The purpose of the present investigation was to explore risk and preventive behaviors for potential HIV exposure among 362 married drug-abusing men entering outpatient treatment and their wives. During the year before entering treatment, 144 husbands (40%) reported they had engaged in sexual or drug use behaviors that placed them at high risk for HIV exposure. Nearly all of the wives of these h...

Background This study compared common psychological symptoms and life satisfaction in husbands and wives according to infertility diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted this cross-sectional study on 248 infertile couples between November 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015 at Royan Institute, Tehran, Iran. Participants answered three questionnaires. First, they completed a demographic questi...

This article looks at Social Security covered earnings of wives relative to their own husbands, using interview responses from the 1990 Survey of Income and Program Participation linked to Social Security Administration records of covered earnings. It examines earnings at ages 22-31, 22-41, and 22-51 for birth cohorts of wives born in the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. More recent cohorts of wives ...

BACKGROUND Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in war veterans and its complex emotional and behavioral characteristics affect veterans' partners and the quality of their relationships. Although most research focuses on the effects of veterans' PTSD on their partners/wives and their relationships, not many findings have been established on partner adjustment and marriage quality when wives suf...

Relying on focus group discussions and in-depth individual interviews with men and women in Jigawa and Kano states in northern Nigeria, we investigated barriers to spousal contraceptive communication. While attitudes toward spousal contraceptive communication were generally positive, there was very little evidence that respondents engaged in it. Poor spousal contraceptive communication in north...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify and evaluate the information needs of wives of men diagnosed with prostate cancer who were treated first with radical prostatectomy and to measure the extent to which their needs were met. DESIGN Descriptive. SETTING Comprehensive cancer center designated by the National Cancer Institute. SAMPLE 66 wives of men with prostate cancer. METHODS On the second d...

This study investigated the link between daily health symptoms and spousal emotional well-being in a sample of 96 older dyads. Higher negative mood and lower positive mood were associated with spousal symptoms in couples wherein husbands or wives reported higher average levels of symptoms. For wives, partner effects were moderated by husbands’ marital satisfaction and illness severity. Specific...

BACKGROUND Although smoking remains uncommon among Korean women, lung cancer mortality is rapidly escalating. METHODS We investigated the effects of spousal smoking in 160130 Korean women, aged 40-88, who received health insurance from the Korea Medical Insurance Corporation (KMIC). Exposure data were collected during medical examinations conducted between April 1992 and June 1994. The primar...

African American couples (n = 331) with children, 89% of whom were married, were assigned to either (a) a culturally sensitive couple- and parenting-enhancement program (ProSAAF) or (b) an information-only control condition in which couples received self-help materials. Husbands averaged 41 years of age and wives averaged 39 years. We found significant effects of program participation in the sh...

This community-based study examined emotional and somatic symptoms of 129 Bedouin women whose husbands serve in the Israel Defense Forces. Wives of men diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) reported more symptoms than wives of men diagnosed with other disorders and wives of men with no diagnosis. Findings indicate that not only was PTSD in Bedouin servicemen positively associated ...