BACKGROUND Importance of maternal health has been recognized over the last decade, however information about the perception of illness and healthcare behavior of obstetric complication is lacking. OBJECTIVE This study assesses women ' s knowledge, perception, and experience of obstetric complication and care-seeking behavior and explores the factors associated with the morbidity and the const...

Since having health insurance cannot guarantee access to care among the insured persons, their actual health seeking behavior should be evidence reflecting true access. Therefore, the study aimed to present the patterns of health seeking behavior among the insured persons who actually were able to get free services from their registered hospitals under the Social Security Scheme. Purposive samp...

BACKGROUND Information on health-seeking behavior and utilization of health facilities in slums of Addis Ababa is scarce, impeding the implementation of effective interventions. The purpose of this study is to assess the status of health facilities utilization and predictors for health-seeking behavior of mothers/caregivers of under-five children with acute diarrhea in slums of Addis Ababa, Eth...

BACKGROUND Canadians' health care-seeking behaviour for physical and mental health issues was examined using the international Quality and Cost of Primary Care (QUALICOPC) survey that was conducted in 2013 in Canada. METHOD This study used the cross-sectional Patient Experiences Survey collected from 7260 patients in 759 practices across 10 Canadian provinces as part of the QUALICOPC study. A...

background: infertility is an emergent issue in india. until recently, very few studies have understood the patterns and consequences of infertility in india. family planning programs in india also viewed exclusively the patterns and determinants of overfertility rather than infertility. furthermore, there is the lack of information about treatment seeking behavior of infertile couples. therefo...

OBJECTIVES In South Korea (hereafter Korea), the number of adolescent offspring of immigrants has rapidly increased since the early 1990s, mainly due to international marriage. This research sought to examine the association between the experience of school violence and mental health outcomes, and the role of help-seeking behaviors in the association, among biethnic adolescents in Korea. METH...

introduction: according to previous studies, colchicine causes neuronal destruction and learning depression. in this project, effects of colchicine injection into the ca1 and interaction between colchicine and nitric oxide (no) in this area on the expression of drug-seeking behavior were investigated. methods: wistar rats (250-300 g) were bilaterally cannulated at the ca1 area. colchicine (2-8 ...