OBJECTIVES Spouses and staff of the World Bank Group (WBG) were questioned about the impact of international business travel on families and travellers. Dependent variables were self reported stress, concern about the health of the traveller, and negative impact on the family. We hypothesised that several travel factors (independent variables) would be associated with these impacts. These trave...

OBJECTIVE To determine the extent to which the chronic stress of Alzheimer's disease caregiving may be alleviated by placement or death of the Alzheimer's disease patient, we prospectively compared groups of caregivers (CG) who continued to care for their Alzheimer's disease spouse at home, CG who placed their spouses, and CG whose spouses died with similarly aged noncaregiving comparison subje...

A person’s mental illness burdens their spouse or partner in multiple ways and significantly increases the risk that couple will divorce. However, scant research exists about impact of on spouses’ experience self relationship commitment. The author investigates how 16 Finnish, heterosexual spouses partners people with make meaning out commitment, including role religion this making. data was ga...

BACKGROUND If transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection through parenteral exposure is well documented, sexual transmission of HCV is still debated. AIMS To perform extensive epidemiological and virological analysis in 24 couples in which each spouse was anti-HCV positive in order to delineate more precisely potential sexual transmission of HCV. PATIENTS Twenty four couples in which...

We completed a nested case-control analysis of factors associated with reporting a high pesticide exposure event (HPEE) by pesticide applicators and spouses during the five years since enrollment in the Agricultural Health Study (AHS). Cases and controls were identified from the 16,415 private pesticide applicators and 14,045 spouses with completed five-year follow-up interviews as of October 2...

PURPOSE: This study was designed to investigate the equivalency and factor structure of patients significant others' version pain catastrophizing scales in with chronic their spouses who are not pain. METHOD: Participants were 142 married couples which 1 spouse reported musculoskeletal Confirmatory analyses used compare 4 models catastrophizing, examine invariance PCS-Patient PCS-Significant ot...

Patterns of genetic variability in human populations are profoundly influenced by social organisation, including lifestyle, language, religion and social status. A nice illustration is seen among societies that have specific rules about who can marry whom.

This study analyzes the cyclical and short-term determinants of the labor supply of married women in two-earner families. Working wives often face conflicting signals in responding to cyclical downturns in labor market conditions and the unemployment of their spouses; they may, for example, want to increase hours of work because of lower family income but find themselves unable to do so because...