Vitamin D has been a topic of much research interest and controversy, and evidence is mixed concerning its preventive effects and health benefits. The purpose of our study was to explore the decision-making strategies used by both primary care providers and community members surrounding vitamin D in relation to uncertainty management theory. We conducted semistructured interviews with primary c...

The phenomenal adoption rate of mobile phone technology in different societies turned these phones into a common commodity. Telecom companies started recently offering the Third Generation (3G) services. Yet, the lack of content and the support of killer applications will continue to be a concern, especially if the 3G mobile phone technology fully matures. We believe that mobile community enabl...

Executive summary This report summarises the key findings of a large-scale survey of journal authors' opinions, possibly the largest such survey ever carried out. We report here the views and attitudes of nearly 4,000 senior researchers from 97 countries in relation to what they want from the journals system at a time of change and uncertainty. There is no longer any doubt that the journals cri...

With the rapid changes in lifestyle of China, the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes is increasing. This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of prediabetes and study the disease awareness of prediabetes in a Southern China community. Furthermore, it also aimed to investigate the intervention status of lifestyle changes for pre-diabetes prevention. 881 adults without diabetes mellitus were...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B virus infection is an important health problem in the Turkish community in the Netherlands. To prevent transmission and progression of the disease in this community, increased screening is necessary. This study aimed to determine 1) the levels of awareness and knowledge regarding hepatitis B, comparing these in tested and non-tested Turkish-Dutch in Rotterdam; 2) the self...

Objective: To standardize and improve the management of health records in community health services in Tai’an city, also to improve community health service level, and enhance residents' awareness of health. Method: taking the residents within the service range of TaiQian Community Health Center in Taian city and the relevant medical staff as research respondent, 120 questionnaires have been se...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE Impaired self-awareness following a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can reduce the effectiveness of rehabilitation, resulting in poorer outcomes. However, little is understood about how the multi-dimensional aspects of self-awareness may differentially change with recovery and impact outcome. Thus, this study examined four self-awareness variables represented in the Dynamic Compr...

Introduction This study aims to describe the results of a dementia awareness campaign in the Chinese American community.  Methods The campaign consisted of a health fair, four dementia seminars, radio shows, television episodes, and a YouTube series. Descriptive statistics and qualitative data were obtained from various health communication channels.    Results There were 156 and 313 participan...

We are investigating the support for activity awareness in the CiteSeer collaboratory. Activity awareness is awareness of collaborators’ work that supports performance in complex tasks in long-term endeavors directed at significant goals. Based on empirical studies, we give three examples of supporting activity awareness in collaboratories: (1) Awareness of collaborators’ creative activity in d...