BACKGROUND Health care-associated infections (HAIs) are largely preventable, but are associated with considerable health care burden. Given the significant cost of HAIs, many health care institutions have implemented bundled interventions to reduce HAIs. These complex behavioral interventions require considerable effort; however, individual behaviors and motivations crucial to successful and su...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop a theory-based instrument for assessing barriers and motivators to strength- or weight-training exercise (SWTE) in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors with measurable bone loss after treatment. DESIGN Exploratory, descriptive, and methodologic. SETTING Academic oncology clinics in the midwestern United States, homes, and a fitness center. SAMPLE 85 women, ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate an oncology rehabilitation program over time. DESIGN A cross-sectional, retrospective program evaluation using a mixed-methods approach. SETTING An outpatient oncology rehabilitation program housed in an urban, hospital-based comprehensive cancer center in Alaska. SAMPLE 102 cancer survivors who had completed a 10-week oncology rehabilitation program (mean t...

Agricultural risks constitute a fundamental challenge in Nigeria, hence the importance of agricultural insurance in managing farm risks cannot be underestimated. As the crop sub-sector contributes about 85% of the agricultural GDP in Nigeria, this study focussed on awareness and factors that can enhance the adoption of crop insurance among crop farmers in Nigeria. Data collected from 310 random...

Achievements in games are assumed to be extrinsic motivators yet this has not been shown to be the case experimentally. This study attempts to determine whether achievements exhibit characteristics more closely related to intrinsic or extrinsic motivators. An experiment was conducted in order to examine the effects of Achievements in a controlled environment. It was found that Achievements show...

We outline a design based theory of motive processing and attention, including: multiple motivators operating asynchronously, with limited knowledge, processing abilities and time to respond. Attentional mechanisms address these limits using processes differing in complexity and resource requirements, in order to select which motivators to attend to, how to attend to them, how to achieve those ...

The present study investigated how key organizational contextual factors relate to bundles of human resource (HR) practices. In a two-phase study of a sample of 661 organizations representing a full range of industries and organizational size, the authors found that organizations use 1 of 5 HR bundles: cost minimizers, contingent motivators, competitive motivators, resource makers, and commitme...

We outline a design based theory of motive processing and attention, including: multiple motivators operating asynchronously, with limited knowledge, processing abilities and time to respond. Attentional mechanisms address these limits using processes diiering in complexity and resource requirements, in order to select which motivators to attend to, how to attend to them, how to achieve those a...

Crowdsourcing has emerged as a new online collaborative paradigm that employs a crowd of users to build long-lasting value beneficial to communities. Crowdsourcing has the potential to support a collaboration culture for society. This study is to examine key motivators to intention to participate in crowdsourcing. The VIST model is employed to identify the motivators for participating in virtua...