk, or using decision-tools. Discussion of risks was often brief in nature, and risk communication was sometimes curtailed or deferred by both patients and surgeons. Risks could also be observed to play a part in reinforcing policy norms of the doctor-patient relationship that highlighted patient responsibility. Nevertheless, patients and surgeons in the observed consultations appeared more interested in developing trusting relationships than in discussing risks. Because patients had sometimes experienced considerable deterioration in their knee function before their consultation, were in pain and struggled with mobility, the realities of clinical practice clashed with the policy norms of choice and patient responsibility. Rather, decisions could appear coerced by the disease process rather than being clear-cut examples of self-determination. While policy norms putatively use risk disclosure to frame communication between patients and clinicians as a transaction between customer and technician, the lack of conformity to these norms in the consultations may indicate resistance to this framing. A greater emphasis on determining positive roles for trust and care would help policy to present a nuanced understanding of decision-making. Risk communication could be seen as a factor in the formation of trusting relationships, improving its role in decision-making processes while recognising its inherent tensions with practice.

Reframing: a feminist reflection on Alan Fox

PurposeThis paper contributes to the broad aim of this special issue, reflecting on the relevance of the writing of Alan Fox to the contemporary industrial relations field. It offers an original reflection from a feminist perspective on Fox’s classic insights around frames of reference.Design/methodology/approachWe concentrate on Beyond Contract, Work, Power and Trust Relations (1974a) and Man Mismanagement (1974b, 1985) as the texts setting out Fox’s influential frames of reference theory, before moving on to subsequent literature in the field making use of Fox’s frames. In undertaking this review from a feminist perspective, we specifically look at the extent to which work considers standpoint, gender relations and political engagement. We draw further on wider feminist scholarship within industrial relations, critical race theory and intersectionality perspectives.FindingsDespite the concept of inequality forming the core of Fox’s analyses, there is a lack of attention to gender or to other diversity strands in his work and, notwithstanding the weight of feminist scholarship within the industrial relations field since, this neglect has been carried forward into subsequent use of Fox’s work. We argue there is space for the frames to be interpreted and used in ways that leave space for attention to feminist concerns and call on academics to approach their use of Fox from a more critically-informed perspective.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper’s argument has implications for the field of industrial relations in terms of conceptual understanding and methodological approaches. With space, it would have been useful to apply our revised understanding of Fox’s key concepts to empirical cases.Practical implicationsGreater clarity in what constitutes “unitary” and “pluralist” perspectives and categories will help employment relations actors.Originality/valueWe present a novel feminist re-framing of Fox’s work, providing new understandings of the strengths, weaknesses and applicability of the frames of reference within contemporary industrial relations research and practice. We advocate for methodological and scholarly approaches which advance theoretical and empirical justice in the field, moving beyond gender to draw on critical race theory and intersectionality frameworks.

The Narrative of πίστις: A Narratological Approach to πίστις in 1 Peter

Abstract One important aspect of moral formation in 1 Peter is Peter’s goal to encourage believers to continue in their trust in God amidst suffering, and narratives play a key role in achieving this goal. This article argues that a narrative of trust (πίστις) made up of three events—the choice of trust, trust through suffering, and the outcome of trust—underlies 1 Peter. First, this article outlines the author’s narratological method. Second, the article exegetes the relevant passages where the πίστις word group is prevalent. Third, the article reconstructs Peter’s narrative of trust based around these three events, drawing implications for how this narrative encourages continued trust in God. Through his letter, Peter’s audience begins to see themselves within this narrative, looking both backward toward their redemption through Christ’s death and resurrection and forward toward Christ’s revelation. They see both the foundation and the outcome of their trust in Christ and are motivated to stay the course amidst suffering, firm in their relational trust in God and fully committed to him, knowing that just as God has been faithful to fulfill his promises in Christ, so he will be faithful to fulfill all his promises to them in the end.

Impacts of blockchain technology in agrifood: exploring the interplay between transactions and firms’ strategic resources

PurposeDespite the growing interest in blockchain technology (BCT) applications in the agri-food industry, evidence of their economic and strategic implications remains scarce. This study aims to contribute to filling this gap by jointly investigating how BCT adoption affects transactional relationships, and how it contributes to the firm’s strategic resources.Design/methodology/approachAn explanatory case study is conducted based on a theoretical framework grounded on transaction cost economics and the resource-based-dynamic capabilities view. Six BCT implementations by agri-food firms are studied. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and analysed using thematic analysis.FindingsFindings reveal that BCT benefits depend on how companies integrate technology across their supply chains. In fact, the results suggest that overall transaction efficiency within the supply chain is enhanced only for those firms prioritising stakeholder engagement during technology implementation and leveraging existing trust relationships with economic agents. Moreover, the results suggest that BCT is not yet perceived as a strategic resource, but rather that it has the potential to enhance firms’ operational-adaptive, absorptive and innovative capabilities. When all supply chain actors clearly understand blockchain’s functionality and value, the development of these capabilities becomes more pronounced.Practical implicationsThe study identifies two BCT adoption configurations. One primarily focuses on enhancing supply chain efficiency and transparency (dynamic BCT), while the other uses BCT mainly for marketing purposes (static BCT). These configurations lead to varied possibilities for leveraging BCT’s potential advantages. Furthermore, they show how a mismatch between a strategic approach and its chosen configuration could work against any positive impact and lead to disillusionment with the BCT. Thus, managers should assess carefully the impact of such different configuration choices on performance.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to attempt to analyse the economic implications of adopting BCT in the food sector from both a firm and supply chain perspective. Additionally, it shows how interpreting these impacts is contingent on the diverse modalities for embedding BCT into existing supply chains.

Bridging Minds and Frontiers: An Unconventional Academic Odyssey with Francisco José Ayala

The text recounts the author’s remarkable experience in establishing contact with Francisco José Ayala, a renowned professor, researcher, author, and philanthropist. Beginning in an unusual manner, the connection transcended the conventional boundaries of academia, dispelling the notion of inaccessibility of eminent scientists. This resulted in an interview and the publication of a letter in the Science journal, exemplifying Ayala’s generosity. The narrative highlights Ayala’s extensive contribution to the understanding of evolution, his role in issues of science and religion, and his notable philanthropy. The challenges faced during a period of collaborating in California are shared, emphasizing the consolidation of a relationship of trust. Ayala’s influence is evident in the author’s shift towards contemporary issues such as scientific misinformation and climatic themes, reflecting the enduring legacy Ayala left on his academic journey and the positive transformation in the author’s career.

Assessing the Subjective Happiness of Parents of Children With Severe Motor and Intellectual Disabilities Receiving Home Care.

Home care for children with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) is challenging for parents because it is highly intensive and long-lasting. The pursuit of happiness is an essential goal for everyone. However, only a few studies have focused on the happiness of families with such children. The study aimed to examine the subjective happiness of parents of children with SMID receiving home care and identify the factors associated with their happiness. We conducted a cross-sectional online questionnaire-based survey of 23 parents of children with SMID and nurses with children without disabilities as controls at Tottori University Hospital,Yonago, Japan from July 1 to August 31, 2023. We set the subjective happiness scale (SHS) scores as the outcomes. We used the Mann-Whitney U test to compare the SHS scores between the two groups. Moreover, we extracted the clinical and demographic factors affecting the SHS scores of parents of children with SMID using univariate linear regression analysis. We obtained responses from 12 parents with SMID and 105 controls. The average SHS scores of parents with SMID and controls were 4.8 and 4.7, respectively, and both groups did not differ significantly. Univariate analysis showed that parental male sex and the presence of a tracheostomy were negatively associated with the SHS scores of parents. The SHS scores did not differ significantly between parents with SMID and controls. However, more attention seemed necessary for fathers and parents of children who have undergone tracheostomies. Given the exploratory nature of this study and its small sample size, larger-scale investigations are warranted. Additionally, qualitative research conducted after establishing trustful relationships could provide further insights.

A Study to Measure Patients' Trust in Medical Practitioners in Surat City

Purpose- This study examines the critical role of trust in the doctor-patient relationship within the healthcare system. Trust acts as a pivotal element that enhances collaboration and communication, thereby improving patient outcomes. Defined as the subjective confidence in the reliability and integrity of healthcare providers, trust encompasses fidelity, competency, honesty, confidentiality, and overall reliability. The primary aim of the study is to examines the critical role of trust in doctor-patient relationship within the healthcare system and evaluate the factors influencing patients' trust in their medical practitioners. Research Design – This quantitative study employed an online survey administered via Google Forms to collect data from 646 patients. The survey assessed patients' understanding of trust in their healthcare providers, focusing on factors such as technical competence, empathy, reliability, and expertise. Statistical analyses including correlation, exploratory factor analysis, and Kruskal-Wallis tests were conducted to examine differences in trust perceptions across age groups and educational levels. Findings – The study revealed significant differences in how age groups of patients’ impact technical competence, patience, understanding of social and economic conditions, adherence to instructions, confidentiality, trust despite mistakes, respect, access to technologies, recommendations for healthcare, dependability, and approachability. Educational qualifications also significantly influenced perceptions of healthcare provider trust across several factors except for the provision of information. The findings underscore the importance of tailoring communication and care strategies based on patients' age and educational backgrounds to enhance trust and satisfaction in healthcare settings. Understanding these demographic variations can inform healthcare providers in developing patient-centred approaches that foster trust and improve healthcare outcomes.

Teaching and learning about race, culture, and environment in a predominately white institution

The environment and natural resource fields have traditionally centered western science, the scholarship of white men, and land conservation strategies that neglect historical inhabitants. These tenets have led to a narrow view of how conservation is defined and created challenges for BIPOC students and professionals to see themselves as full and equal participants in the environmental sciences. The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources has worked to address these shortcomings through courses designed to address issues of systemic racism and exclusion in the environmental field. In our student’s first year, we pair a fall course focused on communication skills with a spring course that addresses issues of racism and social justice in the environmental fields. We use the fall semester to create a learning community where students build relationships of trust, mutual regard, and care and develop a deeper understanding of their relationship with the environment. In the spring, we present students with a variety of frameworks to think critically about equity, inclusion, positionality, privilege, racism, and diversity. A key learning outcome is to help students consider how historical and present-day dynamics of race and racism have shaped the environmental field. Importantly, we focus on the voices and messages of environmental leaders who have historically been left out of popular environmental narratives. We outline lessons learned in the integration of diversity, equity, and inclusion into our environment and natural resources curriculum and ways to further enhance our centering of equity and inclusion in the curriculum.

Helping Institutionalised Children through a Trusting Relationship-Findings from a One-Year Psychosocial Intervention Programme.

Children growing up in institutions lack a stable relationship-essential for development. A significant proportion of them have disorganised attachment, which is associated with negative outcomes. Therefore, interventions aimed at improving attachment security are needed. We conducted a case series study (involving five participants aged 8-11 years) in a newly established psychosocial rehabilitation daycare centre to describe the changes in attachment security and mental health of institutionalised children after one year of attendance. The intervention consisted of individualised care focusing on staff building a trusting relationship with participants using the principles of Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI). Measures such as the Child Attachment Interview, SDQ, CBCL6/18, TRF6/18, and clinical interviews were used to follow change. The descriptive data of five participants are presented. All five children improved in mental health, and for two participants, organisation of attachment changed. Three children experienced relational ruptures. The findings suggest that psychosocial interventions that focus on building trusting relationships may be beneficial in institutionalised children. For these children, given their life history, it can be damaging to experience repeated breakdowns. Thus, the practical implication is that any new relationship for them with an adult should be established after an assessment of whether the relationship can be sustained.

Care Navigation and Coordination Program on Reducing Hospital Use for Adults with Complex Health and Psychosocial Needs in South West Sydney, Australia.

Complex and siloed health and social service systems can be difficult for people to navigate. The fragmented and poorly linked services leads to ineffective communication between care teams, delayed access to services, concerns regarding quality and safety of patient care, as well as patient frustration and disengagement. Planned Care for Better Health (PCBH) is a community-based care navigation and coordination program for people with complex health and psychosocial needs who are at risk of future hospitalisation. It focuses on early identification and holistic care to remove barriers and improve access to healthcare. By including a persons', family and carers in planning, listening to their needs, supporting the person to achieve their goals, and empowering them to make decisions on their own health, PCBH aims to enhance clients' healthcare experience and reduce preventable hospital utilisation. Building trusting and collaborative relationships with clients, families, carers, and health service providers requires commitment. Acknowledging and addressing psychosocial needs is critical for enhancing health outcomes. Equipping patients with self-management skills and knowledge to navigate and engage support services may generate lasting effects, even post-program enrolment. PCBH is associated with a notable reduction in unplanned hospitalisations and total bed days. However, reduction in ED presentations is similar between the intervention and comparison cohorts. Future initiatives should focus on a shared vision of integrated care, robust leadership, and participative co-creation with service-level stakeholders. Sustained program establishment, a multidisciplinary care coordinator team, and an early creation of robust evaluation strategy must be considered.

A multi-period intuitionistic fuzzy consensus reaching model for group decision making problem in social network

A new intuitionistic fuzzy consensus reaching model is developed with multi-period public opinions and expert evaluation values in social network environment. First, the public opinions are obtained by using the crawler software and sentiment analysis technology is used to transform public opinions into intuitionistic fuzzy decision matrix in each period. Attribute weights are calculated by using the time attenuation factor and changes in public opinion. Second, the social trust relationship is modeled and incomplete social trust relationships are completed by using Archimedean t-norm. The expert weights are calculated by using the dynamic trust degree and similarity degree. Third, a consensus framework is proposed for multiple-period decision making problem, which coordinates conflicts between experts through dual feedback paths. The collective opinion scores are calculated by using weights of periods and attribute weights obtained from the word frequency of public opinions. The tourism attraction recommendation method is used to illustrate the proposed method.

Relationships between high-tech SME suppliers and foreign buyers: effects of relational trust, relationship-specific investments and contract specificity on product innovation

Relationships between high-tech SME suppliers and foreign buyers: effects of relational trust, relationship-specific investments and contract specificity on product innovation

Inclusion of vulnerable youth in school or work – How can individually tailored professional support contribute?

Researchers and policymakers are worried about the marginalisation of vulnerable youth who drop out of school and work, as a long range of policies and measures developed in many countries have not solved the problem. Several studies suggest individually tailored support as a vital measure, but the details of how such support contributes to inclusion remain unclear. This article explores how individually tailored support can contribute to the inclusion of vulnerable youth in school or work as well as its limitations. Qualitative data from four support processes were drawn from a Norwegian pilot project aimed at the inclusion of vulnerable youth in schools or work. While none of the youth fully completed school or found sustainable work during the observation period, several minor or temporary achievements – often ‘soft’ outcomes such as trustful relationships or better management of emotions – were reached. These achievements were experienced as vital and important to the youth, their families and to other support organisations involved. Using the capability approach as a lens, I found that individually tailored professional support contributes to bringing forward internal and external resources and transforming these resources into possibilities and capabilities. These contributions take place as ongoing processes. Further transformation of capabilities into achieved functionings, such as stable work, school completion and often other ‘hard’ outcomes, seems to be more difficult.

Intervenções do enfermeiro em situações de violência familiar contra idosos – Revisão integrativa

Background: violence against the elderly consists of a single or repeated act of intention or omission, which occurs within a relationship of trust and causes physical and psychological damage to the elderly person. Many older people are mistreated and abused both by family members and in institutions where they are. It is a serious multifactorial problem. Objectives: to identify nurses' interventions in elderly victims of family violence. Methodology: integrative literature review, carried out in the databases: CINAHL Complete, B-on, and PubMed, carried out in April and May 2023. Articles in Portuguese, French, Spanish or English, with full text and free access, were considered. Results: five articles were included, which support nurses' interventions in prevention and early intervention, to identify and assess the family situation of the elderly, assess signs of neglect, physical and psychological abuse, notify, refer to support structures, monitor the health of the elderly, approach the family as a unit, develop actions with formal and informal caregivers, home visits and providing holistic care. Conclusion: the family nurse plays an essential role in the development of intervention strategies aimed at the prevention and care of elderly victims of violence.

Struggling in silence? The formation mechanism of implicit conflict in rural tourism communities

This study explored the formation and influencing factors of the understudied implicit conflict in rural tourism communities from a social capital perspective. An exploratory sequential mixed-method approach was used, including semi-structured interviews and household surveys with rural tourism community residents. The study identifies the formation mechanism of implicit conflicts and examines the influencing factors that drive conflict intentions. Findings revealed that residents experienced three stages of development: potential opposition, cognitive engagement, and conflict intention. The influencing factors, such as formal institutional disembedding, network disembedding, and loss of relational trust, positively affected rural community residents' conflict-related cognitive engagement and informal institutional embedding, which further positively influenced residents' conflict intentions. This study contributes to a better understanding and measurement of implicit conflict in rural tourism communities. It also provides significant implications for stakeholders to develop more comprehensive tourism planning and management strategies to enhance residents’ support for tourism.

How M-government Services Build Relative Trust? The Mediating Roles of Value Creation and Risk Perception

Mobile government (m-government) has been proposed as a means to rebuild public trust in government. However, there is limited discussion regarding how m-government shapes trust in the existing literature. Thus, our study aims to examine the impact of m-government services on various types of trust by using the concept of relative trust. Additionally, we investigate how public value creation, private value acquisition, and risk perception mediate the relationship between m-government use and citizens’ relative trust in government. To test our hypotheses, this study collected data from a telephone survey of 2,875 public service users in China. The findings reveal that the use of m-government services is positively associated with citizens’ relative trust in institutions but negatively associated with their relative trust in grassroots civil servants. Furthermore, perceived public and private values mediate the relationship between m-government services and citizens’ relative trust in institutions versus grassroots civil servants, with private value playing a more significant mediating role. This study provides evidence on the role of m-government services in shaping various types of citizens’ relative trust in government, including institutional trust and relational trust.

ПСИХОЛОГО-ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ ИНТЕГРАЦИИ ДЕТЕЙ С ОСОБЫМИ ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНЫМИ ПОТРЕБНОСТЯМИ В КОЛЛЕКТИВ НА УРОКАХ ФИЗИЧЕСКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЫ В НАЧАЛЬНОЙ ШКОЛЕ

The article examines the psychological and pedagogical problems of integrating children of primary school age with special educational needs into the children's team, as a necessary condition for the formation of key social skills necessary in all spheres of social life in the future. As one of the effective ways to solve this problem, the authors propose the implementation of competent design of the educational process in physical education lessons using the psychological and pedagogical resource of outdoor games.The paper presents the results of testing this approach, which indicate an increase in the interpersonal social and business activity of students, the establishment of trusting and respectful relationships between healthy children and a child with special educational needs.