background: while the use of herbal medicines is common in tehran, there is scant data regarding various aspects of the use of such medicines during pregnancy. objective: the frequency of the use of herbal medicines in a group of pregnant women in tehran and their attitude to the use of such medicines were evaluated. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 600 pregnant women were studied. a res...

OBJECTIVES While there have been many quantitative studies on the public's attitude towards mental illnesses, it is hard to find quantitative study which focused on the contextual effect on the public's attitude. The purpose of this study was to identify factors that affect the public's beliefs and attitudes including contextual effects. METHODS We analyzed survey on the public's beliefs and ...

In this paper we analyze the risk attitude of a group of heterogeneous agents and we develop a theory of comparative collective risk tolerance. In particular, we characterize how shifts in the distribution of individual levels of risk tolerance affect the group’s attitude towards risk. In a model with effi cient risk-sharing and two agents an increase in the level of risk tolerance of one or of...

BACKGROUND Recent qualitative studies indicated that physicians interact with pharmaceutical representatives depending on the relative weight of the benefits to the risks and are also influenced by a variety of experiences and circumstances. However, these studies do not provide enough information about if, when, how and why their attitudes and behaviors change over time. METHODS AND FINDINGS...

introduction schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that causes lack of insight into the disease and the drugs will experience episodes of relapses. in addition, it is a progressive disorder effect on the individual and involved their family. this study aimed to determine the effects of family-centered empowerment model on the attitude and medication compliance of patients with schizophrenia....

The present research attempts to investigate relationship between financial literacy and satisfaction, with the specific emphasis on intervening moderating roles of investment decisions risk attitude. employs a structural equation modelling (SEM) methodology examine proposed associations, using survey data from subset individuals who have previously made regarding investments. results indicate ...

In this paper, we extend the classical BDI architecture for the treatment of social commitments based communication by: (1) linking social commitments and individual intentions, (2) providing a model of the cognitive aspect of communication pragmatics in order to automatize social commitment based communication. In particular, we introduce a general decision-making process leading to attitude c...

(2) Mental preferences: These describe the mental attitude of an individual toward the objects. They can be defined in contexts which do not involve actual choice. In particular, preferences can describe tastes (such as a preference for one season over another) or can refer to situations which are only hypothetical (such as the possible courses of action available to an individual were he to be...