Psycho-social consequences of incontinence

Psycho-social consequences of secondary infertility in Karachi.

OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences of social consequences among women suffering from secondary infertility. METHODS Descriptive case series of 400 women with secondary infertility attending tertiary care hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. RESULTS More than two thirds (67.7%) of women stated that their inability to give live births or give birth to sons had resulted in marital dissonance. The...

Psycho-Social Medicine

The Psycho-social Consequences of Vesco Vaginal Fistula among Women in Northern Nigeria

The focus of this paper is on the psycho-social consequences of Vesco Vaginal Fistula among women in Northern Nigeria. A descriptive research design of the survey type was adopted for the study and the sample consisted of two hundred and fifty two VVF patients. The purposive sample technique was used to select the sample. Data were collected with the aid of a selfconstructed questionnaire. The ...

The Theoretical Model of Criminal Social Identity: Psycho-social Perspective the Theoretical Model of Criminal Social Identity: Psycho-social Perspective

Individuals become criminals because of the presence of a persistent criminal identity which has its origin in processes of negative social comparisons carried out by individuals who have failed in their pro-social roles and have exhibited non-conforming behaviour, aggravated and compounded by contextual factors such as a dysfunctional family environment and/or the presence of criminal peers. D...

Psycho-social Study of Cigarette Smoking

The present study has been carried out to assess the smoking habit among medical students and its relationship to demographic, social and psychological characteristics. Prevalence of smoking was found to be 30.79% in 854 students who responded to the questionnaire adequately. Smoking habit was more common among student who were married hailed from rural areas and the intensity of smoking increa...