Knowledge, attitude, and practice in relation to epilepsy in developing countries appears to be different from that in developed countries. This study was conducted to evaluate knowledge, attitudes, expectations, sociocultural aspects, patient characteristics, disease characteristics, pattern of drug therapy, and outcome of patients with epilepsy in rural Sri Lanka. Data were collected from 207...

BACKGROUND Stem cell research has been extensively explored worldwide to enhance human health in medical setting. Nevertheless, there is currently no full understanding of the stem cell knowledge and attitude levels among student nurses in Malaysia. This study aimed to assess the level of stem cell knowledge, attitude toward stem cell application in medicine, and its association with years of e...

INTRODUCTION According to the literature of cross-cultural and intercultural psychology, German and Chinese people organize their actions along different cultural norms (Bond 1992; Thomas 1996a). The objective of this study was to examine whether these differences—mainly differences of social interaction—also influence the use of typical daily products—in this case, cellular phones. One point o...

the purpose of the present study is to examine relationship between cultural globalization and men's attitude toward the role of women. the method of this study was survey and its tool was questionnaire. the sampling method used in this survey was multi-stage share random sampling. sample size that was estimated according to lean table with 95 percent significance level was 383. after revi...

Achieving cultural competence in the care of a patient who is a member of an ethnic or racial minority is a multifaceted project involving specific cultural knowledge as well as more general skills and attitude adjustments to advance cross-cultural communication in the clinical encounter. Using the important example of the African American patient, the authors examine relevant historical and cu...

abstract: as a social and cultural behavior,the relationship between boy and girl is almost a new phenomena in our society.it seems to cause many worries at the various social level by reason of creating some of issues and problems.this research focuses on two main purpose:firstly,to examine girls’ attitude toward relationship with opposite sex and to explore effective elements upon the girl’s ...

The phenomenon of intercultural communication has been the subject of a great deal of research in the field of ESL education; however, the research has been primarily focused on the incorporation of target culture in foreign language curriculum. Starting with the current situation of cultural awareness, this paper stresses the importance of establishing cultural subjectivity so as to adopt the ...

in iran, entrepreneurship is a new phenomena and the research in this subject especially on women entrepreneurship is very limited. in spite of the fact that most of the iranian women cooperate in economic, social aspects and especially in higher education, the society is not rewarding their contribution and efforts in economic affairs. in this national and broad research, all the factors effec...