Many factors may interfere with the ability of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer to cope with treatment. Nurses should be aware of patients' needs during this critical time. The purpose of this study was to identify the educational needs and concerns of newly diagnosed patients with breast cancer after surgery. A phone interview with patients was conducted approximately one week after br...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to obtain a deeper understanding of how students experience and perceive interprofessional collaboration connected to their learning activities during and after an interprofessional clinical course. Methods: A sample of 15 healthcare students participating on a two-week interprofessional clinical course was used. A mixed method approach was used for d...

In this paper we present Team Battle Quiz, a game that runs on publicly accessible screens and is played through the users’ mobile phones. Our aim was to provide a game open for everyone that encourages participants to discuss and play together as a team. Our first user study demonstrated that the approach has the potential to elate the anonymous crowd to get in touch with each other. It furthe...

BACKGROUND Camera phones have become ubiquitous in the digital age. Patients are beginning to bring images recorded on their mobile phones to share with their GP during medical consultations. AIM To explore GP perceptions about the effect of patient-initiated camera phone images on the consultation. DESIGN AND SETTING An interview study of GPs based in rural and urban locations in Australia...

BACKGROUND Use of mobile telephones has been suggested as a possible risk factor for intracranial tumours. To evaluate the effect of mobile phones on risk of meningioma, we carried out an international, collaborative case-control study of 1209 meningioma cases and 3299 population-based controls. METHODS Population-based cases were identified, mostly from hospitals, and controls from national ...

Background: Phone interview is a safe way for collecting sensitive data due to no need direct contact with the interviewees and their privacy. Objectives: The purpose of this study was investigate feasibility validity phone interviewing using mobile phones collect information related participants’ sexual behavior. Methods: This cross-sectional conducted on sexually active population Marvdasht, ...

An important question in consumer behavior research is how to systematically and quantitatively determine patterns in consumer behaviors that can facilitate understanding of where, when, and how consumers purchase products and services at (non-online) retail shops. Collecting naturalistic data on real consumers who shop at retail stores is often one of the most critical, challenging, and expens...

Feedback methods have been studied in medical and psychotherapy settings, but limited research is available in neuropsychology. The purpose of this study was to examine whether supplementing oral feedback with written information would lead to greater retention of information and improved adherence to recommendations. Seventy-two veterans were enrolled in the study and randomized to receive ora...

Health surveillance assistants (HSAs) in Malawi have provided community case management (CCM) since 2008; however, program monitoring remains challenging. Mobile technology holds the potential to improve data, but rigorous assessments are few. This study tested the validity of collecting CCM implementation strength indicators through mobile phone interviews with HSAs. This validation study comp...

Though reservation prices are needed for many business decision processes, e.g., pricing new products, it often turns out to be difficult to measure them. Many researchers reuse conjoint analysis data with price as an attribute for this task (e.g., Kohli and Mahajan (1991)). In this setting the information if a consumer buys a product at all is not elicited which makes reservation price estimat...