BACKGROUND In Pakistan, 16% of the women aged 15-19 years are married. Many get married shortly after they attain menarche. This study explores the preparedness for and actual experiences of married life (inter-spousal relationship, sexual activity and pregnancy) among adolescent women. METHODS Among married adolescent women residing in a slum of Islamabad ten were selected with the help of a...

PURPOSE This study assessed the effect of marital status on stage at diagnosis and survival in women with cervical cancer. METHODS Cervical cancer cases diagnosed between 2000 and 2010 were identified from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program. Patient demographic and clinical characteristics were compared by marital status. Multivariate logistic and Cox proportional h...

OBJECTIVE To examine differences between single and married mothers in the 12-month prevalence of psychiatric disorders. METHODS The analysis uses data from the National Comorbidity Survey, collected in 1992-1993, and focuses on women aged 15 to 55 years with children (n=1346). Psychiatric disorders are assessed with the University of Michigan Composite International Diagnostic Interview, a s...

Scholars traditionally argued that industrialization, urbanization, and educational expansion lead to a decline in extended families and complementary rise in nuclear families. Some have suggested that such transitions are good for young married women because living in nuclear families benefits their health. However, extended families may also present advantages for young women's health that ou...

We examine the physical and mental health effects of providing care to an elderly mother on the adult child caregiver. We address the endogeneity of the selection in and out of caregiving using an instrumental variable approach, using the death of the care recipient and sibling characteristics. We also carefully control for baseline health and work status of the adult child. We explore flexible...

Sir: We were interested to read the paper by Armstrong et a1 (1997) on drug-induced movement disorders in relation to the CYP2D6 genotype. We would agree that this important polymorphism may well be a contributory factor in more chronic druginduced movement disorders. G. D. I. Bates Blrm~ngham Children's Hospital. Ladywood M~ddleway, Ladywood, Birmtngham B16 8ET A. E. van Woerkom, 0. Lopes Quee...

We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison group. Heavier husbands are found to work significantly more hours and earn more labor income, controlling for both spouses’ demographic and soc...

the relationship between curiosity and subjective well-being of married women: mediating effect of intimacy and marital satisfaction the purpose of present study was to investigate the relationship between curiosity and intimacy and marital satisfaction in married women's subjective well-being. for this purpose 265 married women in tehran were selected using voluntary sampling. research in...

The authors examined the prospective associations between marital status transitions and changes in fitness in men and women. Between 1987 and 2005, a total of 8,871 adults (6,900 men) aged 45.6 (standard deviation, 9.1) years were examined at the Cooper Clinic, Dallas, Texas; the median follow-up was ∼3 years. Marital transition categories (from single to married, married to divorced, divorced...

Over the past two decades married women’s labor force participation has shown a considerable increase in the US. In particular, both the cross sectional and the life cycle behavior of married women’s hours worked has undergone a substantial change. I show that a key factor underlying this trend is the change in behavior for married women with children. In particular, while in the past married w...