Resilience is a key point in the current educational policies. Throughout this study, we aimed to take step forward defining and describing resilient climate, starting from learning barriers that need be overcomed. We qualitatively quantitatively analysed identified by pre-university teachers through questionnaire-based survey. From primary lexical analysis of data, found students' their famili...

Given family–school engagement is correlated with student academic achievement, educational researchers have long been interested in the construct. However, measuring parental engagement is deceptively challenging. The concept includes school-based engagement, home-based learning support, and family–school communication. In this article we focus exclusively on measuring school-based family enga...

OBJECTIVE We studied a multiethnic community to determine factors associated with blood glucose monitoring (BGM) and to determine the independent association between barriers to diabetes care and BGM. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 323 participants (35.6% European, 32.2% Maori, and 32.2% Pacific Islander) from the South Auckland Diabetes Project (free of major complications by self-re...

The 1994 rate of initiation of breastfeeding in eastern Nova Scotia was 41%. The purpose of this study is to assess both perceived barriers to breastfeeding as well as the need for programs to promote breastfeeding in this region. Seventy randomly selected subjects (67 F, 3 M) responded to a questionnaire about regional breastfeeding practices. Results showed that perceived barriers to breastfe...