Research on role ambiguity suggests its relationship to retention and commitment in business, industry non-profit settings. The purpose of this study was explore factors associated with perceived experienced by volunteers at the 2017 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival, their impact future volunteering engagement awareness post-event. also examined differences event perceptions based gender,...

Hearing aids. Despite technological advancements, hearing aids continue to be the most common intervention for hearing loss. However, for a variety of practical and psychological reasons, people fitted with hearing aids often stop using them. In the UK, volunteers who often wear hearing aids themselves have supported NHS patients’ use of hearing aids and a Bristol research team recently sought ...

Current demographic, policy and management changes are a challenge to hospices to develop their volunteering practices. The study upon which this paper is based aimed to explore good practice in volunteer involvement and identify ways of improving care through developing volunteering. The project consisted of a narrative literature review; a survey of volunteer managers; and organisational case...

Background. Short-term international volunteer trips traditionally involve volunteers from high-income countries travelling to low- and middle-income countries to assist in service-related development activities. Their duration typically ranges from 7 to 90 days. The city of La Romana, Dominican Republic, receives hundreds of short-term international volunteers annually. They participate in act...

BACKGROUND Recruitment of low- and middle-income country volunteers from most-at-risk populations in HIV vaccine trials is essential to vaccine development. In India, men who have sex with men (MSM) are at disproportionately high risk for HIV infection and an important population for trial recruitment. Investigations of willingness to participate (WTP) in HIV vaccine trials have focused predomi...

The percentage retention at 24 hours of 4 micron Teflon particles, aerodynamic diameter about 6 micron, was studied in 29 healthy male volunteers. The particles were inhaled at 0.5l/s with maximally deep breaths. The 24 hour retention correlated significantly with FEV1 and FVC and persisted when the subjects were divided into different categories according to profession and smoking habits. The ...

This article discusses the overlooked role of recreation programmes in ethnocultural and cultural-specific long-term care home from my standpoint as a worker. First, policy during pandemic that prohibited visits by family members volunteers revealed they are important informal caregivers to fill for limitations workers. Second, recreational can also be considered practice cultural inheritance: ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the skills of community health volunteers in diagnosing active trachoma and distributing azithromycin in the Northern Region of Ghana. METHODS Six community health volunteers from Daboya were trained to diagnose trachoma and to treat the disease using azithromycin. They were also informed of the drug's possible side-effects. Under supervision, each volunteer then examined,...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a major public health problem in developing countries and exclusive breastfeeding is an efficient strategy that can be used to prevent malnutrition and reduce child mortality. The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of community volunteers in promoting exclusive breastfeeding from birth in an area of endemic malnutrition. METHODS This evaluation...