OBJECTIVES To explore qualitative and quantitative changes in attitudes and experiences of medical students following a special study suicide prevention module. DESIGN Pilot study. SETTING The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. PARTICIPANTS A 2-week intensive special studies module was delivered to third- and fourth-year medical students in June 2011. The module was elective and involved...

The Internet is sometimes said to be drown in contents. Users of information therefore experience an even more difficulties in identifying the accuracy, relevancy, and interpretability of information. Total Data Quality Management and centralized information intermediary are either too expensive for the vast amount of Internet contents or forcing information consumers to face another problem of...

BACKGROUND Developing countries are at high risk of epidemic increases in tobacco smoking, but the extent of this problem is not clearly defined because few collect detailed smoking data. We have surveyed tobacco smoking in the Ashanti region of Ghana, a rapidly developing African country with a long-established tobacco industry. METHODS We took a random sample of 30 regional census enumerati...

This paper presents an axiomatic model of decision making under uncertainty which incorporates objective but imprecise information. Information is assumed to take the form of a probability-possibility set, that is, a set P of probability measures on the state space. The decision maker is told that the true probability law lies in P and is assumed to rank pairs of the form (P, f) where f is an a...

Attitude has been understudied in the information systems (IS) field. Research interest in attitude has gone through ups and downs due to the lack of predictability of attitude for behavioral intention on using ICT. In this paper, we first clarify both conceptual and operational confusions on attitudes that may have caused the inconsistent and inconclusive results. Two different types of attitu...

People frequently receive performance feedback that describes how well they achieved in the past, and how they could improve in future. In educational contexts, future-oriented (directive) feedback is often argued to be more valuable to learners than past-oriented (evaluative) feedback; critically, prior research led us to predict that it should also be better remembered. We tested this predict...

BACKGROUND Administration of quality care in the aged people requires having a positive attitude toward them. Numerous factors including nurses' personality characteristics may play a role in their attitude toward the aged people. Therefore, the present study investigated the association between nurses' personality characteristics and their attitude toward the aged people. MATERIALS AND METHO...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of psychosocial stress and attitude toward illness to psychological adjustment among youth with chronic arthritis. METHODS Seventy-five youths with chronic arthritis aged 8-18 years were administered a semi-structured interview assessing illness-related and nonillness-related stressors in important life domains. Children also completed measures of attitud...

We study a message passing network where nodes keep a numeric attitude toward a subject. Messages are created by a message factory and each is sent to a random seed-node, which then gets eventually propagated in the network. Each message has some information about the subject, which is interpreted by the receiving node based on its features. Hence, the same message could be interpreted quite di...