RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

Some US states have introduced measures to increase voter participation. I develop a formal model of elections to study how these measures affect political outcomes. I find that at high enough levels, measures to increase turnout lead to candidates converging at the median voter’s ideal point, as candidates switch from choosing policies that motivate their partisan base to competing over centri...

This article uses a microsimulation model to estimate how freezing all remaining private-sector and one-third of all public-sector defined benefit (DB) pension plans over the next 5 years would affect retirement incomes of baby boomers. If frozen plans were supplemented with new or enhanced defined contribution (DC) retirement plans, there would be more losers than winners, and average family i...

Self-criticism of physicians and patient participation are the pillars of modern medical ethics and medical programmes. Patients expect risk minimisation from physicians, mostly without realising how much they could actively do themselves in this respect. But what about the willingness of German people to take risks, how high is it really at present? Direct empirical data are not available, but...

Cohort-Level Sex Ratio Effects on Women’s Labor Force Participation It follows from a number of theoretical models of marriage that the scarcer women are relative to men, i.e. the higher the sex ratio, the less married women are likely to participate in the labor force. Such sex ratio effects may be stronger among less educated women. These predictions are tested using individual data from Curr...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this article is to investigate whether and to what degree participation in physical activity among adolescents is associated with area economic deprivation in the municipality where they live. In the study we took account of aggregated informal social capital at the municipality level and compositional effects due to spatial concentration of individual variables know...

BACKGROUND The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (WHO-ICF) describes participation restriction as one aspect of disability. Participation restriction refers to health problems that can hinder people's involvement in different life events. It is rational to believe that the prevalence of participation restriction increases among a frail population. However, info...

political participation is an indication of democracy and political development and legitimacy in different societies. the more participation in a society occurs, the more legitimacy a political system will have. so, the efforts of iranian political system are toward increasing people’s political participation rate. since half of the iranian world consists of women, a survey on the factors affe...

the purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing people participation in rural reclamations plans.the research method was descriptive-correlation and data collected using questionnaire. statistical population of the research comprised 3400 villagers at hoveize county. 246 members was randomly selected using cochran formula and applying random sampling method. validity of the instr...

the purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of women with household jobs agriculture toward innovation management in masjed soliman township, khouzestan province, iran. the population of this study included women with household jobs agriculture in masjed soliman township. the total number of members was 100 people. due to the low number of population, census methods were used to collec...