"It is my destiny as a woman": on becoming a new mother in Indonesia.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to provide a greater understanding of the experience of the new Indonesian mother.

Design: This study was a hermeneutic phenomenological study. Data were obtained from 13 first time Indonesian mothers through semi-structured interviews.

Understanding the role of communities of practice in evidence-informed decision making in public health.

In this article we report on qualitative findings that describe public health practitioners' practice-based definitions of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) and communities of practice (CoP), and how CoP could be a mechanism to enhance their capacity to practice EIDM. Our findings emerged from a qualitative descriptive analysis of group discussions and participant concept maps from two consensus-building workshops that were conducted with public health practitioners (N = 90) in two provinces in eastern Canada. Participants recognized the importance of EIDM and the significance of integrating explicit and tacit evidence in the EIDM process, which was enhanced by CoP.

The lived experience of fathers who have children with asthma: a phenomenological study.

Asthma is a common chronic illness of childhood and a major cause of school absenteeism and hospitalization. When a child is diagnosed with asthma, parents become responsible for the long-term management of a chronic condition that is characterized by unpredictable and irregular episodes. Much of the research concerning parenting children who have asthma had focused on mothers.

A comparison of the mental health of employed and unemployed women in the context of a massive layoff.

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of unemployment on the mental health of women in the context of massive unemployment. Comparisons were made between the level of mental distress experienced by unemployed and employed women, in two areas of Newfoundland, Canada that were affected by the northern cod moratorium. In addition, the relationships between women's mental distress and a number of variables were explored.

Struggling to understand: the experience of nonsmoking parents with adolescents who smoke.

Smoking among adolescents is a major public health concern. Most parents would not want their children engaged in this risk-taking behavior. Although a majority of parents of smokers are themselves smokers, many are nonsmokers.