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Dongxu, Wang; Yuhui, Shi; Stewart, Donald; Chun, Chang; Chaoyang, Li – Health Education, 2012
Purpose: The paper seeks to identify key features of prenatal care utilization and quality in western regions of China and to determine the factors affecting the quality of prenatal care. Design/methodology/approach: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted. The instrument for the study was a 10-stem respondent-administered, structured…
Descriptors: Prenatal Care, Mothers, National Standards, Social Indicators
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Li, Min; Xu, Jiuping; He, Yuan; Wu, Zhibin – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
Resilience, the ability to spring back from adversity and successfully adapt to it, is becoming an increasingly popular focus in research on the intervention and prevention of mental breakdown. This article aims to assess the resilience of adults exposed to the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake 1 year after the occurrence of the earthquake, to explore the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Ethnic Groups, Multiple Regression Analysis, Resilience (Psychology)
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Wang, Lin; Rau, Pei-Luen Patrick; Salvendy, Gavriel – Educational Gerontology, 2011
This study investigated variables contributing to older adults' information technology acceptance through a survey, which was used to find factors explaining and predicting older adults' information technology acceptance behaviors. Four factors, including needs satisfaction, perceived usability, support availability, and public acceptance, were…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Factor Analysis, Older Adults, Predictor Variables
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Zhao, Xiwen – Convergence, 2009
In order to realise the strategic aim of constructing new socialist rural communities in the 21st century, "new farmers' education" has been placed on the Chinese government's agenda and will soon become a very important issue of Chinese adult education in both research and its practice. As an adult educational researcher I first…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Agricultural Occupations, Farm Management