Unlike their counterparts in most industrialized societies, Japanese women are spending an increasingly longer proportion of their young adult years unmarried and living with parents. In this paper, we develop hypotheses linking the “comforts of home” to later marriage in Japan. To evaluate these hypotheses, we use six waves of data from a panel survey of young women to estimate hazard models f...

Of recent in Nigeria, there has been a considerable increase the rate of involuntary singlehood, particularly among women. It constitutes major constraint for Christians because general perception that Bible commands everyone to marry – belief which they derive from Genesis 1:28 and 2:18, 24. However, most people who have this notion, hardly take cognisance Paul’s preference celibacy as 1 Corin...

We determined the knowledge of, attitude to and practice of contraception and the associated sociodemographic factors among a representative sample 1130 Qatari married women aged 18-49 years. Data were collected by questionnaire. The mean age of the women was 32.5 (SD 7.6) years. The vast majority (94.6%) knew about contraception but of these 1070, only 694 (64.9%) were in favour of contracepti...

objective: to assess the knowledge, attitude, practice and preferences on contraceptive methods among the female population, to determine the association between knowledge and attitude on contraceptive methods with the variables. materials and methods: a descriptive survey of 136 females between 18-45 year of age were done using a structured knowledge questionnaire, structured attitude scale an...

the attitude of the 521 single medical students of iran university of medical sciences toward marriage was studied. subject from different educational levels were selected through cluster and simple random sampling methods. the instrument used in this study was an attitude questionnaire which its reliability had been established through test-retest procedure and its face validity had also been ...

This cross-sectional study was conducted on factors related to the acceptance of family planning methods among the married women of reproductive age in Methapukur Upazila in the Rangpur district, Bangladesh. The aims were to identify socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge, attitude, availability and accessibility as factors related to the acceptance of family planning, and explore the ass...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate community mental health professionals and hospital workers attitude and awareness towards suicide. METHODS This study investigated 264 community mental health professionals and 228 hospital workers. SOQs (Suicidal Opinion Questionnaires) were used from July 2007 to September 2007. After a factor analysis for the attitude towards suicide, th...

the research was a descriptive study to assess knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of nurses regarding care of elderly patients.   a total of 180 nurses working in medical, surgical and neurology units participated in this study. the tool was a 2 part questionnaire that the first part included demographic characteristics of the subjects like age, sex, marriage, education, past experience in ...

treated; unfortunately, persistent misconceptions result in unnecessary stigmatization. Thus the present study aims to assess the knowledge and attitudes regarding leprosy in people with and without leprosy, factors affecting the same; and to study their relationship with treatment status in leprosy patients. Detailed knowledge and attitude questionnaires were administered to 260 subjects (100 ...