Recently, the number of voluntary communities such as local communities and university club activities are increasing. In these communities, since there are various types of members and there are no binding forces, it is usually difficult to maintain and improve member's motivation. To maintain and improve member's motivation, most of these communities use social networking services (SNSs). How...

This Grounded Theory study describes the process by which older persons "become" volunteers. Forty interviews of older persons who volunteered for Habitat for Humanity were subjected to secondary content analysis to uncover the process of "becoming" a volunteer. "Helping out" (core category) for older volunteers occurs within the context of "continuity", "commitment" and "connection" which prov...

Initiating a community eye health programme in an unfamiliar culture and language can be a daunting task. This report focuses on an underutilised resource for community eye health: American Peace Corps volunteers. The Peace Corps is a governmentsponsored service organisation. At present, there are 7,876 Peace Corps volunteers serving in 76 lowand middle-income countries around the world. Of tho...

background: the family as the basis of children’s personality has an important role in creation or prevention of tendency towards anomaly and social damages. this study performed with aimed to determine the role of fathers’ subjective norms, normative beliefs and motivation to comply in prevention of tendency children toward addictive drugs. methods: this was a descriptive cross sectional study...

BACKGROUND Many low and middle income countries have developed community health strategies involving lay health workers, to complement and strengthen public health services. This study explores variations in costing parameters pertinent to deployment of community health volunteers across different contexts outlining considerations for costing program scale-up. METHODS The study used quasi exp...

One of the consequences of living in this century of machine and technology development is poverty in movement and reduction in physical activity. This study aimed to examine the predictive factors of physical activity in health volunteers based on the structures of Pender's health promotion model. This study was perform 80 health volunteers working at urban and rural health centers that were s...