Perspective Of Recipients Research Articles

"I Had to Make Them Feel at Ease": Narrative Accounts of How Women With Breast Cancer Navigate Social Support.

Social scientific studies of social support predominantly focus on the positive associations between social support and emotional well-being. The negative aspects of social support have received much less attention. We conducted semi-structured interviews of women with breast cancer (n = 47) to examine the emotional strain associated with social support and how recipients navigate it in ways that protect themselves and their relationships. Based on our analysis of narratives of women's lived experiences of breast cancer, we found that social support can be perceived negatively and associated with experiences of emotional strain. Interviewees engaged in strategies of avoidance, information control, and cognitive reframing to minimize emotional strain. We applied the concept of emotion work to understand the complexity of emotional strain in this context. The findings highlight the difficulties of social support from a recipient's perspective and emphasize the importance of perception and agency in navigating this experience.

An attributional process model of workplace gossip.

Despite the ubiquity of gossip in the workplace, the management literature offers a limited understanding of its consequences for gossip senders. To understand whether gossiping is beneficial or detrimental for the gossip sender, it is necessary to consider the perspective of gossip recipients and their response to gossip. We develop a typology of gossip that characterizes archetypal patterns of interpreting gossip. We then draw from attribution theory to develop a multilevel process model of workplace gossip that focuses on how the gossip recipient's attributions of a gossip episode shape the gossip recipient's subsequent response and behaviors. In addition to the valence and work-relatedness dimensions of gossip that comprise the typology, we examine credibility and the status of the gossip target as fundamental features of the gossip episode that jointly affect the gossip recipient's attributions. At the episodic level, the process of deciphering the gossip sender's motives influences the subsequent reciprocation of gossip. Depending on the locus of causality attributed to the gossip episode, gossip also contributes to the perceived trustworthiness of the gossip sender and the gossip recipient's cooperation with or social undermining of the gossip sender over time. The proposed model suggests that the potential benefits or social consequences of gossip for the gossip sender depend on the characteristics of the gossip and the context of the gossip episode that serve as inputs to the gossip recipient's attributional process. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Determining patient needs to enhance exercise program implementation and uptake in rural settings for women after a cancer diagnosis.

To qualitatively explore exercise barriers and facilitators experienced by rural female cancer survivors from the program interventionist and recipient perspective for the purpose of enhancing exercise program implementation and uptake in rural settings. A descriptive qualitative study design was utilized. Focus groups were conducted prior to implementation of an evidence-based exercise program by a rural non-research cancer clinical site. Nineteen rural female cancer survivors (mean age = 61.7 ± 10.9 years) and 11 potential interventionists (mean age = 42.3 ± 15.3 years) completed focus groups (stratified by participant role). Focus groups were audio recorded, transcribed, coded, and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis with NVivo 11. Cancer survivors identified 12 barrier themes (cancer specific adverse effects, lack of support, lack of knowledge, perceived negative aspects of exercise, cost, lack of resources, motivation, inconvenience, lack of program flexibility, time, weather, safety) and eight facilitator themes (knowledge, ease of access, resources, awareness, cost, options, organized, fun) related to exercise. Interventionists identified seven barrier themes (cost, transportation, lack of cancer survivor and interventionist knowledge, fear, motivation, lack of support, lack of resources) and four facilitator themes (resources, support, knowledge, motivation). Narratives revealed differing role-specific perspectives on shared themes between survivors and interventionists as well as potential implementation strategies for enhancing exercise participation and exercise program uptake among rural female cancer survivors. Exploring multi-level stakeholder perspectives on cancer survivors' exercise needs and related strategies yields important information for organizations to consider when implementing exercise programs in rural contexts.

Comparing the different viewpoints on overseas transplantation demands between genders and roles.

This study examined the different demands for overseas liver transplantation between genders and roles from the perspective of overseas liver transplant recipients and primary caregivers.An exploratory qualitative method was employed using a purposive sample of individuals who had received overseas liver transplantation. We recruited 28 recipients and 29 family members from a leading hospital in Taiwan. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were conducted with each participant, and data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.Three demands were identified across gender and roles: (a)sufficient information related to overseas liver transplantation,(b)domestic availability of the liver source, and(c)supportive policy for receiving continuous treatment and health insurance cover.Different patterns and meanings related to gender and roles were discussed. Male recipients were less enthusiastic about receiving the overseas liver transplantation. Rather, they complained about losing the economic and decision-making power due to body deterioration after overseas liver transplantation. Their primary need was to increase their dignity and significant position in the family. Female recipients were apprehensive for overseas liver transplantation and required more psychological support and positive experiences from other transplant recipients. Most male primary caregivers required a nursing aide quickly. Most female primary caregivers would engage in the health care task but needed more medical personnel, assistance, and high emotional support from relatives.This study revealed the common and urgent demands of overseas liver transplant recipients and primary caregivers. The unique demands of recipients and primary caregivers based on their gender and roles were rooted in the potential influences of traditional cultures and modern medicine in an ethnic-Chinese society.

Delivering bad news fairly: Higher construal level promotes interactional justice enactment through perspective taking

SummaryHow can managers deliver bad news with greater interactional justice? We propose a novel cognitive pathway: Construing the activity at a higher (vs. lower) level increases actors' other‐oriented perspective taking, which in turn promotes the enactment of interactional justice. Three studies provide support. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated a beneficial effect of construal level on interactional justice enactment when explaining a hypothetical bad news decision. Study 2 also showed that other‐oriented perspective taking is the mechanism through which construal level promotes interactional justice enactment. Study 3 replicated and extended these findings with a different paradigm and the addition of a moderator variable (trait perspective taking), providing a converging test of the proposed mechanism. Overall, the present research suggests that how managers think about delivering bad news—whether at higher or lower levels of construal—affects the extent to which they think from the recipient's perspective, and in turn how they communicate the news. Our research generates novel avenues for future research on justice enactment, construal level theory, and perspective taking. It may also have implications for better understanding downstream consequences of interactional justice enactment for bad news deliverers themselves.

Fundusz Wsparcia Kultury – rekompensata strat czy strategiczna interwencja?

The Culture Support Fund – COVID-19 Compensation or a Strategic Intervention? The aim of the paper is to discuss the Cultural Support Fund (CSF) as an example of a reactive financing scheme. In order to understand the implemented compensation mechanism for entities operating in the creative sector, a broader context is also explored, which, on the one hand, shows the general message of the Fund, and on the other hand, the lack of efficient management of the CSF. The research is based on the analysis of the existing data outlining the operation of private enterprises in the creative sector, with the emphasis on the performing arts backstage industry. The drama of the situation is accentuated in the individual in-depth interviews with four beneficiaries of the Culture Support Fund, which presents the perspective of the CSF recipients. In order to stress the multidimensionality of the CSF structure, the conclusions are built according to the three dimensions of the analysis: procedural, substantive, and contextual.

Exploring the association between anticipated and actual responses to disclosures of intimate partner violence and sexual assault.

Victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault (SA) commonly disclose their experiences to friends or family members, or within other personal relationships. Disclosure recipients' responses to these disclosures are associated with victims' mental health. Previous research has separately measured both actual responses to IPV/SA and anticipated responses to IPV/SA (e.g., response to a hypothetical scenario) from the perspective of disclosure recipients. Yet, little research has described the association between disclosure recipients' anticipated and actual responses. The aim of the current paper was to use a prospective design to examine the association between disclosure recipients' anticipated and actual responses to IPV/SA, including positive and negative social reactions, perceptions of victim responsibility, empathy, and confusion and ineffectiveness about how to respond. Participants (N = 126 college students aged 18-23; 70.6% women) answered questions about their anticipated responses to a hypothetical IPV/SA disclosure scenario, and then six months later answered the same questions about their actual responses to an actual disclosure of IPV/SA. Although most anticipated and actual responses were significantly associated, associations were moderate in size. Some associations were stronger for participants with a closer relationship to the victim, for participants who had their own victimization history, for women, and for men. Individuals can predict their responses to some degree, but are not totally accurate in doing so.

COVID-19: The Patients' Perspectives.

COVID-19: The Patients' Perspectives.

A Multiple Stakeholder Perspective for Evaluating Community-Based Dementia Care

For holistic interventions and research on dementia, it is fundamental to understand care experiences from the perspectives of carers, care recipients, and care professionals. While research on care dyads and triads have highlighted the effects of communication and interactional aspects on care relationships, there is a lack of knowledge on how individual-contextual and relational factors shape the provision and receipt of care in terms of decision-making processes, resource allocation, and expectations of care outcomes. Thus, this paper sheds light on (i) how carers negotiate care provision with other important life domains such as employment, household/family roles and conflicts, as well as their own health problems, life goals, values, and aspirations for ageing; (ii) how older adults with dementia perceive support and those who provide it; (iii) the structural constraints faced by care professionals in delivering a team-based mode of dementia care; and, taken together, (iv) how community-based dementia care is impeded by barriers at the individual, relational, and institutional levels. Findings were derived from semi-structured interviews and observational data from fieldwork conducted with 20 persons with dementia (median age = 82), 20 of their carers (median age = 60), and 4 professional care providers. All respondents were clients and staff of a multidisciplinary and community-based dementia care system in Singapore. Our analysis indicates the impact of dementia care is strongly mediated by the interplay between institutional/familial contexts of care provision and the various ‘orientations’ to cognitive impairment and seeking support, which we characterised as ‘denial/acceptance’, ‘obligated’, ‘overprotective’, and ‘precariously vulnerable’.

The Perspectives of Programme Staff and Recipients on the Acceptability and Benefits of the Ward-Based Outreach Teams in a South African Province.

The re-engineering of primary health care (PHC) called for the establishment of ward-based outreach teams as a reform strategy to bridge the gap between health facilities and communities. The Nkangala district established ward-based outreach teams in 2012. We used process evaluation to assess the acceptability of the outreach teams from the perspectives of those involved in the implementation as well as the clients who are the recipients of the outreach services in order to describe how the programme benefits the recipients, the staff, and the health system. Data were collected through interviews with multiple data sources. A thematic analysis was done using NVivo 11. The outreach programme is acceptable to the recipients and staff. The acceptability translated into measurable benefits for the recipients and the health system. Health benefits included increased access to services, support for treatment adherence, and linkages to various sector departments for social support. Since the inception of outreach teams, the district has recorded low utilisation of PHC services and improved priority indicators such as immunisation coverage, early antenatal bookings, treatment adherence, TB cure rates, and decreased default rates. The positive effects of the outreach teams on indicators underscore the need to roll the programme out to all sub-districts.

Ford Foundation–India Relations in the 1950s: A Recipient Country Perspective

This paper investigates the development of a close relationship between the Ford Foundation—the world’s richest and most internationally oriented philanthropic organisation in the Cold War era—and India in the 1950s. Unlike existing literature on private foundation–recipient country relationships, which overwhelmingly focusses on the donor perspective, this essay explores the recipient perspective, thereby contributing to the emerging literature on Third World agency in international politics. Complicating the idea that recipient countries were overwhelmingly interested in aid maximisation, this article shows that India moved closer to the Ford Foundation in order to fulfil diplomatic rather than aid-related objectives.

형성연구를 이용한 일상화 과정 이론 기반 식생활 교육 프로그램 평가: 결혼이주여성 교육자와 피교육자 관점

본 연구는 2018년 10월부터 11월까지 진행된 서울시 먹거리시민 지원 프로그램의 교육자를 대상으로 한 포커스 그룹 인터뷰와 피교육자를 대상으로 한 만족도 평가 설문조사를 일상화 과정 이론을 기반으로 식생활 교육 프로그램의 현실과 이상의 격차를 분석하고자 하였다. 교육자 대상 포커스 그룹 인터뷰 분석 결과, 교육자들은 피교육자인 결혼이주여성이 겪는 어려움을 인지(coherence)하고 있었으며 교육 및 프로그램 준비를 위한 적극적인 태도(cognitive participants)를 보였다. 또한 교육자들은 스스로 교육 내용을 체계화하고 모국어로 진행되는 강사활동 후 강사로서 자기 효능감을 얻게 되었으며 수업 구성 및 내용에 대한 피드백(reflexive monitoring)을 제시할 수 있었다. 그러나 교육진행 목적 및 방향에 대한 정보(coherence)와 홍보 및 교재준비, 시설 및 재료 조달의 체계적인 시스템(cognitive participants), 전문적인 영양지식 보충, 모국 외 다른 국적의 결혼이주여성과의 상호작용(collective action) 등에서 현실과 이상의 격차가 도출되었다. 찾아가는 먹거리강사(program A), 모국어로 배우는 요리교실&건강 밥상 꾸러미(program B), 서울 전통시장 나들이 프로그램(program C)의 피교육자 만족도평가 설문조사의 공통 문항을 비교한 결과, 모국어로 진행된 program A, B의 평균 점수가 program C보다 유의하게 높은 문항은 11개로 응집성 요소의 강사의 교육 목적 전달, 교육 효과에 대한 기대, 인지적 참여 요소의 교육을 통한 소속감, 교육의 이해도, 공통적 수행의 학습지식 활용 가능 여부, 교육 난이도의 적절성, 실생활 활용 가능여부, 반영적 모니터링 요소의 강사의 지속적인 도움 여부, 미래 식생활 교육 참여 의사, 수업 활동의 만족도, 강사에 대한 만족도로 나타났다. 모국어 교육에 대한 긍정적인 평가 및 효과는 피교육자와 교육자에서 공통적으로 관찰되었지만 복잡한 개입이 이루어지는 식생활 교육 프로그램을 성공적으로 일상화시키기 위해서는 개인과 집단적 측면에서 현실과 이상의 격차를 이해하고 인식된 가치와 목표에 부합하는 문제를 다루어야 할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 시범 운영된 새로운 형태의 모국어 식생활 교육 평가를 통해 결혼이주여성 대상의 영양교육 방향을 제시하였을 뿐만 아니라 맞춤형 영양교육의 필요성과 구현을 위한 기초자료를 제공하였다는 점에서 의의가 있다. 이와 같은 사후평가를 진행하여 결혼이주여성의 관점에서 복잡한 개입을 고려할 수 있는 연구를 진행한다면 최적화된 결혼이주여성 대상 식생활 교육 프로그램을 구축할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

Scoping the ethical principles of cybersecurity fear appeals

Fear appeals are used in many domains. Cybersecurity researchers are also starting to experiment with fear appeals, many reporting positive outcomes. Yet there are ethical concerns related to the use of fear to motivate action. In this paper, we explore this aspect from the perspectives of cybersecurity fear appeal deployers and recipients. We commenced our investigation by considering fear appeals from three foundational ethical perspectives. We then consulted the two stakeholder groups to gain insights into the ethical concerns they consider to be pertinent. We first consulted deployers: (a) fear appeal researchers and (b) Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), and then potential cybersecurity fear appeal recipients: members of a crowdsourcing platform. We used their responses to develop an effects-reasoning matrix, identifying the potential benefits and detriments of cybersecurity fear appeals for all stakeholders. Using these insights, we derived six ethical principles to guide cybersecurity fear appeal deployment. We then evaluated a snapshot of cybersecurity studies using the ethical principle lens. Our contribution is, first, a list of potential detriments that could result from the deployment of cybersecurity fear appeals and second, the set of six ethical principles to inform the deployment of such appeals. Both of these are intended to inform cybersecurity fear appeal design and deployment.

Ethical Decision Diagrams on Donation After Cardiocirculatory Death Heart Transplantation Considering Organ Preservation Techniques.

Background.To overcome organ shortage, some centers accept hearts from cardiocirculatory determined death (DCD) donors for heart transplantation (HTx). DCD-HTx is attached with special ethical conflicts on the donor, family, and recipient side. Ethically motivated decisions also have to be made considering organ preservation techniques. However, ethical decision diagrams, which can be applied to find a final answer on the complex field of ethical questions, have not been developed yet.Methods.In an interdisciplinary group of clinical ethicists, transplantation surgeons, transplantation researchers, and perfusionists, after review of relevant literature, we focused on crucial ethical aspects on DCD-HTx in general and separated ethical conflicts with regard to the individual perspective of the donor, family, and recipient.Results.The leading aspect of discussion in the donor perspective mainly deals with the standoff period and with the definition of death. The perspective of recipients focuses on the wish to say farewell after the patient is deceased. In the recipient perspective ethical questions regarding organ procurement techniques occur.Conclusions.Ethical decision-making on DCD-HTx is complex, but it can be processed in a structured way by applying the decision diagrams that we have developed.

Applying catastrophe progression method to evaluate the service quality of cold chain logistics

Logistics service quality (LSQ) is one of the key influential factors in the success of an ecommerce business. In view of the complexity of the topic, this paper proposes a novel model for fresh ecommerce cold chain LSQ evaluation based on the catastrophe progression method. In the proposed methodology, first an index system for evaluating the fresh ecommerce cold chain LSQ is established from the perspective of service recipients. Then, the comprehensive weight of each evaluation index is determined using a combination weighting approach based on maximizing deviations and fuzzy set theory. The priority weights and the ranking of the indices are determined using the catastrophe progression method. Finally, the model is applied in a case study of two representative enterprises. The study demonstrates the validity and practical applicability of the proposed model. Also, based on the evaluation results and findings, some improvement suggestions are made for improving the cold chain LSQ of similar kinds of fresh ecommerce companies.

Affordances of funding for enhancing scholarship of teaching and learning: gifts for growth?

ABSTRACT Funding has become an established means of promoting the professionalisation of teaching and learning. Various funding schemes in Higher Education have incentivised innovation and research aimed at developing a scholarship of teaching. However, a causal relationship is impossible to prove and the underlying subjective processes of scholarly development are contested. It has been suggested that funding might become another instrument to achieve a neoliberal agenda of increased performativity. This paper explores the affordances generated at a particular institution in South Africa from the perspective of recipients of relatively small awards. Qualitative data were generated in face-to-face individual interviews and analysed thematically. Insight generated included how funding acted as a catalyst for further scholarly development of individuals, disciplines and project teams. A culture of flexibility, nurture and care-full operational management were considered enablers. Using ‘slow scholarship’ as a lens allowed understandings of developmental pathways and multiple contextual influences on scholarly trajectories.

GIFT GIVING BEHAVIOR AMONG MILLENNIALS, THE USE OF PHOTO ELICITATION INTERVIEW TO DISCOVER CONSUMER INSIGHT

Manuscript type: Research paper Research Aims: This paper aims to explore gift-giving activities among millennials at the perspective of gift-giver using the photo elicitation interview. The typology of the relationship between gift givers and recieversand the effects of this relationship to the types of products given in gift-giving activities are also evaluated. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is using phenomenological approach and photo elicitation interview with purposive convenience sampling method to obtain gift-givers decision making process in searching gift products. Research Findings: The process of searching, preparing, and delivering of gifts is influenced by several factors, namely the closeness of the relationship, past experiences and the moment of giving the gift. The structure of intimacy creates hierarchy of gift giving given by gift givers. The position and social class of the gift receiver affect the shape, price, and gifts delivery process. Theoretical Contribution/Originality: This research is expected to provide an understanding of the consumer decision-making process in giving gifts at certain moments experienced by consumers. Practitioner/Policy Implication: This paper give insights to the practitioner about the promotional and products design that are associated with the closeness between consumers and gift givers to attract gift-givers giving a gift to the special people around them  This study is only discuss gift-giving behavior from gift-givers and does not pay attention to the recipient perspective so it is less comprehensive in discussing gift-giving behavior in the millennial generation

Microbiological culture results and antibiotic sensitivity in renal preservation solution

Aim/Background: The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of the solutions used to preserve kidney during transplant surgeries on microbiological culture results and antimicrobial resistance and to evaluate this process from the perspectives of recipients and donors.

Understanding Adaptation Finance Allocation: Which Factors Enable or Constrain Vulnerable Countries to Access Funding?

The most vulnerable countries often face a double burden in relation to climate change—they are at high risk to the impacts and are least equipped to cope and adapt. Global climate policy since the Convention in 1992, until most recently with the global goal on adaptation in the Paris Agreement, has manifested the importance of prioritizing adaptation support to the most vulnerable countries. The main objective of this study is to understand the enabling and constraining factors that play a role in the process of allocating and accessing global adaptation assistance. We adopted a mixed-methods approach combining two major streams of analysis. First, this paper aims to track bilateral adaptation finance to all so-called developing countries, as bilateral support has been the largest share of international adaptation finance. Second, the paper draws on semi-structured expert interviews and looks at the country level to identify the factors beyond vulnerability that play a role in the distribution of adaptation finance from a recipient’s and a donor’s perspective, using India and Germany as examples. The analysis yields three main findings. First, countries’ vulnerability as measured by standard metrics does not seem to be the prime factor explaining the distribution of available bilateral adaptation assistance. This is in contrast to the political narrative in the emerging climate finance architecture. Second, interview data identified other factors beyond vulnerability that play a role from a donor perspective, such as the perceived capacity to manage and implement projects, the commitment given to climate change and other political priorities. Third, from a recipient perspective, rather than its vulnerability level in a global comparison, strong institutional capacity played a prominent role in attracting adaptation finance. Looking out into the future, the findings underscore the practical and political challenges in relation to a vulnerability-oriented prioritization of funding and they point towards the need to increase countries’ capacities to attract and manage international adaptation support. The findings also raise questions on how to overcome the vexing conflict in the emerging adaptation finance architecture between accommodating for donors’ requirements of high fiduciary standards and enabling access by the most vulnerable countries, which are often short of resources and institutional capacities.

"In August, I Counted 24 Different Names": Swedish Older Adults' Experiences of Home Care.

In Sweden, many older adults receive care in their own homes. However, their perceptions of the experience of receiving home care has not been sufficiently examined. This study aimed to explore older adults’ experiences of receiving care and services in their homes and their perceptions of the care that they had received. In-depth interviews were conducted with 29 older adults. There were individual differences in their level of participation, but they mostly perceived their participation in the planning and provision of home care to be limited. Furthermore, their needs (and wishes), especially those that pertained to different aspects of time, were not always gratified. Organizational factors and care providers’ lack of competence and high levels of time pressure influenced their perceptions of care. It is important to consider the perspectives of older care recipients when developing home care.