BACKGROUND South Africa faces a complex dual burden of chronic communicable and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). In response, the Integrated Chronic Disease Management (ICDM) model was initiated in primary health care (PHC) facilities in 2011 to leverage the HIV/ART programme to scale-up services for NCDs, achieve optimal patient health outcomes and improve the quality of medical care. However...

W. W. Riedel's 1970 report of an investigation of personal constructs, using schizophrenics as Ss, encourages criticism of two major aspects of such endeavors. Unwarranted application of the disease model as a paradigm for studying undesirable conduct produces a series of strategy errors: weak explication of linkages between theory and measurements, noninclusion of relevant demographic data, un...

Social sustainability in organizations has been externally focused and, given its socio-ecological importance and potential, it requires further attention. This study examines social business (a) as an antecedent of environmental economically related constructs, (b) a component multiplicity relationships among social, environmental, associated constructs. We examine diverse set 41 model configu...

research has consistently indicated that worker turnover intentions are factors external to an employee; however, little work has investigated turnover intention behavior from personality perspective in a context of a private university in a low resourced country like uganda.  the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of individual personality dimensions and job turnover intention...

This study explores the alignment between IT/IS and marketing from a strategic perspective. The heads of IT and marketing of eighteen large New Zealand companies were interviewed, and their assessments of alignment rated according to two constructs: strategic orientation, and market orientation. The strategic orientation dimensions were aggressiveness, analysis, defensiveness, futurity, proacti...

introduction: the existence of standard tools is one of the basic needs of scientists of healthy behavior for predicting health-related behaviors. the aim of the present study was to design a psychometrically sound instrument to measure the protection motivation theory constructs regarding self-medication for elderly iranians. methods: the study was conducted in spring 2016. the sample consiste...

Psychological research on beliefs, values, worldview, and ideology has been limited by inadequate structural models to organize the plethora of constructs. The present studies investigate the potential of a dimensional model based on lexical, dictionary-represented -ism concepts to form an organizing structural model. Four isms factors found previously in college samples are shown to replicate ...

The potential effect on respondent burden is a major consideration in the evaluation of survey design options, so the ability to quantify the burden associated with alternative designs would be a useful evaluation tool. Furthermore, the development of such a tool could facilitate more systematic examination of the association between burden and data quality. In this study, we explore the applic...

Restrictive default privacy settings might threaten the business model and functionality of social network services (SNS). As a first step in understanding the impact of default privacy settings on selfdisclosure in SNS this paper proposes a conceptual model to reflect the decision-making and dimensions of self-disclosure in SNS. The conceptual model depicts aspects of benefits, costs and trust...

This paper deals with dimensional data. Examples of dimensions are space and time. Thus, temporal, spatial, spatiotemporal values are examples of dimensional data. We define the notion of dimensional object, extending an object-oriented ODMG-like type system to include dimensional types. We then address the problem of querying dimensional objects. Linguistic constructs are introduced that allow...