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PURPOSE: To assess how previous experiences and new information contributed to COVID-19 vaccine intentions. DESIGN: Online survey (N = 1264) with quality checks. SETTING: Cross-sectional U.S. survey fielded June 22-July 18, 2020. SAMPLE: U.S. residents 18+; quotas reflecting U.S. Census, limited to English speakers participating in internet panels. MEASURES: Media literacy for news content and sources, COVID-19 knowledge; perceived usefulness of health experts; if received flu vaccine in past 12 months; vaccine willingness scale; demographics. ANALYSIS: Structural equation modelling. RESULTS: Perceived usefulness of health experts (b = .422, P < .001) and media literacy (b = .162, P < .003) predicted most variance in vaccine intentions (R-squared=31.5%). A significant interaction (b = .163, P < .001) between knowledge (b = -.132, P = .052) and getting flu shot (b = .185, P < .001) predicted additional 3.5% of the variance in future vaccine intentions. An increase in knowledge of COVID-19 associated with a decrease in vaccine intention among those declining the flu shot. CONCLUSION: The interaction result suggests COVID-19 knowledge had a positive association with vaccine intention for flu shot recipients but a counter-productive association for those declining it. Media literacy and trust in health experts provided strong counterbalancing influences. Survey-based findings are correlational; thus, predictions are based on theory. Future research should study these relationships with panel data or experimental designs.
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Social media has changed the way individuals and institutions approach healthcare and health information and offers opportunities to understand health-related interactions at all levels, from the micro to the macro. The Social Media and Healthcare Technology mini-track presents research papers that address a diverse array of social media and associated technology within healthcare and healthcare research;including macro analytics, text and data mining and the role of social media platforms and influencers in health care and health-related decision making. © 2022 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
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Guest loyalty has great effect on their satisfaction as well as it helps to increase the efficiency, and it leads to improved profit and sale of hotel and create positive impact on customers. Loyalty is a long-Term commitment which helps to stand the business in market for a long time and make business successful. Hospitality industry is the one of the fastest and largest job generating and revenue generating industry in among all sectors. In hospitality industry, employees come with the contact with guest either in front of the house (Front Office F and B service) or back of the house (Food Production Housekeeping) and perform their duties in the best professional way. Customer satisfaction is one of the important objectives to sustain the guest loyalty for repetition. In this research primary data was collected and it belongs to empirical research. Data were collected from the UttrakahndGarhwal region and the major cities covered are Mansoori, Dehradun, Rishikesh and Haridwar. The findings of this study are how customer retention/loyalty relates to the recommendation to the others in addition with the overall outlets performance. The study defines the impact of the overall behavioral variables related to F and B outlets in relation to the satisfaction. The research was conducted with the help of online offline filled questionnaires with the population size of 110. The population covered the regular travelers who have visited any of the Hotels and stayed at least for one night. The data was analyzed by using correlation, ANOVAs and T-Test. The study has reflected the Gap in constraint of the data collection and the COVID-19 Government guidelines. © 2022 IEEE.
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Public communication has become more important to higher education institutions (HEIs), with many HEIs using social media to communicate with stakeholders. However, scholarship on the subject is scarce and mainly based on single-platform studies and small datasets. Therefore, we conducted a cross‐platform study to examine the communication of all Swiss HEIs on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The results were based on two datasets: an automated analysis on data for all Swiss HEIs (n = 42) and their social media accounts from 2004 to 2021 (337,232 posts from 207 accounts), and a manual content analysis on 1,500 posts per platform. By including all HEIs in one country, this study allowed for a comparison of the results by HEI type: universities of applied sciences, universities of teacher education, and research universities. Results show that, in recent years, HEI communication increased on Instagram, but not on Facebook or Twitter. Twitter was used the most by research universities, while most Instagram and Facebook posts were from universities of applied sciences. Universities of teacher education were least active across all platforms. The content of communication across all HEI types was primarily self‐referential. Our analysis of how well HEIs used the affordances of social media communication relative to hypertextuality and multimodality revealed a generally high level of adaption. Moreover, our data showed no substantial impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on posting activities and engagement with social media posts by HEIs for the two first years of the pandemic. © 2023 by the author(s);licensee Cogitatio Press (Lisbon, Portugal).
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Purpose: The globe has experienced a devastating COVID-19 pandemic, putting the planet under lockdown and causing social alienation. The near collapse of social and economic activities is disrupting the supply chain. Customer-required products were in low supply across the world. A slew of new digital firms springs up to fill the need during this time. This study aims to reach a holistic goal by better understanding customers' digitalisation behaviour. The first step is to review existing consumer digital psychology research to map this study's current knowledge of the pandemic's early and late phases and the impact of digital businesses on consumer behaviour. Finally, it provides lawmakers with a future agenda for limiting the digital psychology of consumers and enterprises. Design/methodology/approach: This study used the Scopus and Web of Science databases to extract records to follow the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses statement. The final 57 papers were applied after the screening process. The digital environment, psychological digitalisation and behavioural changes were recognised as three primary classes based on a comprehensive examination of the previous literature. This study identified possible difficulties in earlier literature: the scarcity of collaborative and transdisciplinary research on digital psychology, which various academics have emphasised in the past. On the other hand, these investigations were primarily conducted in the psychological surroundings of technology users. Findings: According to this study, digital psychology has improved significantly during the pandemic and many new digital start-ups have arisen. This study also used digital research to create a framework for a pandemic strategic response plan to help minimise the current COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future outbreaks. Originality/value: The study mapped existing literature on digital psychology alterations because of the novel COVID-19 outbreak. © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.
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With the development of COVID-19, more and more courses begin to be transferred to online teaching. The OMO teaching mode that focuses on offline teaching within a certain period of time and completes online teaching interaction at a later stage has become a trend. Based on the current teaching practice of music education in Colleges and universities, the paper combines teaching with Internet new media technology under the current environmental situation, realizes the new mode of offline and online joint teaching, realizes student-centered unlimited learning, completes the informatization and real-Time teaching, and improves the teaching results. © 2022 ACM.
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Physicians, who have been taught to put the needs of others before their own and not take time for themselves, are finally recognizing and acknowledging the importance of self care1–4 Taking a photo every day, termed daily digital photography, is a simple, accessible practice that can be easily implemented by clinicians as a practical, daily, stress-relieving, self care strategy. Even busy physicians can access their cellphones for brief self care breaks, snap, and share a quick photo and view calming nature photos.5,6 Taking daily photos is one of the quickest and most accessible self-care strategies. With over 85% of adults in the United States carrying smartphones,7 a great majority of the population has readily-available self care tools literally in their pockets (or bags). Today's phones are portable wellness devices with multiple apps that can be accessed regularly for well-being check-in's. With built-in cameras, smartphones can be used for taking stress-reducing, wellness-enhancing digital photographs. This new media technology gives anyone with a smartphone the potential of being a photographer. When linked with other beneficial activities like walking, getting out in nature, creativity, mindfulness, and connecting with friends and family, daily digital photography becomes a highly effective, creative practice to improve well-being, relieve stress, and cope with everyday challenges.8–12 The numerous health benefits of photography and taking photos have been researched in different populations. In the health field, photography has been studied with nursing and medical students,13,14 and with patients. Some patient groups studied include those with cancer,15 with HIV or AIDS,16,17 with dementia,18,19 and with mental health diagnoses.20 Therapeutic photography has successfully been used for many years with veterans in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, military sexual trauma, and other mental illnesses.21–26 During the Covid-19 pandemic, different types of photography projects were undertaken with medical and nursing students,13,14 used by photographers,27–30 and the public31–34 as supportive practices to promote connection, facilitate well-being, improve mental health, share coping strategies, and provide encouragement in challenging times. The purpose of this article is to inspire readers to take daily photographs with their cellphones as a simple, intentional, self care strategy to decrease stress and improve overall well-being. Using the built-in camera found on their readily-accessible smartphone, clinicians can calm, create, connect, and participate in daily self care by posting a photo (or more) everyday. © 2022 Elsevier Inc.
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ICT (information and communication technologies) have become a necessary educational resource and their use has become a daily occurrence in classrooms at different educational stages, even more so with the COVID-19 crisis. This relevance increases when it comes to disability, as ICTs become a tool for educational and social inclusion. Inclusion, technology, and teacher training are interrelated aspects, although they have hardly been analyzed in previous research. The aim of this paper is to analyze the situation regarding these aspects. To this end, a methodology based on uni- and bivariate analysis of six dimensions of a scale previously validated in other studies is used. The main results indicate that knowledge about disability and ICT is not sufficient;that knowledge about both aspects is greater among university teachers;and that in terms of gender and age differences, men and younger or less experienced teachers are more prepared and motivated. In short, the study is new in that it provides an accurate picture of the situation of teachers at all stages of education in technology and disability.
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Physicians, who have been taught to put the needs of others before their own and not take time for themselves, are finally recognizing and acknowledging the importance of self care1–4 Taking a photo every day, termed daily digital photography, is a simple, accessible practice that can be easily implemented by clinicians as a practical, daily, stress-relieving, self care strategy. Even busy physicians can access their cellphones for brief self care breaks, snap, and share a quick photo and view calming nature photos.5,6 Taking daily photos is one of the quickest and accessible self-care strategies. With over 85% of adults in the United States carrying smartphones,7 a great majority of the population has readily-available self care tools literally in their pockets (or bags). Today's phones are portable wellness devices with multiple apps that can be accessed regularly for well-being check-in's. With built-in cameras, smartphones can be used for taking stress-reducing, wellness-enhancing digital photographs. This new media technology gives anyone with a smartphone the potential of being a photographer. When linked with other beneficial activities like walking, getting out in nature, creativity, mindfulness, and connecting with friends and family, daily digital photography becomes a highly effective, creative practice to improve well-being, relieve stress, and cope with everyday challenges.8–12 The numerous health benefits of photography and taking photos have been researched in different populations. In the health field, photography has been studied with nursing and medical students,13,14 and with patients. Some patient groups studied include those with cancer,15 with HIV or AIDS,16,17 with dementia,18,19 and with mental health diagnoses.20 Therapeutic photography has successfully been used for some time with veterans in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, military sexual trauma, and other mental illnesses.21–26 During the Covid-19 pandemic, different types of photography projects were undertaken with medical and nursing students,13,14 used by photographers,27–30 and the public31–34 as supportive practices to promote connection, facilitate well-being, improve mental health, share coping strategies, and provide encouragement in challenging times. The purpose of this article is to inspire readers to take daily photographs with their cellphones as a simple, intentional, self care strategy to decrease stress and improve overall well-being. Using the built-in camera found on their readily-accessible smartphone, clinicians can calm, create, connect, and participate in daily self care by posting a photo (or more) everyday.
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India's education sector is being impacted by COVID-19 in unprecedented ways. The pandemic is disrupting the traditional education system, affecting over 320 million students. This sector is trying to develop robust, innovative approaches to foster a paradigm shift toward digital education. These efforts are being supplemented with the launch of quality-focused multilingual educational applications (apps). Parents are also swiftly adopting a variety of e-learning apps. This research addresses the role of advertisements to empower parents to be educated consumers for educational apps for children. The purposeful sample data were collected from 307 parents of students from the top 10 ICSE (Indian Certificate of Secondary Education) and CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) schools in Urban India. The findings indicate that advertising media accelerates the diffusion of educational technology and apps among parents. However, it does not help in overcoming insecurities that parents may have regarding these apps for their children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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OBJECTIVE: Because of the pandemic, electronic communication between patients and clinicians has taken on increasing significance in the delivery of cancer care. The study explored personal, clinical, and technology factors predicting cancer survivors' electronic communication with clinicians. METHODS: Data for this investigation came from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS5, Cycle 2) that included 593 respondents who previously or currently had cancer. Multivariate regression analyses were used to predict electronic communication with clinicians. Predictors included demographic variables and health status, technology use (online health information-seeking behavior, tracking of health-related data such as using a Fitbit), and quality of past communication experiences with clinicians. RESULTS: In this pre COVID-19 sample, 42 % respondents (N = 252) did not engage in any type of electronic communication (e.g., emailing, texting, data sharing) with providers. In multivariate analyses, predictors of more electronic communication with clinicians included frequency of seeking health-related information online (ß = .267, p < .001) and better communication experiences with clinicians (ß = .028, p = .034), while no demographic variable showed significance. The technology use variables (online health information seeking, health tracking) were significantly higher predictors of electronic communication with clinicians (ΔR2 = .142, p < .001) than was past experiences with clinicians (ΔR2 = .029, p = .016). CONCLUSIONS: Access and past experience with interactive media technologies are strong predictors of cancer patients' electronic communication than with clinicians. Adoption of telehealth technology likely depends as much on patients' relationships with technology as it does their relationships with clinicians. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Since Covid-19, cancer care providers have turned to telehealth provide patients with needed cancer care services. Enhancing patients' digital competence and experience with electronic communication will help them more easily navigate telehealth care. Providers can leverage their relationship with patients to facilitate more effective use of telehealth services.