Young people living near Farleigh Hospital are coming to understand something of the problems facing large mental hospitals, through their own concern and involvement.

Little is known about people's willingness to engage in sex without protection from unwanted pregnancy. This study surveyed 1,497 women and men at 75 clinics and physician offices across California after their reproductive health care visits in late 2007 and early 2008. When asked if they would have sex without contraception, 30% said definitively that yes, they would have unprotected sex, and ...

We investigate modal logics of high probability having two unary modal operators: an operator K expressing probabilistic certainty and an operator B expressing probability exceeding a fixed rational threshold c ≥ 1 2 . Identifying knowledge with the former and belief with the latter, we may think of c as the agent’s betting threshold, which leads to the motto “belief is willingness to bet.” The...

OBJECTIVE There is little evidence on the consequences of using electronic cigarettes (e-cigarette) in adolescence. With a multiethnic sample of non-smokers, we assessed the relation between e-cigarette use and social-cognitive factors that predict smoking of combustible cigarettes. METHODS School-based cross-sectional survey of 2309 high school students (mean age 14.7 years). Participants re...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to investigate the sociodemographic and health characteristics associated with the willingness to donate a DNA sample, and consent to testing and long-term storage of that sample, among participants in a longitudinal community-based survey. SAMPLE Eighty-three percent of the 1,071 participants interviewed in 2004/5 agreed to donate a biological specimen...

BACKGROUND Previous research demonstrated that providing (v. not providing) numeric information about the adverse effects (AEs) of medications increased comprehension and willingness to use medication but left open the question about which numeric format is best. The objective was to determine which of 4 tested formats (percentage, frequency, percentage + risk label, frequency + risk label) max...

BACKGROUND In the US, African Americans (AAs) are four times more likely to develop end stage renal disease (ESRD) but half as likely to receive a kidney transplant as whites. Patient interest in kidney transplantation is a fundamental step in the kidney transplant referral process. Our aim was to determine the factors associated with the willingness to receive a kidney transplant among chronic...

BACKGROUND Prior to the development of written policies and procedures for pandemic influenza, worker perceptions of ethical and workforce issues must be identified. OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between healthcare worker (HCW) reporting willingness to work during a pandemic and perception of job importance, belief that one will be asked to work, and sense of professionalism and to ...

This study examines the difference between adolescents' willingness to seek help for themselves and their willingness to refer others for help. Participants were 512 Israeli adolescents (219 males, 293 females) in grade 10. Adolescents' willingness to seek help from five sources was evaluated with respect to themselves and others, for both severe and minor problems. Adolescents were more willin...

Recovery stations hold a key role in the recycling process. This study investigates the relationships among the motivation to recycle, user satisfaction with recovery stations, and willingness to recycle, with consideration of the mediation and moderation effects. We find a positive relationship between motivation to recycle and satisfaction with recovery stations, between satisfaction with rec...