OBJECTIVES Understanding health information-seeking behaviors and barriers to care and access among pregnant women can potentially moderate the consistent negative associations between poverty, low levels of literacy, and negative maternal and child health outcomes in India. Our seminal study explores health information needs, health information-seeking behaviors, and perceived information supp...

background and purpose: ideal education is obtained when excellence and promotion of faculty members (faculty development) considered in the university and it will not be possible unless the roles of faculty members (teachers) are explained in education. in addition, by extracting these roles we can reason a part of policies of conditional employment (contractual) and fixed employment, and theo...

Background: Self-help groups for persons with disabilities exist a rather common objective to address problems, enhance their strengths, and improve quality of life. Objectives were explore the impact self-help on as comparative approach among those enrolled in SHG versus who not same. Methods: A community-based, qualitative study was done rural Karnataka total 7 focus group discussions, 5 key ...

BACKGROUND Voluntary HIV counseling and testing (VCT) is a key strategy towards HIV prevention yet, the uptake of VCT services among young people remains low. This study determined the factors that influence the uptake of VCT among secondary school students in Arusha City, Tanzania. METHODS A cross sectional study using quantitative methods was conducted. A multi-stage sampling method was app...

Background & Aims: Methadone maintenance therapy is one of the treatment choices for opiate users. Understanding opiate dependants’ experiences of their treatment period is important for continuing the treatment with methadone and assessing their experiences may help to revise the standards of methadone centers and thus to improve the quality of treatment. This study aims to describe the struct...

Despite increasing rates of HIV infection among young men who have sex with men (YMSM), only a minority participate in formal HIV prevention efforts. Semi-structured mixed-methods interviews were conducted in a diverse sample of YMSM (N = 100, Mage = 25.0 years) in Los Angeles, California, to identify facilitators and barriers to participation in HIV prevention programs. Summative content analy...

the present study sought to investigate demotivating and remotivating factors among iranian ma students of tefl. the participants included 170 male and female (male= 97, female= 73) iranian ma students of tefl randomly chosen among the students of 10 most well-known state universities of iran. to collect the qualitative data, interviews were conducted on 20 students, two from each university. s...