Many family caregivers of older adults suffer from a high burden of care and struggle with the balance of jobs and caregiving tasks. However, the United States is the only developed country without paid sick leave policies for all workers and their families. The purpose of this article is to review the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and empirical studies about paid sick policy, pro...

The Australian Twin Registry (ATR) has, since the late 1970s, enrolled more than 30,000 pairs of all zygosity types and ages willing to consider participation in approved research studies. Its core functions are the recruitment to, and maintenance of, an up-to-date database containing contact details and baseline information, and the management of fair and equitable access so as to enhance medi...

This study aimed to evaluate the educational environment of the health sciences programs of KLE University, Belgaum, Karnataka, India, to identify their strengths and weaknesses, and to suggest strategies to improve the educational environment to be on par with global standards. A cross-sectional study was conducted using the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) questionnaire, f...

Using 25 years of data on individuals spanning the entire developmental horizon from birth until adulthood drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), this study models educational attainment in a duration framework to examine the long-term effects of parental divorce and its timing on child educational attainment. Controlling for both preand post-divorce family characteristics and un...

OBJECTIVES To determine the effectiveness of diabetes education on metabolic control, diabetes-related hospitalizations, complications, and knowledge, quality of life and other psychosocial outcomes for children with type 1 diabetes and their families. DATA SOURCES A systematic and comprehensive literature review was conducted in 21 electronic databases of medical and health education literat...

BACKGROUND Using simulated learning environments with standardised patients (SPs) provides a way to scaffold the development of skills for patient safety in a low risk environment. There are no data regarding whether adding SP interactions in early years of physiotherapy training improves safe performance on clinical placement. We assessed the feasibility of recruiting and collecting data from ...

The ProMES methodology and self-training and assesment guides break away from the traditional paradigm of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Institutions which consists of offering courses for the operational and supervisory personnel of organisations. That activity continues to be valid as a contribution to the occupational development of persons. What the methodologies here pr...