This ethnographic work is about the recruitment and enculturation of novice scientists in laboratory. Interviews participant observation were conducted a biochemistry research lab at small liberal arts college. I take predominantly interpretive approach ask question how make sense their decisions behaviors as they gain membership into laboratory community scientists. Revising value-neutral stru...

BACKGROUND Support from the family positively affects self-management, patient outcomes and the incidence of hospitalizations among patients with heart failure. To involve family members in heart failure care is thus valuable for the patients. Registered nurses frequently meet family members of patients with heart failure and the quality of these encounters is likely to be influenced by the att...

OBJECTIVE We used a mixed-methods approach to explore the relationships between participants' perceptions of family members' diabetes self-care knowledge, family members' diabetes-specific supportive and nonsupportive behaviors, and participants' medication adherence and glycemic control (A1C). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Adults with type 2 diabetes participated in focus group sessions that d...

Aim: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic progressive neurological diseases and is regarded as the non-traumatic cause of neurological disability in youth. The Multiple sclerosis patients need for family caregiver increasingly grows due to the progressive course of the disease, which worsens the symptoms over time. Family caregivers of this group of patients are subject to ...

Despite a marked increase in electric bicycle (e-bike) research, few studies have looked at how parents or caretakers use e-bikes specifically to transport children. This is missed opportunity, as parenthood often results increased auto dependence. Getting more on continue biking would align with policies aimed decreasing automobile dependence and increasing physical activity. paper presents fi...

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of household and community responses to HIV/AIDS in Mexico. Fieldwork took place in two contrasting settings: (a) Ciudad Netzahualcóyotl, a socially marginalized urban community and (b) the homosexual community of Mexico City, a sexually marginalized social network. 113 in-depth interviews were conducted with people with HIV/AIDS, their rela...

In-law relationships have drawn recent interest from family scholars. Historical trends demonstrate a significant rise in newlyweds marrying someone of different race or ethnicity. Given this growing population inter-racial marriage, the need to know more about these couples and their families is paramount. This article describes four themes that emerged qualitative interviews with nine parents...

This three-generational study investigated family histories of attachment relationships and abusive experiences as well as current functioning of family members that differentiate supportive from unsupportive mothers of sexually abused children. Interviews and standardized adult and child measures were administered to a sample, including (a) 99 nonoffending African American mothers and their ch...