Banks have moved towards technology-based customer services such as mobile banking (m-banking); as an alternative to traditional inter-personal services. However, M-banking still faces resistance that may hamper customers’ adoption in Egypt. Following a mixed method approach, this study involves two main phases. First, a quantitative Consumer survey is conducted in the form of 350 structured qu...

BACKGROUND While enhancing physical activity has been an essential goal of public health officials, people with physical impairments such as spinal cord injury (SCI) are more likely to live a sedentary lifestyle. Exercise has been shown to decrease the risk for many of the secondary conditions associated with SCI, including osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, pressure ulcers, urinary tract in...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe a complex coaching intervention to help patients with cancer pain explore beliefs and attitudinal barriers interfering with pain management. Patients were coached to explore beliefs about pain, communications about pain management, and the use of analgesics and nonpharmacologic interventions. DATA SOURCES Published journal articles, abstracts, and psychology tex...

In this exploratory study, we look into the emerging usage of Personal Information Management (PIM) applications on mobile devices. We collected data in two rounds of empirical investigation: first, with pilot users in an organization providing PIM services, then, in customer companies subscribing to these services. Our findings suggest that the benefits of PIM applications are mostly related t...

BACKGROUND Daily cycling to work has been shown to improve physical performance and health in men and women. It is very common in the Netherlands: the most recent data show that one quarter of commuting journeys are by bicycle. However, despite the effort going into campaigns to promote commuter cycling, about 30% of commuter journeys up to 5 kilometers are still by car. The question is how to ...

Several studies have exposed the consumption of drugs by undergraduate students in the health area, who are supposed to be examples of behavior and health educators. This descriptive correlation study aimed to relate the benefits of tobacco consumption and barriers to quit according to the perception of undergraduate students. Eighty third-year students, in three different courses, answered a s...

SOCIAL SCIENCE: Amar, Angela Frederick. “African-American College Women’s Perceptions of Resources and Barriers When Reporting Forced Sex.” The Journal of the National Black Nurses Association 19.2 (2008) 35–41. Through her research, Amar found that “African-American and White women experience violence at equal rates except in the 2024 age range where African-American women experience greater v...

Despite the wide availability of effective treatments for HIV disease, many HIV-infected individuals are not in care, and HIV-infected women, particularly those residing in resource-poor areas, may have greater difficulty accessing HIV care than men. The purpose of this research was to explore perceived barriers to care experienced by HIV-infected women living in the Deep South region of the Un...

A qualitative interview based study on ways of addressing and managing domestic violence (DV) by general practitioners (GPs) is presented. Problem centred semi-structured topic-guided interviews were conducted with 10 male and nine female GPs. Transcribed passages were analysed with the deductive approach of qualitative content analysis. Female doctors gave broader definitions of DV. Addressing...

OBJECTIVE To examine barriers and facilitators influencing self-direction of return to mainstream work following acute mental illness. PARTICIPANTS Five individuals who had attempted return to mainstream work following acute mental illness. METHODS In depth, semi-structured qualitative interviews with the five participants selected through purposive sampling. RESULTS The three main themes...