BACKGROUND Psychological models are used to understand and predict behaviour in a wide range of settings, but have not been consistently applied to health professional behaviours, and the contribution of differing theories is not clear. This study explored the usefulness of a range of models to predict an evidence-based behaviour -- the placing of fissure sealants. METHODS Measures were colle...

Knowledge management systems (KMSs) that provide the necessary infrastructure to implement the KM process have become the backbone of the organizations. For example, employees avoid taking mistake again through KMS reuse. This issue has raised the concern of not only practitioners but also MIS research. Task technology fit (TTF) is the theory that has emerged in recent literature of KMS utiliza...

Simulation learning encompasses simple, introductory scenarios requiring response to patients' needs during basic hygienic care and during situations demanding complex decision making. Simulation integrates principles of social cognitive theory (SCT) into an interactive approach to learning that encompasses the core principles of intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness, and self-reflecti...

OBJECTIVE To investigate feasibility of multiple sclerosis (MS) exercise guidelines for inactive people with MS (PwMS) and to examine preliminary efficacy for walking. To investigate effect of augmenting that intervention with education based on social cognitive theory (SCT). DESIGN Pilot multicentre, double-blind, randomised, parallel, controlled trial. SETTING Community-delivered programm...

In her work, Doris Bischof-Köhler describes how empathically motivated prosocial behavior emerges during the second year of life. From a cross-cultural perspective we argue that this developmental pathway is prototypical for autonomy-oriented sociocultural contexts. BischofKöhler’s theory should be complemented by a theory of situational helping behavior based on shared intentional relations to...

In this paper we deal with the problem of designing a controller for a discrete event system. We argue that the classical approach of supervisory control theory (SCT) can be used as an essential step of such a procedure. However, some of the features that make supervisory control an attractive paradigm to solve theoretical problems are often a major source of difficulty in implementing a contro...