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James Green |
2022-08-15 |
Attitudes towards Gardasil (HPV Vaccine) |
This data was collected as part of a student project in 2008. The abstract from the project is: Gardasil is a vaccine designed to protect against types 16, 18, 6 and 11 of Human Papillomavirus (HPV), reducing incidence of cervical cancer and genital warts. Preceding the introduction of a national vaccination program in New Zealand, there has been some public protest and media controversy. This study assessed the specific issues against the vaccine, and the possible factors that could influence this. 197 participants recruited from the Dunedin general public over the age of 16 completed the survey to assess how much they think they know about the topics of cervical cancer, Gardasil, and HPV, how much they actually know about those topics, and finally their opinion on Gardasil and vaccines in general. Overall, participants thought they had a relatively low level of knowledge, matched by an actual lack of knowledge. Despite this, the majority of the participants had a positive attitude towards the vaccine, and would give consent to vaccinate their daughters. The four factors that most influenced an individual’s attitude towards Gardasil were (1) generally being positive toward vaccines, (2) belief that the side effects to this vaccine are minimal, (3) thinking that it would NOT lead to girls becoming sexually active earlier, and (4) thinking that 12 years of age is not too early to receive this vaccine. Implications for public promotion of the vaccine are discussed. |
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James Green |
2022-08-15 |
Knowledge and Attitudes about Herceptin (Trastuzumab) |
Unpublished student project from 2008. Abstract is: Objective To investigate whether the public’s attitude towards Herceptin (trastuzumab), in particular, its funding, is related to their knowledge and beliefs about Herceptin. Method Cross sectional survey set in Dunedin, New Zealand. Telephone and street surveys were used to assess knowledge, beliefs and attitudes. Results Generally, people thought Herceptin should be funded, and that the 12 month treatment was better than the 9 week treatment. There was some misconception regarding the safety and efficacy of Herceptin. Most people were unaware of the associated cardiac side effects and also the increased cardiac risk with increasing the length of treatment. There was also an underestimation of cost. On average, people thought it cost $50,000 to treat one patient for 12 months when the actual cost was approximately $70,000. Participants also over-estimated the therapeutic effects. Those who over-estimated the benefits, along with people who thought that Herceptin is for all types of breast cancer, that Herceptin provides a cure, and that everyone treated would get better because of it, were more likely to think the government should fund it. They were also more likely to prefer the longer treatment course. Conclusion Overall, the public had a limited and systematically biased understanding of Herceptin, its therapeutics and its side effects. People's knowledge (or lack thereof) was associated with whether they thought the government should fund Herceptin. Most people had non-accurate knowledge, thinking that it is a cure for breast cancer – believing that it works better than it actually does. Attitude towards Herceptin funding is therefore based on perceived high benefit and low risk, rather than accurate knowledge. |
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Elena Sixtus |
2022-08-16 |
Hands up |
In 2015, I collected the data for one of the experiments for my dissertation. This one study didn't get published in a journal, in the end. The title was: Hands up: consistency and signatures of mental number processing in repeated finger posture production; The Abstract is: Finger postures are one of several means to convey numerical information to others and they are the one where the numerical content becomes most tangible. In cultures with one-to-one mappings of numbers to fingers, represented numbers perfectly match the number of fingers involved. However, different finger configurations can be used to represent the same numbers and they might depend on the context of finger posturing, too. The present study addressed the consistency between finger counting and montring (i.e., spontaneously showing numbers) as well as intra-individual consistencies within montring configurations in repeated posture production. Participants produced finger postures according to visually presented numerals within three tasks: 1) produce the presented number, 2) produce one less, 3) produce one more. High intra-individual, but not inter-individual, consistencies in each task indicated individual predominant finger configurations, which are determined by their cultural background only to a limited degree. The simple mathematical operations of the latter two tasks affected the choice of the postures’ starting hand and reaction time patterns. Reaction times were determined by a combination of each posture’s motor complexity, a problem size effect, and a visual effect for the two-digit number 10. Additionally, errors most frequently involved the erroneous addition or omission of a single finger or a full hand, that is, responses deviating from the correct response by 1 and by 5, which matches previous findings from mental arithmetic. The present results thus provide further evidence that bodily representations and “abstract” mathematical tasks are tightly linked. |
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Elena Sixtus |
2022-08-16 |
Hands up |
In 2015, I collected the data for an experiment for my dissertation. This one study didn't get published in a journal, in the end. The title was: Hands up: consistency and signatures of mental number processing in repeated finger posture production; the abstract: Finger postures are one of several means to convey numerical information to others and they are the one where the numerical content becomes most tangible. In cultures with one-to-one mappings of numbers to fingers, represented numbers perfectly match the number of fingers involved. However, different finger configurations can be used to represent the same numbers and they might depend on the context of finger posturing, too. The present study addressed the consistency between finger counting and montring (i.e., spontaneously showing numbers) as well as intra-individual consistencies within montring configurations in repeated posture production. Participants produced finger postures according to visually presented numerals within three tasks: 1) produce the presented number, 2) produce one less, 3) produce one more. High intra-individual, but not inter-individual, consistencies in each task indicated individual predominant finger configurations, which are determined by their cultural background only to a limited degree. The simple mathematical operations of the latter two tasks affected the choice of the postures’ starting hand and reaction time patterns. Reaction times were determined by a combination of each posture’s motor complexity, a problem size effect, and a visual effect for the two-digit number 10. Additionally, errors most frequently involved the erroneous addition or omission of a single finger or a full hand, that is, responses deviating from the correct response by 1 and by 5, which matches previous findings from mental arithmetic. The present results thus provide further evidence that bodily representations and “abstract” mathematical tasks are tightly linked. |
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James Green |
2022-08-25 |
EHPS |
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James Green |
2022-08-25 |
EHPS test |
In 2007, I collected data for a pre-post design on empathy change in pharmacy students, but decided that the design was weak, so nothing every happend... |
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