Trust Relationships Research Articles

Sustained collaborative inquiry with teachers of multilingual learners

AbstractSociocultural theories and Indigenous epistemologies inform approaches to teaching and learning with K‐12 multilingual learners and Indigenous students in the United States, and center instruction in the cultural and linguistic identities of children and their communities. Teacher preparation programs often incorporate readings and opportunities for dialogue around these sociocultural concepts, theories, and instructional approaches. However, without opportunities for implementation, it is difficult to know how fully these practices are taken up in classrooms. Challenges to bridging theory into practice include teacher autonomy, agency, and opportunities for practice. With decades of research that support the use of teacher inquiry in general, and collaborative and sustained inquiry in particular, a gap in research remains around what happens when sustained collaborative inquiry is used with teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs) in unique contexts. Using a multi‐case study methodology, this study examines what happens when in‐service teachers of multilingual learners, including Alaska Native students, practice and reflect on asset‐based instructional practices within sustained cycles of collaborative inquiry. Findings indicate that sustained collaborative inquiry within learning communities with relational trust can create spaces for teachers to take up asset‐based practices, grow in agency, and bridge the theory and practice divide.

An ethnographical study on building trustful relationships with youth in a community university partnership

ABSTRACT This study explores the dynamics of trust-building with youth within the context of Community University Partnerships (CUPs). It proposes a conceptual model derived from qualitative research conducted in Green Park with six male youths and based on recorded ethnographical observations from 21 visits over a period of 15 months. A Grounded Theory approach led to identifying a conceptual model that illustrates a multi-phase trust-building process that begins with overcoming initial wariness and progresses through understanding and shared experiences. Mindful interactions, respect, and the inclusion of youth perspectives are identified as key facilitators. The research highlights the role of intermediaries, like youth workers, in reinforcing trust and supporting the youth’s engagement with researchers. The study offers significant insights into fostering trust with youth groups, enhancing collaborative strategies, and potentially facilitating more effective CUP outcomes.

A qualitative study of the experiences of young people with severe mental health problems and complex needs regarding youth flexible assertive community treatment

Youth Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (Youth Flexible ACT) is a service model for children and young people with severe mental health problems and complex needs aimed at providing integrated, continuous and holistic care. Studies on young people’s experiences of Youth Flexible ACT or similar models are scarce. The present qualitative study aimed to explore and describe how young people with severe mental health problems and complex needs experience follow-up and treatment provided by Youth Flexible ACT teams. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 young people (age range, 15–19 years) who were being followed up by a Youth Flexible ACT team. Qualitative content analysis was used, and the following two overarching themes characterizing the young people’s experiences of follow-up and treatment provided by Youth Flexible ACT teams were identified: (1) trusting and collaborative relationships, and (2) organization matters. The participants experienced a more personal relationship with the staff, who behaved more like friends and paid attention to resources, interests, solutions and their context. The participants emphasized and valued components that coincided with the Youth Flexible ACT model, indicating a match between what the young people needed and wanted and what the model was supposed to provide. The team providing these relationships and youth-friendly and developmentally sensitive care appeared to be facilitated by how the service model was organized, with the teams being flexible and accessible while providing integrated, multifaceted help and systemic follow-up.

The doctor will polygraph you now

Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have been proposed for the prediction of social behaviors that could be reasonably understood from patient-reported information. This raises novel ethical concerns about respect, privacy, and control over patient data. Ethical concerns surrounding clinical AI systems for social behavior verification can be divided into two main categories: (1) the potential for inaccuracies/biases within such systems, and (2) the impact on trust in patient-provider relationships with the introduction of automated AI systems for “fact-checking”, particularly in cases where the data/models may contradict the patient. Additionally, this report simulated the misuse of a verification system using patient voice samples and identified a potential LLM bias against patient-reported information in favor of multi-dimensional data and the outputs of other AI methods (i.e., “AI self-trust”). Finally, recommendations were presented for mitigating the risk that AI verification methods will cause harm to patients or undermine the purpose of the healthcare system.

Exploratory assessment of the parent attitudes about childhood vaccines survey tool to assess vaccine hesitancy and pet vaccination status among pet owners.

To assess the applicability of the parent attitudes about childhood vaccines (PACV) survey to pet owners and its association with vaccine hesitancy. A national survey including an adapted version of the PACV was administered to 2,853 dog and 1,977 cat owners. Respondents were queried about the vaccination status of their pets. Exploratory factor analysis, Mokken scale analysis, Cronbach α, McDonald ω, and bivariate analyses were used to assess the validity and reliability of the PACV and shortened versions. The Fisher exact test and linear probability models were used to assess the association between the PACV and other factors and vaccination status. The PACVs for pet owners were valid and reliable with high internal consistency and served as correlates for vaccination status. In multivariate analyses, long-term relationships with veterinarians were also associated with vaccination. Individual survey items indicated substantial concerns about vaccine safety, side effects, and efficacy. Most respondents indicated trust and good relationships with their veterinarian, had not avoided or delayed vaccinations, understood the severity of pet diseases, supported the recommended vaccine schedule, and did not self-identify as vaccine hesitant (VH). The PACV identified 21.7% of dogs and 25.9% of cat owners as VH. The full and the reduced versions of the PACV are valid and reliable tools to assess VH status in dog and cat owners. The PACV could serve as an important tool for veterinary researchers to identify factors associated with vaccine hesitancy and develop effective interventions.

What medical students and residents learned from reflection through patients' perspectives: a qualitative study.

The purposes of this study were to identify reflective processes from patients' points of view for difficult patient-doctor interactions and learn how the processes made medical students and residents aware of their own medical practice. These processes were compared in two countries (US and Japan). The study was a descriptive qualitative study utilizing semi-structured interviews. Participants were from US and Japan. We analyzed the data using reflective thematic analysis of the implementation of reflections (from a patient's point of view) into medical clinical education and training from a constructivism paradigm. We included twenty participants each from US and Japan by convenience sampling. The participants were medical students during clinical clerkship and post graduate year-1, 2, and 3 medical residents. Medical students and residents realized four cognitions (different expectations of patients and doctors, language communication barrier, time restriction and healthcare system challenges) from reflections from patients' perspectives. Subsequently, medical students and residents identified three types of awareness (appropriate communication, empathy, and patient-doctor relationship of trust). During these reflections from patients' perspectives, the medical students and residents had a willingness to change future behavior. This study revealed one aspect of medical students' and residents' cognitions and awareness of clinical experiences through reflection from patients' perspectives. This cognitive process aligns the ideas of medical students and residents more closely with the patients' perceptions and influences their willingness to change their behavior.This process enables comprehensive realization in person-centered care.

How Education Shapes Trust: Empirical Evidence from China

The general assumption in the mainstream social capital theory states a likely causal relationship between education and trust in people, while such a conclusion might be contextual. Using the CGSS data and employing a fuzzy regression-discontinuity design where the compulsory education law (1986) in China is taken as an exogenous instrument, I find a positive correlation between education and the level of generalized trust. Further, with respect to another measure of trustthe radius of trust, I find no evidence supportive to significant correlations between education and trust in different distant social groups. However, the second-stage results do not suggest any likely causal effect from education on generalized trust or trust in different relationships, which indicates the OLS results might suffer from omitted variable bias.

Italians and Global Warming Skepticism: opinions and Ways of information

Scientists, policy-makers, entrepreneurs, and citizens are strongly concerned about the harmful consequences of climate change. Individual beliefs about social norms and economic and political orientations regarding trust and social relationships call into question values ​​such as care for the environment, autonomy, freedom of choice, and risk. Given the influence of the media on public perceptions, it is essential to consider how, with what means, and towards which issues citizens orient themselves to address this epochal phenomenon. Using quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis, the present study investigates the characteristics and reasons of the individuals who are skeptical of the evidence of global warming in Italy and how the Italians inform themselves about this issue. Quantitative analysis was performed on two representative samples of 1011 and 1030 individuals from Observa Science in Society in 2022 and 2023 through a structural equation model (SEM) to study the dimensions associated with climate change skepticism. Qualitative research on a panel of 93 Italians selected by gender, cultural level, and area of residence further highlighted the information channels, methods of use, and the main dimensions of interest in climate change. This robust mixed-mode methodology, which ensures the credibility and reliability of the study's findings, is a key strength of this research. Our results confirm that less trust in science and older age are associated with skepticism. Furthermore, traditional media are the primary means of information despite the growing importance of social relations - including social networks - in shaping opinions on the environment and climate change. The conclusions also reveal that experts influence the public, even if personal experience often mediates this effect. These findings have practical implications for understanding and addressing climate change skepticism in Italy, equipping researchers, policymakers, and individuals interested in this issue with the knowledge to make informed decisions and take effective action.

A multi-criteria trust-enhanced collaborative filtering algorithm for personalized tourism recommendations

The exponential growth of online information has LED to significant challenges in navigating data overload, particularly in the tourism industry. Travelers are overwhelmed with choices regarding destinations, accommodations, dining, and attractions, making it difficult to select options that best meet their needs. Recommender systems have emerged as a promising solution to this problem, aiding users in decision-making by providing personalized suggestions based on their preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering (CF) methods, however, face limitations, such as data sparsity and reliance on single rating scores, which do not fully capture the complexity of user preferences. This study proposes a hybrid multi-criteria trust-enhanced CF (HMCTeCF) algorithm to improve the accuracy and robustness of tourism recommendations. HMCTeCF improves the quality of recommendations by integrating multi-criteria user preferences with trust relationships among users and between items. Experimental results using real-world datasets, including Restaurants-TripAdvisor and Hotels-TripAdvisor, demonstrate that HMCTeCF outperforms benchmark CF-based recommendation methods. It achieves higher prediction accuracy and coverage rate, effectively addressing the data sparsity problem. This innovative algorithm facilitates a more personalized and enriching travel experience, particularly in scenarios with limited user data. The findings highlight the importance of considering multiple criteria and trust relationships in developing robust recommendation systems for the tourism industry.

The journey of service-learning: Perspectives from medical imaging and therapeutic sciences students

IntroductionL'Afrique du Sud (AS) est décrite comme un pays en développement confronté à de nombreux défis socio-économiques. L'apprentissage par le service (AS) est considéré comme une partie intégrante de l'apprentissage intégré au travail (AIT), qui donne aux étudiants l'occasion de faire l'expérience du monde réel du travail en mettant en pratique la théorie qui leur a été enseignée. Dans le contexte de cet article, l'apprentissage intégré au travail est intégré au programme de premier cycle des étudiants en imagerie médicale et en sciences thérapeutiques (IMST) en Afrique du Sud, sous la forme d'un projet communautaire d'apprentissage par le service (PCAS). Des projets similaires permettent aux étudiants de s'engager auprès de divers groupes de patients afin de mieux comprendre les environnements bio-psycho-sociaux de leurs futurs patients et d'améliorer les pratiques de soins centrées sur la personne. Bien qu'il existe des publications relatives à l'expérience vécue des étudiants en matière d'AS, aucune étude n'a encore été menée sur les étudiants en IMST et leur expérience en matière d'AS. Les auteurs ont donc cherché à explorer l'expérience des étudiants de l'Institut de technologie de l'Afrique du Sud qui ont suivi avec succès un programme de formation à la santé et à la sécurité au travail. MéthodologieUn modèle de recherche qualitative a été employé avec l'utilisation d'un échantillonnage raisonné. La population étudiée comprenait tous les chercheurs inscrits à l'Institut de gestion de la formation professionnelle (IMTS) sur le site de recherche qui ont suivi un PCAS. Cette étude a été entreprise en utilisant une approche en plusieurs phases: phase A: analyse documentaire des rapports de réflexion, phase B: entretiens semi-structurés individuels et phase C: élaboration de recommandations. La participation était volontaire et une technique d'analyse thématique réflexive a été utilisée pour analyser les données. RésultatsTrois thèmes principaux ont été développés: 1) les défis et les obstacles, 2) les attributs positifs des enseignants et 3) les résultats positifs du projet. Bien que les participants aient fait part de certains des défis qu'ils ont rencontrés dans le cadre de leur participation à l'AS, plusieurs résultats positifs ont également été mis en évidence, ce qui les a encouragés à vouloir rendre service à leur communauté. Le soutien reçu de la part de leur professeur a été hautement reconnu. Parmi les recommandations formulées à l'intention des éducateurs, citons l'organisation de séances de contrôle régulières, la recherche de méthodologies permettant d'établir une relation de confiance avec les étudiants et la possibilité d'introduire plus tôt l'apprentissage par la pratique dans le programme d'études. ConclusionLes résultats de cette étude montrent clairement que l'AS est capable de combler le fossé entre les connaissances théoriques et l'application pratique. Dans le cadre du programme d'études de premier cycle des étudiants en soins de santé, l'AS est considéré comme un instrument clé pour cultiver un sens accru de la responsabilité civique. La gestion efficace du temps et la recherche de sponsors ont été jugées essentielles pour mener à bien un projet de PCAS. L'épanouissement personnel et professionnel était évident parmi les participants de l'échantillon et l'importance de l'apprentissage interdisciplinaire a été soulignée. Les participants ont en outre exprimé leur appréciation de l'opportunité que leur offrait l'AS en leur permettant de collaborer avec d'autres professionnels de la santé et d'apprendre d'eux.

A Robust Maximum Fairness Consensus Model With Limited Cost Under the Uncertain Trust Relationships and Individual Weights

A Robust Maximum Fairness Consensus Model With Limited Cost Under the Uncertain Trust Relationships and Individual Weights

A Bayesian Framework for Modelling the Trust Relationships to Group Decision Making Problems

A Bayesian Framework for Modelling the Trust Relationships to Group Decision Making Problems

Family member experience with restricted family presence in Canadian PICUs: an interpretive descriptive study

PurposeWe performed this study to explore family member experiences with restrictions to family presence during their child’s PICU admission, leveraging the unique context of the COVID-19 pandemic to aid in future ethical and informed decision-making.MethodsQualitative interpretive descriptive study with family members of Canadian PICU patients admitted from March 2020 to April 2021 who experienced restricted family presence (RFP) policies. Respondents were purposively sampled for demographic-based maximum variation.We generated themes through inductive thematic analysis of open-ended interviews.ResultsFourteen parental figures from five regions across Canada participated. We identified four themes associated with the lived experience and impact of the restrictions on family members of critically ill children: (1) challenges to fulfilling the parent role, (2) isolation from primary supports during a time of crisis, (3) navigating increased logistical difficulties, and (4) seeking compassionate approaches within the healthcare system.Conclusion: RFP policies created a range of barriers for family members of critically ill children. Healthcare organizations and teams may play a role in removing barriers through consistent and empathetic application of rules with consideration for the duality of the parent role in PICUs, providing important post-pandemic policy and practice implications.What is known:• Parental presence with critically ill children may improve health outcomes for patients and their families.• Restrictions to family presence in PICUs continue to occur internationally and, during COVID-19, resulted in parental isolation, anxiety, and increased stress. What is new:• By isolating family members and removing supports, COVID-19-related restrictions in Canadian PICUs challenged family members’ ability to fulfil their parent roles while meeting their own needs. • Families need empathetic, advocacy-based approaches from clinicians and healthcare systems to maintain trust and therapeutic relationships in a family-centered organization.

Study on the Indirect Effect Mechanism of Supply Chain Governance on Firm Performance

This paper constructs a theoretical model on the influence mechanism of supply chain governance on firm performance, with information sharing, supplier trust and supply chain integration as intermediary variables and government support as moderating variables. Taking enterprises in Sichuan Province as the investigation objects, this paper empirically studies the relationships among supply chain governance, information sharing, supplier trust, supply chain integration, firm performance, and government support by means of questionnaire survey. The results show that supply chain governance has significant positive effects on information sharing, supplier trust, supply chain integration and firm performance. Government support plays a positive moderate role between supply chain governance and supply chain integration. Supply chain governance will indirectly affect enterprise performance through information sharing, supplier trust and supply chain integration, and the indirect effect is stronger than the direct effect. This indicates that enterprises should standardize supply chain governance, share information efficiently with partners, form a good trust relationship with suppliers, and promote a series of supply chain integration, so as to improve the overall performance of enterprises.

Medicinal Plant and Traditional Knowledge-guided Strategies to Combat HIV Persistence.

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) does not act on latent HIV reservoirs, and no latency-reversing agent (LRA) to date consistently reduces viral reservoirs in humans. In Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) are traditionally used to manage HIV/AIDS, including a subset with LRA properties. Several plants from the Euphorbiaceae and Thymelaeaceae families have been recently documented for traditional HIV/AIDS management and contain LRAs that function through protein kinase C activation. These CAM are increasingly validated in HIV-infected primary cells and humanized mice. Engagement with traditional health practitioners (THPs) which prioritizes data and benefits sharing can improve trust relations, build long-term collaborations, and advance mutual knowledge on these unique CAM. CAM used traditionally for HIV/AIDS management include LRAs already used by humans, but more study and collaboration with THPs are needed to understand their potential to support global cART-free HIV remission and cure efforts.

Trust driven On-Demand scheme for client deployment in Federated Learning

Containerization technology plays a crucial role in Federated Learning (FL) setups, expanding the pool of potential clients and ensuring the availability of specific subsets for each learning iteration. However, doubts arise about the trustworthiness of devices deployed as clients in FL scenarios, especially when container deployment processes are involved. Addressing these challenges is important, particularly in managing potentially malicious clients capable of disrupting the learning process or compromising the entire model. In our research, we are motivated to integrate a trust element into the client selection and model deployment processes within our system architecture. This is a feature lacking in the initial client selection and deployment mechanism of the On-Demand architecture. We introduce a trust mechanism, named “Trusted-On-Demand-FL”, which establishes a relationship of trust between the server and the pool of eligible clients. Utilizing Docker in our deployment strategy enables us to monitor and validate participant actions effectively, ensuring strict adherence to agreed-upon protocols while strengthening defenses against unauthorized data access or tampering. Our simulations rely on continuous user behavior datasets, deploying an optimization model powered by a genetic algorithm to efficiently select clients for participation. By assigning trust values to individual clients and dynamically adjusting these values, combined with penalizing malicious clients through decreased trust scores, our proposed framework identifies and isolates harmful clients. This approach not only reduces disruptions to regular rounds but also minimizes instances of round dismissal, Consequently enhancing both system stability and security.

Trust in family doctor-patient relations: an embeddedness theory perspective

BackgroundBased on the embeddedness theory, the present study aims to explore the association between patients’ trust in family doctors (Interpersonal Trust), trust in community health centers (Organizational Trust), and trust in society as a whole (Social Trust).MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted in six community health centers in China, using partial least squares structural equation modeling to assess trust scale reliability and validity while testing hypotheses.ResultsThe scores of Interpersonal Trust, Organizational Trust, and Social Trust were 3.761, 3.636, and 3.635, respectively. Our findings confirm that Interpersonal Trust is positively associated with Organizational Trust (β = 0.916, p < 0.001), Organizational Trust is positively associated with Social Trust (β = 0.617, p < 0.001) and Interpersonal Trust (β = 0.864, p < 0.001), and Social Trust is positively associated with Organizational Trust (β = 0.784, p < 0.001). However, the relationship between Interpersonal Trust and Social Trust was not demonstrated.ConclusionsThis study enhances our understanding of patient trust in family doctors. Applying embeddedness theory, we reveal positive correlations between Social Trust and Organizational Trust, as well as between Organizational Trust and Interpersonal Trust. Moreover, we have identified Organizational Trust as a crucial mediator in the relationship between Interpersonal Trust and Social Trust.

Internal corporate venturing: riding the relational rollercoaster through sensemaking and sensegiving reconfiguration

PurposeInternal corporate venturing is a vehicle for firms to realize strategic and financial goals through entrepreneurial ventures. Prior research presents a strategic process in which individual managers make rational choices based on their formal roles and top-down corporate objectives. Recent work has challenged this by adopting a relational approach using a macro-level perspective highlighting cultural and institutional logics. This study augments and develops this relational approach by contributing a micro-level perspective by focusing on managers engaged in developing ventures in large organizations. The data show how internal corporate venturing (ICV) actors use discursive practices to make sense of their relationship contexts and develop interpretive repertoires to give sense to their decisions and shape their future strategies. The data illustrate how corporate venturing actors make sense of their uncertain experience and develop insider-outsider strategies by balancing three competing interpretive repertories, which form the basis of strategies supporting an entrepreneurial future in an organizational context.Design/methodology/approachForty-two interviews were conducted with ICV actors, including senior directors of corporate venturing units in multinational corporations and their venture project leaders. The authors conducted a micro-level study through an interpretive sensemaking analysis of managers' “talk.” Interviews are considered through three lenses: “functional talk” (why they said it), “interpretive themes” (what they said) and “interpretive repertoires” (how they said it).FindingsThe perceived challenges experienced by the participants through their relationships were identified. Participants emphasized balancing project and organizational role risk in pursuing venture development, leading to a perceived dependent trust relationship between supporters. Three interpretive repertories were identified through which participants positioned their explanations of their relationship contexts in ICV. Participants used these to discursively frame their corporate venturing practices and position their future strategies.Originality/valueA new framework of corporate venture sensemaking and sensegiving reconfiguration is provided to explain how managers discursively resolve conflicting relationship pressures while maintaining personal positioning. The paper shows how conflicting interpretive repertoires and personal interpretations are generated through a discursive practice comprising sensemaking and sensegiving reconfiguration processes to shape their future strategies. The paper contributes to theory by explicating the relational perspective of ICV at the micro-level and demonstrates how this is influenced by the discursive practices of managers leading the ICV activity.

Unlocking the Potential of Big Data: Establishing System Trust Through Open Innovation Ecosystems

ABSTRACTThis paper explores the vital role of system trust in big data and the advantages of open innovation ecosystems to develop trust‐enhancing technologies and foster system trust in relation to big data. Based on 3 years of empirical data from the oil and gas industry, we have performed a detailed analysis of the dynamic nature of big data‐centred innovation ecosystems. Our study has revealed that access to trusted big data is instrumental for overcoming the technical, legal and practise‐related challenges of creating value from big data. The findings contribute to system trust and innovation ecosystems, by demonstrating how the Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU) innovation ecosystem has employed legitimacy building, institutionalisation and innovation dissemination throughout its evolution to establish and maintain system trust in big data. For managers, this study offers important insights into the various strategies needed to create value from big data.

6-Fold path to self-forgiveness: an interdisciplinary model for the treatment of moral injury with intervention strategies for clinicians.

Conscience is the indestructible core of one's personal identity and their sense of agency in the world. When it passes judgment against them, it generates inner conflict (i.e., moral injury). At its core, moral injury is about trust and sacred relationships, particularly the loss of safe connection with self, society, God/Divine/a Higher Power, and the world. The clash between a person's conscience and overwhelming existential or psychospiritual experiences, which uniquely defines moral injury, alienates them from life-sustaining relationships. Healing requires more than reordering fractured belief systems. Reestablishing bonds of self-worth, trust, and life-sustaining relationships are essential. This paper presents the 6-Fold Path to Self-Forgiveness (6-FPSF), an interdisciplinary, narrative-based healing writing process for the treatment of moral injury, particularly self-induced moral injury. Self-forgiveness has been associated with psychospiritual and relational well-being. The protocol draws upon theoretical literature, evidence-based psychological interventions, spiritual-oriented practices, creative arts, and somatic exercises for mental health counseling and spiritual/religious ministration. In addition to describing the 6-component therapeutic model, the author offers intervention strategies for clinicians.