BACKGROUND Delay in decision-making to use skilled care during pregnancy and childbirth is an important factor for maternal death in many developing countries. This paper examines how decisions for maternal care are made in two rural communities in Burkina Faso. METHODS Focus group discussions (FGDs) and individual interviews (IDIs)) were used to collect information with 30 women in Ouargaye ...

Within the qualitative spatial reasoning community it has been a widely accepted commonplace that reasoning in qualitative constraint calculi outperforms reasoning in other more general and expressive formalisms. To check the correctness of this assumption we conducted some empirical case studies in which we compared the performance of a qualitative constraint solver with different automated re...

Purpose. Microblogging sites are being used by people across the globe to share their opinions and express sentiments for everything in real time. Through social listening, companies analyse assess way forward, researchers use it trend or an event give forward-looking recommendations. The objective of paper is relating Paytm IPO which can be predict forward. Design/methodology/approach. study a...

Background: Increasingly researchers are recognising the importance of including perspectives children and young people in research development interventions innovations, order to understand children's lives on their own terms. Purpose: This article reflects potential risks posed role gatekeepers granting access and, direct field activities, especially where could be deemed as ‘sensitive’. Rese...

The increasing availability of emerging non-combusted tobacco products (snus, dissolvables, and electronic nicotine delivery systems or ENDS) may have implications for pregnant women and women of reproductive age. We conducted 15 focus groups to explore how women perceive emerging non-combusted tobacco products and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in general, and during pregnancy. Sessions we...

OBJECTIVE To discover how college students conduct dinner groups and perceptions of the benefits and difficulties of participation. DESIGN Qualitative study conducted with 7 focus groups. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A university campus, with 36 students participating in dinner groups, defined as a group of 3 people or more cooking for one another (or together) and eating together at least 4 ti...

INTRODUCTION Childhood obesity is a multifaceted disease that requires sustainable, multidimensional approaches that support change at the individual, community, and systems levels. The Massachusetts Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration project addressed this need by using clinical and public health evidence-based methods to prevent childhood obesity. To date, little information is known ab...

This paper is a qualitative descriptive study, which aims to analyze how the academic education concerning hand hygiene contributes to the pediatric patient safety. This research was developed in an university hospital in Southern Brazil, in the pediatric unit, during the period of August to December, 2012. Sixteen healthcare professionals participated (doctors, nurses and physical therapists)....

BACKGROUND Focusing on interprofessional relations in team performance to improve patient safety is an emerging priority in obstetrics. A review of the literature found little information on roles and teamwork in obstetric emergency training. Qualitative research was undertaken through a Clinical Simulation in Maternity programme which gives interprofessional rural clinicians the opportunity to...

OBJECTIVES To explore perceptions of healthcare stakeholders' about health promoting hospitals, potential benefits and need in Pakistan. METHODOLOGY A qualitative exploratory study was conducted between July-August 2007. The data was collected through key-informant (KI) interviews and focus group discussions (FGD) with purposively selected hospital administrators, healthcare providers, health...