export and the readiness to export constitute the first step of international marketing, which are affected by both internal and external factors of firms. one of the most important internal  factors is the presence of skilled personnel. the purpose of this study was to define the relationship between staff qualification and encouragment with the readiness level of iranian pharmacuetical firms ...

of progression and regression of readiness to change among college students" (2008).

Lack of motivation and readiness to change is one of the key obstacles to effective treatment of eating disorders, particularly disorders of the anorexic phenotype (anorexia nervosa [AN] or atypical AN). Previous research in this area has suggested the need for more frequent assessment of clients’ readiness in order to promote therapeutic intervention that is responsive to their stage of change...

The purpose of this study was to advance understanding of the self-change process in recovery from anorexia nervosa (AN). This included the development of a measure for assessing readiness to change behaviors and/or cognitions associated with recovery from AN across five stages of change, based on the transtheoretical model of behavior change. Two-hundred and seventy-eight anorexics, predominan...

Quality and timely patient education can reduce cardiovascular risk. The PULSE (Personalization Using Linkages of SCORE and behaviour change readiness to webbased Education) project objectives are to generate and evaluate a web-based personalized educational intervention for the management of cardiovascular risk. The program is based on a patient profile generated by combining: (a) an electroni...

BACKGROUND Despite guidelines and campaigns to change prescribing behavior, General Practitioners (GPs) continue to overprescribe benzodiazepines (BZDs). New approaches to improve prescribing are needed. Using behavior change techniques and tailoring interventions to user characteristics are vital to promote behavior change. This study evaluated the impact of an e-module on factors known to det...

High failure rates continue to be reported for organizational change projects in general and mergers and acquisitions in particular, with the failures most often attributed to cultural incompatibilities or other people-related issues. The article identifies factors believed to be contributing to this situation, which mean that organisations are often inadequately prepared for the challenges of ...

As part of a larger intervention study, the authors hypothesized that change rulers created for alcohol and safer sex would be equivalent to longer questionnaires. Ninety-six male college students completed rulers and questionnaires for assessing behavior change readiness. Participants' scores on the rulers significantly correlated with their scores on the questionnaires (r=.77 for alcohol; r=....