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Item Attitudes of Iraqi society towards the role of community pharmacists(University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, 2013) Ibrahim, Inas R.; Al Tukmagi, Haydar F.; Wayyes, AbdulrasoulObjectives: The main aims of this study were to assess society’s use of community pharmacies; evaluate attitudes towards the role of the community pharmacist; and describe required pharmacist characteristics and future services. Study design: A cross-sectional survey with a stratified sampling technique. Methods: A self-administered, validated, questionnaire was distributed to 500 consumers in attendance at 50 community pharmacies in Baghdad, Iraq. Data were gathered from January to April 2012. Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were performed to test for statistical differences among the study variables. Further analysis through the Chi-square test and logistic regression was completed to assess the predictors of society’s attitudes. Results: Twenty-six percent of respondents visited their community pharmacies at least once per week and an additional 65% reported visiting their pharmacy at least once per month. Fifty-five percent of respondents listed the community pharmacist as the first person they would contact in case of any drug-related problem. However, the pharmacist’s role was under-appreciated by the majority of respondents (79.8%). These attitudes varied significantly with regard to the demographic characteristics of respondents. Logistic regression analysis showed that gender and age were the influential predictors of favourable versus non-favourable attitudes towards the role of pharmacist. Conclusions: The use of community pharmacies in Iraq was characterized by frequent visits to purchase medicines. Selection of the pharmacy primarily depended on its location. Overall, an under-appreciation of the professional performance of pharmacists was predominant. Raising public awareness towards the important role of community pharmacists in providing public health is warranted.Item The Role of Technology: A Path Analysis of Factors Contributing to Undergraduates’ Satisfaction with their Overall University Experience(2016-04) Sherven, PeggyThis study explored the factors that impact students’ perception of technology benefits and their impact on overall university student satisfaction of 522 undergraduate students at a large Midwestern research university. The purpose of the study was to identify personal (input) and environmental measures that impact student’s overall university satisfaction (output), using Astin’s Input – Environment – Output (I-E-O) theory as the theoretical framework (Astin, 1993). The study followed a quantitative, non-experimental design, and used a series of constructed scales to measure perceived technology benefits and overall student satisfaction. The Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) survey was administered in 2013 at the campus studied. Results from the Technology module, along with core data provided by the institution, measured the personal and environmental predictor variables. Multiple variable regression and path analysis were used to construct the resulting path diagram. The results of the regression to predict Perceived Technology Benefits indicated a combination of variables explained 25.5% of the variance, depicting a statistically significant model with a small to medium effect size. Results show the Perceived Technology Benefits variable was significantly correlated with seven predictor variables: Instructor Technology Ability, Social Networking, Online Course Preference, Instructor Technology Usage, Engagement with Faculty, Course Specific Behaviors, and Proficiency Social Dimensions. Out of these, the first four entered into the path analysis model. The two strongest predictors were related to the environment, while the other two were input variables. The results of the regression to predict Overall Student Satisfaction indicated a combination of variables explained 32.9% of the variance, depicting a statistically significant model with a medium effect size. Overall Student Satisfaction was significantly correlated with all 13 predictors, with nine entering into the path analysis model: Instructor Technology Ability, Technology Obstacles, Course Specific Behaviors, Instructor Technology Usage, Engagement with Faculty, Socioeconomic Status, Proficiency Social Dimensions, and Online Course Preference. Year-in-school bordered on significance (p = .058) and was also included in the final model. This resulted in five input variables and four environmental variables impacting Overall Student Satisfaction. The second research question asked, “Does college affect Perceived Technology Benefits and moderate the effects of the technology experience on Overall Student Satisfaction?” College was found to have a significant impact on Perceived Technology Benefits at the p < .05 level, but was not found to be significant for Overall Student Satisfaction. Increased emphasis and ongoing research related to technology usage, student and faculty technology satisfaction, implementation, oversight, and administration are recommended in order to properly guide U.S. postsecondary campus instructional technology investments.Item Transportation and Quality of Life: An Annotated Bibliography(University of Minnesota Tourism Center, 2010) Guo, Tian; Schneider, Ingrid E.The University of Minnesota Tourism Center was contracted to complete an annotated bibliography of quality of life and transportation by November 30, 2010. The bibliography is part of a larger study between the Department of Transportation and University Tourism Center that is qualitatively and quantitatively assessing quality of life and transportation perceptions among Minnesota residents.Item Variety and the impact of choice influencers in the diets of free-living adults(2018-01) Wisdorf, LaurenNursing homes, school lunch programs, institutional cafeterias, etc., provide limited food choices for meals, intending to offer satisfactory variety. But we are unaware of any research-based studies addressing the meaning of satisfactory variety within and across meals, days, weeks, and months. Our primary objective was to determine the variety of foods consumed by free-living, food-secure individuals. A secondary objective was to evaluate how overall food choice and the consumption of specific food classes were guided by several choice influencers. A third objective was to determine how the amount of variety consumed in the diet and how food choices guided by choice influencers affected satisfaction with variety. Participants (50 male, 52 female; age at least 25 years with a Bachelor’s degree) maintained a 28-day online food diary with seven eating occasions: breakfast, morning snack, lunch, afternoon snack, early evening snack, dinner, and late evening snack. After completing each week, participants rated their satisfaction with the variety in their diets that week and the impact of 13 choice influencers on the foods they consumed that week. We measured dietary variety as a count of unique foods and used these counts to calculate a proportion of unique foods consumed. We evaluated how dietary variety differed by gender, personality traits (food neophobia, sensation-seeking tendency, and boredom proneness), and eating occasions. The total number of foods consumed each week, the count of unique foods, and the proportion of unique foods were compared with satisfaction ratings. We determined key choice influencers by recording the frequency at which choice influencers were rated as having high, moderate, low, or no impact on selection over all foods consumed. We grouped each food consumed into one of 17 food classes to weigh the importance of the choice influencers for the consumption of specific food classes. Participants consumed an average of 110 unique items over 28 days with higher counts of unique items for dinner (46 items), followed by lunch (38 items), and then breakfast (21 items). The highest proportions of unique items were consumed at dinner (0.60), early evening snack (0.59), lunch (0.56), and late evening snack (0.56). Female participants consumed higher counts of unique foods than did male participants over all eating occasions and for lunch, dinner, morning snack, afternoon snack, and total snack. Male participants consumed a higher proportion of unique foods for breakfast than female participant. Participants who were more food neophobic and those that had higher ratings of boredom proneness had lower counts of unique foods. Liking, hunger, and convenience were most frequently selected as having a high impact on food choice. The ‘presence on a menu,’ ‘only thing served,’ and ‘special occasion’ were most frequently selected as having no impact on food choice. Liking was generally the highest rated choice influencer across food classes while the lowest rated choice influencer was typically ‘because it was the only thing served.’ Satisfaction with variety was positively associated with liking while foods eaten because of convenience were associated with reduced satisfaction with variety.