Despite an extensive body of research on the individual burden of migraine, few studies have examined its impact on the family. We aimed to assess the impact of migraine on family life both from the perspective of those with migraine and from the perspective of their partners. A validated computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) identified 574 people with migraine from a population sample o...

Thepresent paper addresses two crafting strategies employeesmay display in different life domains in order to attain desired outcomes. On the one hand, job crafting is targeted at increasing social and structural job resources and challenging job demands. On the other hand, leisure crafting is the proactive pursuit of leisure activities targeted at goal setting, humanconnection, learning, andpe...

This paper reports on the demand for water-based leisure activity in Ireland based on data from a nationally representative telephone survey. Participation and trip demand are modelled using an augmented Poisson count model and consumer surplus welfare estimates are derived. The model is also used to investigate the level of social exclusion in water-based leisure activity. The demand for four ...

Despite major demographic changes over the past 50 years and strong evidence that time spent with a spouse is important for marriages, we know very little about how time with a spouse has changed-or not-in the United States. Using time diary data from 1965-2012, we examine trends in couples' shared time in the United States during a period of major changes in American marriages and families. We...

The role of curricular activities for the formation of education, health and behavioural outcomes has been widely studied. Yet, the role of extra-curricular activities has received little attention. This study analyzes the effect of participation in sports clubs-one of the most popular extra-curricular activities among children. We use alternative datasets and flexible semi-parametric estimatio...

a sible approaches to the treatment and prevention of delinquency, which include: tjr Equate school welfare service, systematic diagnostic investigation of children before the Courts, special day and residential educational facilities, volunaPproved schools", residential industrial training, development of leisure activities, for Iilore research. Most important of all is Dr. Stott's emphasis on...

Taenia saginata cysticercosis causes financial losses to the beef industry and farmers, and represents a significant source for human infection in many countries. A case-control study was conducted to identify risk factors for bovine cysticercosis on farms in Switzerland. The case group (n=119) consisted of farms with infected cattle identified at slaughter in 2005 and 2006. Infections were con...

AIM to identify the leisure activities performed in Long-Stay Institutions for the Elderly (LSIEs), registered in the city of Maringá-PR, Brazil, and to analyze the attitude of the elderly people toward leisure promoted by the institutions. METHOD this was a descriptive and transversal study with a quantitative approach, carried out with 97 elderly people, through the establishment of the soc...