PURPOSE To examine the influence of individual participant, instructor, and group factors on participants' attendance and adherence to community exercise classes for older adults. DESIGN AND METHODS Longitudinal data from 16 instructors, 26 classes, and 193 older participants within those classes (aged 60-100 years) were examined. Data were collected using questionnaires on individual partici...

Chronic early school absence (preschool through third grade) is associated with school failure. The presence of school nurses may lead to fewer absences, and nurse practitioners in school-based health centers (SBHCs) can facilitate a healthier population resulting in improved attendance. Efforts to get students back to school are unexplored in nursing literature. This article describes a nursin...

the voquea literary school is strongly associated to the periods of timurids – especially 2nd half of 15th century – and safavids from the view of social-political points. the school was founded in the last 15th century and reached its maturity by the end of that century to be continued up to the early 16th century. there have been several sporadic discussions about the poems of voquea school a...

Although Mexico’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program Oportunidades has increased overall school enrollment, many adolescents do not attend school, especially in urban areas. This paper simulates the effects of changes in program design using a simple parametric method based on a simultaneous probability model of school attendance and child labor. The paper also provides alternative non parametri...

In this paper I present a dynamic structural model of girls’ schooling choices and estimate it using the Mexican PROGRESA database. This structural approach allows evaluating the effectiveness of several policies to increase school reentry rates for girls in low-income households. To increase school attendance among poor children in developing countries, policy makers have implemented condition...

BACKGROUND The aims of this study were to estimate the prevalence of Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS) in adolescence, and to examine the association to insomnia and school non-attendance. METHODS Data stem from a large population based study in Hordaland County in Norway conducted in 2012, the ung@hordaland study. In all, 10,220 adolescents aged 16-18 years (54% girls) provided self-report...

Policy-makers have cited menstruation and lack of sanitary products as barriers to girls’ schooling. We evaluate these claims using a randomized evaluation of sanitary products provision to girls in Nepal. We report two findings. First, menstruation has a very small impact on school attendance: we estimate that girls miss a total of 0.4 days in a 180 day school year. Second, improved sanitary t...

This paper examines the impact of parental illness on children's education. We find that only father's illness decreases children's school attendance. Father's illness also has long-term impacts on child education, as it decreases children's likelihood of completing primary school and leads to fewer years of schooling. However, we find no evidence that father's illness affects schooling through...

Consistent with a biopsychosocial framework for understanding children’s pain, it is important to recognize that many areas in a child’s life may be affected by chronic or recurrent pain. Attendance at school typically occupies a large number of a child’s waking hours. It is an environment where social relationships develop and important learning occurs. This article reviews the literature on v...