Triangulation of research methods was used to investigate family planning practices among Swazi women, men and adolescents. Seventeen focus group interviews were conducted. The findings of focus group interviews were used to develop a structured interview schedule for conducting quantitative research. Both the qualitative and quantitative research results revealed that value of children, lack o...

With the support of the international women's movement, the ideology and methods of traditional population policy were effectively attacked at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The author discusses some of the complaints about population policy and family planning programs, then considers the substantive, ethical, and feasibility issues of population and r...

as a means of stimulating resident research activities and fostering the development of our future family medicine scholars. Through overcoming challenges and by seeking strategic partnerships, the AFMRD is actively pursuing many of its stated goals and central mission of serving as a resource for family medicine residency directors. Peter J. Carek, MD, MS, FAAFP, Treasurer, AFMRD David Araujo,...

BACKGROUND Endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases. It is still a chameleon in many aspects and urges intense research activities in the fields of diagnosis, therapy and prevention. Despite the need to foster research in this area, no in-depth analysis of the global architecture of endometriosis research exists yet. METHODS We here used the NewQIS platform to conduct a ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In 2003, US seniors filled 42% of family practice residency positions, the lowest percentage in the specialty's recent history. We hypothesized that institutional support, contact with family medicine faculty, and faculty satisfaction would be positively related to choice of family practice and that faculty satisfaction would be negatively affected by increasing pressu...

this article studies emotional divorce and the sociological factors effective on it in the city of tehran. the statistical population of the research includes all the families residing in the city of tehran and the sampling methodology is two-stage random and cluster sampling method. the theoretical framework of the research is a combination of the theory of structural functionalism and the the...