ANALYSIS OF INFORMATION PREFERENCES OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENTISTS IN SIBERIA

Abstract Older adults living in Asia or of Asian origin have unique preferences for information that require special attention. This symposium focuses on the health information preferences and behaviors of Asian older adults. Song et al. investigated the relationship between Internet use and perceived loneliness among Older Chinese using from survey data collected in the 2015 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), a national study involving 12,400 households in Mainland China. Multiple regression results suggest that older Chinese Internet users perceived significantly less loneliness compared with their age peers who were non-Internet users. Zhang et al. investigated the role of information and communication technologies in supporting antiretroviral therapy (ART)-related knowledge seeking among older Chinese with HIV. Their cross-sectional survey data were collected from 2012 to 2013 in Guangxi, China. The results suggest that less than 5% of the participants sought HIV-related information via computers. Patients less knowledgeable about ART were more likely than those more knowledgeable to consult medical professionals about the disease via cell phones. Shiroma et al. report findings of a systematic literature review conducted in spring 2019 that examined Asian ethnic minority older adults’ preferences for end-of-Life (EOL) information seeking and decision making. The results suggest Asian ethnic minority older adults are understudied in the literature on EOL information and decision making, especially in terms of their unique cultural contexts. Du et al. examined how health information obtained from different types of social networks affect osteoporosis self-management behaviors among older White and Asian women.

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Patients perspectives on drug shortages in six European hospital settings – a cross sectional study

BMC Health Services Research ◽

10.1186/s12913-021-06721-9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Darija Kuruc Poje ◽

Domagoj Kifer ◽

Isabelle Huys ◽

Joao Miranda ◽

Helena Jenzer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Management Practices ◽

Healthcare Professionals ◽

Demographic Data ◽

General Information ◽

Basic Knowledge ◽

Drug Shortage ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Drug Shortages ◽

Good Communication ◽

Information Preferences

Abstract Background It is known that drug shortages represent a major challenge for all stakeholders involved in the process, but there is little evidence regarding insights into patients′ awareness and perspectives. This study aimed to investigate the patients-perceived drug shortages experience and their view on outcomes in different European hospital settings. Furthermore, we wanted to explore information preferences on drug shortages. Methods A retrospective, cross sectional, a mixed method study was conducted in six European hospital settings. One hospital (H) from each of this country agreed to participate: Bosnia and Herzegovina (H-BiH), Croatia (H-CR), Germany (H-GE), Greece (H-GR), Serbia (H-SE) and Poland (H-PO). Recruitment and data collection was conducted over 27 months from November 2017 until January 2020. Overall, we surveyed 607 patients which completed paper-based questionnaire. Questions related to: general information (demographic data), basic knowledge on drug shortages, drug shortages experienced during hospitalization and information preferences on drug shortage. Differences between hospital settings were analyzed using Chi-squared test or Fisher’s exact test. For more complex contingency tables, Monte Carlo simulations (N = 2000) were applied for Fisher’s test. Post-hoc hospital-wise analyses were performed using Fisher’s exact tests. False discovery rate was controlled using the Bonferroni method. Analyses were performed using R: a language and environment for statistical computing (v 3.6.3). Results 6 % of patients reported experiences with drug shortages while hospitalized which led to a deterioration of their health. The majority of affected patients were hospitalized at hematology and/or oncology wards in H-BiH, H-PO and H-GE. H-BiH had the highest number of affected patients (18.1 %, N = 19/105, p < 0.001) while the fewest patients were in H-SE (1 %, N = 1/100, p = 0.001). In addition, 82.5 %, (N = 501/607) of respondents wanted to be informed of alternative treatment options if there was a drug shortage without a generic substitute available. Majority of these patients (66.4 %, N = 386/501) prefer to be informed by a healthcare professional. Conclusions Although drug shortages led to serious medical consequences, our findings show that most of the patients did not perceive shortages as a problem. One possible interpretation is that good hospital management practices by healthcare professionals helped to mitigate the perceived impact of shortages. Our study highlights the importance of a good communication especially between patients and healthcare professionals in whom our patients have the greatest trust.

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Information preferences across species: Pigeons, rats, and dogs

Behavioural Processes ◽

10.1016/j.beproc.2019.104016 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 170 ◽

pp. 104016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Shayla M. Jackson ◽

Gordon Ka-Ho Lo ◽

Krista MacPherson ◽

Glynis K. Martin ◽

William A. Roberts

Keyword(s):

Information Preferences

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The News Gap: When the information preferences of the media and the public diverge

Digital Journalism ◽

10.1080/21670811.2014.944339 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 315-317

Author(s):

Wiebke Loosen

Keyword(s):

The Public ◽

Information Preferences ◽

The Media

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Neural Circuitry of Information Seeking

10.31234/osf.io/3qjpf ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ethan Bromberg-Martin ◽

Ilya E. Monosov

Keyword(s):

Basal Ganglia ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Neural Circuitry ◽

Uncertain Environments ◽

Information Preferences ◽

Motivated Behavior ◽

Uncertain Future ◽

The Brain ◽

Primary Reward ◽

Do So

Humans and animals navigate uncertain environments by seeking information about the future. Remarkably, we often seek information even when it has no instrumental value for aiding our decisions – as if the information is a source of value in its own right. In recent years, there has been a flourishing of research into these non-instrumental information preferences and their implementation in the brain. Individuals value information about uncertain future rewards, and do so for multiple reasons, including valuing resolution of uncertainty and overweighting desirable information. The brain motivates this information seeking by tapping into some of the same circuitry as primary rewards like food and water. However, it also employs cortex and basal ganglia circuitry that predicts and values information as distinct from primary reward. Uncovering how these circuits cooperate will be fundamental to understanding information seeking and motivated behavior as a whole, in our increasingly complex and information-rich world.

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Agricultural information preferences of Iowa crop producers

10.31274/rtd-20200616-50 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Melea Ann Reicks Licht

Keyword(s):

Information Preferences

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Application of IPK (Information, Preferences, Knowledge) Paradigm for the Modelling of Precautionary Principle Based Decision-Making

Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Critical Information Infrastructure Security ◽

10.1007/978-3-642-03552-4_30 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 319-327

Author(s):

Adam Maria Gadomski ◽

Tomasz Adam Zimny

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Precautionary Principle ◽

Information Preferences

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Effects of Regulatory Focus and Emotions on Information Preferences: The Affect-as-Information Perspective

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01397 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Xiaomei Wang ◽

Quanquan Zheng ◽

Jia Wang ◽

Yangli Gu ◽

Jiongying Li

Keyword(s):

Regulatory Focus ◽

Information Preferences

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Decisional involvement and information preferences of patients with hematologic malignancies

Blood Advances ◽

10.1182/bloodadvances.2020003044 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (21) ◽

pp. 5492-5500

Author(s):

Kah Poh Loh ◽

Mazie Tsang ◽

Thomas W. LeBlanc ◽

Anthony Back ◽

Paul R. Duberstein ◽

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Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Information Sources ◽

Treatment Success ◽

College Education ◽

Hematologic Malignancies ◽

Success Rates ◽

Multicenter Observational Study ◽

Information Preferences ◽

Factors Associated ◽

Common Information

Abstract Understanding decisional involvement and information preferences in patients with hematologic malignancies may help to optimize physician-patient communication about treatment decisions and align the decision-making processes with patients’ preferences. We described and examined factors associated with preferences of patients with hematologic malignancies for decisional involvement, information sources, and presentation of information. In a multicenter observational study, we recruited 216 patients with hematologic malignancies of any stage from September 2003 to June 2007. Patients were asked about their decisional involvement preferences (Control Preferences Scale), information sources (including most useful source of information), and preferences for their oncologists’ presentation of treatment success information. We used multivariate logistic regressions to identify factors associated with decisional involvement preferences and usefulness of information sources (physicians vs nonphysicians). Patient-directed, shared, and physician-directed approaches were preferred in 34%, 38%, and 28% of patients, respectively. Physicians and computer/Internet were the most common information sources; 42% perceived physicians as the most useful source. On multivariate analysis, patients with less than a college education (vs postgraduate education) were less likely to perceive their physician as the most useful source (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 0.46; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.21-1.00), whereas patients with acute leukemia (vs other blood cancers) were more likely to perceive their physician as the most useful source (AOR, 2.49; 95% CI, 1.07-5.80). In terms of communicating treatment success rates, 70% preferred ≥1 method(s), and 88% preferred presentation in percentages. Our study suggests that decisional involvement and information preferences vary and should be assessed explicitly as part of each decision-making encounter.

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