BACKGROUND OR AIMS All agree that informed consent is a process, but past research has focused content analyses on post-consent or on one conversation in the consent series. Our aim was to identify and describe the content of different types of consent conversations. METHODS We conducted a secondary analysis of 38 adult oncology phase 1 consent conversations, which were audio-recorded, transc...

OBJECTIVE To test the independent association of adult language input, television viewing, and adult-child conversations on language acquisition among infants and toddlers. METHODS Two hundred seventy-five families of children aged 2 to 48 months who were representative of the US census were enrolled in a cross-sectional study of the home language environment and child language development (p...

femininity typology and girl students (a case study: students guilan university) the concept of femininity is like a social structure with varied notions in different time and backgrounds. this article is aimed atthe typology of girl students of guilan university. in foregoing study, semi-organized intervies with the aid of tageted sampling and qualitative methods are used. for this reason, thi...

Background The government of Ghana introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2004 with the goal of achieving universal coverage within 5 years. Evidence, however, shows that expanding NHIS coverage and especially retaining members have remained a challenge. A multilevel perspective was employed as a conceptual framework and methodological tool to examine why enrolment and retent...