BACKGROUND For people who self-harm, there is growing evidence to suggest that services and treatment outcomes can be adversely affected by healthcare staffs' stigmatising attitudes and behaviours. To date, the empirical literature has tended to focus on the attitudes of experienced healthcare professionals working with adults who self-harm. Additionally, there has been few theory or model-driv...

Because of personal motives and the architecture of the mind, it may be difficult for people to know themselves. People often attempt to block out unwanted thoughts and feelings through conscious suppression and perhaps through unconscious repression, though whether such attempts are successful is controversial. A more common source of self-knowledge failure is the inaccessibility of much of th...

Web 2.0 applications have attracted considerable attention among knowledge workers as a means via which they can connect to peers for knowledge sharing. Web 2.0 use has potential to facilitate knowledge transfer in a much more improved way compared to previous communication tools. Despite of its benefits, there is limited research on adoption behaviour of these technologies. We propose a model ...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the association of attitudes and beliefs of engaging in culturally competent behavior. The research is derived from an explorational case study of individuals employed within an urban public health department. Employees (n=90) from four metropolitan clinical sites of an urban public health department, located in the southwest region of the United State...

The incidence of skin cancer is rising drastically and is believed to be at epidemic proportions. Although preventive efforts have focused mainly on increasing public knowledge of the dangers associated with ultraviolet radiation, increased knowledge does not consistently translate into safe sun practices. The present study provided a "snapshot" of knowledge, attitudes and actual behaviour rela...