We demonstrate the role of sociocultural factors in understanding opinion dynamics. We start by assessing theoretical models of opinion spread whose parameters are dependent on sociocultural factors. First, we model the dynamics of opinion spread in communities with both static social and dynamic social networks using the Binary Agreement (BAM) and Threshold (TM) Models to recreate the evolutio...

OBJECTIVES The understanding and adherence to postoperative care instructions are factors that influence the recuperation process after any surgical procedure. The aim of this study was to determine the percentage of patients who strictly follow the postoperative instructions after the extraction of an impacted lower third molar in relation to sociocultural level, preoperative anxiety scores an...

BACKGROUND Although there have been many studies of the biological and psychosocial causations of postnatal depression, studies of sociocultural risk factors are rare. AIMS To investigate the sociocultural risk factors of postnatal depression using ethnographically informed epidemiological methods. METHOD A total of 959 women were assessed at their first ante-partum visit (baseline), in the...

In this article, we discuss findings of an ethnographic exploring how Canadian youth frame health within the context of their life situations. Seventy-one youth (12 to 19 years of age) from diverse ethnic backgrounds and residing in a major city in western Canada took part in the study.We used traditional ethnographic methods of interviewing and fieldwork, as well as photovoice. Sociocultural t...

13 Humanitarian and public institutions are increasingly relying on data from social media sites to measure 14 public attitude, and provide timely public engagement. Such engagement supports the exploration of 15 public views on important social issues such as gender-based violence (GBV). In this study, we examine 16 Big (Social) Data consisting of nearly fourteen million tweets collected from ...

Information and data quality practitioners are in general agreement that social, cultural, and organizational factors are the most important in determining the success or failure of an organization’s data quality programs. This paper presents some of the first research undertaken to substantiate these anecdotal claims. The paper describes a survey of recent graduates from the University of Arka...

From 1980 to 1982, a sample of 968 pregnant Navajo women in New Mexico was enrolled in a prospective study of biologic and sociocultural factors in puerperal infectious morbidity. Past studies have independently implicated both genital infection and psychosocial stressors in perinatal complications, but, to the authors' knowledge, no previous work has concurrently investigated the interactive e...

PURPOSE Sociocultural medicine is a growing curricular area in medical education. Because faculty members and residents will teach these curricula and model these skills in patient care, it is important to assess their attitudes toward diversity. This study examined faculty members' and residents' attitudes toward sociocultural issues in medicine. METHOD In November 2000, 198 physicians from ...

The main aim of the present study was to verify the level of impact of sociocultural appearance standards (passive awareness and active internalization) have on body dissatisfaction, the desire to engage in a relentless pursuit of thinness, the adoption of a perfectionistic attitude toward the body, and the development of a tendency to engage in bulimic eating behavior, which can develop in ado...