User attitudes, behavior, and performance have been studied by many researchers, yet we do not have a very complete understanding of their determinants. Word-of-mouth communication is described in this study as one potelitially powerful influence on those outcomes. A deception experiment tested the effects of word-of-mouth communication on novices engaged in a learning task. It was hypothesized...

Empirical studies of public opinion on environmental protection have typically been grounded in Inglehart’s post-materialism thesis, proposing that societal affluence encourages materially-sated publics to look beyond their interests and value the environment. These studies are generally conducted within, or at best across, Western, democratic, industrialized countries. Absence of truly cross-c...

Positive parenting is hampered by social-contextual risks—lack of income, education, and support, as well as maternal mental illness—but current models do not examine the effect of each factor in concert with the others. Using structural equation modeling and a community sample (N 5 202) of African American mothers diagnosed with depression, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia, we examined the d...

Palliative care education includes the domains of pain and nonpain symptom management, communications skills, ethics and law, psychosocial care, and health systems. Defining key attitudes, knowledge, and skill objectives, and matching these to appropriate learning formats, is essential in educational planning. Abundant educational resource material is available to support classroom and experien...

this article has been written based on the findings of the research project “attitudes of the young people of mashhad (age-group 19-29) to religion”. the purpose of the project was to find out these attitudes, to identify cognitive , ………….. other two. there was 54.9% of consistency among the attitude elements. also, in 45.1% of the cases there was no complete consistency among the three element...

INTRODUCTION The current study aims to explore the knowledge, attitude, and perception of hospital pharmacists towards HIV/AIDS and patients living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in the state of Kedah, Malaysia. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted among the hospital pharmacists in three government hospitals in Kedah, using a self-administered 43-item questionnaire. Data ana...

background and aims. it is believed that adherence of candida albicans to oral surfaces is a critical event in the colonization and development of oral diseases such as candida-associated denture stomatitis. although there is considerable information about the adherence of candida albicans to buccal epithelial cells and prosthetic materials, there is very little information available about the ...