Obesity rates have dramatically increased across the nation. Rural areas, however, have a higher rate of obesity and physical inactivity than urban areas. Interventions for obese adolescents require change behavior and motivation. One factor involved in this process is empowerment. Empowerment may be defined differently by disciplines, yet the overall meaning is similar. Self-awareness, enabled...

This paper reports a study designed to investigate the concept of User Empowerment in the context of Enterprise Systems (ES) across three hierarchical levels of management of a higher education organization in Australia. The study focuses on how user empowerment can impact the potential components of Enterprise System Success (ESS) and the employee’s immediate work environment. We have drawn fr...

For organisations to realise the potential from Enterprise Systems (ES), users must play an active role in adapting to processes and technology. To adapt to new processes and technologies, users must be empowered. Empowerment has been studied for over two decades across various disciplines and applied in practice. However, a review of the empowerment concept relating to the Information Systems ...

Research on the effectiveness of concept maps on learning has long being neglecting three critical issues; i.e., the schematically structured maps, learners’ perceptions of the maps, and the various ways of presenting concept structures. When concepts are associated by logical or causal rather than by subsumption relations, variations in selecting concepts and describing their relations may pre...

Empowerment: a theological perspective It is generally accepted that sound practice must he informed by sound theory. This maxim applies also with reference to the concept empowerment which is in vogue within South Africa today. Therefore it is argued here that for empowerment to be effective it must he underpinned by a sound theological understanding o f powerlessness. After exploring the use ...

BACKGROUND The prioritization of sustainable patient-centered care in contemporary health care has resulted in an increased focus on patient empowerment, which in turn is considered to facilitate patient independence, self-management, and self-efficacy. However, a definitional consensus of empowerment remains elusive, impeding efforts to translate the conceptual ideals of empowerment into a mea...

BACKGROUND Despite the reduction in maternal deaths globally, maternal mortality rates remain unacceptably high, particularly in some regions of the world. In sub-Saharan Africa, maternal mortality rates have even increased recently, with 201,000 deaths in 2015 as compared to 179,000 in 2013. Use of a skilled birth attendant (SBA) at delivery has remained low, despite evidence of the effectiven...