BACKGROUND Communicating health messages is an important way to influence people's behaviors towards health issues. Providers need to incorporate audience's perspective to design more persuasive messages. This study aimed to develop rating scales for measuring audience's perception of effectiveness of health messages in Japanese people. METHODS The comprehensibility scale including five items...

The underutilization of mental health services is severe in Japan, where people always try to conform to social norms and avoid shame. This tendency is called “Sekentei”. The present study investigated the effects of Sekentei on help-seeking intention toward psychological services and the interaction effects of moderating factors. A questionnaire was distributed to 273 undergraduates in Japan. ...

OBJECTIVES The present study aims to investigate the impact of help-seeking self-stigma on the preference and intention to seek psychological treatment delivered online compared to face-to-face. DESIGN This study uses survey data from two Swedish samples. Sample 1 consists of 267 students (78.7% women) with a mean age of 24.5 (SD = 6.1). Sample 2 consists of 195 primary care patients (56.9% w...

aim and background: personality traits are among the factors affecting the tendency to substance abuse. personality evaluations have shown sensation seeking to be a particularly strong predictor of initial substance abuse across a variety of drug use categories. the aim of this study was to determine levels of sensation seeking in addicted and normal subjects while considering gender. methods a...

Massive open online courses (MOOC) are a platform where learners and instructors share information, knowledge, skills. This study focuses on working adults as target respondents were not categorised by age or class in past studies bridging the gap between UX self-regulated learning (SRL). SDT is fulfilled autonomy, relatedness, competence. represented Martin's 10 characteristics continuous inte...

Through the theoretical lens of perceived characteristics innovations (PCI) framework, main purpose this research was to examine whether interactive technologies—interactivity, hypertextuality, modality, connectivity, and virtuality were related user involvement, which in turn intention continue using mixed reality platforms. An e-survey questionnaire administered active technology users (n = 2...

Previous work on Stackelberg Security Games for scheduling security resources has mostly assumed that the targets are stationary relative to the defender and the attacker, leading to discrete game models with finite numbers of pure strategies. This paper in contrast focuses on protecting mobile targets that lead to a continuous set of strategies for the players. The problem is motivated by seve...

Previous work on Stackelberg Security Games for scheduling security resources has mostly assumed that the targets are stationary relative to the defender and the attacker, leading to discrete game models with finite numbers of pure strategies. This paper in contrast focuses on protecting mobile targets that lead to a continuous set of strategies for the players. The problem is motivated by seve...