Effective newsletters have theory-based content and designs tailored to their readers offer limited-cost community-level approaches providing helpful, relevant, engaging information. In accordance with this, we an example of a newsletter intervention that supported grandfamilies’ physical wellness needs. Six issues brief mail-delivered were sent yearly for up 5 years low-income custodial grandp...

Framed within the theoretical support of Self-determination Theory (SDT) this study aimed to analyze relationship between satisfaction basic psychological needs, self-determined motivation towards physical education, and self-concept Spanish teenagers. For this, 618 students, aged from 10 14 years-old (M = 11.62, SD 0.94), participated in education classes. The Basic Psychological Needs Satisfa...

objectives the aim of this study was to identify the health-related counseling needs of adolescent girls to assist them in this period of development. materials and methods forty teenage (13 - 19-year-old) girls, who had at least experienced 3 menstrual cycles, participated in this qualitative study. in-depth semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. the content analysis method ...

background and aim: children with special needs such as those with hearing loss, visual impairment, mental retardation, and physical-motor disability have special conditions, which may adversely affect their parents’ mental health. given the importance of this issue, the present study aimed to investigate and compare the components of quality of life and psychological well-being in mothers of c...

Men who batter, because of particular personality traits and sense of entitlement, may select partners whom they perceive will be dependent on them, meet their emotional needs, or be "objects" of physical attractiveness. During treatment intake, 181 offenders responded to the question, "What attracted you to her (your partner)?" We explored whether men who mentioned their own needs or her physi...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present report was to describe the longitudinal trajectories of physical health beginning during preschool and continuing into early adolescence; explore whether these trajectories were predicted by psychosocial adversity, family income-to-needs ratio, and psychiatric disorders occurring during the preschool period; and determine whether psychiatric disorders mediat...

Background:  Pregnancy in a woman's life is a unique experience. But due to high risk pregnancy and the need to rest in bed, the women and her family are faced with different challenges and needs. The inability to manage these needs will result in crisis and understanding the needs of pregnant women during bed rest is essential to provide comprehensive health care for them. So this qualitative ...