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

V Peyton, A Jacobs, M O'Brien… - Early childhood research quarterly, 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 ...

Does training make a difference to quality in family child care?

S Kontos, C Howes… - 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. ...

Child care cost and quality

SW Helburn… - The future of children, 1996 - JSTOR
... 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 ...

Familial Factors Associated With the Use of Multiple ChildCare Arrangements

TW Morrissey - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
... choose (NICHD ECCRN), although previous research has not revealed consistent associations
between these ... Market characteristics A third reason for using multiple child-care arrangements
is ... the quality of and parents' satisfaction with the primary child-care arrangement may ...

Teasing apart the child care conundrum: A factorial survey analysis of perceptions of child care quality, fair market price and willingness to pay by low-income, African …

AB Shlay, H Tran, M Weinraub… - Early Childhood Research …, 2005 - Elsevier
... education, income and less parenting stress were more likely to emphasize quality when choosing
a child ... non-quality related features may be influenced by family characteristics; one study found
that child care choices based on “practical” reasons (child care fees, hours ...

[BOOK] Child care quality: does it matter and does it need to be improved?

D Vandell, B Wolfe… - 2000 - gse.uci.edu
... resources efficiently.” In the child care sector, there are two primary reasons for market ... of factors
must be considered if we are to determine whether associations between child care quality and
children's developmental outcomes are large enough for parents, researchers, and ...

The ecology of family day care

S Kontos - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1994 - Elsevier
... The most conaaon reasons for refusal were not wanting to be observed or ... may also explain why
families in this sample are not selecting family day care quality differently as a ... play, however,
Howes and Stewart (1987) found associations with both family and child care factors. ...

Family child care finances and their effect on quality and incentives

SW Helburn, JR Morris… - 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 ...

Child care and severe externalizing behavior in kindergarten children

VR Bacharach… - Journal of Applied Developmental …, 2003 - Elsevier
... This is a problem for several reasons. Center care is but one category of child care arrangement
used by parents, often in conjunction with other types. ... above the mean (Belsky; Cooper and
Vandell). The rationale for selecting 2 SD. ... 3. Results. 3.1. Child care demographics. ...

Customer switching behavior in service industries: An exploratory study

SM Keaveney - The Journal of Marketing, 1995 - JSTOR
... 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 ...

A comparison of marriages and cohabiting relationships

SL Nock - Journal of Family Issues, 1995 - jfi.sagepub.com
... For that reason, the analysis is restricted to relationships of no more than 10 years ... The minimal
restriction placed on the sample (ie, selecting only those in relationships of 10 or ... 3.29(0.61)
3.16(0.58) Female partner 2.71(0.64) 2.64(0.68) 2.68(0.69) Fairness—child care (1 = very ...

The quality of different types of child care at 10 and 18 months: A comparison between types and factors related to quality

P Leach, J Barnes, LE Malmberg… - Early Child …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
... Technical paper 7 social/behavioural and cognitive development at 3–4 years in relation to family
background , London: Institute of Education/DfEE. ... Quality in child care; what does research tell
us? , Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children. ...

Child Care Predictors of Infant‐Mother Attachment Security at Age 12 Months

L Harrison… - Early Child Development and Care, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
... 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. ...

Division of labor among lesbian and heterosexual parents: Associations with children's adjustment.

RW Chan, RC Brooks, B Raboy… - Journal of Family …, 1998 - psycnet.apa.org
... Among those who chose not to participate, the most common reason given was lack of ... 3 includes
20 child-care tasks (eg, reading to child, bathing, feeding, choosing toys, visiting ... in concert with
parental wishes, household tasks, family decision making, and child care were all ...

The demand for quality in child care

DM Blau… - Journal of Political Economy, 1998 - JSTOR
... But for similar reasons these results cannot be derived without restrictions on preferences or ... 7 An
alternative modeling approach would be to treat child care arrangements as discrete bundles of
attributes, including the fee, with consumers choosing the arrangement ...

Discrepancies between the attitudes and actions of parents choosing day care

GA Bogat… - Child and Youth Care Forum, 1986 - Springer
... Results indicate that parents place great importance on many features associated with quality
care ... 6% were already familiar with the child care provider, and 8% gave other reasons. ... that, unlike
previous studies, the parents in this study were in the process of choosing child care. ...

Quality of care at school‐aged childcare programs: Regulatable features, observed experiences, child perspectives, and parent perspectives

R Rosenthal… - Child Development, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
... 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 ...

Parental perceptions of characteristics of non-parental child care: Belief dimensions, family and child correlates

WC Gamble, AR Ewing… - Journal of Child and Family …, 2009 - Springer
... Several reasons have been identified for exploring family determinants of parents' perceptions
of child ... from a facility, a book of the director's/home care provider's choosing was purchased ...
association with parents' selection of or beliefs about child care, or: (a) parent and family ...

Family and child factors related to the use of non-maternal infant care: An English study

K Sylva, A Stein, P Leach, J Barnes… - Early Childhood Research …, 2007 - Elsevier
... 1. Factors associated with timing, amount and type of non-maternal child care use. ... studies from
the US have shown that maternal employment is the primary reason families use ... collecting detailed
information on the quality and quantity of early non-maternal child care and taking ...

[PDF] Caring and learning environments: Quality in regulated family child care across Canada

G Doherty, DS Lero, H Goelman… - … , Ontario: Centre for …, 2000 - publications.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 ...

Profiles of choice: Parents' patterns of priority in child care decision-making

J Kim… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2009 - Elsevier
... Parental work force participation is perhaps the primary reason for choosing non-parental care ...
Given the many reasons for using child care services, parents approach child care ... and resources,
and with different knowledge about the range of child care arrangements that are ...

Mothers' search for infant child care: the dynamic relationship between availability and desirability in a continental European welfare state

M Vandenbroeck, S De Visscher… - Early Childhood …, 2008 - Elsevier
... expected to give priority to: (a) parents who need a place for economic reasons (reconciling family
and work); (b) parents at risk for social or educational reasons; (c) low ... Selecting mothers of
three-year-olds also ensured a recent retrospect on their early child care experiences. ...

Silent partners: Parents of children in three types of day care

AR Pence… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1987 - Elsevier
... Chapel Hill, NC: Homebased Day Care Training Project. Molnar, J. (1982). Choosing a child
care arrangement: Reasons "why. " Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, Department of Human
Development and Family Studies. Pence, AR, Charlesworth, M., Goelman, H. (1985). ...

Choice and accommodation in parental child care decisions

MK Meyers… - Community Development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
... mothers were sometimes choosing between what they perceived to be the better arrangement
for their child's development (center care) and the setting that allowed the greatest number of
hours of care that matched the hours they worked (family day care)" (p. 69). ...

Choice and the relationship between identities and behaviour for mothers with pre-school children: Some implications for policy from a UK study

S Himmelweit… - 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 ...

Family quality of life when there is a child with a developmental disability

RI Brown, J MacAdam–Crisp… - Journal of Policy and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... Thus the samples were essentially self-selecting and should be regarded as a convenience
sample. ... countries (Brown, 2006), it underscores the need to examine the extent and reasons
that respite ... more.” This mother believes that this is directly related to her child's disability as ...

Parent-child relations and parent's satisfaction with living arrangements when adult children live at home

WS Aquilino… - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1991 - JSTOR
... There are two reasons for the sex differential: first, adult children are much more likely to ...
considerable dissatis- faction with the adult child's presence in their household (by choosing
a rating of 4 ... dependence on parents (range from 5 to 15): degree to which child's food, clothing ...

[PDF] Continuity of care in the early years?

J Bowes, S Wise, L Harrison, A Sanson, J Ungerer… - Family matters, 2003 - aifs.gov.au
... Convenience was a common reason for parents choosing multiple care; reasons such as
affordability and lack of availability of preferred child care ... 1534-1553. Peyton, Y., Jacobs, A.,
O'Brien, M. & Roy, C. (2001), “Reasons for choos- ing child care: Associations with family ...

Family satisfaction with nursing home care for relatives with dementia

FK Ejaz, LS Noelker, D Schur… - Journal of Applied …, 2002 - jag.sagepub.com
... The process of selecting eligible family members to participate in the study involved convenience
sampling ... improvement needed”) were preferred over the typical “how sat- isfied are you” for two
reasons. ... tasks and rarely use their clinical skills (only 12 minutes a day) to care for ...

The quality of child care: An economic perspective

DM Blau - The economics of child care, 1991 - books.google.com
... The reasons for this are not clear, but if further analysis reveals only weak associations, then ... and
the only impact of nonwage income is to reduce the likelihood of choosing a day ... There is little
association between expenditures on child care and input attributes in the NLSY data. ...

Parents' child care arrangements and their ecological correlates

S Gable… - Early Education and Development, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... that parents do not typically consider caregiver training and education when selecting child care
(Galinsky, 1992 ... 1998), earning power, employment status (ie, full- versus part- time), reason for
care ... economic status are related to the type and quality of child care parents select ...

[PDF] Partnering with patients and families to design a patient-and family-centered health care system: A roadmap for the future: A work in progress

J Conway, B Johnson, S Edgman-Levitan… - Institute for Family- …, 2006 - hsi.gatech.edu
... 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 ...

Social support as a mediator in the relation between functional status and quality of life in older adults.

JT Newsom… - Psychology and aging, 1996 - psycnet.apa.org
... relation between disability and quality of life, there may be additional reasons for the ... This study
attempts to provide a broader understanding of the association between impairment ... with things
like shopping, filling out forms, doing repairs, or providing child care." In accordance ...

Childcare for children with disabilities: Families search for specialized care and cooperative childcare partnerships

S DeVore… - Infants & Young Children, 2006 - journals.lww.com
... used included 1 or a combination of center-based childcare, family childcare in the provider's
home, care provided in ... (2) How did you choose childcare? ... that all families in this first sample cycled
through more than 1 placement and stages of locating, choosing, and maintaining ...

Social and economic factors associated with parents' decisions about after-school child care: An exploratory study in a medium-sized community

DR Powell… - Child and Youth Care Forum, 1987 - Springer
... for most parents using serf-care there do not seem to be major reasons for changing ... The direct
financial cost of a child care arrangement did not appear to be an overriding ... Noneconomic
variables were more important than cost factors in selecting an arrangement, especially for ...

Factors influencing satisfaction and anticipated turnover for nurses in an academic medical center

K Shader, ME Broome, CD Broome… - Journal of Nursing …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
... Thank you for choosing to subscribe to the eTOC for Journal of Nursing Administration. ... In addition
to the published turnover literature, our hospital conducted a qualitative study that revealed that
a prime reason for nurses ... Both the day and night shift nursing staff received surveys ...

Research on household labor: Modeling and measuring the social embeddedness of routine family work

S Coltrane - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
... 1992) showed that occupational gender segregation does not result from women choosing jobs
that ... For many of the reasons noted above and because of normative pressures, transitions into ...
be less depressed if they can shed total responsibility for housework and child care. ...

The ups and downs of child care: Variations in child care quality and exposure across the early years

K Hynes… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008 - Elsevier
... income mothers are more likely than high income mothers to report selecting their child ... Combining
all of these reasons, we expect to see changes in child care quality ... However these associations
between family background and child care quality tend to be modest in strength ...

A patient survey system to measure quality improvement: questionnaire reliability and validity

RG Carey… - Medical care, 1993 - JSTOR
... both groups differed from inpatients insofar as they had intense, self-contained medical
interventions of 1 day duration, the settings and the reasons for care ... unplanned medical
intervention, were almost always treated by a physician who was not of their choosing, and were ...

Predictors of family child care providers' intentions toward professional development

SK Walker - Child and Youth Care Forum, 2002 - Springer
... One inquired about reasons for choosing family child care. ... and availability of training were minor
issues, as 4 and 1% of the respondents cited these reasons, respectively. ... That time arises as
a barrier to family child care provider attitudes toward training is not a new discovery ...

Child care for children with and without disabilities: The provider, observer, and parent perspectives

L Knoche, CA Peterson, CP Edwards… - Early Childhood Research …, 2006 - Elsevier
... 48 questions that addressed topics related to child care access, affordability, and satisfaction;
subsidy use; reasons for own ... aspects of caregiver–child interaction, the physical environment,
safety, and learning opportunities when choosing their current child care provider or ...

Family and child care influences on toddler's compliance

C Howes… - Child Development, 1986 - JSTOR
... 2 In 93% of the families (90% of day-care users and 96% of non-day-care users) the mother
participated with ... (1. parent gives up, verbally or by tone says there is no reason to do the task;
3. parent is ambivalent; parent verbally states that it is important for the child to comply ...

Continuity of primary care clinician in early childhood

M Inkelas, MA Schuster, LM Olson, CH Park… - 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 ...

Clinical and psychosocial factors associated with achievement of treatment goals in adolescents with diabetes mellitus

M Grey, M Davidson, EA Boland… - Journal of adolescent …, 2001 - Elsevier
... are expected to assume increasing responsibility for management of their disease (5). Self-care
of the ... The most common (95%) reason for refusal was the time involved in the study. ... HbA1c levels
were obtained on all subjects on the same day psychosocial data were obtained ...

Consumer assessments of the quality of medical care

JL Lebow - Medical Care, 1974 - JSTOR
... For these reasons, the itemization of elements of "good" care for process evaluation has been ...
In choosing a data source using the process approach, the cost, the availability, and the ... which
indi- cated little difference between judgments of parents about their child's care at differ ...

Foster Family Characteristics and Behavioral and Emotional Problems of Foster Children: A Narrative Review*

JG Orme… - Family Relations, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
... 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 experience and ...

Family-strengthening approaches for the prevention of youth problem behaviors.

KL Kumpfer… - American Psychologist, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
... Practitioners can use these principles as a checklist in selecting, adapting, or creating ... needs
(Kumpfer, Alvarado, Smith, & Bellamy, 2002; Lutzker, 1998); (b) reasons why providers ... relevance
of the intervention, removing at- tendance barriers (eg, meals, child care, transportation ...

[PDF] Issues in the measurement of satisfaction with treatment

M Weaver, DL Patrick, LE Markson, D Martin… - Am J Manag Care, 1997 - ajmc.com
... they chose a particular treatment, including positive rea- sons for choosing a treatment, and
negative reasons for not choosing others. ... Although anecdotal evidence suggested that drug
companies and managed care organizations rely on focus groups and other qualitative ...

Race/ethnicity and the start of child care: A multi-level analysis of factors influencing first child care experiences

MS Fram… - Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2008 - Elsevier
... Similarly, while higher cost is, in general, a deterrent to choosing a particular care ... to capture what
is experienced as “neighborhood,” we select census tract for several reasons. ... may be associated
with the norms, information, expectations, and supports for child care-giving that ...

First step in obtaining child health care: selecting a physician

GB Hickson, DW Stewart, WA Altemeier… - 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 ...

[CITATION] Adolescent siblings in stepfamilies: family functioning and adolescent adjustment: monographs of the society for research in child development

EM Hetherington - 2000 - Wiley-Blackwell

Dementia caregiver burden

JJ Dunkin… - Neurology, 1998 - AAN Enterprises
... but it can also involve the provision of in-home care or day care services. ... 63-67 One of the reasons
for this may be that caregivers appear hesitant to use ... intervention outcome research is lacking
in theoretical focus, and designing interventions and choosing outcome measures ...

A model of fathers' behavioral involvement in child care in dual-earner families.

JF Bonney, ML Kelley… - Journal of Family Psychology, 1999 - psycnet.apa.org
... A final reason for examining behavioral involve- ment with children as described above is that
it ... than one child in the age range surveyed were asked to report on their youngest child. The
rationale for choosing the youngest child was that caring for younger, less self-sufficient ...

Parent, infant, and contextual characteristics related to maternal employment decisions in the first year of infancy

BL Volling… - Family Relations, 1993 - JSTOR
... 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 ...

Child care experiences and developmental outcomes

MR Burchinal - The annals of the American academy of political …, 1999 - ann.sagepub.com
... Vaughn, and Moliter 1987; Belsky and Rovine 1988; Jacobson and Wille 1984), although the
association between full ... However, much of this research was questioned for two reasons. ... and
parenting char- acteristics between families who do and do not use child care likely led to ...

Beyond 'unloving care': Linking human resource management and patient care quality in nursing homes

SC Eaton - International Journal of Human Resource …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
... Many managers of not-for-profi t high-quality facilities appeared to have values-based reasons
for choosing HR practices ... More than 200 birds, four cats, two dogs, dozens of plants, a child care
centre, a garden and a visiting school-children's programme help create what ...

Living arrangements, family solidarity and life satisfaction of two generations of immigrants in Israel

A Lowenstein… - Ageing and Society, 2005 - Cambridge Univ Press
... The first studies the reasons for choosing a particular type of ... with low levels of family conflict and
strongly supportive social interactions (Knodel 1995), but also entails numerous strains through
the loss of personal space and privacy, especially if the co-resident child has care ...

Toddlers' and preschoolers' experience in family day care: Age differences and behavioral correlates

EM Kryzer, N Kovan, DA Phillips… - Early childhood …, 2007 - Elsevier
... The trade-offs that parents face when choosing family child care rather than center-based care
are evident. ... We hypothesized that the association between caregiver behavior, specifically the
dimension of sensitive, supportive care, and child measures would be stronger ...

[BOOK] Managing managed care: quality improvements in behavioral health

…, Institute of Medicine (US). Committee on Quality … - 1997 - books.google.com
... American Society of Addiction Medicine ASI Addiction Severity Index ASTHO Association of State ...
formerly the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities CASSP Child and Adolescent ...
System Program CCMC Committee on the Costs of Medical Care CD chemical ...

Lesbians choosing motherhood: A comparative study of lesbian and heterosexual parents and their children.

DK Flaks, I Ficher, F Masterpasqua… - Developmental …, 1995 - psycnet.apa.org
... For the same reason, the CBCL/4-18 and the CBCL/2-3 norms for internalizing, externalizing,
and total behavior prob ... SPECIAL ISSUE: LESBIANS CHOOSING MOTHERHOOD ... No statistically
significant main effects were found for the child's gender, F( 1,26) = 4.00, ns, or for the ...

Factors determining inpatient satisfaction with care

PL Nguyen Thi, S Briancon, F Empereur… - Social Science & …, 2002 - Elsevier
... Research assistants contacted eligible patients on the first day of hospitalization in order to ... The
principal reasons for non-response were inability to be contacted, unwillingness to participate ...
Choosing a unique threshold to define satisfied and non-satisfied patients is somewhat ...

[BOOK] The supply of and demand for child care: Measurement and analytic issues

W Prosser… - 1992 - books.google.com
... Although Hofferth is accurate in citing quality as the predominant reason reported for having ...
conclude that quality is the most important factor that parents consider when choosing child care. ...
you wanted, what would you prefer?") as an indication of whether child care search and ...

The changing commute: A case-study of the jobs-housing relationship over time

M Wachs, BD Taylor, N Levine… - Urban Studies, 1993 - usj.sagepub.com
... Harbor City and outlying Riverside have relatively short com- mute trips, but for different reasons . ...
commute trips often include drop- ping off or picking up children from school or day care. ...
commuting distance is likely to be a sec- ondary consideration in choosing where to live ...

Part-time work and child care choices for mothers of preschool children

KF Folk… - Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1993 - JSTOR
... Care Choices Logit coefficients which represent effects on the log odds of choosing each
employment ... Journal of Marriage and the Family TABLE 2. MULTINOMIAL LOGIT ANALYSIS
PREDICTING EMPLOYMENT/CHILD CARE CHOICES FOR MOTHERS OF CHILDREN LESS ...

[PDF] Family physicians' referral decisions

CB Forrest, PA Nutting, B Starfield… - J Fam Pract, 2002 - 67.131.133.233
... An additional 369 referrals (a rate of 0.21 referrals per practice-day) were made by staff. ... In
descending rank order according to the mean importance rating (range 1 to 3), the reasons for
selecting a particular spe- cialist were personal knowledge of the specialist (2.6), quality ...

Predictors of Health-Related Quality of Life in Obese Youth&ast

MH Zeller… - Obesity, 2006 - nature.com
... Another possible reason for lower parent-child agreement in these specific domains may be the
impact of parental ... J Child Psychol Psychiatry Allied Disciplines. ... Guyatt, GH, Jaeschke, R., Feeny,
DH, Patrick, DL (1996) Measurements in clinical trials: choosing the right approach. ...

Family involvement in nursing homes

JL York… - The Gerontologist, 1977 - gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org
... Older Persons Home Health Aides Public Health Clinics Mental Health Centers Chore Services
Adult Day Care ... Availability of a bed (75%) and location (62%) were the principal reasons given
by ... This lack of sophistication in choosing a nursing home is consistent with Linn and ...

Family outcomes in early intervention: A framework for program evaluation and efficacy research

DB Bailey, RA McWilliam… - Exceptional …, 1998 - freepatentsonline.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. ... question, the extent to which early intervention has influenced child and family ...

The impact of a microfinance program on client perceptions of the quality of care provided by private sector midwives in Uganda

S Agha, A Balal… - Health services research, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
... 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 ...

Familial factors associated with the characteristics of nonmaternal care for infants

The NICHD Early Child Care Research … - … of Marriage and the Family, 1997 - JSTOR
... 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 18 ... made by
demographic, econom- ic, and psychosocial factors to the selection of child care. ...

Changes in career satisfaction among primary care and specialist physicians, 1997-2001

BE Landon, J Reschovsky… - … Medical Association, 2003 - Am Med Assoc
... to physicians' autonomy, to their ability to manage their day-to-day patient interactions ... practice
environments of physicians affect their career satisfaction is important for several reasons. ... quality
of care if potentially outstanding physicians are dissuaded from choosing this career. ...

[BOOK] Quality of care in family planning service delivery in Kenya: Clients' and providers' perspectives

L Ndhlovu, 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 ...

[BOOK] Who cares for America's children?: child care policy for the 1990s

CD Hayes, JL Palmer… - 1990 - books.google.com
... While scientific evidence and policy analysis can highlight these tradeoffs, choosing among the ...
social interactions with peers; how- ever, larger groups are generally associated with less ...
Caregiver Training and Experience Caregivers in child care centers, family day care homes ...

Factors associated with quality of life in adolescents with spina bifida

KJ Sawin, TJ Brei, CF Buran… - Journal of Holistic …, 2002 - jhn.sagepub.com
... HRQOL is proposed by multiple authors to be criti- cal for three reasons. ... Inclusion of this variable
in a research design expands the scope of the evaluation of health care by measuring the impact
of the condition and treatment on the child and family's life style (Levi & ...

School quality, child wellbeing and parents' satisfaction

S Gibbons… - Economics of education review, 2011 - Elsevier
... it is true that academic outcomes rank highly in survey responses on parents' reasons for choosing ...
We use evidence on these two questions to understand whether parents choosing schools on ...
generally, although they tend to be strongly and similarly related to child and family ...

Choosing measures of health status for individuals in general populations.

JE Ware Jr, RH Brook… - American Journal of …, 1981 - ajph.aphapublications.org
... ing face and content validity is to lose a first line of defense against selecting the wrong ... Another
very practical reason for examining face and content validity is that there is rarely more ... health
rather than about other variables, such as atti- tudes toward medical care or satisfaction ...

Professional and social support networks of rural general practitioners

C Joyce, C Veitch… - Australian journal of rural …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
... 1 Note that some participants nominated more than one reason. ... The factors listed above suggest
that an important underlying factor in choosing preferred specialists is a good knowledge and ...
for almost five years and plans to stay a few more years until the eldest child in the ...

The Negotiation of Child Care and Employment Demands Among Low‐Income Parents

JR Henly… - Journal of Social Issues, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
... and cultural compatability higher than those characteristics that are more associated with scarcer ...
the arrangement they did for at least one of these three reasons, and 43.8 ... the schedules of close
family members were important considerations in selecting child care arrangements ...

Stress reduction for family caregivers: Effects of adult day care use

SH Zarit, MAP Stephens… - The Journals …, 1998 - psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals. …
... A final limitation in prior studies is the lack of specificity in selecting outcomes sensitive ... or the
relative had died (8%). For the control group, the three most frequent reasons for exclusion ... and
long-term use was distributed equally across the participat- ing adult day care programs. ...

A framework for improving the quality of cancer care

JG Zapka, SH Taplin, LI Solberg… - … Epidemiology Biomarkers & …, 2003 - AACR
... stress the need for careful assessment of these factors when choosing interventions to ... To assess
the reasons for less than optimal performance and make prudent choices ... Recent analyses
emphasize the important role health care organizations play in improving quality of care ...

Psychosocial adjustment among children conceived via donor insemination by lesbian and heterosexual mothers

RW Chan, B Raboy… - Child Development, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
... In consenting families, a parent asked the child's teacher or day-care provider to fill ... For these
reasons, in this article we present means and standard deviations for main ... parents, nonbiological
parents, and teacher^.^ There were no significant differences in child adjustment as a ...

Consumer satisfaction in long-term care: State initiatives in nursing homes and assisted living facilities

TJ Lowe, JA Lucas, NG Castle… - The …, 2003 - gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org
... Their perspectives reflect different values, expectations, and day-to-day experiences with care
(Ejaz, 2000 ... We further suggest caution in selecting contractors that may lack geriatric or
long-term ... For this reason, this survey of state initiatives should be considered as a preliminary ...

Methods of measuring patient satisfaction in health care organizations

RC Ford, SA Bach… - Health care management review, 1997 - journals.lww.com
... Selecting the best method or combination of methods should represent an ideal balance ... Most
health care organizations are mazes of departments, services, and support facilities with ... Before
beginning the formal observation process, a health care manager should review and ...

A study of the association between quality of maternal care and infant development

CJ Roberts… - Psychological Medicine, 1972 - Cambridge Univ Press
... For these reasons, the National Maternity Survey of 1946 (Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists and ... of maternal care from the environment in which she works' (by choosing a
sample ... Studies of Child Life in Cities and Rural Districts of Scotland.MRCSpccial Report ...

2002 Statewide Public Poll on the Condition of Education in Delaware

CM Ackerman - 2003 - putnam.lib.udel.edu
... Choosing Childcare Poll Results ... The two most frequently reported reasons why parents chose
their children's present care were the quality of care provided ... problems with the availability (17%),
quality (17%), costs (11%), or location and hours of operation (10%) of child care. ...

[BOOK] Contraceptive choices: supporting effective use of methods

J Walsh, H Lythgoe… - 1996 - rhmjournal.org.uk
... Reasons for (not) choosing and using contraceptive methods are also highly individual, reflecting ...
of the method • previous experience of using contraceptive methods and services • reasons for
avoiding ... their contraceptive method given that, on a day-to-day basis, contraceptive ...

Factors associated with the choice and duration of infant-feeding practice

AP Simopoulos… - Pediatrics, 1984 - Am Acad Pediatrics
... knowledge in an area of vital importance to infant health throughout the world, the National Institute
of Child Health and Development (NICHD) spon- ... major reason for the decline of breast-feeding
worldwide had little support. ... lies, health care institutions, and communities that ...

Maternal employment and child care decision

K Coneus, K Goeggel… - Oxford Economic Papers, 2009 - Oxford Univ Press
... of parental child care choice is thus of political interest for both, employment and educational
reasons. ... Recent policy changes in Germany foster the supply of institutional child care for children
under age ... research on the attendance of different types of out-of home care and its ...

The Best Laid Plans: Expectations, Preferences, and Stability of ChildCare Arrangements

RA Gordon… - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
... We discuss three major categories of reasons for ending a child-care arrangement: (a ... two studies
have examined a construct that might mediate this association: satisfaction with care. ... found that
parents who reported that they were unhappy with their child-care provider were ...

Self-employment, work–family fit and mental health among female workers

R Tuttle… - Journal of family and economic issues, 2009 - Springer
... possible advantage is that self- employment may allow for easier provision of child-care. ... of
self-employed women in Canada to investigate the effects of choosing self-employment ... If women
choose self-employment because of family reasons, then they should experience lower ...

Measuring family planning service quality through client satisfaction exit interviews

T Williams, J Schutt-Aine… - International Family Planning …, 2000 - JSTOR
... 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. ...

Parents' view of quality in early childhood services in Portugal

MA Folque… - International Journal of Early Childhood, 1996 - Springer
... Page 9. The child's physical needs - health and safety clearly comes first in parents'
concerns about child care. However, it is quite surprising as they did not mention
this concern in their 'reasons for choosing the service'. ...

The impacts of distance to hospital on families with a child with a chronic condition

N Yantzi, MW Rosenberg, SO Burke… - Social science & …, 2001 - Elsevier
... One hundred and forty children entered the study and 115 completed it; reasons for
non-completion included ... Therefore, the families do not have the option of choosing a health facility
at a closer distance. ... They are as follows: (1) that the doctor sees the child at least once a year ...

Coparenting within the family system: Influences on children's development

S Gable, K Crnic… - Family Relations, 1994 - JSTOR
... The rationale for selecting first-born toddler sons was threefold. ... the other parent's activity with
the child; or when a direct request for help with child care is denied ... theoreti- cal and empirical
questions related to the relations between marriage, parent- ing, and child development is ...

Understanding the positive role of neighborhood socioeconomic advantage in achievement: The contribution of the home, child care, and school environments.

V Dupere, T Leventhal, R Crosnoe… - Developmental …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
... controls, such as child gender, child race/ethnicity, family structure, family income and ... we expected
that the home (quality and maternal mental health), child care (quality), and school ... environments
would each play a role in explaining the association between neighborhood ...

Arranging child care

EE Kisker… - The Future of Children, 1997 - JSTOR
... income families (those with incomes under $15,000), some 51% cited quality as the first or second
most important reason for choosing the main ... Consistent with their limited range of child care
options, poor single mothers are less satisfied with the child care they use than are ...

Spillover from family to work: The neglected side of the work-family interface

AC Crouter - Human relations, 1984 - hum.sagepub.com
... 1967) refer to this strategy as "theoretical sampling." It involves selecting comparison groups ...
Patterns of Spillover After identifying the reasons respondents cited for family-to-work ... respondents'
notions about the appropriate division of household work and child care seemed to ...

Role strain and depression in two-job families

PM Keith… - Family Relations, 1980 - JSTOR
... But the amount of time their wives spent in the labor force was not significantly associated with
the strain exper- ienced by the ... But whatever the reasons motivating their wives' employ- ment,
men who felt comparatively deprived by ... Rowe, M. Choosing child care: Many options. ...

Women and mental health: the interaction of job and family conditions

MC Lennon… - Journal of health and social behavior, 1992 - JSTOR
... There are several theoretical reasons that both condi ... by an item that asks respondents with
children younger than 12 whether they are mainly responsible for child care. ... For compar- isons
with homemakers, we created a dichot- omous job control variable, selecting as a cutpoint ...

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