Exploring Women’s Experiences of Amniocentesis: A Qualitative Content Analysis by Jaruwan Kownaklai, Umaporn Kuasit, Nanthiya Thaicharoen

“…Background: The decision and experience of high-risk pregnant women to undergo amniocentesis can depend on their setting, context, social structures, and significant others, including cultural values and beliefs. What is less understood is women’s experience with decision-making, which may contribute to their anxiety during and after amniocentesis. …”
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Influencing Holistic Health Policy by Erica Bell

“…Beliefs that health policy-making is an inherently ‘ideological’ or ‘irrational’ process appear to have worked to prevent researchers from developing better understandings of the kind of evidence that does work to influence policy. …”
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Linking One Health to 3R. Culture of Care as a bridge towards Russell and Burch's highest goal: Replacement by Katharina Ameli, Eva Raimann, Jaqueline Krüger, Stephanie Krämer

“… Animal testing has long been ethically controversial, initially due to religious and cultural beliefs and increasingly because of the obvious suffering inflicted. …”
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Sectarian and Secular: Lay Perspectives in <i>Stūpa</i> Burials at Mount Zhongnan During the Tang Dynasty (AD 618–906) by Wen Sun

“…People’s interpretation of <i>stūpas</i>—whether they were clergy or lay followers—varied based on their distinct social contexts, living circumstances, and religious beliefs. This article examines lay participation in the <i>stūpa</i> forest at Mount Zhongnan in Chang’an during the seventh and eighth centuries, drawing primarily on inscriptions evidence. …”
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Individual, collective and contextual dimensions of sustainable lifestyle change in daily life contexts: an integrated perspective by Eugenio De Gregorio, Giuseppe Carrus, Christian Andreas Klöckner, Erica Löfström, Lassi Similä, Michael Brenner-Fliesser

“…., attitudes, values, beliefs, intentions, emotions, connection to nature, etc.); (2) Collective level factors (as typically present and discussed in the social psychology and sociology literature; e.g., social capital, social norms, social and place identity, sense of community, place attachment, energy memories &amp; energy cultures); (3) Contextual factors (as typically present and discussed in the environmental science and economic literature; e.g., regulations, technology, infrastructures, economic resources, etc.). …”
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BIM Adoption in Construction Companies of Tehran Province, Using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) by Sahar Taheripour, Mojtaba Azizi, Ehsanallah Eshtehardian

“…The research findings showed that if people imagine using BIM in their minds and beliefs more easily, they think it is useful. Both of these variables lead to a greater intention to adopt BIM technology.Originality/Value: The study indicates that improving the BIM adoption status in the Iranian construction industry may be possible by strengthening individual and behavioural dimensions to further BIM adoption.…”
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Food Taboos and Cultural Resilience: A Study on the Role of Rice Prohibition in Maintaining Food Security and Ecological Sustainability by Putri Anditasari, Rika Dilawati, Farhan Agung Ahmadi, Hendrawangsyah Hendrawangsyah

“…The study found that the food taboos in Cireundeu are deeply connected to the community's historical resistance to colonisation and their religious beliefs in Sunda Wiwitan. These taboos serve as a cultural safeguard and a strategy for ensuring food resilience by relying on cassava as a staple crop. …”
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Cancer, Health Literacy, and Happiness: Perspectives from Patients under Chemotherapy by Sara Maria Oliveira Pinto, Sílvia Maria Alves Caldeira Berenguer, José Carlos Amado Martins

“…Information about their health condition and religious beliefs was important coping mechanisms to help dealing with the suffering caused by the disease. …”
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Introduction, Analysis, and Critique for Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory by Maryam Saneapour, Amir Sadeghi

“…The global communication and information in 21st  century needs global  tolerance and respect of various nations, cultures, and moralities together because different people and societies have a common  human nature and common natural rights that obligate to justice and moral relationship between  different people and  various societies’ beliefs throughout the world. Moral communication in multiculturalism approach is against racial, gender, national, and ethnic prejudice. …”
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The management of body dysmorphic disorder in adolescents: A systematic literature review by Ghosh Tania, Blair Erik

“…Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a pathological body dissatisfaction characterised by delusional beliefs of a flaw in appearance paired with obsessive-compulsive rituals. …”
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Investment and Saving Among House Hold in Kabale District: A Case Study of Kitumba Sub-County Kabale District. by Aturinde, Annitor

“…Factors influencing saving and investment decisions included financial literacy, religious beliefs, income levels, age, risk tolerance, employment type, family size, rationality in decision-making, and education levels. …”
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Psychosocial factors are associated with community mobility and participation in persons with dizziness by Pamela M. Dunlap, Jeffrey P. Staab, Patrick J. Sparto, Patrick J. Sparto, Joseph M. Furman, Susan L. Whitney, Susan L. Whitney

“…To determine the associations between baseline anxiety and depression symptoms, fear avoidance, catastrophizing beliefs and mobility and disability measures, we used simple linear regression and repeated measures ANOVA. …”
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Social constructions of “being faithful” among university students and the implications for their reception of partner-fidelity messages by Abraham Mulwo, Keyan Grey Tomaselli, L Dalrymple

“…The study points out the need for the development of social communication programmes so as to generate spaces within which socially created meanings, beliefs and values can be renegotiated. …”
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The 3Cs in Volunteerism: Proposing a Model of Service-Learning in Education by Edwin B. Estrera

“…Following the domains of affiliation, beliefs, career development, and egoism, findings revealed that the volunteer motivations among high school students primarily relate to civics, while college students are motivated by both civics and career development. …”
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Self-actualisation and life-purpose orientations of students with different hierarchy of values by I. A. Bakushkin, I. M. Ilicheva

“…It was empirically proved that value orientations being a general meaningfulness of life are associated with its perception as a holistic process and with such features of self-actualisation as goals, beliefs, attitudes, and principles. Consequently, in the first group of students, behaviour and values depended on external evaluation and guidance, and due to the fact that attitudes to values are formed at a given time and in certain conditions, students being the subjects cannot control their life. …”
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The Stigma and Self-Stigma Scales for attitudes to mental health problems: Psychometric properties and its relationship to mental health problems and absenteeism. by Alys E. Docksey, Nicola S. Gray, Helen B. Davies, Nicola Simkiss, Robert J. Snowden

“…The Stigma and Self-Stigma scales (SASS) measure multiple aspects of stigmatic beliefs about mental health problems, including cognitive aspects of stigma towards others (Stigma to Others) and emotional stigma toward others (Social Distance), anticipated stigma by others, self-stigma, avoidant coping strategies, and help-seeking intentions, alongside an index of social desirability. …”
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Antivaccine, denialist, and conspiracy theorist content on Facebook. An analysis of the No to the New World Order page by Julio C. Aguila Sanchez, Carmen Castillo Rocha, Ángel R. Vargas Valencia

“…Antivaccine, denialist, and conspiracy ideas are generally part of an ecosystem of beliefs reinforcing each other. With the advent of covid-19, these ideas figure among the main disinformation contents of counter-official discourses. …”
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Factors Associated with Successful Mentoring of Parents Addressing Childhood Obesity: A Mixed Methods Approach by Gabriela Abigail Villanueva, Byron Alexander Foster

“…Parent mentees completed a survey assessing their self-efficacy, perception of the parent mentor, and attitudes and beliefs related to their child’s weight. Results. …”
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EMI Dynamics: An Empirical Study on Students’ Perspectives at Tertiary Level in Türkiye by Özçelik Arzu Ekoç, Kavanoz Suzan, Yılmaz Selahattin

“…Utilizing the culturally and linguistically adapted form of Yeh’s (2014) EMI questionnaire, the study focused on students’ backgrounds, motivations, and attitudes towards EMI courses, challenges, learning strategies, and beliefs about EMI policies. The findings indicate generally positive attitudes towards EMI. …”
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Understanding the connection between hospital goals and patient and family engagement: A scoping review. by Umair Majid, Carolyn Steele Gray, Marianne Saragosa, Pia Kontos, Kerry Kuluski

“…This is often reflected in mission, vision, and value (MVV) statements, which are organizational artifacts intended to influence the attitudes, beliefs, and actions of hospital teams and employees because of their saliency in organizational documents and communications. …”
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