Objective Training needs are multidimensional needs affected by the social and cultural background, level of knowledge and personal and health conditions. This study was conducted to explain the needs of Iranian infertile couples for the design of a training software. MaterialsAndMethods This qualitative study used content analysis to examine its participants, which consisted of ten infertile p...

BACKGROUND Women are faced with a confusion of information and uncertainty when making decisions at menopause. METHODS We conducted four focus groups of 31 women aged 40-64 years, exploring their experience and views about menopause, its management, and decision support needs. RESULTS Focus group participants saw menopause as a natural progression rather than a medical condition, and decisi...

Young informal carers (YICs) are non-professional young individuals providing care and support in various forms, usually to immediate family members, afflicted from a diverse range of both long- short-term health conditions. Although there is significant knowledge about the information needs adult general, seeking characteristics YICs’ community understudied different. This study aims identify ...

Evaluation of personal search over an individual’s personal information space on the desktop or elsewhere is problematic for reasons relating both to the personal and private nature of the data and the associated personal information needs of collection owners. Indeed challenges associated with evaluation in this space are recognised as one of the key factors hindering the development of resear...

Background. The role of personal information collections is a well known feature of personal information management. The World Wide Web has introduced to such collections ideas such as filing Web pages or noting their existence in 'Bookmarks' and 'Favourites'. Argument. It is suggested that personal information collections are created in anticipation of some future need for that information-per...