Currently there is a need for measures to examine the issue of sustaining students’ enrolment intentions over an extended period of study in physics, a subject which is generally perceived as hard and demanding by students. This paper addresses this gap in research by describing the development and the assessment of psychometric properties of the Physics Motivation Questionnaire, which examines...

OBJECTIVES Parental socioeconomic status (SES) exerts a substantial influence on children's health. The purpose of this study was to examine factors determining children's private health insurance (PHI) enrolment and children's healthcare utilization according to PHI coverage. METHODS Korea Health Panel data from 2011 (n=3085) was used to explore the factors determining PHI enrolment in child...

BACKGROUND As KwaZulu-Natal Province is the epicentre of the HIV epidemic in both South Africa (SA) and globally, it is an ideal location to conduct HIV prevention and therapeutic trials. Numerous prevention trials are currently being conducted here; the potential for participant co-enrolment may compromise the validity of these studies and is therefore of great concern. AIM To report the dev...

The aim of our study was to define the rates of stroke or death, survival, and restenosis after enrolment among patients with intracranial atherosclerotic stenosis events, who underwent PTAS plus medical therapy and medical therapy only. Databases, including PubMed, EMBASE, and Web of Science, were comprehensively searched. RevMan software was used to analyze the outcome measures. Outcome measu...

INTRODUCTION Retention in HIV care prior to ART initiation is generally felt to be suboptimal, but has not been well-characterized. METHODS We examined data on 37,352 adult pre-ART patients (ART ineligible or unknown eligibility) who enrolled in care during 2005-2008 with >1 clinical visit at 23 clinics in Mozambique. We defined loss to clinic (LTC) as >12 months since the last visit among th...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this report is to describe the challenges, successes and patterns of enrolment in the Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment (START) study. METHODS START is a collaboration of many partners with central coordination provided by the protocol team, the statistical and data management centre (SDMC), the International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Tri...

OBJECTIVE The study analysed the effect of Information, Education, and Communication (IEC) campaign activities on the adoption of a community-based health insurance (CHI) scheme in Nouna, Burkina Faso. It also identified the factors that enhanced or limited the campaign's effectiveness. DESIGN Complementary data collection approaches were used. A survey was conducted with 250 randomly selecte...

Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) is an education system that delivers necessary information, skills, attitudes related to work or self-employment. However, the TVET program not preferred by most Malaysian students due several factors such as students’ interest, parental influence, employers’ negative impression, facility in vocational institutions, inexperienced instructors, s...