Due to ever-increasing uncertainty in the business environment, perceived knowledge quality has become an imperative, not an option, for innovativeness. Despite its growing recognition, few empirical studies have presented to the literature. This study addresses the understudied issue of what perceived knowledge quality is and how its substructures interact with one another. A model, including ...

This study examines the factors influencing internet protocol television (IPTV) usage intention. Using Davis's technology acceptance model (TAM) and DeLone and McLean's model of information system success, this study investigates the effects of information system quality (information quality, system quality, and service quality) and media quality on IPTV use in terms of perceived usefulness, pe...

This paper measures quality of life (QoL) in the 393 largest Spanish municipalities in 2011. We follow recent descriptions of QoL dimensions to propose an integrated framework composed of eight dimensions: material living conditions, health, education, environment, economic and physical safety, governance and political voice, social interaction, and personal activities. Using different sources ...

We conducted this study to analyze the quality of life using the SF-36 health questionnaire and the MSTS scores depending on surgical method and the primary site of occurrence. On the surgical method, the limb salvage had more excellent outcomes (60.9) than the amputation (46.3). The tumor prosthetic replacement had notably higher scores (62.5) than any other methods. For the correlation coeffi...

This study aims to investigate the quality of life (QOL) predictors of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), from the perspective of Leventhal’s Self-Regulation Model, in which the influence of the illness perception on QOL is mediated by coping strategies. Ninety-five PLWHA answered to the instruments Brief IPQ, Brief Cope and WHOQOL-HIV BREF concerning, respectively, illness perception, coping...

Article history: Received 20 December 2004 Received in revised form 23 September 2005 Accepted 23 September 2005 Available online 16 November 2005 Ecovillages, co-housing communities, and other types of intentional communities (ICs) have proliferated in recent years. There are currently several thousands of these communities worldwide and their numbers are increasing rapidly. We surveyed a subs...

Asthma management guidelines define asthma control, but the outcome criteria used do not include the patient's own assessment of their health. The objective of the present study was to determine the association between the achievement of asthma control, as defined by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines, and patient-assessed asthma-related quality of life (QOL), particularly wheth...

OBJECTIVE We assessed whether quality of life (QoL) improvement in duloxetine-treated patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain (DPNP) correlates with the extent of pain relief. METHODS Pooled data from three multicountry, double-blind, 12-week, placebo-controlled trials of duloxetine-treated (duloxetine 60 mg once daily; total number =335) patients with DPNP were analyzed. Based on ...