PURPOSE This study sought to understand the experience of living and coping with nocturia, from the perspective of community-living older men and women. METHOD Individual semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 32 older people with self-reported nocturia of twice nightly or more. RESULTS Four key characteristics of nocturia were identified. Nocturia was described as simultaneously d...

Key findings The results show that 77.4% of respondents rear an average of 2.97 livestock unit (LSU) per household. More than half of respondents who rear livestock (53.82%) dump livestock carcasses in the open fields. Ethnicity, age, education status, gender, livestock unit and involvement in conservation activities are the most significant predictors for the positive attitudes towards vulture...

Promotion of urbanization is one of characteristics of current societies that in their evolutionary trend results in establishment of megalopolis and brings the complex urban management in these huge population centers every day, together with new difficulties. Urban environmental problems, providing public and security services, green space and city fa�ade, urban economic problems, informing, ...

RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

Background: Increasing evidence shows that Indigenous Peoples of Canada experience greater health disparities and receive lesser quality care services than non-Indigenous Canadian people. There is an important need to educate professionals be knowledgeable about culture, history, culturally safe care.

We reviewed construct validity in perception-based methods assessing status and/or trend of forest condition as applied in 19 empirical studies that evaluated the conservation impact of popular participation in forest management. Perception-based methods focus on eliciting peoples’ assessment of the status and/or trend in forest condition or indicators of forest condition through interviews, su...

INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW The World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) was used as the study framework1. According to the ICF, disability is the result of a complex nonlinear interaction between health conditions that can cause impairments (loss or change of physiological or anatomical body function or structure) which m...

(Reader,Department Of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Peoples Dental Academy, Peoples University,Bhopal, India.) (Reader, Department Of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Peoples Dental Academy, Peoples University, Bhopal, India) (Associate Professor, Govt. Dental college,Raipur, India) (Consultant Dental Surgeon, Sevasadan hospital,Bhopal) (Consultant Dental Surgeon, Bhopal) (Ex.Lecturer, Department ...

The politics and ethics of participatory development have been a topic of vibrant debate since the 1990s. While proponents assert that participation emancipates and empowers marginalized peoples, critics assert that it enacts new forms of control and regulation. This paper reads these debates through the analytical lens offered by assemblage thinking. Assemblage allows us to foreground affectiv...