OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of the current excellent research done in the field of advancements in Education and Consumer Informatics as well as studies done to better understand, the already existing systems. METHOD Synopsis of the articles on education and consumer health selected for the IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2008. RESULTS In the domain of education, eHealth literacy...

INTRODUCTION Health service accreditation programmes are a regulatory mechanism adopted to drive improvements inpatient safety and quality. Research investigating the benefits or limitations, of consumer involvement in accreditation programmes is negligible. To develop our knowledge in this area the ACCREDIT collaboration (Accreditation Collaborative for the Conduct of Research, Evaluation and ...

Despite the surge in interest in research on organizational identification, little attention has been paid to investigating the notion of identification in the branding context. Moreover, consumer-brand identification has been conceptualized and opertionalized equally as organizational identification while ignoring both the shortcomings of organizational identification measures and the differen...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), lists concealment as one of the symptoms of a gambling disorder. However, some transactions are more likely to leave permanent records of gambling transactions (credit, consumer loyalty schemes) than others (cash, Internet cash, Internet cafes, prepaid phones). An online survey of 815 participants recruited through...

Abstract This paper investigates determinants of recommendation systems’ performance in an online experiment a large European Internet footwear store. By combining transactional data and archival customer records, unique database was compiled from which proxy variables were extracted to represent dimensions consumer loyalty shopping involvement. These combined regression analysis with technical...

The Interaction of Endorser Attractiveness and Involvement in Persuasion Depends on the Goal That Guides Message Processing Author(s): Sharon Shavitt, Suzanne Swan, Tina M. Lowrey, Michaela Wanke Source: Journal of Consumer Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1994), pp. 137-162 Published by: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Taylor & Francis Group) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1480669 Accessed: 26...

purpose- the aim of this essay is to attempt to explain the impact of religion and family structure on consumer decision-making style within a muslim country. this paper wants to demonstrate how and why husbands/wives with eastern culture and islamic norms use different decision-making styles. design/methodology/approach- literature reviews on consumer decision-making, religion and family struc...

the purpose of the present study was to provide empirical support for the construct of the involvement load hypothesis (ilh ) in an efl context. to fulfill the purpose of the study, 4 intact groups consisting of 126 intermediate-level students participated in this experiment. in order to ensure that the participants were at the same level of english language proficiency, the nelson test was adm...

this paper aims at studying governance and distribution of autonomies in tehran city islamic council in the process of performing intra/inter-organizational functions. according to current theories on governance, there are three types of governance according to the kinde of involvement. authority involvement, interactive involvement and persuasion involvement, in tehran city islamic council in ...