ABSTRACT
This study examined how emotional proximity and gender affect people's information requirements when someone that they know is chronically or critically ill. In an online study, participants were asked what information they would want to receive about members of their social network in three categories: someone who was very close, someone who was not so close, and someone who was not close at all. Our results show that the information that people want can be predicted from their gender and emotional proximity to the network member. The closer the relationship with the patient, the more information people want. Women want more information than men. We propose a model for the socially intelligent communication of health information across the social network, and discuss areas for its application.
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Disclosure , Interpersonal Relations , Adult , Analysis of Variance , Critical Illness/psychology , Family/psychology , Female , Hospitalization , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Object Attachment , Social Support , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
Hospital security must always focus on the need to protect essential healthcare facilities and provide a safe environment for staff and visitors. This can seem like a tall order for organisations struggling to maintain essential public services with finite resources and it is understandable that decisions about security spending can present difficult choices, reports Alex Carmichael, British Security Industry Association technical and membership services director.
