BACKGROUND Women's empowerment programs during pregnancy focus primarily on increasing women's health goals and psychological empowerment has been considered important in most issues related to pregnant mothers' mental health. Using path analysis, this study aims to examine the direct and indirect components of psychological empowerment of pregnant mothers. METHODS This model-testing study wa...

Women empowerment is a pre-requisite of any country’s development and decision making power of women is an indicator of women empowerment. Most of the previous studies of women decision making mainly focused on the influence of women’s decision making on the child health, child mortality, maternal health care, children drop out from school or some other socio-economic matter of women. However t...

We examine how the impact on women empowerment varies with respect to the location and type of group linkage of the respondent. Using household survey data from five states in India, we correct for selection bias to estimate a structural equation model. Our results reveal that in the southern states of India empowerment of women takes place through economic factors. For the other states, we fin...

introduction: today empowerment has become to one of the main concepts of sustainable development.j three types of relationship between empowerment and sustainable development are: 1- empowerment is component of sustainable development. 2- empowerment is the cause of sustainable development. 3- empowerment is the result of sustainable development. therefore it is not possible achievement to sus...

background: women’s empowerment programs during pregnancy focus primarily on increasing women’s health goals and psychological empowerment has been considered important in most issues related to pregnant mothers’ mental health. using path analysis, this study aims to examine the direct and indirect components of psychological empowerment of pregnant mothers. methods: this model-testing study wa...

Un-official projects resulting from unsanctioned, bottom-up employee initiatives is a phenomenon that can cause serious resource planning problems in IT project portfolio management, such as when resources thought to be available have actually been spent on projects conducted under the radar. At the same time, such project may also give rise to innovative ideas, solutions and software of potent...

Tobacco smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke are major environmental risk factors that negatively influence health. It is recommended that tobacco product manufacturers and retailers receive empowerment counseling programs to achieve adolescent health targets. The present study conducted an empowerment counseling session to counsel tobacco product retailers in refusing to sell tobacco produ...

the present research aims to investigate and rank which affect and re affected by employees’ psychological empowerment in order to help organizations and their employees to be more committed to their jobs by accessing resources and feeling control and ownership and use initiative in their works in order to do works well so that their effectiveness and efficiency within organization will be impr...