Background and Purpose: Physical activity may be classified as intense, moderate, and low. Despite their health-related benefits, Iranian women have a low rate of physical activity. Women face numerous obstacles and challenges for participating in physical activity programs, most notably are household chores and taking caring of children, long distance between home and workplace and the other p...

PURPOSE This article describes an innovative practice called Blended Learning Networks (BLNs) whose aim is to enable older people, their families, and care providers to exchange knowledge, learn together, and support each other in local development work so that care is improved for older people. BLNs were established in 31 municipalities, headed up by a local facilitator. They were supported by...

This study aims to explore the facilitating and constraining components in process of developing implementing ICP. The method used an integrative review using PubMed, Science Direct, ProQuest, Wiley EBSCO databases a secondary search for journals limited last 10 years other publication sources related topic writing. 11 studies that were included based on results analysis 3 main became facilitat...

Forging is a manufacturing process that consists of shaping the metal using localized compression forces. The blows are delivered with a hammer (often an electric hammer) or a die. In this paper, different methods of forging (multi-directional forging, hot forging, near-beta forging, multi-axial forging, direct powder forging, warm forging and ring forging) are discussed. The main problems that...

Background: Few Americans meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), yet a large percentage are overweight. Objective: The goal of this research was to examine the association between barriers and facilitators to meeting the DGA and weight in a multisite study. Design: This was a cross-sectional study in which 836 caregiver– child dyads among 3 race/ethnic groups completed the questionnai...

BACKGROUND Despite the promising benefits of adaptive designs (ADs), their routine use, especially in confirmatory trials, is lagging behind the prominence given to them in the statistical literature. Much of the previous research to understand barriers and potential facilitators to the use of ADs has been driven from a pharmaceutical drug development perspective, with little focus on trials in...

conclusions tendency towards smoking is influenced by different factors. clarifying these influential factors for smoking from the perspective of young males can be important in designing effective preventive programs. results two main categories derived from the analysis of the data: i) personal needs and features; and ii) environmental facilitators. the former concept included three subcatego...

Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) is an important activity for strategic use of IS/IT in today’s dynamic and increasingly digitalized organisations. However, SISP is not a very straight forward task as it entails simultaneous multiple planning views as well as changing environmental and organisational issues. Although SISP has been widely studied, to date theory on SISP facilitators...

BACKGROUND While enhancing physical activity has been an essential goal of public health officials, people with physical impairments such as spinal cord injury (SCI) are more likely to live a sedentary lifestyle. Exercise has been shown to decrease the risk for many of the secondary conditions associated with SCI, including osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, pressure ulcers, urinary tract in...