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… for choosing child care: associations with family factors, quality, and satisfaction

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V Peyton, A Jacobs, MO'Brien, C Roy - Early Childhood Research …, 2001 - Elsevier
Demographic and family process factors related to the reasons mothers selected a particular
care arrangement for their 3-year-old children were examined along with the type and quality
of care the children received and the mothers' satisfaction with that care. Reasons for ...
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Does training make a difference to quality in family child care?


S Kontos, C Howes, E Galinsky - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1996 - Elsevier
... The two groups of providers were similar in their prime reason for choosing family child care
as a job, with one exception. ... Kontos, S., Howes, C., Shinn, M., Galinsky, E. (1994). Quality in
family child care and relative care. New York: Teachers College Press. ...
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Child care cost and quality

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SW Helburn, C Howes - The Future of Children, 1996 - jstor.org
... study indicated that more than 40% of the low-income parents surveyed did not consid- er it
important if their child's provider were licensed,22 and the Study of Family Child Care and Relative
Care found that, when asked about their reasons for selecting their current ...
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[BOOK] Statistical analysis

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AL Edwards - 1969 - aifs.gov.au
... The association between maternal depression and grandparent care could be because mothers
with higher levels of depression are unable to seek help with child care from their parents. ... Reasons
for choosing father and grandparent care over other types of multiple care. ...
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Early child care experiences and their association with family and child


MR Burchinal, SL Ramey, MK Reid, J … - Early Childhood Research …, 1995 - Elsevier
... The remaining African American families were recruited by randomly selecting from the names of ...
Regression analyses were per formed that examined whether child care experience was related
to these outcomes and whether patterns of associations were comparable ...
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Family child care finances and their effect on quality and incentives

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SW Helburn, JR Morris, K Modigliani - Early Childhood Research …, 2002 - Elsevier
... The interview included questions on the provider's personal background, years in child care,
views about child care work, their reasons for entering ... Size of the provider's child care business
was calculated as the number of full-time equivalent children in care rather than ...
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… among lesbian and heterosexual parents: Associations with children's adjustment

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RW Chan, RC Brooks, B Raboy, CJ … - Journal of Family …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
... Among those who chose not to participate, the most common reason given was lack of time. ... about
religious practices, deciding about community involvement), and Section 3 includes 20
child-care tasks (eg, reading to child, bathing, feeding, choosing toys, visiting parks ...
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[PDF] Caring and learning environments: Quality in regulated family child care

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G Doherty, DS Lero, H Goelman, J … - … , Ontario: Centre for …, 2000 - dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca
... 90 6.5 Reasons for Optimism, Reasons for Concern 90 ... Data were collected from 231 regulated
family child care providers across six provinces and one territory followed by ... The data analyses
went beyond simple description of the associations found between quality and the ...
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Child care predictors of infant-mother attachment security at age 12 months


L Harrison, JA Ungerer - Early Child Development and Care, 1997 - informaworld.com
... This component of the Sydney Family Development Project (SFDP), therefore, was designed
to describe families' use of child care, as well as mothers' expressed satisfaction with their
care arrangements and their reasons for choosing different Page 3. ...
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The concept of quality of life of dying persons in the context of health care


AL Stewart, J Teno, DL Patrick, J Lynn - Journal of pain and symptom …, 1999 - Elsevier
... Prior to selecting or developing instruments to assess quality of life and quality of ... which to glean
quality of care information), and (3) patient and family outcomes of ... have been undertaken by the
National Hospice Organization[13] and the Canadian Palliative Care Association. ...
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Customer switching behavior in service industries: an exploratory study


SM Keaveney - The Journal of Marketing, 1995 - jstor.org
... 1) It allowed respondents to select service switching incidents of their own choosing, without
con ... at pickup time"), or provided higher quality ("switched to a private home [day care provider]
that is ... cited unethical service provider behavior as at least part of the reason for switching ...
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Child care and severe externalizing behavior in kindergarten children


VR Bacharach, AA Baumeister - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 2003 - Elsevier
... This is a problem for several reasons. ... above the mean (Belsky; Cooper and Vandell). The rationale
for selecting 2 SD. ... We examined the proportion of children with externalizing behavior problems
as a function of number of different types of care experienced by each child. ...
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Quality of care at school-aged child-care programs: Regulatable features, …


R Rosenthal, DL Vandell - Child Development, 1996 - jstor.org
... A second reason is a concern that younger children may be less able to report reliably about
their after-school expe- riences. ... (re- verse scored) (3) Is your child given enough say in choosing
activities? ... (9) Has the program been a good environment for your child to build friend ...
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The demand for quality in child care


DM Blau, AP Hagy - Journal of Political Economy, 1998 - UChicago Press
... meeting of the Population Association of America, Miami; the 1995 annual meeting of the Western
Economic Association, San Diego ... But for similar reasons these results cannot be derived without
restrictions on preferences or ''technology.'' Note that r Ai and ... quality in child care ...
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[PDF] Choice and accommodation in parental child care decisions

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MK Meyers, LP Jordan - JOURNAL-COMMUNITY …, 2006 - government.cce.cornell.edu
... that center care was safer and offered more developmental activities [y]et this care was in the
shortest supply … mothers were sometimes choosing between what they perceived to be the
better arrangement for their child's development (center care) and the ...
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Gender-related factors in the recruitment of physicians to the rural Northwest

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KE Ellsbury, LM Baldwin, KE Johnson, … - … Board of Family …, 2002 - Am Board Family Med
... and personal life,23 an issue that flexible scheduling and availability of childcare would partially
miti ... Top reasons for not choosing other practices (81 respondents): Community related ... Although
we would have preferred a higher response rate, there is no reason to believe that ...
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Choice and the relationship between identities and behaviour for mothers with pre- …

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S Himmelweit, M Sigala - Journal of Social Policy, 2004 - Cambridge Univ Press
... with relatives living nearby solved this problem by combining nursery care with relative care,
a solution ... felt they had returned to work too early after maternity leave for financial reasons
continued to ... 20-year-old full-time nursing student, lone parent with two-year-old child, uses a ...
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care conundrum: A factorial survey analysis of perceptions of child care quality, fair …

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AB Shlay, H Tran, M Weinraub, M Harmon - Early Childhood Research …, 2005 - Elsevier
... Findings indicate that parents' definition of quality focused squarely on the care giving environment,
specifically the qualifications, experience, training and behavior associated with the child care
provider. The type of care facility—family, center, relative or neighbor care was ...
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The Great Child-Care Experiment: What Are the Lessons for School Improvement?


SD Holloway, B Fuller… - Educational Researcher, 1992 - edr.sagepub.com
... for change was that the provider stopped providing care; in only around 10% of the cases was
dissatisfaction with the provider cited as a reason for chang ... Parents' criteria for selecting schools
(when there is a choice available) mirror those found in the child-care literature ...
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Job satisfaction of child care workers: A review


J McClelland - Child and Youth Care Forum, 1986 - Springer
... Future studies should state an explicit reason and framework for studying job satisfaction of child
care workers. ... Selecting meaningful variables for study. ... Also, when juxtaposed with the worker's
potential earnings in alternative employment, pay for child care may be the more ...
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First step in obtaining child health care: selecting a physician


GB Hickson, DW Stewart, WA Altemeier, JM Perrin - Pediatrics, 1988 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... Families unhappy with pediatricians expressed different reasons ... TABLE 1 . Sources of Information
Used When Choosing a Physician Source % o (n f Parents = 229) Neighbor/friend ... 21.4 Personal
experience/as a patient 19.2 Family 18.3 “Used when I was a child” 5.2 Phone ...
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Satisfaction with care and ease of using health care services among parents of …


EM Ngui, G Flores - Pediatrics, 2006 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... care pro- vider help you feel like a partner in [your child's] care?” The 4 ... Likert responses (never,
sometimes, usually, or always) for family-centered care were dichotomized as ... analyses and
multivariate logistic regression modeling were used to assess associations between race ...
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… parenthood and employment: Factors affecting company receptiveness to family- …


RL McNeely, BA Fogarty - Family Relations, 1988 - jstor.org
... Cramer's V (CV), in- stead of gamma, was used to examine associations involving a nominal
variable (cf. ... responsibil- ities." None of the demographic features examined were related to em-
ployer receptivity to offer subsidies to parents selecting their own child care provider ...
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Continuity of primary care clinician in early childhood

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M Inkelas, MA Schuster, LM Olson, CH Park, N … - Pediatrics, 2004 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... Most (89%) parents of these children reported choosing the child's provider ... 30 Whereas most
parents with a specific clinician chose their young child's provider, parents ... Possible reasons
include lack of familiarity and disenfranchisement with the health care system, predominant ...
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Parent-child relations and parent's satisfaction with living arrangements when adult …


WS Aquilino, KR Supple - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1991 - jstor.org
... There are two reasons for the sex differential: first, adult children are much more likely to coreside
with single mothers than with fathers ... Only 17% of these parents indicated considerable dissatis-
faction with the adult child's presence in their household (by choosing a rating of ...
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Work-family balance and academic advancement in medical schools

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G Fox, A Schwartz, KM Hart - Academic Psychiatry, 2006 - AADPRT
... View this table: [in this window] [in a new window]. TABLE 3. Percentage of Faculty
Members Selecting the Tenure Track*. Discussion. ... Women request tenure rollback for
child care; men request tenure clock stoppage for other reasons. ...
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The effect of education on child care teachers' beliefs and classroom quality: Year …


DI Cassidy, MI Buell, S Pugh-Hoese, S … - Early Childhood Research …, 1995 - Elsevier
... 1) planning, implementing, and evaluating develop mentally appropriate content; (2) creating,
evaluating, and selecting mate rials ... In D. Phillips (Ed.), Quality in child care: What does research
tell us ... 120) Washing ton, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children ...
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Quality in early education and care: What do we mean?


SE Farquhar - Early Child Development and Care, 1990 - informaworld.com
... However, the difficulty of studying quality in early education and care is not reason enough for
eschewing study. ... New Zealand Child Care Association (undated) Choosing a good child care
centre (pamphlet) New Zealand Herald (1990) Childcare staff wait on action. ...
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Childcare for children with disabilities: Families search for specialized care and …


S DeVore, B Bowers - Infants & Young Children, 2006 - journals.lww.com
... Choosing childcare: Assessing fit. ... 1 unsuccessful placement or made alternate arrangements
to group-based childcare, such as care provided by family members or ... These families assessed
the adequacy of child care by how well providers were able to specialize the care and ...
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[CITATION] Defining and valuing quality as a parent'


M Larner, D Phillips - Rethinking welfare: a critical …, 2002 - Sage Publications Ltd
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Child care for children with and without disabilities: The provider, observer, and …


L Knoche, CA Peterson, CP Edwards, HJ … - Early Childhood Research …, 2006 - Elsevier
... Parent surveys 4.3.1. Family characteristics 4.3.2. Perspectives on choosing child care 4.3.3.
Parental ... The same associations between caregiver preparation and child care quality hold true
for ... result in use of informal care arrangements and/or poor quality child care (Booth & ...
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… to formalized child care arrangements: Parental considerations of cost and quality


MJ Camasso, SE Roche - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1991 - jstor.org
... When asked about their reasons for selecting their current child care cen- ter, mothers listed
reliability, flexible hours, loca- tion, and convenience, along with staff qualifica- tions, health care,
and planned activities and socialization opportunities for the child as salient ...
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Part-time work and child care choices for mothers of preschool children


KF Folk, AH Beller - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1993 - jstor.org
... In- dividual and family characteristics, child care cost and availability, and preferences
affect the rela- tive utilities of choosing nonemployment or choosing part-time or
full-time employment with substitute care during employment hours. ...
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Why and how working women choose child care: A review with a focus on infancy


EP Pungello, B Kurtz-Costes - Developmental Review, 1999 - Elsevier
... 8. GA Bogat and LK Gensheimer, Discrepancies between the attitudes and actions of parents
choosing day care. Child Care Quarterly 15 (1986a), pp. ... Journal of Marriage and Family (1984),
pp. 425–431. ... 42. SL Hofferth, The demand for and supply of child care in the 1990s. ...
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Single parents and day care


PH Turner, RM Smith - Family Relations, 1983 - jstor.org
... version of a paper presented to the American Home Economics Association Annual Meeting
in ... there were significant differences among factors considered important in choosing day care
for parents ... children but not for parents of school age children.' Child care centers typically ...
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[PDF] Quality of care in family planning service delivery in Kenya: Clients' and …

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L Ndhlovu - Nairobi: Population Council, 1995 - pdf.usaid.gov
... services in Africa have been delivered in the context of Maternal and Child Health Services ... For
these reasons, some doctors and policy makers started calling for a departure from the ... Based
on the Donabedian systems approach to quality of care, the Association for Voluntary ...
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… STD clinics in an evolving health care environment: demographics, insurance …


CL Celum, G Bolan, M Krone, K Code, P … - Sexually transmitted …, 1997 - journals.lww.com
... Participants were asked to identify up to three reasons for choosing to attend the STD clinic on ...
Interestingly, cost of care was the second most common reason cited for seeking care at the ... that
their answers to the survey questions would not influence charges for that day's visit. ...
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[HTML] Use of family planning in Lesotho: the importance of quality of care and …

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M Tuoane, I Diamond, N Madise - African Population Studies, 2003 - bioline.org.br
... but the nurses refused to give it to me saying that I only have one child. ... The latter reason also
explains the high use of the injectables for women living in communities ... of Contraceptive Method
Choice”, in Bulatao, RA; JA Palmore and SE Ward (Eds.), Choosing a Contraceptive ...
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School quality, child wellbeing and parents' satisfaction

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S Gibbons, O Silva - 2009 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
... parents‟ reasons for choosing a school, these surveys also reveal that many other factors
play an ... they may also judge quality on the basis of other factors that are external to their
child‟s own ... The reason why a pupil in a low value-added school is ...
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Child care and early development


D Phillips, K McCartney, A … - Blackwell Handbook of …, 2006 - books.google.com
... The National Association for Family Child Care has devised an age-weighted group size ... child
care is restricted to situations where there is a compelling economic reason for mothers ... These
influences include the family's central role in selecting child care, the role that child care ...
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Family day care in two countries: Parents, caregivers, and children in Canada and …


H Goelman, MK Rosenthal, AR Pence - Child and Youth Care Forum, 1990 - Springer
... reasons for selecting the day ... groups versus individuals, physical environment, crowdedness and
group characteristics on specific kinds of interactions in the family day care homes: aimless activity,
skill and concept acquisition, posi- tive social interactions among the children ...
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[PDF] … To Design a Patient-and Family-Centered Health Care System: A Roadmap …

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J Conway, B Johnson, S Edgman-Levitan, J … - … for Family-Centered Care … - Citeseer
... decisions when selecting a health plan, hospital, or clinical practice, or choosing among alternative ...
For these reasons, these agencies are in an excellent position to support initiatives ... and the
American Nurses Association, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs ...
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Family and child factors related to the use of non-maternal infant care: An English …


K Sylva, A Stein, P Leach, J Barnes, LE … - Early Childhood Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
... Several studies from the US have shown that maternal employment is the primary reason families
use non-maternal child care (Atkinson ... With the aim to overcome such limitations, a study on early
child care was set up in 1987 by the National Institute of Child Health and ...
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Foster family characteristics and behavioral and emotional problems of foster …


JG Orme, C Buehler - Family Relations, 2001 - jstor.org
... The studies that exist suggest that family cohesion is associated with fewer child or youth problem
behaviors (Barber & Buehler, 1996; Gfellner ... However, there is some research that has examined
associations between selected aspects of the foster care experi- ence ...
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Negotiating care: Relationships between family daycare providers and mothers


MK Nelson - Feminist Studies, 1989 - jstor.org
... Although they offered a variety of reasons for leaving wage ... ty.'4 They offer family daycare
because they want to remain home and care for their own children;'5 they often merge this
care with the care of others of increasing distance: step-children; foster ...
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… support as a mediator in the relation between functional status and quality of life in …

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JT Newsom, R Schulz - Psychology and Aging, 1996 - psycnet.apa.org
... degree of frequency of assistance (ie, never, seldom, sometimes, often, very often, and each
day). ... For this reason, we compared the fit of a number of other possible models to ... Choosing
between the hypothesized model and this model is difficult because several studies report ...
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Measuring family planning service quality through client satisfaction exit interviews

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T Williams, J Schutt-Aine, Y Cuca - International Family Planning …, 2000 - jstor.org
... important goal of international family planning programs, for a vari- ety of compelling reasons. ...
14 family plan- ning associations in each country were re- sponsible for selecting the clinics ... but
they improved staff rotations so they could provide services throughout the entire day. ...
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Family satisfaction with nursing home care for relatives with dementia


FK Ejaz, LS Noelker, D Schur, CJ … - Journal of Applied …, 2002 - jag.sagepub.com
... The process of selecting eligible family members to participate in the study involved ... These types
of response categories(“improvementneeded”)werepreferredoverthetypical“howsat- isfied are
you” for two reasons. ... and rarely use their clinical skills (only 12 minutes a day) to care ...
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Family outcomes in early intervention: A framework for program evaluation and …


DB Bailey Jr, RA McWilliam, LA Darkes, K … - Exceptional …, 1998 - questia.com
... In selecting or constructing outcome measures, evaluators should take care to ensure ... for
methodological (eg, inadequate instrumentation) and conceptual (eg, construct validity uncertainty)
reasons. ... Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 57 (6, Serial No ...
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… and Satisfaction: Women and Men Lawyers and the Balance of Work and Family


DL Chambers - Law & Soc. Inquiry, 1989 - heinonlinebackup.com
... even when holding a job, bear a heavier burden than men for the care of small children.2 Within
dual-career families, men spend only slightly more time performing child-tending and ... Most of
the reasons that women were dissat- isfied—that their job atmosphere was not warm ...
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[HTML] … program on client perceptions of the quality of care provided by private …

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S Agha, A Balal, F Ogojo-Okello - Health Services …, 2004 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... could spontaneously report their reasons for visiting, including for family planning, antenatal care,
postnatal care, immunization, delivery, child nutrition, AIDS counseling ... Table 1 shows the
proportion of clients who gave various service-related reasons for choosing the clinic ...
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The changing commute: A case-study of the jobs-housing relationship over time


M Wachs, BD Taylor, N Levine, P Ong - Urban Studies, 1993 - usj.sagepub.com
... by senior management of Kaiser Perma- nente of Southern California, a prepaid health care
plan serving ... LA's drivers spent an average of 215 000 hours a day stuck in traffic during ... to live
at residences nearer their former work sites because of personal reasons (price, quality of ...
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Parents' selections of proprietary day care centers for their school-age children: A …


MR Bradbard, EG Brown, RC Endsley, CA … - Child and Youth Care …, 1994 - Springer
... having experienced dissatisfaction with previous child care arrangements) and two negative
variables (number of children in the family and choosing a center ... Finally, a follow-up study of
the reasons for being dissatisfied with a previous child care arrangement (Endsley & ...
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The trouble with foster care: the impact of stressful'events' on foster carers


K Wilson, I Sinclair, I Gibbs - British Journal of Social Work, 2000 - BASW
... We list the six 'events' below, together with the reasons for selecting them: ... the potential impact
of these biases in our conclusion, although there seems no a priori reason why they ... Both analyses
were consistent in showing that only the age of the oldest first child was significantly ...
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Effects of pediatric chronic physical disorders on child and family adjustment


JL Wallander, JW Varni - The Journal of Child Psychology …, 1998 - Cambridge Univ Press
... However, because QOL is emerging as the central issue in the care for children with a ... Other social
ecologies should also be important for the child with a chronic physical disorder. ... potential effects
of the social environment at school, as indicated by the associations of perceived ...
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Parent, infant, and contextual characteristics related to maternal employment …


BL Volling, J Belsky - Family Relations, 1993 - jstor.org
... Financial need was the most important reason given for returning to work within 3 ... in an effort to
examine whether role commitments differed for women choosing different employment ... the marital
relationship or when the hus- band refused to participate in child care, women were ...
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day care: relations of temperament, stability, and quality of care with the child's

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JC De Schipper, LWC Tavecchio, MH Van … - Early Childhood …, 2004 - Elsevier
... ratios, less caregiver availability, and less arrangement stability will increase the association
of a ... close to a specific birth date in order to prevent them from choosing the most ... selected
subsample of centers, we recruited centers offering 'non-standard hours child care,' such as ...
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Providing family day care: An analysis of home-based work


MK Nelson - Social Problems, 1988 - jstor.org
... Interview questions asked providers their reasons for choosing the occupation ... Differences among
children complicate the issue of a "fair price." One child might be easy to care for while another
might require a great deal of atten- tion; babies fit awkwardly into a group of older ...
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Child care for young children


C Howes, CE Hamilton - Handbook of research on the education …, 1993 - books.google.com
... Some observational measures of process quality in child care, notably the NICHD Early Child
Care Research Network's ORCE ... and Howes's adult in- volvement scale, have built from this
developmental research within the family base and find associations between high ...
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Selecting outcome measures for child welfare settings: Lessons for use in …


SJ Wells, MA Johnson - Children and Youth Services Review, 2001 - Elsevier
... notion that child age, ethnicity, foster care type O or nonkin), and reason for referral ... In order to
aid agency administrators and managers in selecting outcomes, this section provides guidelines ...
Measures used to indicate progress of a child in care may range from indicators such ...
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Family satisfaction with nursing facility care

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N Castle - International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2004 - ISQHC
... Reasons for non-participation were varied, but the most common reason was the need for chain
facilities to get ... representative are simply not equivalent to those of a resident immersed in the
day-to-day environment of ... Selecting nursing home residents for satisfaction surveys. ...
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Job-family role strain among employed single mothers of preschoolers


ML Campbell, P Moen - Family Relations, 1992 - jstor.org
... variables, income position and income adequacy, were factor scores derived from principal
component analysis using varimax rota- tion and orthogonal factors. ... Table 2. Standardized
Regression Coefficients for the Effects of Work, Child Care, and Family Char- acteristics ...
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satisfaction data to assess the effects of organizational factors on primary care


DA Barr, P Vergun - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and …, 2000 - ingentaconnect.com
... A second set of control patients who visited the same physician on the same day was contacted
by phone and ... of the quality of the organiza- tion of practice has been underscored by a docu-
mented association between the work satisfaction of primary care physicians and ...
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[PDF] Conceptualizing community in the context of work and family

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P Voydanoff - Community Work & Family, 2001 - virtualcurriculum.com
... This paper uses the ecological systems approach as a framework for selecting and reviewing ...
peer groups, youth programs, health care facilities, religious institutions, and child care settings. ...
Adapting Aristotle, I think of community as a sharing association involving two or more ...
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Factors associated with emergency department utilization for nonurgent pediatric …

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K Phelps, C Taylor, S Kimmel, R Nagel … - Archives of Family …, 2000 - archfami.highwire.org
... Twenty caretakers wrote in additional reasons for bringing their child to the ED that were not
symptom related. ... In our study, "role modeling" proved to be a strong predictor for the subset of
caretakers who reported choosing the ED as the site of routine sick care for their child. ...
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[PDF] … IN ENGLAND: MOTHERS'ASPIRATIONS, EXPERIENCES, SATISFACTION

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J Godlieb, L Hague, M Nichols, B … - Early Child …, 2006 - familieschildrenchildcare.org
... relationship with the caregiver (See Figure 1). The Full Information Maximum Likelihood (FIML)
estimation of missing data points was utilized for two reasons: (1) ... more satisfied. The association
between satisfaction and progressive attitudes was ... selecting child care. ...
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Familial factors associated with the characteristics of nonmaternal care for infants


The NICHD Early Child Care Research … - … of Marriage and the Family, 1997 - jstor.org
... AMOUNT OF CARE THAT CHILDREN RECEIVE Maternal employment is the primary reason
infants receive ... When selecting par- ticipants, we excluded cases in which: (a) mothers were under ...
In each regression model tested, fami- ly characteristics (ethnicity, the child's sex, the ...
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… labor: Modeling and measuring the social embeddedness of routine family work


S Coltrane - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 2000 - jstor.org
... number of scholars published articles and books presenting more elaborate reasons for accepting ...
showed that occupational gender segregation does not result from women choosing jobs that ...
focus on the purchase of domestic services, in- cluding meals, child care, and house ...
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… : Dimensions of Care Affecting Women's Perceptions of Quality and Satisfaction.


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physician) were apparently among the most impor- tant factors in choosing to attend a ...
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… of Students with Disabilities and Open Enrollment: Characteristics and Reasons


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Understanding the reasons they choose Open Enrollment will enable policy makers to be ...
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... and facilitating parent-to-parent support 8. Assuring that the design of health care delivery systems ...
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to participate, and procedures were arranged for randomly selecting parents and ...
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Patient satisfaction in a preoperative assessment clinic: an analysis using …


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... Research Method Questionnaire Design At our Medical Center we mandate that all patients
arriving for 'same-day' surgery make a visit to the PAC. ... Page 10. 24 F. Pakdil & TN Harwood Figure
3. Reasons for choosing Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center ... Financial reasons 1 2 ...
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Family factors and adjustment of children of alcoholics


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... was less likely for both sons and daughters who had low to moderate contact with the alcoholic
family of origin and who had a high degree of" deliberateness" in selecting and establishing ...
TM.(l978). The Child Behavior Profile: I. Boys aged 6-ll ... Journal of Adolescent Health Care. ...
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Family-strengthening approaches for the prevention of youth problem behaviors

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Alvarado, Smith, & Bellamy, 2002; Lutzker, 1998); (b) reasons why providers ... relevance of the
intervention, removing attendance barriers (eg, meals, child care, transportation, and ...
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What factors influence Hong Kong school students in their choice of a career in …


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... An interest in science was listed as a reason students choose to go into nursing ... The main survey
was aimed at all 2080 F.6 students studying at the day grammar secondary schools of ... were asked
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The School-Age Child Care Program Seven programs are represented in the study. ...
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The training needs and priorities of male and female surgeons and their trainees


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the same criteria for choosing residency programs: most frequently selecting “quality of training ...
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involved selecting a biological father who had a child of the same gender and ethnicity ... 15 months,
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