OBJECTIVE This study is an attempt to identify and specify the differences among five major Iranian ethnic groups, i.e. Persian, Azeri, Kurd, Lur, and Arab regarding their awareness, understanding and attitudes towards epilepsy and their beliefs about the treatment of epilepsy. METHOD This survey was carried out cross-sectionally on a sample containing 500 participants from five major ethnic ...

Abstract How do young people interpret virginity loss, and does saving sex for marriage have any socially constructed benefit marriage? This study answers this question using data obtained from a peer-led Facebook group with more than 175,000 participants, mostly in African countries, particularly Nigeria. A reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze 100 public wall posts 3860 comments pos...

Türkiye’de yaşanan sosyo-ekonomik dönüşümden en fazla etkilenen kurumların başında aile gelmektedir. Aile kurmanın ilk aşaması olan evlilik de bu süreçten etkilenmektedir. Dünyadaki gelişmelere paralel olarak evlenme yaşının yükselmesi, bekâr kalma, dışı cinsellik, alternatif birlikteliklerin yaygın hale gelmesi gibi durumlar evliliğe ilişkin tutumların değiştiğini düşündürmektedir. Bununla bir...

Taiwan is the first country in Asia to recognize legal rights of same-sex couples get married. Although marriage has been since May 2019, family was not allowed adopt child legally; only stepchild adoption permitted. This still a very controversial issue, so this study intended understand views Taiwanese college students, whose voices should be heard and opinions valued by legislators. To inves...

BACKGROUND While some studies directly address the issue of changes in union formation in Russia and Eastern Europe, few have focused on attitudes and norms regarding marriage and cohabitation. In Russia cohabitation has risen sharply in the last decades, but recently its level has stabilized and even decreased slightly. OBJECTIVE We intend to highlight gender and educational differences in per...

This paper presents a hierarchical discrete-time survival model for the analysis of data on timing of marriage. The data were collected as part of the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Health (MKAPH) survey for Malawi held in 1996. The model assesses the determinants of transition to marriage and accounts for family and community random effects with cross-level correlation structure. A non...

Eighty-two wives of men suffering a first myocardial infarction were interviewed while their husbands were in hospital, and again two months and a year after they went home. The wives had substantial and persistent psychological symptoms, and the husbands' illness had continuing effects on their work, leisure and social activities, and family life and marriage, their psychosocial disability bei...