ABSTRACT The study of information-seeking behaviors takes on particular importance when considere... more ABSTRACT The study of information-seeking behaviors takes on particular importance when considered within the health context, where the process of information seeking can save lives. When individuals implement preventative health-care behaviors in the present, they increase the probability of saving their own lives in the future. However, the benefits of preventative health-care behaviors are irrelevant when the public is unaware of such information. Current literature indicates that there are two types of information behavior: active and passive. Active information behavior involves intentional physical behaviors, while passive is comprised of strictly psychological, sometimes unintentional, processes. The following article reports the initial validity portfolio for measures of both active and passive information behavior.
ABSTRACT The study of information-seeking behaviors takes on particular importance when considere... more ABSTRACT The study of information-seeking behaviors takes on particular importance when considered within the health context, where the process of information seeking can save lives. When individuals implement preventative health-care behaviors in the present, they increase the probability of saving their own lives in the future. However, the benefits of preventative health-care behaviors are irrelevant when the public is unaware of such information. Current literature indicates that there are two types of information behavior: active and passive. Active information behavior involves intentional physical behaviors, while passive is comprised of strictly psychological, sometimes unintentional, processes. The following article reports the initial validity portfolio for measures of both active and passive information behavior.
This study qualitatively examined how nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives construct t... more This study qualitatively examined how nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives construct the meaning of trust in the relationship between themselves and pregnant and laboring women. Twenty-two interviews were conducted with nurse participants employed at clinics, hospitals, and birth centers across Southeastern United States. The results of an iterative analytic approach identified five emergent themes: trust as the acceptance of vulnerability and risk, relinquishing control, acceptance of both nurse and patient expertise, and disclosure of information. The results support previous studies, which conceptualized trust as vulnerability and risk, whereas four remaining themes are original to this study. The results are interpreted both in light of theories of trust in health communication theory and healthcare practice. They extend the theoretical approaches to trust as a situational category, in which uncertainty and expertise emerge as dominant dimensions. Identified passive and coercive constructions of trust that conflate it with compliance could have implications for the quality of communication between nurses and patients, and may be at odds with the modern movement toward patient-centered care and shared decision-making in U.S. maternity care. This is one of the first studies that examines the conceptualization of trust in obstetrics and intrapartum nurse-patient communication from the perspective of nurses and nurse practitioners.
In this article we examine what motivations influence academic authors in selecting a journal in ... more In this article we examine what motivations influence academic authors in selecting a journal in which to publish. A survey was sent to approximately 15,000 faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers at four large North American research universities with a response rate of 14.4% (n = 2021). Respondents were asked to rate how eight different journal attributes and five different audiences influence their choice of publication output. Within the sample, the most highly rated attributes are quality and reputation of journal and fit with the scope of the journal; open access is the least important attribute. Researchers at other research-intensive institutions are considered the most important audience, while the general public is the least important. There are significant differences across subject disciplines and position types. Our findings have implications for understanding the adoption of open access publishing models.
Nurse–patient conversations about pain management are complex. Given recent increases in prescrip... more Nurse–patient conversations about pain management are complex. Given recent increases in prescription pain pill abuse, such interactions merit scholarly attention. In-depth interviews with 21 nurses were conducted to explicitly explore nurses' information seeking about pain. The participants in this study gathered pain information from patients through a variety of means and reported facing challenges and dilemmas when communicating with patients about pain management and medicinal preferences. These results have important implications for nurses, patient outcomes, and the broader health-care system and imply that continued educational and intervention efforts are essential in this complicated communicative context.
ABSTRACT The study of information-seeking behaviors takes on particular importance when considere... more ABSTRACT The study of information-seeking behaviors takes on particular importance when considered within the health context, where the process of information seeking can save lives. When individuals implement preventative health-care behaviors in the present, they increase the probability of saving their own lives in the future. However, the benefits of preventative health-care behaviors are irrelevant when the public is unaware of such information. Current literature indicates that there are two types of information behavior: active and passive. Active information behavior involves intentional physical behaviors, while passive is comprised of strictly psychological, sometimes unintentional, processes. The following article reports the initial validity portfolio for measures of both active and passive information behavior.
ABSTRACT The study of information-seeking behaviors takes on particular importance when considere... more ABSTRACT The study of information-seeking behaviors takes on particular importance when considered within the health context, where the process of information seeking can save lives. When individuals implement preventative health-care behaviors in the present, they increase the probability of saving their own lives in the future. However, the benefits of preventative health-care behaviors are irrelevant when the public is unaware of such information. Current literature indicates that there are two types of information behavior: active and passive. Active information behavior involves intentional physical behaviors, while passive is comprised of strictly psychological, sometimes unintentional, processes. The following article reports the initial validity portfolio for measures of both active and passive information behavior.
This study qualitatively examined how nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives construct t... more This study qualitatively examined how nurses, nurse practitioners, and nurse midwives construct the meaning of trust in the relationship between themselves and pregnant and laboring women. Twenty-two interviews were conducted with nurse participants employed at clinics, hospitals, and birth centers across Southeastern United States. The results of an iterative analytic approach identified five emergent themes: trust as the acceptance of vulnerability and risk, relinquishing control, acceptance of both nurse and patient expertise, and disclosure of information. The results support previous studies, which conceptualized trust as vulnerability and risk, whereas four remaining themes are original to this study. The results are interpreted both in light of theories of trust in health communication theory and healthcare practice. They extend the theoretical approaches to trust as a situational category, in which uncertainty and expertise emerge as dominant dimensions. Identified passive and coercive constructions of trust that conflate it with compliance could have implications for the quality of communication between nurses and patients, and may be at odds with the modern movement toward patient-centered care and shared decision-making in U.S. maternity care. This is one of the first studies that examines the conceptualization of trust in obstetrics and intrapartum nurse-patient communication from the perspective of nurses and nurse practitioners.
In this article we examine what motivations influence academic authors in selecting a journal in ... more In this article we examine what motivations influence academic authors in selecting a journal in which to publish. A survey was sent to approximately 15,000 faculty, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers at four large North American research universities with a response rate of 14.4% (n = 2021). Respondents were asked to rate how eight different journal attributes and five different audiences influence their choice of publication output. Within the sample, the most highly rated attributes are quality and reputation of journal and fit with the scope of the journal; open access is the least important attribute. Researchers at other research-intensive institutions are considered the most important audience, while the general public is the least important. There are significant differences across subject disciplines and position types. Our findings have implications for understanding the adoption of open access publishing models.
Nurse–patient conversations about pain management are complex. Given recent increases in prescrip... more Nurse–patient conversations about pain management are complex. Given recent increases in prescription pain pill abuse, such interactions merit scholarly attention. In-depth interviews with 21 nurses were conducted to explicitly explore nurses' information seeking about pain. The participants in this study gathered pain information from patients through a variety of means and reported facing challenges and dilemmas when communicating with patients about pain management and medicinal preferences. These results have important implications for nurses, patient outcomes, and the broader health-care system and imply that continued educational and intervention efforts are essential in this complicated communicative context.
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