This study aimed to assess the care received and the barriers faced by immigrants and Portuguese pregnant women in Portugal. This is an exploratory qualitative study, resorting to applying semi-structured interviews to 60 immigrant and 22 Portuguese women. Content analysis supported by QSR Nvivo10 program was used. The study was approved by an Ethics Committee. The results showed four categorie...

Psychological counseling for college students has become one of the important contents ideological and political education in current universities. The responsibility workers is not only to strengthen improve objective requirements students, but also comply with era quality promote comprehensive development students. Thus, this paper selects 15 educators School R as objects research, uses Groun...

Purpose This paper investigates the lean enabling human capacities and develops a framework integrating individual, organisational environmental level strategies to build for successful implementation of small medium contractors (SMCs) in Sri Lanka. Design/methodology/approach An interpretivism stance is adopted, qualitative research approach used. The data collection technique adopted semi-str...

BACKGROUND Parental feeding practices shape children's dietary preferences and behaviors, which can influence a child's weight status. Limited research exists on the precursors and contextual influences of feeding, particularly among Hispanic parents. Therefore, this study explored two areas potentially important for obesity prevention in young children: (1) precursors and contextual influences...

This article explores the views of general practitioners and specialists on their referral of patients with suspected Lynch syndrome to cancer genetic services. Using a purposive maximum variation sampling strategy, we conducted semi-structured interviews face-to-face with 28 general practitioners and specialists in public or private hospitals and specialist clinics between March and August 201...

PURPOSE This pre-trial qualitative research study was carried out to explore patient and clinical staff attitudes to central venous access devices (CVADs). In addition, views about participation in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) were explored with the aim of maximising recruitment to an imminent RCT of three CVADs. METHODS Three patient focus groups (each comprising three patients) and 2...

INTRODUCTION Patient safety research has tended to focus on hospital settings, although most clinical encounters occur in primary care, and to emphasize practitioner errors, rather than patients' own understandings of safety. OBJECTIVE To explore patients' understandings of safety in primary care. METHODS Qualitative interviews were conducted with patients recruited from general practices i...

BACKGROUND Researchers are required to seek consent from Indigenous communities prior to conducting research but there is inadequate information about how Indigenous people understand and become fully engaged with this consent process. Few studies evaluate the preference or understanding of the consent process for research with Indigenous populations. Lack of informed consent can impact on rese...