scholarly journals Exploring perceptions of healthcare technologies enabled by artificial intelligence: an online, scenario-based survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison L. Antes ◽  
Sara Burrous ◽  
Bryan A. Sisk ◽  
Matthew J. Schuelke ◽  
Jason D. Keune ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Psychosocial Variables ◽  
Perceived Benefit ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Healthcare Technologies ◽  
Trust In Technology

Abstract Background Healthcare is expected to increasingly integrate technologies enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) into patient care. Understanding perceptions of these tools is essential to successful development and adoption. This exploratory study gauged participants’ level of openness, concern, and perceived benefit associated with AI-driven healthcare technologies. We also explored socio-demographic, health-related, and psychosocial correlates of these perceptions. Methods We developed a measure depicting six AI-driven technologies that either diagnose, predict, or suggest treatment. We administered the measure via an online survey to adults (N = 936) in the United States using MTurk, a crowdsourcing platform. Participants indicated their level of openness to using the AI technology in the healthcare scenario. Items reflecting potential concerns and benefits associated with each technology accompanied the scenarios. Participants rated the extent that the statements of concerns and benefits influenced their perception of favorability toward the technology. Participants completed measures of socio-demographics, health variables, and psychosocial variables such as trust in the healthcare system and trust in technology. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses of the concern and benefit items identified two factors representing overall level of concern and perceived benefit. Descriptive analyses examined levels of openness, concern, and perceived benefit. Correlational analyses explored associations of socio-demographic, health, and psychosocial variables with openness, concern, and benefit scores while multivariable regression models examined these relationships concurrently. Results Participants were moderately open to AI-driven healthcare technologies (M = 3.1/5.0 ± 0.9), but there was variation depending on the type of application, and the statements of concerns and benefits swayed views. Trust in the healthcare system and trust in technology were the strongest, most consistent correlates of openness, concern, and perceived benefit. Most other socio-demographic, health-related, and psychosocial variables were less strongly, or not, associated, but multivariable models indicated some personality characteristics (e.g., conscientiousness and agreeableness) and socio-demographics (e.g., full-time employment, age, sex, and race) were modestly related to perceptions. Conclusions Participants’ openness appears tenuous, suggesting early promotion strategies and experiences with novel AI technologies may strongly influence views, especially if implementation of AI technologies increases or undermines trust. The exploratory nature of these findings warrants additional research.

scholarly journals The Teacher Technology Integration Experience: Practice and Reflection in the Classroom

10.28945/2227 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 161-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Ruggiero ◽  
Christopher J. Mong
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
United States ◽  
Technology Integration ◽  
Mixed Methods Research ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Teaching Style ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Full Time ◽  
K 12

Previous studies indicated that the technology integration practices of teachers in the classroom often did not match their teaching styles. Researchers concluded that this was due, at least partially, to external barriers that prevented teachers from using technology in ways that matched their practiced teaching style. Many of these barriers, such as professional support and access to hardware and software, have been largely diminished over the last twenty years due to an influx of money and strategies for enhancing technology in primary and secondary schools in the United States. This mixed-methods research study was designed to examine the question, “What technology do teachers use and how do they use that technology to facilitate student learning?” K-12 classroom teachers were purposefully selected based on their full-time employment in a public, private, or religious school in a Midwestern state in the United States, supported by the endorsement of a school official. There were 1048 teachers from over 100 school corporations who completed an online survey consisting of six questions about classroom technology tools and professional development involving technology. Survey results suggest that technology integration is pervasive in the classroom with the most often used technology tool identified as PowerPoint. Moreover, teachers identified that training about technology is most effective when it is contextually based in their own classroom. Follow-up interviews were conducted with ten percent (n=111) of the teachers in order to examine the relationship between teachers’ daily classroom use of technology and their pedagogical practices. Results suggest a close relationship; for example, teachers with student-centric technology activities were supported by student-centric pedagogical practices in other areas. Moreover, teachers with strongly student-centered practices tended to exhibit a more pronounced need to create learning opportunities with technology as a base for enhancing 21st century skills in students. Teachers indicated that external barriers do exist that impact technology integration, such as a lack of in-service training, a lack of available technology, and restricted curriculum, but that overcoming internal barriers, including personal investment in technology, attitude towards technology, and peer support, were a bigger indicator of success. Recommendations are made for restructuring professional development on strategies for contextualizing technology integration in the classroom.

scholarly journals Gender Differences in Fear and Risk Perception During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz Alsharawy ◽  
Ross Spoon ◽  
Alec Smith ◽  
Sheryl Ball
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Risks ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Financial Consequences ◽  
The Government

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many people to suffer from emotional distress. Previous studies suggest that women process and express affective experiences, such as fear, with a greater intensity compared to men. We administered an online survey to a sample of participants in the United States that measures fear of COVID-19, perceptions about health and financial risks, and preventative measures taken. Despite the empirical fact that men are more likely to experience adverse health consequences from COVID-19, women report greater fear and more negative expectations about health-related consequences of COVID-19 than men. However, women are more optimistic than men regarding the financial consequences of the pandemic. Women also report more negative emotional experiences generally during the pandemic, particularly in situations where other people or the government take actions that make matters worse. Though women report taking more preventative measures than men in response to the pandemic, gender differences in behavior are reduced after controlling for fear. These results shed light on how differences in emotional experiences of the pandemic may inform policy interventions.

Examining the Effects of Internal Communication and Emotional Culture on Employees’ Organizational Identification

2020 ◽  
pp. 232948842091406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cen April Yue ◽  
Linjuan Rita Men ◽  
Mary Ann Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Identification ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Emotional Culture ◽  
Motivating Language ◽  
Employee Identification ◽  
The Impact

As one of the first empirical attempts investigating the emerging role of positive emotional culture within organizations, the study examined how a symmetrical internal communication system and leaders’ use of motivating language contribute to fostering a positive emotional culture featured by joy, companionate love, pride, and gratitude. Furthermore, the study examined the linkage between a positive emotional culture and employees’ organizational identification. A quantitative online survey was conducted with 482 full-time employees in the United States. Results showed that both symmetrical internal communication and leaders’ use of motivating language, including meaning making, empathetic, and direction-giving languages, induced employees’ perception of a positive emotional culture of joy, companionate love, pride, and gratitude, which in turn enhanced employees’ organizational identification. Positive emotional culture fully mediated the impact of corporate and leadership communications on employee identification with the organization. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Addressing Health-Related Myths in the Culturally Diverse African American Population: A Call to Action

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucson Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
African American Population ◽  
Adverse Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Barriers To Healthcare

African Americans (AAs) experience numerous challenges that socially, economically, and physically affect their communities. Recent studies have found that a diverse array AAs encounter many struggles as they navigate the United States (U.S.) healthcare system to access care and receive healthcare services. AA communities are significantly affected by the burden of chronic diseases. They face considerable barriers to healthcare services that contribute to adverse health outcomes. This paper explains the daily struggles many AAs face within their communities to access and navigate the healthcare system due to culturally held myths and barriers. This paper discusses commonly held myths among Afro-Caribbean and West Indies populations living within the state of Georgia to suggest a call to action to address health disparities in this population.

scholarly journals Choice With(out) Equity? Family Decisions of Child Return to Urban Schools in Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-63
Author(s):  
Robert Cotto, Jr. ◽  
Sarah Woulfin
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
School Closure ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Equity Issues ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Time Work ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Family Decisions

In response to the COVID-19 global pandemic, most schools across the country closed in-person instruction for a period of time and many shifted to online schooling. Beginning in fall 2020, schools around the United States began reopening and many districts offered families a decision or “choice” to return their children to an in-person or online schooling experience. In many cities, this approach complicated existing school choice and permanent closure policies with already existing equity issues. Building upon previous scholarship on school choice and closure, this study draws on the concept of school choice with(out) equity (Frankenberg et al., 2010; Scott & Stuart Wells, 2013; Horsford et al., 2019). Using data from an online survey (n = 155 participants) in August 2020, this study examines why families (50% white, 50% people of color) decided to return their children to in-person schooling in Hartford, Connecticut. This study uses a mixed-method analysis of qualitative responses and quantitative data to understand family decisions to return to in-person schooling (Creswell, 2014). Rather than school choices with full equity considerations during the pandemic, these family responses focused on needs of childcare for full-time work and health safety. These responses suggest a partial equity in the landscape of available choices. The study raises questions about reapplying old forms of school choice to a new form of temporary school closure during pandemic.

The impacts of CEO leadership behaviors on employees' affective commitment and scouting behavior: the mediating role of symmetrical internal communication

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeunjae Lee ◽  
Jarim Kim
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internal Communication ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Senior Leadership ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Symmetrical Communication

PurposeThis study aimed to examine how senior leadership influences corporate communication and employees' attitudinal and behavioral outcomes. Using two-way symmetrical communication model in public relations and leadership theory, it investigated the effects of CEOs' task- and relationship-oriented leadership on symmetrical internal communication, employees' organizational commitment and communicative behaviors.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was conducted with 417 full-time employees working in various industries in the United States.FindingsThe results showed that CEOs' relationship-oriented leadership significantly influenced symmetrical internal communication, which, in turn, increased affective commitment and employees' scouting behavior. CEOs' task-oriented communication had no significant effect on symmetrical communication.Originality/valueThis study advances theoretical understanding of two-way symmetrical communication in relation to senior leadership and provides practical insights for corporate leaders and public relations practitioners regarding how to improve employee outcomes through CEOs' strategic leadership and internal communication practices.

scholarly journals Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Big Data and the Internet of Things to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scientometric Review Using Text Mining

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8578
Author(s):  
Ignacio Rodríguez-Rodríguez ◽  
José-Víctor Rodríguez ◽  
Niloofar Shirvanizadeh ◽  
Andrés Ortiz ◽  
Domingo-Javier Pardo-Quiles
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Automatic Process ◽  
Scientometric Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Current Lines

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in every country in the world, with serious health-related, economic, and social consequences. Since its outbreak in March 2020, many researchers from different fields have joined forces to provide a wide range of solutions, and the support for this work from artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging concepts linked to intelligent data analysis has been decisive. The enormous amount of research and the high number of publications during this period makes it difficult to obtain an overall view of the different applications of AI to the management of COVID-19 and an understanding of how research in this field has been evolving. Therefore, in this paper, we carry out a scientometric analysis of this area supported by text mining, including a review of 18,955 publications related to AI and COVID-19 from the Scopus database from March 2020 to June 2021 inclusive. For this purpose, we used VOSviewer software, which was developed by researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands. This allowed us to examine the exponential growth in research on this issue and its distribution by country, and to highlight the clear hegemony of the United States (USA) and China in this respect. We used an automatic process to extract topics of research interest and observed that the most important current lines of research focused on patient-based solutions. We also identified the most relevant journals in terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrated the growing value of open-access publication, and highlighted the most influential authors by means of an analysis of citations and co-citations. This study provides an overview of the current status of research on the application of AI to the pandemic.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDES TOWARDS GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS ON TRUST IN TECHNOLOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Ning Katherine Chen ◽  
Chia-Ho Ryan Wen
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Electromagnetic Fields ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Trust In Technology ◽  
The Impact

Understanding public distrust of technology is both theoretically and practically important, yet while previous research has focused on the association between political ideology and trust in science, it is at best an inconsistent predictor. This study shall demonstrate that two dimensions of political ideology, attitudes towards governments and corporations, can more precisely predict trust in technology across issues. We will conduct an online survey on the science of radio frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications to test our hypotheses that trust in technology varies across issues and that attitudes towards government and corporations are important predictors of this trust.

scholarly journals Medical Student Views of Healthcare Reform in the United States, 2009

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariel A. Benson ◽  
Nathaniel Mendelsohn ◽  
Maria Gervits ◽  
Folashade Adeshuko ◽  
Carlo S. Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Albert Einstein College ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Medical Student Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
The U.S

PurposeTo assess the opinions of Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) medical students about U.S. healthcare reformin the context of the 2008 U.S. presidential election through the use of an online survey. The study additionallyevaluates the influences on students’ healthcare opinions and whether there is sufficient instruction given to medicalstudents about healthcare systems.MethodDuring January and February 2009, first-year and second-year (classes of 2011 and 2012) Einstein medical students(n=362) were surveyed about U.S. healthcare using a web-based electronic survey. The survey included questionsabout students’ healthcare views and influences, political views, and education related to healthcare systems.ResultsWith a response rate of 56%, the survey showed that, among Einstein students, the most popular reform to the U.S.healthcare system would be a multipayer system (41%) in which all U.S. citizens would have access to healthcare paidfor by the U.S. government, but could also choose to obtain private insurance. More than 86% of the respondentsfelt that they had not received adequate education in medical school about the U.S. healthcare system. Seventy-fourpercent of respondents supported Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.ConclusionsEinstein students overwhelmingly recognize the need for reform in the U.S. healthcare system, and students are confidentthat, under Barack Obama’s leadership, the number of uninsured American citizens will decrease in the nextfour years. Survey findings also reveal the need for improved medical student education about the U.S. healthcaresystem.

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