There is growing interest in understanding of how User-Generated Content (UGC) empowers online consumer behavior. In this paper, we explore the relationships between Consumer Empowerment and Perceived Control (mediated by Self-Efficacy) over the decision making process using UGC. The results of this study reveal that Perceived Control has an influence on intention to use UGC. The findings also ...

Background: Accurate knowledge of barriers and solutions for faculty memberschr('39') research empowerment programs will lead to the promotion and development of universities. This study aimed to explore components, barriers, and solutions for faculty members’ research empowerment programs in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences based on the context, input, process, and product (CIPP) mode...

BACKGROUND In recent years, interventions and health policy programmes have been established to promote patient empowerment, with a particular focus on patients affected by long-term conditions. However, a clear definition of patient empowerment is lacking, making it difficult to assess effectiveness of interventions designed to promote it. The aim in this study was to develop a conceptual map ...

background: empowerment of elderly people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) can increase their quality of life and feeling of well-being. however, few researches focused on the obstacles and factors facilitating empowerment in elderly people with copd and an adequate determining of these factors need an in-depth understanding of the meaning of these factors which influences empo...

the purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. this paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. first by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowerment of women librarians and informationist, n...

with entrance spirituality and god to management and organization field, as 21st century challenge, organization’s managers and leaders especially educational institutions must confront with new phenomena. spiritual leader’s role to incite and encourage human resource with use of spiritual vision and establishment of cultural context based on human values, to foster empowered, high productivity...

Patient empowerment is widely accepted as a process by which people are helped to use autonomous decision making in order to better self-manage their condition, gain control over their health and remain socially integrated [1]. Prevalent definitions of empowerment are therefore mainly based on the view that autonomy is recognised in people’s self-determination, and that empowerment is a procedu...

BACKGROUND As the core of health promotion, proper assessment of empowerment is a base for planning for a process that increases people's control on their decisions, lifestyle, and effective activities for their health. OBJECTIVE To design and develop a special tool to assess the empowerment of NGO women in Iran. METHODS This successive exploratory study of combinational type was conducted ...

The ethics of hope has often been understood as a conflict between duties: do not lie versus do not destroy hope. However, such a way of framing the ethics of hope may easily place healthcare professionals at the side of realism and patients at the side of (false) hope. That leaves unexamined relational dimensions of hope. The objective of this study was to describe a relational ethics of hope ...