scholarly journals Framing a Consent Form to Improve Consent Understanding and Determine How This Affects Willingness to Participate in HIV Cure Research: An Experimental Survey Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 155626462098120
Author(s):  
John A. Sauceda ◽  
Karine Dubé ◽  
Brandon Brown ◽  
Ashley E. Pérez ◽  
Catherine E. Rivas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Consent Form ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Hiv Cure ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Complex Information Processing ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
Hiv Cure Research ◽  
Experimental Survey

HIV cure research carries serious risks and negligible benefits. We investigated how participants understand these risks and what influences their willingness to participate. Through internet-based and in-person convenience sampling, 86 HIV+ participants completed an experimental survey. Participants were randomized to read a standard consent form describing a hypothetical HIV cure study or one adapted using Fuzzy Trace Theory—a decision-making model to facilitate complex information processing. We measured consent understanding and cognitive (e.g., safe/harmful) and affective (e.g., concerning, satisfying) evaluations of HIV cure research. Participants who read the adapted consent form had improved consent understanding, but only positive affective evaluations were associated with a willingness to participate. Consent processes can use decision-making theories to facilitate comprehension of study information.

scholarly journals Willingness to participate and take risks in HIV cure research: survey results from 400 people living with HIV in the US

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karine Dubé ◽  
David Evans ◽  
Laurie Sylla ◽  
Jeff Taylor ◽  
Bryan J. Weiner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Hiv Cure ◽  
Research Survey ◽  
The Us ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Cure Research

scholarly journals Process or Outcome? How the Citizens’ Initiative to Ban Fur Farming affected Political Trust among Users of Avoin Ministeriö

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 61-71
Author(s):  
Henrik Serup Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Important Predictor ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Political Decision Making ◽  
Experimental Survey

In 2012, Finland introduced the citizens’ initiative to boost political support among citizens by extending possibilities for popular involvement in political decision making. However, it is still unclear whether the introduction had the intended effects. This article examines how the first decision by the Finnish parliament on a citizens’ initiative affected political trust among users on the website Avoin Ministeriö. The data come from a quasi-experimental survey study with 421 respondents before and after the decision of the Finnish parliament on the first citizens’ initiative in Finland. In particular, it is examined whether outcome satisfaction or process satisfaction were the most important factors for shaping the developments. The results suggest that both outcome and process satisfaction matters for the developments in political trust, but satisfaction with the process is the more important predictor. The implications for the effects of the Finnish citizens’ initiative are discussed in the conclusion.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Selection of Elective Courses: The Use of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gulsah Hancerliogullari Koksalmis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Elective Courses ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
Decision Making Model ◽  
Selection Of

Elective course selection has always been a serious and important decision making process for students in institutions.  The study of Multi Criteria Decision Making Model (MCDM) for the selection of elective course is put together with the aim of lending a helping hand to the students. It comprises the main MCDM methods, the problem of selecting an elective course, the survey about the problem, the method which is selected to be implemented, the implementation and the results. In this study, we determine the criteria of this problem for graduate students while deciding on the elective courses. A total of 13 different criteria have been established, including 5 main criteria. In this direction, a questionnaire study was conducted as required by the multi-criteria decision-making analysis method decided in the light of the examined articles. This survey study was answered by graduate students. The responses were evaluated by the "Super Decisions" program and priorities were determined using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The survey was applied to graduate students, and it was found that the two most important criteria of the graduate students were 28.03% of the curriculum and 20.42% of the faculty members. This study aims to prove a mathematical method for a real-life situation which can help people make their decisions accurately. It will help students who are indecisive and hesitates while selecting an elective course.

Who needs a brain? Slime moulds, behavioural ecology and minimal cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 465-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jules Smith-Ferguson ◽  
Madeleine Beekman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Complex Information ◽  
Slime Moulds ◽  
Cognitive Behaviour ◽  
Complex Information Processing ◽  
Human Decision ◽  
Processing Mechanisms ◽  
Simple Heuristics

Although human decision making seems complex, there is evidence that many decisions are grounded in simple heuristics. Such heuristic models of decision making are widespread in nature. To understand how and why different forms of information processing evolve, it is insightful to study the minimal requirements for cognition. Here, we explore the minimally cognitive behaviour of the acellular slime mould, Physarum polycephalum, in order to discuss the ecological pressures that lead to the development of information processing mechanisms. We discuss evidence for memory, basic forms of learning and economically irrational choice in P. polycephalum. We compare P. polycephalum’s behaviour with a number of other non-neuronal organisms in order to question the evolutionary need for complex nervous systems to develop cognitive traits. By highlighting a few examples of common mechanisms, we conclude that all organisms contain the building blocks for more complex information processing. Returning the debate about cognition to the biological basics demystifies some of the confusion around the term ‘cognition’.

Applying the Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model for Ranking Commercial Banks: The Case of Vietnam

2019 ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Duong Truong Thi Thuy ◽  
Anh Pham Thi Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Commercial Banks ◽  
Decision Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Ideal Solution ◽  
Topsis Method ◽  
Decision Making Model

Banking has always played an important role in the economy because of its effects on individuals as well as on the economy. In the process of renovation and modernization of the country, the system of commercial banks has changed dramatically. Business models and services have become more diversified. Therefore, the performance of commercial banks is always attracting the attention of managers, supervisors, banks and customers. Bank ranking can be viewed as a multi-criteria decision model. This article uses the technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) method to rank some commercial banks in Vietnam.

Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Model by Applying Grey Numbers

Informatica ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas ◽  
Arturas Kaklauskas ◽  
Zenonas Turskis ◽  
Jolanta Tamošaitienė
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multi Attribute Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Model
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