Social and Behavioral Theories and Physician’s Prescription Behavior

Collaborative Information Seeking Behavior: Concepts and Theories

Background and Aim: Collaborative information seeking is an interaction among members of a group who purposefully try to access and share joint information. Although collaboration is a key component of information seeking behavior, but most of the studies in this area are focused on individual information seeking behavior and collaborative aspects are considered much less. As a result, there is...

Incorporating Social Theories in Computational Behavioral Models

Computational social science methodologies are increasingly being viewed as critical for modeling complex individual and organizational behaviors in dynamic, real world scenarios. However, many challenges for identifying, representing and incorporating appropriate socio-cultural behaviors remain. Social theories provide rules, which have strong theoretic underpinnings and have been empirically ...

Prescription drug use and self-prescription among training physicians.

A lthough guidelines suggest physicians should not treat themselves, the self-prescription of medications is common. Self-prescription among physicians in training is of particular concern, given their limited clinical experience and high levels of work stress. In the only large multicenter study conducted to date, to our knowledge,Christie et al found that self-prescribing iswidespread, with 5...

Prescription drug use and self-prescription among resident physicians.

CONTEXT Self-prescription is common among practicing physicians, but little is known about the practice among resident physicians. OBJECTIVE To determine prescription drug use and self-prescription among US resident physicians. DESIGN AND SETTING Anonymous mail survey of all resident physicians in 4 US categorical internal medicine training programs in February 1997. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES...

Prescription drugs, practicing physicians, and the elderly.