Insuring full benefit of consumer health informatics innovations requires integrating the technology into nursing practice, yet many valuable innovations are developed in research projects and never reach full integration. To avoid this outcome, a team of researchers partnered with a home care agency's staff and patients and their corporate parent's Information Systems and Research group to cre...

Within-child associations between family income and child externalizing and internalizing problems were examined using longitudinal data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (2004a, 2004b; N=1,132). Variations in income effects were estimated as a function of whether families were poor, whether mothers were partnered, and the number of hours mothers and their partners ...

Fatherhood has traditionally been viewed as part of a “package deal,” where a father’s relationship with his child is contingent upon his relationship with the mother. We evaluate the accuracy of this hypothesis in light of the high rates of multiple-partnered fertility among unmarried parents using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a recent longitudinal survey of nonmarital birth...

Reading from devices such as Kindles, Nooks, and tablets (“ereaders”) is an increasingly common practice. A primary reason users purchase e-readers is to read for pleasure, as opposed to reading for work or school purposes. With paper, people sometimes read together from a single book (e.g., reading a bedtime story with a child) – a practice we call partnered reading. This practice, and the goa...

Objective This study examines the re-employment prospects and short-term career consequences for mothers fathers who lost their jobs during COVID-19 pandemic. Background The pandemic recession has been dubbed a “shecession,” but few studies have explored whether paid higher or lower price upon labor market re-entry than fathers. Method draws on March 2020–December 2022 Current Population Survey...

This paper shows the possible connections between migrant labour, multi-partnered sexual activity, sexual networking and the spread of AIDS in Malawi. It focuses on the economic, social, cultural and mobility factors, and their effect on the spread of the disease. Migrant labourers, like truck drivers, itinerant traders, and prostitutes, are a high-risk group both at the place of their work, an...

The purpose of this study was to examine well-being, loneliness, and hope among single partnered adults in the context COVID-19 pandemic. A total 560 U.S. (50.2% female, 48.9% male, 28.7% single, 71.3% partnered) completed an online survey regarding their experiences amid global health crisis. Results indicated that individuals reported similar hope, well-being. Furthermore, served as a signifi...