BACKGROUND The purpose was to study hearing aid (HA) use in persons 65 years and older, and to investigate how socioeconomic and hearing related factors were associated to use of HA. METHOD This study included 11,602 persons (65 years and above) from the second Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT2) and the integrated North-Trøndelag hearing loss study (NTHLS) in 1995-1997. Audiometry was taken ...

The focus of this paper is on the working status of the spouse of an unemployed. Does it systematically differ from the working status of the spouse of an employed person? If so, are there any causal-or non-causal mechanisms behind such an interrelationship, and in that case what are they? So far, there has not been any study in Norway focusing on unemployment at the household level. This paper...

majority of shi‘a jurists believe in the absoluteunlawfulness of woman’s leaving home withoutpermission of the spouse unless for mandatory duties.following majority’s opinion, a good number of lawyershave maintained that woman’s leaving home withoutpermission of the spouse for any purpose is not allowed.in the present essay, proofs concerning this problem,including qur’anic verses, hadiths, and...

The article is devoted to the problem of attitude appearance spouse, depending on satisfaction with marriage and interpersonal communication in a married couple. question which psychological parameters marital relationship are most important process constructing visual image partner remains open today. At same time, there studies indicating that relationships within couple can have significant ...

The aim of this paper is to discuss pathways that interlink spouses’ well-being in a study of male Indian origin doctors and their wives where husbands experienced racism at work. This first study of its type was underpinned by Collins’ Afro-centric feminist epistemology and Lazarus’ cognitive mediational stress theory. Sampling: A sample of eight couples was recruited through advertising and s...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to investigate the modelling of different processes that could account for the link between psychopathology, cognitive social and demographic risk factors and enacting assault by husband. method: this article reports a test using data on 230 males who participated in a family violence survey study. the sample was selected by a multiclustral samplin...