BACKGROUND The gathering of feedback on doctors from patients after consultations is an important part of patient involvement and participation. This study first assesses the 23-item Patient Feedback Questionnaire (PFQ) designed by the Picker Institute, Europe, to determine whether these items form a single latent trait. Then, an Internet module with visual representation is developed to gather...

In a general practice with an existing patient participation group, a survey of patients was undertaken to ascertain knowledge of and interest in the group. It was hoped that this might avoid the failure that had befallen other groups of this type. Analysis of the questionnaire provided useful information: there was interest in the group, with a potential attendance of almost three-quarters of ...

Objective To elicit patient stakeholders' experience and perspectives about patient-centred care. Design Qualitative. Setting A large urban healthcare system. Participants Four patient stakeholders who are prostate cancer survivors. Main outcome measures Experience and perspectives of patient stakeholders regarding patient-centred care and treatment decisions. Results Our patient stak...

We appropriate Rogoff’s (Apprenticeship in thinking: Cognitive development in social context, 1991; in: Wertsch et al. (eds.) Sociocultural studies of mind, 1993) notion of guided participation to demonstrate, through abbreviated case studies, our strategy for integrating mobile technology-based learning experiences in higher education. Guided participation implies facilitating access to shared...

agricultural extension workers’ service has been placed as the central pattern of agricultural transformation in general and smallholder farmers in particular. due largely to this commensurately known trend, identifying factors that determine farmers’ access to extension workers’ service and the effect of the service on crop yield was found to be imperative. cross sectional data was collected t...

The Ethiopian education system is characterised by extremely low participation rates, particularly in rural areas. This paper challenges the hypothesis that demand for schooling in rural Ethiopia is constrained by the traditional nature of farm technology and lack of visible benefits of schooling in terms of farmer productivity. The effects of schooling upon farmer productivity and efficiency a...

Agriculture is one of Ethiopia’s economic cornerstones, although its production remains low. Since then, the implementation modern agricultural technologies has remained a promising strategy in Ethiopia for increasing production, achieving food security, and reducing poverty. The objective study to examine determinants technology adoption teff Minjar Shenkora woreda. data were collected from re...

the main purpose of this research was to analyze agricultural water management problems (awmp) in three contexts of: water source, water conveyance and at the farm level, in zarrindasht county, fars province. the research was carried out based on a survey method with a questionnaire compiled for collection of data. questionnaire's reliability was confirmed through a computation of cronbach...