the statistical population of this study was agricultural extension agents. sampling method was stratified random sampling and questionnaire used as research instrument, its validity achieved by a group of experts of icts and agricultural extension and education and reliability was 0.76 that was estimated by cronbach’s alpha. extension agents with scores lower than 47 considered in negative att...

the recognition and understanding of brand experience by consumers is critical to develop goods and services marketing strategies, since they can be used to predict consumer behaviour. the aim of the present study is to investigate the antecedents and consequences of brand experience in the food industry. information on 400 customers of the mashhad tabarok company was collected by a questionnai...

BACKGROUND Advance directives are important but often underused tools in critical care. Healthcare professionals' understanding of how culture influences attitudes toward advance directives can improve knowledge and completion of these documents. OBJECTIVE To understand the attitudes of critically ill Filipino American patients and their families toward advance directives. METHODS A descrip...

effective factors on smoking based on basnef model in male students in tehran medical sciences university in 2009 zareipour ma1, sadeghi r*2, sadeghi tabatabaei sa3, seyedi s4 received: 25 nov, 2010 accepted: 25 dec, 2010 abstract background & aims: smoking as a health risk behavior endangers not only the individual but also community health and is one of the preventable causes of death. this r...

BACKGROUND Administration of quality care in the aged people requires having a positive attitude toward them. Numerous factors including nurses' personality characteristics may play a role in their attitude toward the aged people. Therefore, the present study investigated the association between nurses' personality characteristics and their attitude toward the aged people. MATERIALS AND METHO...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can cause a hazardous disease and has severe fatal consequences. The problem of dental treatment in affected patients has still remained a big debate. The objective of this study was to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of post-graduate dentistry students regarding treatment and education of HIV-positive patients.METHODS: This was a cross...

According to Rashkin et al. (2016) and other researchers, a text not only reveals the attitudes of the discourse referents dealt with in the text, but it also indicates how they are framed by the text author. Do they play a positive or negative role in the exposed narrative? We call this the author’s role framing. While the attitudes tell us who is for or against who (pro and con relations), th...