The impact of social media on consumers' acculturation and purchase intentions

YesSocial media has emerged as a significant and effective means of assisting and endorsing activities and communications among peers, consumers and organizations that outdo the restrictions of time and space. While the previous studies acknowledge the role of agents of culture change, it largely remains silent on the role of social media in influencing acculturation outcomes and consumption choices. This study uses self-administered questionnaire to collect data from 514 Turkish-Dutch respondents and examines how their use of social media affects their acculturation and consumption choices. This research makes a significant contribution to consumer acculturation research by showing that social media is a vital means of culture change and a driver of acculturation strategies and consumption choices. This study is the first to investigate the role of social media as an agent of culture change in terms of how it impacts acculturation and consumption. The paper discusses implications for theory development and for practice

Implementing artificial intelligence in clinical practice: a mixed-method study of barriers and facilitators

Background: Though artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare has great potential, medicine has been slowto adopt AI tools. Barriers and facilitators to clinical AI implementation among healthcare professionals (theend-users) are ill defined, nor have appropriate implementation strategies to overcome them been suggested.Therefore, we aim to study these barriers and facilitators, and find general insights that could be applicableto a wide variety of AI-tool implementations in clinical practice.Methods: We conducted a mixed-methods study encompassing individual interviews, a focus group, and anationwide survey. End-users of AI in healthcare (physicians) from various medical specialties were included.We performed deductive direct content analysis, using the Consolidated Framework for ImplementationResearch (CFIR) for coding. CFIR constructs were entered into the Expert Recommendations forImplementing Change (ERIC) to find suitable implementation strategies. Quantitative survey data wasdescriptively analyzed.Results: We performed ten individual interviews, and one focus group with five physicians. The mostprominent constructs identified during the qualitative interim analyses were incorporated in the nationwidesurvey, which had 106 survey respondents. We found nine CFIR constructs important to AI implementation:evidence strength, relative advantage, adaptability, trialability, structural characteristics, tension for change,compatibility, access to knowledge and information, and knowledge and beliefs about the intervention.Consequently, the ERIC tool displayed the following strategies: identify and prepare champions, conducteducational meetings, promote adaptability, develop educational materials, and distribute educationalmaterials. (PDF) Implementing artificial intelligence in clinical practice: a mixed-method study of barriers and facilitators. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366636295_Implementing_artificial_intelligence_in_clinical_practice_a_mixed-method_study_of_barriers_and_facilitators [accessed Jan 17 2023]

Effect of radiotherapy and other treatment-related factors on mid-term to long-term cognitive sequelae in low-grade gliomas: a comparative study

Background Because survival benefits of treatment with radiotherapy are questionable and such treatment can cause substantial damage to the brain over time, the optimum management strategy for low-grade gliomas remains controversial. We aimed to identify the specific effects of radiotherapy on objective and self-reported cognitive function, and on cognitive deterioration over time, in patients with low-grade gliomas treated with early radiotherapy. Methods 195 patients with low-grade glioma (of whom 104 had received radiotherapy 1-22 years previously) were compared with 100 low-grade haematological patients and 195 healthy controls. Our analyses aimed to differentiate between the effects of the tumour (eg, disease duration, lateralisation) and treatment effects (neurosurgery, radiotherapy, antiepileptic drugs) on cognitive function and on relative risk of cognitive disability. Findings Low-grade glioma patients had lower ability in all cognitive domains than did low-grade haematological patients, and did even less well by comparison with healthy controls. Use of radiotherapy was associated with poorer cognitive function; however, cognitive disability in the memory domain was found only in radiotherapy patients who received fraction doses exceeding 2 Gy. Antiepileptic drug use was strongly associated with disability in attentional and executive function. Interpretation Our findings suggest that the tumour itself has the most deleterious effect on cognitive function and that radiotherapy mainly results in additional long-term cognitive disability when high fraction doses are used