RESULTS: Fifty-five participants (31 patients and 24 parents) completed all questionnaires, 98.2% preferred active involvement in therapeutic decision-making. The SDM-Q-9 scores, assessed by patients and physicians, were acceptable (mean 68 out of 100). However, the independently assessed OPTION-5 scores were significantly lower (mean 31 out of 100). In the consultations, physicians rarely aske...

“Meaningful participation” can be defined in terms of access to voice and competence of knowledge(s) that fosters shared understanding about values, interests, and concerns. Recent research about “analytic-deliberative” decision processes shows that meaningful public participation is possible, and decision outcomes are improved. The analytic component provides technical information that ensures...

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT Many countries are giving patients a more active role in health care, on both the individual and collective level. This study focuses on one aspect of the participation agenda on the individual level: self-management. The study explores self-management in practice, including the implications of the difficulties encountered. OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the complexity ...

This paper presents a methodology for supporting the moderation phase in DCC (Democratic Citizenship Community), a virtual community for supporting e-democratic processes in e-life systems and applications. Based on the Government-Citizen Interactive Model, the DCC encompasses an innovative debate structure, as well as the moderator’s participation based on Discourse Theory, specially concernin...

Asynchronous participation in volunteering social systems is mainly based on various communication and collaboration tools. Supporting creativity in such groups during the process of concept generation is one major challenge to reach high quality working results. This paper presents a collaboration tool supporting the creative process of concept generation. The solution focuses the support of a...

Knowledge awareness (KA) has been proposed for increasing collaboration opportunities in an open ended and collaborative learning environment. KA consists of information about up-to-minute activities of other learners. For instance, it indicates when someone is looking at the same knowledge that learners are looking at. Multiple collaboration is concurrently realized through KA. This paper desc...

The user interfaces proposed so far for smart home control are usually based on event-condition-action rules, which are created by means of “ifthen” instructions. This is a form of trigger-action programming that software developers consider suitable to pure end users. However, it has been observed that end users who are not knowledgeable in computer programming find this approach unnatural and...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to identify key elements for obtaining community interest and motivate them to support eliminate malaria in the places that malaria is no longer a perceived threat. METHODS Sequential explanatory mixed methods research design used to provide more comprehensive evidence research. A questionnaire was developed after reviewing the literature relating to commu...