Testing Economic Knowledge and Attitudes

Knowledge and attitudes of oncology nurses regarding pharmacogenomic testing.

More than 20 different pharmacogenomic tests are being used in the oncology field. The current descriptive study was conducted with 368 oncology nurses in North Carolina to identify and test key elements of Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation Theory that play a role in the adoption of pharmacogenomic testing. Oncology nurses who participated in this study had limited knowledge of genomics and pharm...

nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices of physicions and medial students

Partial Knowledge in Multiple-Choice Testing

The intent of this study was to discover the nature of (partial) knowledge as estimated by the multiple-choice (MC) test method. An MC test of vocabulary, including 20 items, was given to 10 participants. Each examinee was required to think aloud while focusing on each item before and while making a response. After each test taker was done with each item, s/he was ...

Attitudes Toward Economic Inequality

It is now an accepted fact that we experience inequality in various facets of our economic wellbeing. For example, the inequality could consist of wage differentials between younger and older workers, more and less educated workers, white and nonwhite workers, native and immigrant workers, male and female workers, union and nonunion workers, and so on. As a society we may examine disparities in...

Knowledge and Attitudes of Emergency Contraception among Medical Science Students

Background: Emergency contraception  (EC) has been available in Iran, however there has been little research into the extent of knowledge of the actions, effectiveness and attitudes of students about it .The aim of this study was to detect the Knowledge and attitudes of university students towards emergency contraception . Methods: A survey of 130 university students was conducted at Shahrekord...