This paper examines how Jordanian banks use the Customer Knowledge process to support Customer Knowledge Acquisition (CKA) and how they foster it. The empirical study is based on a sample of the data collected from 165 respondents, drawn randomly from six banks. The results showed that the six selected factors (Need for Customer Knowledge, Identify Source of Customer Knowledge, Verify Source of...

BACKGROUND This study examined ethnic differences in ageing perceptions of migrant Turkish and native Dutch elders residing in Rotterdam, and explored whether such differences could be attributed to culture or resources (personal, physical, economic and/or social). METHODS This study was based on combined data from two research projects focusing on the health and well-being of community-dwell...

OBJECTIVE To assess the awareness and attitude towards AIDS and PLHA in slum dwellers of Chennai, an Indian metropolis by KAP (Knowledge, Attitude, Practice) study. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted in a representative sample of 650 subjects (400 females and 250 females), aged 15-45 years, by means of a questionnaire in the local dialect Tamil. RESULTS The overall literacy rate ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the effectiveness of 2 system-level multifaceted quality improvement approaches to enhancing the secondary prevention of domestic violence (DV) in health maintenance organization (HMO) primary care settings. STUDY DESIGN A "2 new interventions" pre/post design that compared a basic implementation strategy using current staff levels with an augmented basic strategy that a...

OBJECTIVE We investigated the patterns of sexual activity during pregnancy and explored all beliefs related to coitus during pregnancy in women with the objective of promoting awareness and assisting health care providers in understanding and dispelling fears/misconceptions prevalent in our culture. METHODS A cross-sectional, KAP (Knowledge, Attitude, Practice) study was conducted using quest...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to assess attitudes toward premarital dating and sexual encounters in individuals aged 15-49 years in Tehran. METHODS Utilizing the attitudes section of an original cross-sectional study (n = 755) aimed at assessing sexual health needs of adults, this paper examined personal attitudes towards premarital dating, non-sexual relationships and sexual encoun...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the knowledge, attitudes and practices about TB in a prison and in public health services (PHS). METHODS A cross sectional study was carried out and KAP (knowledge, attitudes and practices) questionnaire was applied to 141 prisoners, 115 prison's employees and 158 PHS workers. Epi-Info version 6.04 was used for comparison of proportions with statistic significance at p < ...

Two studies examined restrained and unrestrained eaters' implicit and explicit attitudes toward fatness and thinness. Participants completed measures of implicit and explicit attitudes toward fatness and thinness (Studies 1 and 2), and a measure of the internalization of sociocultural attitudes toward thinness (Study 2). Restrained and unrestrained eaters both had strong implicit negative attit...

Smith’s (1993) paper is very welcome in that it stimulates a much needed debate on raising research standards in the study of sexual networks and the transmission of HIV/AIDS. Nevertheless, his paper is difficult to grapple with in that he has several targets, including perhaps population-based epidemiology itself. At least one would derive that impression from his insistence that the focus sho...

The U.S. economic development in the nineteenth century is characterized by the westward movement of population and the accumulation of productive land in the West. What are the quantitatively important forces driving this phenomena? This paper presents a model of migration and land improvement, to address this question. Counterfactual experiments reveals that two forces are key in accounting f...