OBJECTIVES To measure psychiatrists' experience and their expectations of the role of clinical pharmacists in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The psychiatrists' experience and their expectations were collected using a 4-part self-completed questionnaire: (a) demographic information, (b) psychiatrists' current expectations of the roles of pharmacists, (c) psychiatrists' actual exper...

Background: Dental hygiene departments in Korean institutions of higher education regularly use radiography systems for educating students. Despite reports indicating that exposure doses from these radiation-generating devices are small, and thus, present low risks for causing physical harm or chromosomal abnormalities, the large numbers of people who participate in oral examinations involving ...

Introduction In the past few years the comprehensive biographical questionnaire completed by all students newly admitted to M EDUNSA at the beginning of the academic year, provided valuable information regarding students of the Department of Nursing Science. The main purpose of this study is to obtain a profile of nursing students, enrolling at Medunsa for the first time, regarding — their demo...

OBJECTIVES Illegitimate tasks refer to tasks that do not conform to what can appropriately be expected from an employee. Violating role expectations, they constitute "identity-stressors", as one's professional role tends to become part of one's identity. The current study investigated the impact of illegitimate tasks on salivary cortisol. We analyzed data on an intra-individual level, that is, ...

The prevalence in later life of long-term, chronic conditions requires that researchers and clinical professionals become sensitive to the temporal context of older persons' personal and health-related perceptions. A sample of patients at a geriatric ambulatory clinic responded to a questionnaire sent prior to their appointment. The present report focuses on expectations regarding future health...

The commonsense notion that personal characteristics influence how effectively we negotiate has presented researchers with a mystery: Throughout the decades, scholars have concluded that there are few reliable findings to support it. In this article, I review existing research as well as new research in which my colleagues and I join a growing minority revisiting this nearly abandoned topic. Th...

Since the service-oriented ERP systems have become essential to SMEs, the service quality of IS characteristics and the user’s internal expectations are considered the key factors of ERP success. With the purpose of understanding how service quality influences user’s satisfaction through psychological constructs, based on the Social Cognitive Theory and the framework of D&M IS Success Model, th...

Organizations expect Information Systems (IS) projects to be successful time and time again. This rather rigid set of expectations does not necessarily transfer to other departments and business processes. However, when it comes to IS projects, the expectations for success are almost universal. The fact that different stakeholders may have different definitions of what “success” means only comp...

A human factors specialist researched the expectations of a culturally and professionally diverse team throughout a year long participatory design process of a large processing facility. For a deeper understanding of high-level team expectations and characteristics, the specialist collected data and information through in-situ ethnography and traditional case study methods, personal interviews,...