The purpose of this research is to develop a research model that investigates which cognitive factors affect users’ satisfaction in online community. The research model was developed by utilizing cognitive psychology, affective psychology, as well as on literatures marketing field to answer the research question, what cognitive factors can explain IT users’ satisfaction? To answer the question,...

Over the past two decades, police departments around the globe have been involved in a slow, but steady transition from call-based policing to community-oriented policing. The former approach, while effective at closing cases once a crime has occurred, does little to develop crime prevention partnerships between officers on the beat and the citizens of local communities. Community-oriented poli...

Knowledge management (KM) systems aim at supporting knowledge workers in general and software engineers in particular. These tools help to elicit, structure, and retrieve knowledge. However, while KM systems are functional, they are not used in practice as effectively as possible as there is not much incentive for experts to share their expertise: the concrete need for knowledge is unclear as i...

The concept of virtual communities and organizations has received much attention in recent times as a new organizational form which increases the independence and flexibility of individuals. However, these communities present challenges with regards to management, social interaction and structure which could affect the overall satisfaction levels of participants within these communities. The go...

BACKGROUND A compassionate community approach to palliative care provides important rationale for building community-based hospice volunteer capacity. In this project, we piloted one such capacity-building model in which volunteers and a nurse partnered to provide navigation support beginning in the early palliative phase for adults living in community. The goal was to improve quality of life b...

This study is aimed to explore the social nature of membership in an online community of practice (NETwork, Nurturing Elementary Teachers’ work) whose purpose is to support pre-service and in-service teachers with a collaborative virtual space for learning how to teach. Path analysis was employed to explore the relationships among social constructs: perceived ease of use and usefulness, social ...

PURPOSE This paper describes the Preventive Services Program (PSP), a community based oral health program model which engages volunteers to provide preventive services and education for underserved children in Missouri. In 2006, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services created a program for children designed to use a systems approach for population-based prevention of oral disease....

Background and objectives: Osteoporosis is a worldwide public health problem with an increasing prevalence especially in women. This study was conducted to predict the preventive behavior of osteoporosis through applying Health Belief Model in Health Volunteers of community health centers of Rasht city in 2016. Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was done on all 217 female active Health...