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- Effects of Electronic Media Messages on the Perceived Self-Efficacy of Pedestrian Commuters Living in the Unincorporated Central Florida Community of Conway.
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Stephens, Daniel, Yu, Chia-Yuan, Martin, Lawrence, Hawkins, Christopher, Seigler, Daniel, University of Central Florida
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Urban pedestrianism is increasingly perceived as a dangerous form of travel. While roadway design has been historically scaled to cars instead of people, planning professionals are now re-thinking their approach to make roads more inclusive for all travelers. Scholars, however, have learned harbored fear can trump behavior even under ideal travel conditions. Such fear can adversely impact perceived pedestrian self-efficacy, which is the self-generated internal assessment or belief in a...
Show moreUrban pedestrianism is increasingly perceived as a dangerous form of travel. While roadway design has been historically scaled to cars instead of people, planning professionals are now re-thinking their approach to make roads more inclusive for all travelers. Scholars, however, have learned harbored fear can trump behavior even under ideal travel conditions. Such fear can adversely impact perceived pedestrian self-efficacy, which is the self-generated internal assessment or belief in a traveler's agentive abilities to navigate the travel environment. The challenge thus becomes twofold: improve the built environment while bolstering traveler confidence. The following study, therefore, employed a qualitative phenomenological research design to ascertain the concerns and perceptions of vulnerable travelers as it pertained to and was affected by travel-specific media. The study employed denizens selected from the Central Florida community of Conway, who were interviewed using a multi-method approach employing a semi-structured interview technique utilizing individual interviews and small focus group sessions. Using Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) as the theoretical framework, the researcher studied and documented the elements contributing to the perceptions of pedestrian travelers. The rationale for this approach is found in the dynamic relationships that exist between the objective travel environment, the perceived travel environment, and travel behavior (-) all representing the triad of cognition, the external environment, and social stimuli, which encompass Bandura's Triadic Reciprocal Determinism (TRD). The four themes that emerged from the data analysis (-) communication, safety, cost, and happiness (-) characterize the experiences of the participants as they watched positively-themed media images modeling civil travel behavior. This research adds to existing literature on the magnitude such themes have on perception, to include latent perceptions harbored by pedestrian commuters concerning dangers (-) real or imagined (-) of traveling on local roadways.
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- 2018
- Identifier
- CFE0007376, ucf:52100
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- Document (PDF)
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- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007376
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- Predictors of hospital quality and efficiency.
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Fotovvat, Hoda, Wan, Thomas, Liu, Albert Xinliang, Ramirez, Bernardo, Yu, Chia-Yuan, University of Central Florida
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American hospitals have made serious efforts to implement and expand their health information technology capabilities and to integrate different specialized care or high-tech services in order to maximize the efficiency and quality of care. In providing a variety of HIT-related services, these hospitals expanded their national reputation in line with integrated care goals. As a result, hospitals are encouraged to establish effective communication channels to facilitate patient-physician...
Show moreAmerican hospitals have made serious efforts to implement and expand their health information technology capabilities and to integrate different specialized care or high-tech services in order to maximize the efficiency and quality of care. In providing a variety of HIT-related services, these hospitals expanded their national reputation in line with integrated care goals. As a result, hospitals are encouraged to establish effective communication channels to facilitate patient-physician sharing of the patient care experience, to enhance effective pain management, and to transform patient-centered care modalities to solidify the adequacy of patient care processes. By analyzing national data sets publicly available, this investigation explored the relationship of acute-care hospitals' performance to the contextual, organizational and patient characteristics, using a cross-sectional study design. This study developed and evaluated the quality and efficiency of hospitals with respects to the structural complexity, process adequacy, efficiency, and quality of care. The structure-process-outcome theory in quality of care developed by Donabedian (1980), is adopted for this investigation. Statistical methods such as confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and covariance structure model are employed. The population surveyed by the American Hospital Association (AHA) are acute care hospitals throughout the United States, including more than 3000 acute care hospitals of all types of ownership. The data provided by HIMSS Analytics and AHA are available for 2015 and the data provided CMS quality indicators are available for 2016. The key finding of this research is that process adequacy mediates the relationship between hospital structure and performance variables. The efficiency variable played an important role in shaping quality. The location and hospital teaching status have a moderate impact in determining hospital performance by affecting the structure and process of hospitals.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2019
- Identifier
- CFE0007888, ucf:52796
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- Document (PDF)
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- http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007888