PHL14/352: The Impact of Electronic Health Information and Computer-mediated Communication for the Coping Abilities of Cancer Patients A Scheiber; M Gruendel University for Applied Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany

Substantial underreporting is typical in interviewing respondents on their drug use and other sensitive behaviors. This chapter reviews established strategies, self-administered questionnaires and indirect questioning techniques, for increasing the willingness of respondents to report stigmatizing behaviors. While these methods improve reporting, each has shortcomings and burdens which limit th...

This paper examines the influence of communication form on employee uncertainty during mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Specifically, the author uses narrative theory to analyze how narrative organizational communication affects the three components of uncertainty – decreased predictive, explanatory, and descriptive ability. It is hypothesized that employees whose organizations use narrative M&...

Datatypes in PVS Sam Owre and Natarajan Shankar SRI International, Menlo Park, California National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia 23681-2199 November 1997 Prepared for Langley Research Center under contract NAS1-18969 The development of the initial version of PVS was funded by internal research funding from SRI International. More recent versions ...

Department of Electronic Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan, Republic of China Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Shoufeng, Hualien 974, Taiwan, Republic of China Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean Univesity, Keelung 202, Taiwan, Republic of China Center for Advanced Technolog...

Research conducted with adult samples suggests that anxiety sensitivity is positively related to depression (Otto et al., 1995, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 10, 117-123). The Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI, Silverman et al., 1991, Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 20 162-168) was used in this study to provide an examination of the relation between anxiety, anxiety sensitivity, a...

This study examined the factor structure, reliability, and validity of the German translation of the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI). A total of 1292 adolescents participated in the study. Analyses using the Schmid-Leiman solution showed the CASI to have one higher order factor and three orthogonal lower order factors. CASI scores correlated significantly with anxiety symptoms and wi...

It is well known from everyday life that communication is difficult. However, it is an even greater challenge to communicate sensitive or controversial issues such as risks in particular in emotional situations. Consequently, risk communication is much more than just talking about an issue. It requires specific knowledge, tailoring and targeting information to the patient’s needs and abilities,...

Because communication behaviors are difficult to change, practicing speech without elderspeak is helpful in preparing for actual clinical situations. The Communication Enhancement Model describes potential benefits of eliminating elderspeak in speech to older adults. Minimizing the use of elderspeak is hypothesized to reduce stereotype-based messages that older adults are incompetent and depend...

Good communication between nurses and patients is essential for the successful outcome of individualized nursing care of each patient. To achieve this, however, nurses must understand and help their patients, demonstrating courtesy, kindness and sincerity. Also they should devote time to the patient to communicate with the necessary confidentiality, and must not forget that this communication i...