This review of the current state of literature in regards to academic mobbing found that the most common types of bullying were psychological and emotional attacks, often directed towards an academic by either administrators, other academics and faculty, or even students. Many risk factors are related to academic mobbing, including sex, sexual orientation, gender, race and ethnicity, rank or seniority, work experience, and age. Incidents of academic bullying often lead to multiple negative outcomes on victims, including physical, emotional and psychological damages, as well as various work-related and institutional consequences. Some coping strategies are summarized. Universities and academia in general, should help foster a culture and an environment of civility. More specifically, policies of respectful workplaces should be created and enforced, with a focus on reducing or eliminating incidents of academic mobbing.

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The delivery of rural and remote healthcare has been identified in the literature as a unique and complex working environment for Nursing practice. This Canadian setting integrative review looks at barriers associated with rural and remote nursing. Nine articles were retained after filtering over 200 articles extracted from 4 databases. Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Checklist (CASP) for qualitative research and Quality Assessment Tool for Quantitative Studies (QATQ) were used for assessment of a total sample of N=3402 participants. Four (4) main themes (barriers) were extracted: 1) Professional Isolation, 2) Competing Demands, 3) Lack of Sustainable Continuing Educational Initiatives and 4) Lack of Organizational Support. Following analysis of the demographic data, an emerging theme of an aging workforce was also seen as a potential future barrier to rural nursing practice. Future research is required in order for sufficient and appropriate action to be taken in addressing aforementioned barriers. Recommendations for nursing practice and policy in rural and remote areas revolve around exposing nursing students to rural / remote settings, incentives for new graduate students to practice in these areas, as well as support and educational initiatives encouraging practitioners to work to their full scope of practice.

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Une faible introspection (insight) est associée à une faible observance thérapeutique chez le malade mental, pouvant mener à la rechute et à la réhospitalisation. La mesure de l’introspection devient alors importante pour signaler un risque élevé de non observance thérapeutique. Plusieurs instruments sont disponibles en langue anglaise. Le Self Appraisal of Illness Questionnaire (SAIQ) (Marks et al., 2000) est choisi pour fins de traduction et validation en langue française. Le nouvel instrument se nomme Questionnaire d’autoévaluation de l’introspection (QAI) et se compose de 17 items. La cohérence interne par alpha de Cronbach est de 0,78 pour un N = 124. L’analyse factorielle distingue trois facteurs qui expliquent 49,8 % de la variation: la reconnaissance du besoin de traitement, l’inquiétude et les conséquences de la maladie. Dans le but de calculer la validité convergente, Insight Scale (IS) (Markova et al., 2003) a été traduit et validé aussi; la validité convergente du QAI et de l’IS est de 0,37. Le QAI possède de bonnes qualités psychométriques et mérite d’être réévalué pour une éventuelle utilisation en pratique clinique et en recherche, tant en milieu hospitalier qu’en milieu communautaire.