This qualitative study aimed to identify the motivating factors and the challenges related to the adoption of mobile payment (mPayment) by small business retailers. Data collected from semi-structured personal interviews with a small group of participants were analyzed applying a content analysis approach. The findings indicate that retailer demand for mPayment was motivated mainly by perceived...

Feature-sensitive verification is a recent field that pursues the effective analysis of the exponential number of variants of a program family. Today researchers lack examples of concrete bugs induced by variability, and occurring in real large-scale software. Such a collection of bugs is a requirement for goal-oriented research, serving to evaluate tool implementations of feature-sensitive ana...

Disruptive behavior in healthcare has been identified as a threat to quality of care, nurse retention, and a culture of safety. A qualitative study elicited registered nurse experiences with disruptive clinician behavior in an acute care hospital. A conceptual framework was developed to provide a structure for organizing and describing this complex construct that includes 4 primary concepts: di...

The purpose of this study was to determine nursing care regularly missed on medical-surgical units and reasons for missed care. Nine elements of regularly missed nursing care (ambulation, turning, delayed or missed feedings, patient teaching, discharge planning, emotional support, hygiene, intake and output documentation, and surveillance) and 7 themes relative to the reasons for missing this c...

Although widely used, the qualitative case study method is not well understood. Due to conflicting epistemological presuppositions and the complexity inherent in qualitative case-based studies, scientific rigor can be difficult to demonstrate, and any resulting findings can be difficult to justify. For that reason, this paper discusses methodological problems associated with qualitative case-ba...

objective: depression and anxiety literature in iran is short of cultural/indigenous studies, especially with regard to azeri ethnic group. this study was carried out in order to identify depression and anxiety aspects in azeri ethnic group. methods: in a cross sectional qualitative design, 32 azeri informants (14 patients, 13 lay people, and 5 professionals) recruited in the study using purpos...

background & aim: qualitative perspectives on reproductive health (rh) facilities, adolescent friendly health services (afhs) still remain unexplored among indian adolescents. the aim of our study was to explore the perceptions and awareness about reproductive health and its facilities among adolescents in two districts in india. methods: a qualitative study design using fgd was adopted. strati...

abstractbackground: mothers with premature infants face certain challenges such as uncertainty on how to deal with their infant's condition and care for it after discharge from neonatal intensive care unit (nicu).methods: a qualitative design was used to explain mothers' challenges after their infant's discharge from nicus in isfahan, iran, 2015. purposive sampling was adopted to...