Readiness Model Research Articles

Kesiapan Masyarakat Lokal dalam Pengembangan Desa Carangsari sebagai Desa Wisata di Kabupaten Badung

This study aims to determine the level of readiness of the local community in the development of Carangsari Village as a tourist village in Badung Regency, using quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data collection used survey techniques, interviews, and documentation. A total of 98 respondents were obtained using purposive accidental sampling technique, and the determination of informants was carried out using snowball sampling technique, by first determining key informants. Data were analyzed descriptively using the community readiness model. The results showed that the readiness level of Carangsari Village scored 7.8 and was at the preparation stage. This means that the local community of Carangsari Village is still in the preparation stage to carry out efforts to develop a tourist village, with leadership characteristics and the availability of information in Carangsari Village already classified as good. However, community involvement and cooperation with other stakeholders still cannot improve community readiness in the development of tourism villages. The dimension of readiness that has the highest score of 9.4 is leadership, while the dimension with the lowest score of 5.4 is community efforts.

Entrepreneurial Readiness of Young Muslim Entrepreneurs: The Role of Need for Achievement, Family Support, and Entrepreneurial Interest

Entrepreneurial readiness for young entrepreneurs, especially Muslim entrepreneurs, is a challenge in the current era. Intense competition and increasing competitors are the cause of the need for entrepreneurial readiness among young Muslim entrepreneurs to compete with experienced entrepreneurs. This study aims to design and test the suitability (goodness of fit) theoretical model of the influence of the need for achievement, family support, and interest in entrepreneurship on entrepreneurial readiness supported by empirical data in the field. This study uses a quantitative approach with a sample of 106 young Muslim entrepreneurs in Yogyakarta. This research uses a purposive sampling technique in the entrepreneurial group. Sample characteristics include samples belonging to the young entrepreneur community, aged between 18-30 years, business experience of less than three years, Muslim and 106 research samples were obtained. The data were analyzed using Partial Least Squared (PLS) SmartPLS version 3.3.9. The results showed that the entrepreneurial readiness model proposed in the study was based on empirical data in the field. Partially, the need for achievement, family support, and interest in entrepreneurship have a positive and significant influence on entrepreneurial readiness. Based on the results of the analysis, it is concluded that the model is acceptable to explain the influence of the need for achievement, family support, and entrepreneurial interest on entrepreneurial readiness, which provides an effective contribution of 58.7 percent.

Exploring the Needs of Electricity in Indonesian Rural Area: A Community Readiness Model Approach

Exploring the Needs of Electricity in Indonesian Rural Area: A Community Readiness Model Approach

Development and Validation of a Ready-to-Talk Measure for Use in Adolescents and Young Adults Living With Advanced Cancer.

In the era of evolving and emerging therapies, adolescents and young adults (AYAs) living with advanced cancer experience a high degree of uncertainty, making palliative care and end-of-life (PCEOL) discussions difficult. Clinical conversations determine values/preferences that guide shared decision-making and goals of treatment, including end-of-life care when cancer progresses. Initiating PCEOL conversations is challenging for clinicians. This study describes the development and validation of an instrument that measures AYA readiness to engage in PCEOL clinical conversations. A Ready-to-Talk Measure (R-T-M) was developed, guided by the revised conceptual model of readiness across 3 domains (awareness, acceptance, and willingness). Content experts evaluated validity, and 13 AYAs with advanced cancer participated in cognitive interviews. Acceptability (item applicability, clarity, interpretation, sensitivity, missingness) and experiences (benefit, burden) were analyzed. The scale content validity index was ≥0.90 for each domain. Forty-two of the 55 R-T-M items were acceptable without any change. Three items were deleted. Ten items were modified, and 3 were added. Adolescents and young adults wanted more items about friends/siblings and about AYA unique qualities for clinicians to know them better. Adolescents and young adults acknowledged benefit through talking about difficult, relevant topics. Ready-to-Talk Measure validity was strengthened by deleting or modifying unclear or misinterpreted items and by adding items. Next steps include psychometric analysis to determine reliability/dimensionality and stakeholder input to make the R-T-M a clinically useful tool. Ready-to-Talk Measure assessment of readiness to engage in PCEOL conversations while identifying unique preferences of AYAs holds promise for facilitating ongoing discussions.

A Conceptual Model of Individual Clinical Readiness.

Force readiness is a priority among senior leaders across all branches of the Department of Defense. Units that do not achieve readiness benchmarks are considered non-deployable until the unit achieves the requisite benchmarks. Because military units are made up of individuals, the unit cannot be ready if the individuals within the unit are not ready. For medical personnel, this refers to one's ability to competently provide patient care in a deployed setting or their individual clinical readiness (ICR). A review of the literature found no conceptual model of ICR. Other potential concepts, such as individual medical readiness, were identified but used inconsistently. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to define ICR and propose a conceptual model to inform future efforts to achieve ICR and facilitate future study of the concept. Model development occurred using a 3-step theoretical model synthesis process. The process included specification of key concepts, identification of related factors and relationships, and organizing them into an integrated network of ideas. ICR is the clinically oriented service members' (COSM) ability to meet the demands of the militarily relevant, assigned clinical mission. ICR leads to one's "individual clinical performance," a key concept distinct from ICR. To understand ICR, one must account for "individual characteristics," as well as one's "education," "training," and "exposure." ICR and individual clinical performance are influenced by the "quality of exposure" and the "patient care environment." One's "individual clinical performance" also reciprocally influences the patient care environment, as well as the "team's clinical performance." These factors (individual clinical performance, team clinical performance, and the patient care environment) influence "patient outcomes." In the proposed model, patient outcomes are an indirect result of ICR and its antecedents (personal characteristics, education, training, and exposure); one's individual clinical performance may not be consistent with their ICR. Patient outcomes are also influenced by the "patient environment" (external to the health care environment) and "patient characteristics"; these elements of the model do not influence ICR or individual clinical performance. Force readiness is a Department of Defense priority. In order for military units to be deployment ready, so too must their personnel be deployment ready. For COSMs, this includes one's ability to competently provide patient care in a deployed setting or their ICR. This article defines ICR, as well as identifies another key concept and other factors associated with ICR. The proposed model is a tool for military medical leaders to communicate with and influence non-medical military leaders in the Department of Defense. Future research is needed to further refine the proposed model, determine the strength of the proposed relationships, and identify interventions to improve ICR.

Analisis Model Digital Forensic Readiness Index (Difri) Terhadap Serangan Malware

The increasing number of malware spread in the world today, then there will be more opportunities to commit crime, so readiness is needed for every internet user in dealing with these crimes. The readiness to handle crime is called digital forensic readiness. Therefore, we need a specific digital forensic readiness model to measure the level of readiness of internet users or institutions in achieving malware attacks. This model has the main components used to determine or calculate the level of readiness of internet users or institutions, the main components are the strategy component, the policy & procedure component, the technology & security component, the digital forensic response component, the control & legality component. The calculation method used in this study is a Likert Scale, with this method the results will be obtained that are closer to the real situation. The value / index of readiness level obtained will provide recommendations to internet users and these recommendations can be used to make improvements properly and on target.

Readiness for Implemented Sustainable Procurement in Indonesian Government Construction Project

Procurement is the process of obtaining goods and services in a construction project and is a crucial point for the success of a design and build (DB) project. The success of a DB project has an effect on work performance metrics such as cost, quality, and time. Therefore, this research aims to develop a readiness model for implementing sustainable procurement in a DB project with a financing system in the state/regional budget (APBN/APBD). By using previous literature reviews, this research adopted a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods. Specifically, the qualitative method was conducted using in-depth interviews, and conclusions were drawn using the Delphi method and focus group discussion (FGD). Meanwhile, the quantitative method was used to analyze secondary data from the current DB project in order to examine sustainable procurement. The projects examined were spread across the country and had a value of at least 100 billion. Consequently, the results showed that various factors influenced sustainable procurement in the DB management project. In addition, this research impacted better procurement management in the DB project based on APBN/APBD funding, thereby increasing project productivity and innovation, as well as other beneficial values to stakeholders. Typically, the result could be used as a readiness model for implementing sustainable procurement in a DB project with APBN/APBD funding schemes, serving as a guide for construction management in the future and being useful for decision making on government projects.

Physical activity to address mental health in a remote Australian community: community readiness assessment

PurposeThe mental and physical health of those residing in Australian rural and remote communities is poorer compared to major cities. Physical health comorbidities contribute to almost 80% of premature mortality for people living with mental illness. Leisure time physical activity (LTPA) is a well-established intervention to improve physical and mental health. To address the physical and mental health of rural and remote communities through LTPA, the community’s level of readiness should be first determined. This study aims to use the community readiness model (CRM) to explore community readiness in a remote Australian community to address mental health through LTPA.Design/methodology/approachIndividual semi-structured interviews were conducted using the CRM on LTPA to address mental health. Quantitative outcomes scored the community’s stage of readiness for LTPA programmes to address mental health using the CRM categories of one (no awareness) to nine (high level of community ownership). Qualitative outcomes were thematically analysed, guided by Braun and Clark.FindingsThe community scored six (initiation) for community efforts and knowledge of LTPA programmes and seven (stabilisation) for leadership. The community’s attitude towards LTPA and resources for programmes scored four (pre-planning), and knowledge of LTPA scored three (vague awareness).Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first Australian study to use CRM to examine community readiness to use LTPA to improve mental health in a remote community. The CRM was shown to be a useful tool to identify factors for intervention design that might optimise community empowerment in using LTPA to improve mental health at the community level.

Using Empirical Information to Prioritize Early Literacy Assessment and Instruction in Preschool and Kindergarten

Early literacy skill development predicts later reading success, and development of skills in specific domains during the preschool years has been established as both a prerequisite and precursory for reading. Early literacy assessments typically include measures of separate skills across domains, and results can assist with determining where instructions may be most needed. When multiple areas of need are identified, understanding which skills to prioritize can be a challenge. Therefore, empirically identifying the relative contribution of each skill measured in preschool to subsequent reading success can promote more efficient systems of assessment. This study, conducted in the United States, examined the predictive validity of early literacy skills measured in preschool compared to skills measured in kindergarten, with a specific practical focus on identifying the most efficient predictive model for understanding reading readiness. Participants were 119 preschoolers (mean age = 66 months) who mostly spoke English as their primary language (79%). Results indicated early literacy and language skills in preschool are highly predictive of early reading in kindergarten, accounting for 59% of the variance in a reading composite score. The most parsimonious model indicated that first sounds, letter sounds, early comprehension, and expressive vocabulary measures adequately explained 52% of the variance in children’s kindergarten reading performance.

Assessment of Community Readiness to Address Malnutrition in Rural Southwest Guatemala

AbstractBackgroundMalnutrition is prevalent throughout southwest Guatemala, where >40% of children suffer from chronic undernutrition. Evidence supports that assessing a community's awareness and readiness to address malnutrition is a critical first step in improving the success of a nutrition intervention program. The objective of this study was to apply the community readiness model (CRM) to assess community readiness to address childhood malnutrition in a rural southwest region of Guatemala.MethodsThirteen key respondents of varied social roles and demographics residing in the region were interviewed. Interview questions related to addressing malnutrition were from the following predefined dimensions: Community Efforts, Community Knowledge of Efforts, Leadership, Community Climate, Community Knowledge, and Resources for Efforts. Interview recordings and notes were analyzed and scored according to the CRM guidelines, and a standardized analysis was conducted.ResultsThe overall community readiness score was 4.26 (preplanning: awareness of the issue). Community Efforts had a total score of 5 (Preparation: preparing to take action on the issue). Community Knowledge of Efforts, Community Climate, Community Knowledge, and Resources for Efforts Dimensions each had a total score of 4 (Preplanning: awareness of the issue). The overall score for the Leadership dimension was 2 (Denial/resistance: belief that the problem does not exist within the community). These scores demonstrate clear recognition for action to address childhood malnutrition as a problem. However, efforts to combat childhood malnutrition are not yet focused nor detailed for community action.ConclusionsThis rural southwest region of Guatemala recognizes that childhood malnutrition is a problem. However, efforts to address malnutrition are not yet focused or detailed enough to have measurable impact in addressing this issue. For the region to advance the stage of community readiness, it is essential to enhance knowledge of dietary strategies aimed at improving nutrition for children and increase engagement from local leadership.

Ready or Not: A Conceptual Model of Organizational Readiness for Embedded Pragmatic Dementia Research.

The National Institute on Aging Alzheimer's Disease/Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Research Implementation Milestones emphasize the need for implementation research that maximizes up-take and scale-up of evidence-based dementia care practices across settings, diverse populations, and disease trajectories. Organizational readiness for implementation is a salient consideration when planning and conducting embedded pragmatic trials, in which interventions are implemented by provider staff. The current article examines the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of organizational readiness for implementation and the operationalization of this construct. We offer a preliminary conceptual model for explicating and measuring organizational readiness and describe the unique characteristics and demands of implementing evidence-based interventions targeting persons with dementia and/or their care partners. [Research in Gerontological Nursing, 17(3), 149-160.].

A Conceptual Framework of E-Takaful Participation Readiness (ETPR) among Individuals at Insurable Age in Malaysia

Malaysians need more savings and a critical financial backup to protect themselves from adversity. Hence, a call for a digital platform is vital to further reach out in the current economic situation. The phenomenal growth of B2C e-commerce, particularly after the pandemic, has impacted almost every industry, including banking and financial services. This research suggests an integrated model of E-Takaful Participation Readiness (ETPR). However, academic research on digital takaful is still in its early stages. Most academics focus on technology and ignore the takaful institutions adopting it. Past studies have explored the topic of e-banking readiness, but limited studies have focused on its relation to the takaful area. This study is a pioneer in examining consumer participation readiness for e-takaful services, particularly during the digital shift process due to the pandemic. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for e-takaful adoption. Takaful institutions can use the proposed framework as a starting point for implementing e-takaful, and scholars can use it to expand, refine, and evaluate takaful technology (Takatech) research. The findings of this study can be shared with takaful industry stakeholders and regulatory bodies to help them develop innovative marketing strategies and customer-centric takaful products.

An AI Model for Digital Forensic Readiness in the Cloud using Secure Access Service Edge

Computing infrastructure has evolved and has brought about changes to the ways that work and business are carried out. Cloud computing has redefined these workspaces by providing connectivity and tools to enable productivity, collaboration, and flexibility. As work moves outside the centralised office and goes remote, users are accessing the cloud directly, leaving the protection of the corporate network and leaving the users’ computing platforms open to threats. In the pre-cloud era, the data centre for organisations was the single location where digital assets would be housed and non-complicated security parameters implemented. The firewall would be the main security perimeter implemented to secure the network in this pre-cloud era. The advent of cloud computing has brought potential areas and gaps in securing the organisational data, information and communication connectivity to the cloud-based resources. As such, there is need to rethink and redesign the models which can be implemented to secure the cloud computing services. The cloud should be in a state of digital forensics readiness in order to facilitate digital forensics investigation. The study focuses on the development of an artificial intelligence model for digital forensic readiness for the cloud using secure access service edge. This integrated approach might assist in the provisioning of cloud security.

A Federated Distributed Digital Forensic Readiness Model for the Cloud

Digital forensics in modern, cloud-based, microservice-based applications are complicated by multiple layers of abstraction, thereby making it difficult to accurately capture and correlate events that occur across these layers due to filtering caused by abstraction. The complexities linked to each layer of abstraction are primarily invisible to subsequent layers. Similarly, software services are often composed of one or more services provided by various service providers across the globe. Investigators are often faced with situations where breaches span over multiple service provider boundaries where not all digital forensic readiness evidence artefacts are captured by the service provider's forensic readiness processes. Instead, digital evidence artefacts are scattered across multiple service provider domains. This paper presents a novel, federated distributed digital forensic readiness model suitable for use in software-as-service, platform-as-service and infrastructure-as-service provider scenarios. The proposed model enables a service provider to capture and inspect forensic readiness artefacts in environments with various layers of abstraction. More importantly, the model also offers a way to share and access forensic readiness artefacts in a forensically sound manner to ultimately ensure that investigators can obtain a clear view of digital forensic events as they occur between amalgamated services provided by one or more separate service providers.

Organizations' readiness for insider attacks: A process‐oriented approach

AbstractContextOrganizations constantly strive to protect their assets from outsider attacks by implementing various security controls, such as data encryption algorithms, intrusion detection software, firewalls, and antivirus programs. Unfortunately, attackers strike not only from outside the organization but also from within. Such internal attacks are called insider attacks or threats, and the people responsible for them are insider attackers or insider threat agents. Insider attacks pose more significant risks and can result in greater organizational losses than outsider attacks. Thus, every organization should be vigilant regarding such attackers to protect its valuable resources from harm. Finding solutions to protect organizations from such attacks is critical. Despite the importance of this topic, little research has been conducted on providing solutions to mitigate insider attacks.ObjectiveThis study aims to develop an organizational readiness model to assess an organization's readiness for insider attacks.MethodWe conducted a multivocal literature review to identify practices that can be used to assess organizations' readiness against insider attacks. These practices were grouped into different knowledge areas of insider attacks for organizations. The insider attack readiness model was developed using identified best practices and knowledge areas: compliance, top management, human resources, and technical.ResultsThis model was evaluated at two levels—academic and real‐world environments. The evaluation results show that the proposed model can identify organizations' readiness against insider attacks.ConclusionThe proposed model can guide organizations through a secure environment against insider attacks.

Development and validation of the Informal Supporter Readiness Inventory (ISRI).

This article outlines the development and validation of the Informal Supporter Readiness Inventory (ISRI), based on the model developed by the present authors in (Davies, 2023). This scale assesses the readiness of informal supporters to intervene or provide support in situations of intimate partner violence (IPV). The research followed a three-phased procedure of item development, scale development, and scale evaluation; adhering to best practice guidelines for psychometric development and validation. This process provided empirical substantiation for the domains of the Model of Informal Supporter Readiness (Davies, 2023). The 57-item ISRI incorporates four primary factors: normative, individual, goodman-emotional, and situational-assessment. These factors demonstrated robust internal consistency and factor structures. Additionally, the ISRI evidenced strong test-retest reliability, and both convergent and divergent validity. Although aligning closely with the Model of Informal Supporter Readiness, the scale revealed a nuanced bifurcation of situational factors into situational-emotional and situational-assessment. The ISRI offers an important advancement in IPV research by highlighting the multifaceted nature of informal supporter intervention. The findings have several implications, from tailoring individualised supportive interventions to strengthening support networks and empowering survivors. The present study's findings underscore the potential of adopting a social network-oriented approach to interventions in IPV scenarios. Applications for research and practice are discussed.

Assessing departmental readiness to support minoritized faculty

AbstractThough increasing numbers of racially and ethnically minoritized (REM) individuals earn PhDs and national initiatives focus on faculty diversity, challenges persist in recruiting, hiring, and retaining REM faculty. While a pervasive issue nationally, the literature predominantly focuses on faculty diversity at research‐intensive institutions. This exploratory case study pilots a readiness instrument to evaluate the commitment and willingness of a biomedical department at a primarily undergraduate institution to embrace faculty diversity before initiating a postdoctoral faculty conversion program. We introduce the Community Readiness Model (CRM) into an academic context, offering academic departments a robust framework and tool to evaluate readiness and capacity to recruit, retain, and support REM faculty.Practical Takeaways Academic departments can be conceived of as a type of community. The adapted Department Readiness Tool can be a valuable method of evaluating a department's readiness to support the success of underrepresented minority faculty. Departments may score highly on some areas of readiness but relatively low on others, which provides insight into where time and resources should be invested to improve readiness.

Faculty computer-mediated communication apprehension during shift to emergency remote teaching: implications for teacher-student interactions and faculty organizational outcomes

Guided by the model of faculty readiness for online teaching (FROT), the goal of the current study was to investigate the influence of instructors' knowledge (e.g., online teaching preparation), confidence (e.g., computer-mediated communication apprehension; CMCA), and attitudes about online teaching (e.g., perceived usefulness) on their communicative and organizational outcomes (e.g., communication frequency and satisfaction, job satisfaction, motivation). We recruited 206 college instructors from a variety of institutions to report on their experiences during the transition to emergency remote teaching in the spring 2020 academic semester. Results from the study suggest that instructors' CMCA was a significant and negative predictor of instructors' communication satisfaction with online student interactions, job satisfaction, and motivation to teach after controlling for the other predictors in the model. Taken together, the findings suggest that CMCA may serve as a barrier to instructor communication competence in online teaching and may have deleterious impacts on instructor affect toward their positions. Ultimately, we recommend that faculty workshops aimed at developing online teaching competence should specifically address instructor dispositional and affective characteristics such as CMCA to prevent faculty vulnerability.

Structural equation modelling: validation of career readiness model using psychological constructs

<span lang="EN-US">The career readiness model is needed as a reference source for relevant parties, especially universities, to implement various career development and interventions initiatives. This study was conducted to assess the reliability and validity of personality, career efficacy, career readiness skills along with indicators using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling in forming a career readiness model. Results show that each construct achieved good reliability and validity through composite reliability (CR) readings recorded between 0.78 and 0.92 to measure internal consistency reliability, while convergent validity through average variance extracted (AVE) readings exceeded 0.5. The construct of this model had also achieved discriminant validity through the recorded readings of cross loading, Fornell-Larcker and HTMT confidence intervals which did not contain the value of 1. The findings also indicate that career efficacy and career readiness skills are accurate and relevant constructs for developing a career readiness model.</span>

Psychological readiness of a specialist to activity as a pedagogical problem

Introduction. The relevance of the article is due to the problem of increasing the requirements of modern society for the quality of professional training of graduates. The article talks about the need to form psychological readiness for the activities of young specialists as an integrated system of professional and personal qualities and properties, the result of which is expressed in the willingness of a specialist to solve current and promising work tasks.Purpose setting. The purpose of the study is to identify the key block of psychological readiness of a specialist to work in the logic of pedagogical science.Methodology and methods of the study. The analysis of scientific publications has shown that the problem of psychological readiness for professional activity is the subject of research by many scientists of general and military pedagogy. Based on the theoretical stage of the research, the authors came to the conclusion that the development of readiness for activity is facilitated by the special mental state of the individual and the presence of a model of actions and a focus on their implementation, which are determined by the availability of appropriate abilities and conditions necessary for the successful implementation of its activities, based on an understanding of the anticipatory reflection of reality, providing a preventive adaptation to the upcoming changes in external conditions or the formation of preparatory changes for future events. Therefore, psychological readiness for activity is a «preventive» adaptation to future labor events.Results. The results of the study include the description and analysis of the problem of psychological readiness for activity in the logic of psychology and pedagogy. The idea of the model of psychological readiness for activity, built on the principles of its implementation, is revealed; the content of each of its components is disclosed and the level criteria characteristic of each of them in the logic of high, medium and low is given. A step-by-step program for the formation of psychological readiness for activity is presented, including a diagnostic complex, the content of work at each stage, and options for the probabilistic result of preparedness.Conclusions. In the final part of the work, it is said that the research problem is practice-oriented and allows us to state that psychological readiness in activity contributes to ensuring high labor productivity, the development of professional qualities necessary for the work performed (initiative, active life position, organizational skills), high efficiency. Psychological readiness for activity is a «preventive» adaptation to future work events.