BACKGROUND Whilst 81 % of UK women initiate breastfeeding, there is a steep decline in breastfeeding rates during the early postnatal period, with just 55 % of women breastfeeding at six weeks. 80 % of these women stopped breastfeeding sooner than they intended, with women citing feeding difficulties and lack of adequate support. As part of efforts to increase breastfeeding continuation rates, ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore patients' attitudes toward Internet cancer support groups (ICSGs) through an online forum. RESEARCH APPROACH Qualitative study using a feminist perspective. SETTING Internet and real settings. PARTICIPANTS 16 patients with cancer. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH An online forum was held for one month with six discussion topics. The data were analyzed using thematic a...

OBJECTIVE To discuss the use of sociograms in our focus groups with homeless sheltered mothers and to assess facilitator influence and the distribution of power influence. DESIGN AND SAMPLE An exploratory, descriptive qualitative design that utilizes both focus groups and sociograms. Two focus groups were conducted in December 2009 (N = 7) and January 2010 (N = 4). Data analysis included a co...

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety are common, often comorbid, conditions, and Internet support groups for them are well used. However, little rigorous research has been conducted on the outcome of these groups. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of an Internet support group in reducing depression and anxiety, and increasing social support and life satisfaction. METHODS A ra...

BACKGROUND International migration and the number of migrant women who experience pregnancy and childbirth in receiving countries have significantly increased in the last two decades. Migrant women often have unmet social and economic needs during pregnancy, and are more likely to have problems unaddressed by health care systems. In this qualitative study, we explored migrant women's perception...

We have solved completely the problem of the description of quasi-linear hyperbolic differential equations in two independent variables that are invariant under three-parameter Lie groups. The problem of group classification of differential equations is one of the central problems of modern symmetry analysis of differential equations[1]. One of the important classes of hyperbolic equations. The...

The complete symmetry groups of systems of linear second order ordinary differential equations are considered in the context of the simple harmonic oscillator. One finds that in general the representation of the complete symmetry group is not unique and in the particular case of a four-dimensional system there are two distinct complete symmetry groups. The results for general second order linea...

INTRODUCTION In 1997 the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment requested RIVM to develop an information system for policy monitoring. One of the motives was that the European Union requires that the competent authorities of each member state ensure that dose estimates due to practices involving exposure to ionising radiation are made as realistic as possible for the populati...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Because photon energy delivered using a low-energy infrared laser may be useful to treat stroke, we determined whether transcranial laser therapy would improve behavioral deficits in a rabbit small clot embolic stroke model (RSCEM). METHODS In this study, the behavioral and physiological effects of laser treatment were measured. The RSCEM was used to assess whether low-...

This paper describes how a work group and a newcomer mutually adapt. We study two types of simulated groups that need an extra worker, one group because a former employee had left the group and one group because of its workload. For both groups, we test three conditions, newcomers being specialists, newcomers being generalists, and a control condition with no newcomer. We hypothesise that the g...