Mobile health (mHealth) could be widely used in the population to improve access to psychological treatment. In this paper, we describe the development of a mHealth intervention on the basis of supportive self-monitoring and describe the protocol for a randomized controlled trial to evaluate its effectiveness among smartphone users with psychological distress. Based on power analysis, a represe...

When studying real-life market outcomes and evaluating policy interventions, economists like to refer to a hypothetical situation where intertemporal and insurance markets are perfect and complete. In reality, of course, laissez faire economic interactions can hardly supply insurance against the risk of becoming or remaining unemployed, because moral hazard and adverse selection stand in the wa...

BACKGROUND Few studies explain peoples' intentions to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) before conventional medicine. AIMS To examine the psychosocial factors associated with intention to try CAM before conventional medicine; to explore the predictors of initially seeking CAM in the adult population in Australia. DESIGN A cross sectional survey. METHODS 1256 adults were int...

In their ISR article 2008 Deveraj et al. asked “How Does Personality Matter?” This article builds upon the discussed idea that an individual’s personality traits has an influence on the technology acceptance and usage intention by empirically analyzing and discussing whether the personality trait resistance has an impact on an individual’s intention to use an information system or not. Therefor...

The current study examined how task performance enhancement, easiness, important others’ opinions, entertainment motivation, information seeking motivation, and social connection motivation would predict use intention of mobile applications. Based on a motivational communication theory and the technology acceptance model, a web-based survey was administered among mobile application users. The r...

Human cooperative communication involves both an informative intention that the recipient understands the content of the signal and also a (Gricean) communicative intention that the recipient recognizes that the speaker has an informative intention. The degree to which children understand this 2-layered nature of communication is the subject of some debate. One phenomenon that would seem to con...

We investigated how online news consumers select content in an explicitly social information seeking scenario. Participants (n=30) were asked to browse an online news website and select three items as part of a social task scenario. This paper focuses on participants' evaluation of the content they selected based on their interest,, intellectual curiosity, and likelihood to share ratings, and t...

Introduction: The differential impact and needs of women during disasters are highlighted in contemporary research, there is limited understanding the distinctive contribution they make ways cope. Women key drivers livelihood, therefore, economic losses resulting from natural hazards may have massive impacts on their mental health. This study examines how self-help women's groups rural Nepalese...

Approximately 20% of veterans suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). NPs are well positioned to provide early detection and assist veterans with access to life-saving treatment. The PTSD Toolkit for Nurses helps nurses improve their skills in assessing PTSD and provides a specialized intervention and referral procedure that promotes help-seeking behavior among veterans.