OBJECTIVE To identify women's perceptions on men's participation in contraception. METHODS Home interviews in the southern region of the city of S. Paulo, SP, Brazil, were carried out. The participant sample was of 254 female users of reversible contraceptive methods, who claimed to have sexual partners at moment of the interview. Statistical analysis of the demographic variables and content ...

OBJECTIVES This study examines how engagement in transport-related physical activity (TPA), perceptions of the commute route, actual travel distance, and perceptions of travel distance vary by degree of urbanization in rural and remote areas of Central Queensland, Australia. METHOD A random, cross-sectional sample of 1230 adults aged 18 years and over residing in rural and remote Central Quee...

Abstract Water users associations (WUAs) were established in Egypt to help rational distribution of irrigation water, the operation and maintenance improved Mesqas, solving disputes between farmers. This study aimed assess economic impact establishing water users' on improving farmers' income through increasing productivity decreasing cost. The current was conducted an canal El-Menoufia directo...

A considerable degree of user participation is found in current system development and implementation projects i Scandinavia. Obviously, there is a strong belief in the necessity of user participation. Still, practitioners and researchers face severe problems in defining the right way of involvement. Still, there is a lack of convincing empirical evidence concerning the rela tionship between us...

PURPOSE This research was conducted to reveal Japanese mothers' changing perceptions towards their technology-dependent children in the home care setting. METHODS Fourteen Japanese mothers participated in semi-structured interviews, which were analyzed using a grounded theory approach. RESULTS "Degree of preoccupation with the child" emerged as the category representing the mothers' percept...

water user associations (wuas) are the main strategy in water resources management, and transferring of irrigation management to these associations is paying attention in different countries. the current study aimed to identify and analyze membership consequences in wuas. the research was descriptive and survey method was used. the population of this study consisted of all farmers in irrigation...

water user associations (wuas) are one of the water market development models and a way to transfer the irrigation management from government sector to water users which have been increasingly taken into account over the recent years. in iran accordingly, a number of wuas has been developed in downstream dam irrigation and drainage networks on pilot scale. the major goal of wuas is to improve w...