Given that women in rural communities in developing countries are responsible for the nutrition and health-related decisions affecting children in their care, their empowerment may influence the health status of their children. The association between women's empowerment, measured by using a recently developed Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index, and children's health status is examined fo...

BACKGROUND Empowerment of children and adolescents in terms of social skills is critical for promoting their social health. OBJECTIVES This study attempts to explore a framework of influential factors on empowering primary school students by means of peer mediation from the stakeholders' point of view, as a qualitative content analysis design. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study was a qualitati...

introduction schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that causes lack of insight into the disease and the drugs will experience episodes of relapses. in addition, it is a progressive disorder effect on the individual and involved their family. this study aimed to determine the effects of family-centered empowerment model on the attitude and medication compliance of patients with schizophrenia....

BACKGROUND Education and support for caregivers is lacking in Asia and the peer-led FamilyLink Education Programme (FLEP) is one of the few provisions to address this service gap. This study aims to evaluate quantitatively its efficacy in reducing subjective burdens and empowering the participants. METHOD One hundred and nine caregiver participants in three Asian cities were successfully surv...

BACKGROUND Women's empowerment was defined as their ability to achieve awareness and control their personal, social, economic and political forces aiming at taking measures in order to improve their lives. This study aimed to compare the empowerment of the married women in medical sciences university in social, economic and familial domains in three cities, IRAN. METHODS This was a descriptiv...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether there is an association between patient empowerment and diabetes management in terms of the primary outcomes of metabolic control as measured by glycaemic control (glycated haemoglobin, HbA1c), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), total cholesterol (TC) and triglycerides. DESIGN Retrospective cross-sectional analysis conducted in 2012. ...