BACKGROUND The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) crisis of 2003 provided a new urgency in China in terms of preparing public health staff to respond effectively to public health emergencies. Although the Chinese Government has already carried out a series of emergency education and training programmes to improve public health staff's capability of emergency preparedness, it remains uncle...

OBJECTIVE To identify key predictors of fast-food consumption from a range of demographic, attitudinal, personality and lifestyle variables. METHODS We analysed data from a nationwide survey (n = 20 527) conducted in Australia by Nielsen Media Research. Items assessing frequency of fast-food consumption at (1) eat in and (2) take away were regressed onto 12 demographic, seven media consumptio...

Scholars have pointed to “political backlash” as a key reason for why people leave religion in the United States. This study adds growing body of work that emphasizes backlash localized conditions, rather than national-level phenomena, by demonstrating importance conflict on salient issues within churches. Using data from Baylor Religion Survey, author exploits unique set items analyze what he ...

Tourism is the most economically important industry to the United States’ only island state, Hawaii. With Hawaii’s highest spending and largest international tourist segment, Japanese, decreasing significantly (a loss from over 2,000,000 in 1997 to just over 1,000,000 Japanese visitors in 2009), Hawaii needs to prepare to replace the significant decrease of Japanese visitors with a new visitor ...

objective: according to the fact that university students are role models for the whole society, this study was performed to evaluate reasons of and attitudes toward cigarette smoking among iranian university students. methods: this study was performed as a cross-sectional self-reported questionnaire based study among university students of kerman city of iran. our questionnaire was attributed ...

What influences perceptions of political polarization? The authors examine the polarization of people's own political attitudes as a source of perceived polarization: Individuals with more extreme partisan attitudes perceive greater polarization than individuals with less extreme partisan attitudes. This "polarization projection" was demonstrated in 3 studies in which people estimated the distr...

Marketing managers often use consumer attitude metrics such as awareness, consideration, and preference as performance indicators because they represent their brand’s health and are readily connected to marketing activity. However, this does not mean that financially focused executives know how such metrics translate into sales performance, which would allow them to make beneficial marketing mi...

BACKGROUND It has previously been shown that there is a significant demographic variation in sexual health literacy (SHL) in university-level students in Tasmania, Australia. AIMS The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of statistical adjustment for sexuality-related attitudes on this demographic variation in SHL. METHODS Iterated principal-factor analysis was used to evaluate late...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To establish initial reliability and validity of a Web-based survey focused on oncology advanced practice nurses' (APNs') knowledge, attitudes, and practice behaviors regarding advanced care planning, and to obtain preliminary understanding of APNs' knowledge, attitudes, and practice behaviors and perceived barriers to advanced care planning. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-secti...

This article analyses two key models of judicial decision‑making studies. The aim this paper is to study the assumptions rational choice and attitudinal in relation existing studies on way Justice Harry Blackmun voted during his tenure Supreme Court United States. In addition, work four emblematic cases judged by Blackmun, through perspective ideological or strategic voting. Theories voting beh...