BACKGROUND The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a developing country with poor obstetric indicators. Despite ongoing efforts to improve care, women continue to suffer multiple complications of child birth including vesico-vaginal fistulae (VVF). OBJECTIVE To describe socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of VVF patients in Northern DRC. METHODS Women presenting at two VVF mobi...

This study examined the moderating roles of marital warmth and recent life events in the association between observed marital hostility and changes in spouses' depressive symptoms over 3 years. Using the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM), structural equation models (N = 416 couples) suggested that husbands' marital hostility was significantly related to increases in wives' depressive s...

BACKGROUND Husbands, as the primary providers of support for women with breast cancer, can experience significant burden and role strain, but also perceive positive aspects to the caregiving. Little is known about the specific caregiving tasks husbands perform, for how long, or how burden and positive aspects relate to later psychological distress. OBJECTIVE Our primary aim was to better char...

Spouses often report that wives provide better social support than husbands. Yet studies observing spouses' supportive interactions challenge this perception, finding no differences between husbands' and wives' supportive behaviors. This article offers reconciliation by suggesting that husbands and wives may differ, not in their skill at providing support, but in their responsiveness to their p...

Intermarriage between a native and immigrant can affect the household’s supply of labor hours. Spouse selectivity on the basis of human capital, distribution of bargaining power, and labor supply coordination within the household can differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, ...

This prospective study was carried out to evaluate the utilisation of antenatal care at the Provincial Specialist Hospital, Mongomo, Guinea Equatoria, paying close attention to the confounding factors affecting effective antenatal care (ANC) delivery. Information was elicited from 200 pregnant women attending the antenatal clinic using a questionnaire. Previous antenatal clinic attendance was h...

In northern Thailand, where substantial male-to-female transmission of HIV has occurred in stable partnerships, the relationships between counseling, communication, and HIVpreventive behaviors in married couples have not been well studied. In a study of HIV incidence among women in northern Thailand, each participant was advised to learn her husband’s HIV-infection status and was asked to bring...

The family planning program is currently only directed toward women. Thus causing the impression that it women who have responsibility in terms of regulating pregnancy. Men's participation as well head plays an important role programs several countries, including Indonesia. This community service aims to encourage husbands' by improving understanding contraceptive methods KB MOP (Male Method Op...

This comparative study of COVID-19 lockdown aims to underline changes in gender role behaviors South-Asian men (husbands) living different regimes: Pakistan and Germany. As a nascent contribution existing discourses political science (gender regimes), international migration, masculinity, the compares self-reported husbands' masculine feminine with perceptions their wives during period. A behav...