As part of Preventing Suicide: Kentucky's Plan, a gatekeeper training was implemented. The implementation of this brief educational intervention and changes in participants' suicide prevention attitudes were examined. Data were collected from 3,958 people in 213 sessions from May 2004 to August 2006. Participants reported high levels of satisfaction with the trainings. Immediately following the...

To consciously bolster behaviour that is disapproved by others (i.e., stigmatised behaviour) people may hold and report a favourable attitude toward the behaviour. However, achieving such bolstering outside awareness may be more difficult. Explicit attitudes were measured with self-report measures, and the Implicit Association Test was used to assess implicit attitudes toward behaviour held by ...

The term stigma refers to problems of knowledge (ignorance), attitudes (prejudice) and behaviour (discrimination). Most research in this area has been based on attitude surveys, media representations of mental illness and violence, has only focused upon schizophrenia, has excluded direct participation by service users, and has included few intervention studies. However, there is evidence that i...

We describe an operational approach to enabling the computational perception required for automated generation of affective behaviour through inter-agent communication in multi-agent real-time environments. The research is investigating the potential of extending current agent communication languages so as they not only convey the content of knowledge exchange but also so they can communicate a...

background: the study was conducted to evaluate the knowledge, attitudes and practices of breast-feeding in the west re­gion of cameroon. methods: a cross sectional descriptive study was conducted in two health facilities on 195 mother-infant pairs, seen at the out patient and vaccination units of the bafoussam regional hospital over a period of one month from 1 st to 30 th septem­ber 2008. the...

Spanish women do not make an informed choice regarding breast cancer screening (BCS). Our aim was to evaluate the impact of receiving information regarding real BCS benefits and risks on knowledge, attitude, decision, feelings, and worries about cancer. Randomized controlled clinical trial of 355 women aged between 45 and 67 years, 177 and 178 assigned to the intervention group (IG) and control...

Safety attitude reflects employee beliefs and feelings about safety policies measures. attitudes have a significant influence on behaviour. Flight attendants play vital role in in-flight services. It is known that most fatal accidents involving commercial aircraft are caused by failures communication teamwork among flight attendants. This study aims to find out whether there differentiation bet...

conclusions this study showed that we must put more effort in translating knowledge into behavior. background it has been reported that three factors may be responsible for the social stigma associated with disease: widespread ignorance, little information and misconceptions about the disease in society. objectives this study is aimed to assess knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about hiv/aids i...

Drawing on psychological and political science research on individuals' sensitivity to threat cues, the present study examines reactions to political posters that depict male immigrants as a sexual danger. We expect anti-immigrant attitudes to be more strongly predicted by feelings of insecurity or representations of men and women as strong and fragile when individuals are exposed to sexual thr...