AIM To investigate the impact of medication beliefs, illness perceptions and quality of life on medication adherence in people with decompensated cirrhosis. METHODS One hundred adults with decompensated cirrhosis completed a structured questionnaire when they attended for routine outpatient hepatology review. Measures of self-reported medication adherence (Morisky Medication Adherence Scale),...

The technological advances in digital space have provided a renewed impetus for business to expand their footprint across modes. growth of the internet and ease its access masses has encouraged many businesses go online. Online e-commerce platforms make it easy search, locate place orders. Technology-assisted supply chains fast delivery mechanisms ensure that users don't elsewhere fulfill needs...

PTSD Coach is a mobile application (app) designed to help individuals who have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms better understand and self-manage their symptoms. It has wide-scale use (over 130,000 downloads in 78 countries) and very favorable reviews but has yet to be evaluated. Therefore, this study examines user satisfaction, perceived helpfulness, and usage patterns of PTSD Co...

Consent to perform a small favor increases a respondent's susceptibility to perform a relatively large favor. This phenomenon, known as the foot-in-the-door effect, is considered to result from induced self-perception changes: the respondent comes to feel helpful for doing the small favor and complies again later out of a desire to maintain the instilled self-view. This study did not find a lin...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the best ways for a member of the public to respond when someone in their social network develops a mental disorder. Controlled trials are not feasible in this area, so expert consensus may be the best guide. METHODS To assess expert views, postal surveys were carried out with Australian GPs, psychiatrists and psychologists listed on professional registers and...

With the rapid growth of the Internet, the ability of users to create and publish content has created active electronic communities that provide a wealth of product information. However, the high volume of reviews that are typically published for a single product makes harder for individuals as well as manufacturers to locate the best reviews and understand the true underlying quality of a prod...

MOVING IN SYNCHRONY WITH OTHERS ENCOURAGES prosocial behavior. Adults who walk, sing, or tap together are later more likely to be cooperative, helpful, and rate each other as likeable. Our previous studies demonstrated that interpersonal synchrony encourages helpfulness even in 14-month-old infants. However, in those studies, infants always experienced interpersonal synchrony in a musical conte...

Purpose Based on more than 2.7 million online reviews (ORs) collected with big data analytical techniques from Booking.com and TripAdvisor.com, this paper aims to explore if what extent environmental discourse embedded in ORs has an impact electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) helpfulness across eight major destination cities North America Europe. Design/methodology/approach This study gathered, by ...

[0.0] Abstract Prior work has used social biases to inform predictive models of evaluation-driven networks, but there still exist many opportunities to analyze and expand on frameworks for modeling the growth of review-based communities. In particular, we would like to more deeply explore the influence of the time of a review’s creation and the effect it has on other review metrics. In an obser...