This article describes data on the intensity of ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation collected during field questionnaire-based surveys in Athens, Greece. The surveys were conducted over 11 days of July and October 2010 at three different urban, outdoor sites. A total of 1104 interviews were conducted. The participants were asked to report whether they felt they got a sunburn at the moment of the inte...

Experiments show that giving users incentives helps them detect errors in data and that expectations about the base rate of errors in data improve error detection. However, experimental findings are often criticized as not being generalizable to organizational settings. The study reported here examines the generalizability of experimental findings on user detection of data errors. A field inter...

This paper presents a qualitative field study conducted in Australia which examined what is occurring in formal performance appraisal interviews in relation to their objectivity and resultant outcomes. Supervisors and subordinates who had recently been involved in performance appraisals were interviewed about their experiences of the process. Perceptions of the utility of, and satisfaction with...

AIM To examine the anxiety levels of children referred for dental general anaesthesia and their parents at various key points of the referral and anaesthetic procedure. METHODS Structured interviews and anxiety measures were conducted with 50 children attending the Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Leeds Dental Institute, and progressing to general anaesthetic (GA) and their parents. Interv...

Interviews with a sample (N = 5) of substance abuse counselors were conducted concerning perceptions of their relationship with their clinical supervisors. The interview protocol was developed from four existing supervision relationship inventories, with an additional group of questions concerning satisfaction with supervision. Significant themes were determined from the examination of intervie...

OBJECTIVE To identify and characterize health care system factors that contribute to successful breastfeeding in the early postpartum period. STUDY DESIGN A prospective 8-week cohort study of 522 women at five area hospitals who had a vaginal delivery of a healthy, full-term single child and who intended to breastfeed. Mothers and infants had free access to each other for breastfeeding during...

The following interview was conducted in 1882, when Pasteur was sixty. In his long career, besides his discoveries in chemistry and crystallography, he had been successful in preventing the spoiling of wine and beer, in treating the diseases of silkworms, and in vaccination for fatal diseases among livestock, achievements of great importance to the economy of France. He had been received into t...

INTRODUCTION To improve understanding of the diabetic gastroparesis (DGP) patient experience and inform the patient-reported outcome measurement strategy for future trials in DGP, qualitative interviews were conducted with participants in a phase 2 clinical trial of a novel DGP treatment. METHODS Trial participants were invited to participate in interviews at both the pretreatment visit (PTV)...

background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...