The research reported in this paper elucidates the development, empirical validation and preliminary analysis of a model of technology acceptance by Australian occupational therapists. The study described involved the collection of quantitative and qualitative data through a national survey and a longitudinal multi-method case study within a communitybased healthcare organisation. The theoretic...

The prediction has come true. Patients with cancer are being treated as outpatients, and oncology admissions to hospitals have decreased significantly. Rather than dedicated oncology units, hospitals are combining medical-surgical units with oncology units; this trend seems particularly true in communitybased hospitals (Satryan, 2001). With these changes in unit demographics, how will dedicated...

Social network analysis has become an extremely popular research area, where the main focus is the understanding of networks’ structure. In this paper, we study the expansibility of large social graphs, a structural property based on the notion of expander graphs (i.e. sparse graphs with strong connectivity properties). It is widely believed that social networks have poor expansion properties, ...

h e purpose of the present study was to test the ef ects of a culturally sensitive, health empowermentfocused, communitybased health promotion program tailored to adult patients with type 2 diabetes on these patients’ body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, and selfreported blood glucose levels, treatment adherence, and stress levels. Study participants (N = 130) consisted mostly of African Amer...

The CDC-funded Alabama Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH 2010) project is designed to reduce and eliminate disparities in breast and cervical cancer between African American and white women in six rural and three urban counties in Alabama. In this manuscript, we report on the development, implementation, results, and lessons learned from a process evaluation plan initiated...

Mega-projects figure prominently in the arsenal of contemporary city-building strategies. The allure is of a city redefined, placed on the world stage and able to improve services, facilities and revenues. Community attitudes to such projects are often mixed, with fears of gentrification, displacement or loss of existing city character. Although mega-projects are adopted to pursue global ambiti...

Little is known about what additional services youth receive while they reside in out-of-home treatment settings. However, such information may be crucial for explaining effectiveness and variation in outcomes for youth in such settings. Our research examines patterns of multi-sector service use for youth in two settings— Therapeutic Foster Care and group homes. Data come from in-person intervi...

In recent years, Aboriginal communities across Canada have begun to seek ways to increase their participation and control of research that affects them. Similarly, academics are seeking new methods to include parallel and complementary knowledge in their research, including traditional knowledge and community experience and expertise. New approaches, theories, and methods related to, or derived...

The criterion validity of the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI-BPD; Zanarini et al., Journal of Personality Disorders 17:568– 573, 2003) as a quick screening device for borderline personality disorder (BPD) was evaluated alongside the more established Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4+ Borderline subscale (PDQ-BPD; Hyler 1994) using receiver operator cha...

EEG apparatus are expensive and bulky. Their real-time performance is weak, and EEG signals are easy to be distorted. In this paper, a low-cost portable EEG signal acquisition system based on DSP is developed. By a noninvasive method with bipolar leads, weak EEG signals are induced to the pre-processing circuits, where they will undergo multi-level amplifying and filtering. Then, the analog sig...