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Developing An Instrument To Evaluate The Quality Of Dementia Information Website, Yunshu Zhu

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

With website becoming a major information source, consumers are likely to resort on website for information about dementia. They maynot have the knowledge or experience in distinguishing quality information from opinion pieces; therefore, the aim of this research Master project is to develop and validate an instrument to measure the quality of dementia information website. The aim was achieved by reaching four objectives: (1) identify the existing methods for evaluating dementia information website. (2) identify the existing methods for evaluating health information website. (3) develop an instrument to measure the quality of dementia website. (4) use this developed instrument to …

Evaluating Virtual Reality-Based Training Programs For Mine Rescue Brigades In New South Wales (Australia), Shiva Pedram

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 2017+

Most safety critical industries such as mining, rail or aviation aim to comply with Highly Reliable Organisation (HRO) standards. HROs have been defined as organisations that operate in hazardous conditions but manage to maintain almost error-free levels of performance. Accidents do not occur in isolation, they are usually the consequence of a chain of events ranging from the organisational level to unsafe acts of individual employees. Hence, it is of prime importance to design and deliver effective training programs that can not only expose workers to workplace hazards but also, and more importantly, ensure that this knowledge is adequately mobilised …

More-Than-Human Knowing, Showing And Sharing In Human/Landscape Fire Relationships, Amanda Edwards

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

Focusing on Australians of settler heritage, this PhD shows how an evaluation which adopts and refines a more-than-human conceptual framework can generate deep understandings of human /fire /land relationships with implications for land and fire management, training, policy and academic research.

The research was initially commissioned to evaluate the Hotspots Fire Training Program (Hotspots) which seeks to train landholders in New South Wales in the sustainable management of landscape fire. In commissioning the evaluation, Hotspots staff were seeking to provide funding bodies with substantive evidence that the program achieves its objectives and to identify ways in which the program could …

An Assessment Tool For Egs Performance Quality And Its Impact On Citizens’ Obtained Benefits: A Citizen-Centric E-Government Evaluation Model, Shatha A. Al-Haddad

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The increasing number and sophistication of e-commerce sites has led many people to expect the same level of personalized services from their governments. As a consequence, governments have recently implemented e-government initiatives both to meet this expectation and to achieve significant potential benefits. One important benefit is the value that the public, and in particularly citizens, receives. By adopting an e-government system (EGS), a government aims to meet its citizens’ needs and to provide them with better services, through increasing their convenience and satisfaction, saving them time and effort, and reducing their costs and dependencies on others. Fulfilling this aim …

‘Get Your Life Back’: The Development, Implementation And Evaluation Of A Social Marketing Campaign To Increase Awareness Of Asthma Among Older Adults, Uwana Kimberley Evers

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

As the population ages and people have longer life expectancies, it is imperative to direct more preventative health promotion messages to older adults. Asthma is a chronic condition that has a serious impact on older adults that could be addressed by preventative health promotion activity. This doctoral thesis examines the promotion of asthma to older adults through two literature reviews and three empirical papers.

The first review paper describes the impact asthma has on older adults and the effectiveness of asthma awareness interventions, and argues for the social marketing framework as an appropriate foundation for future interventions. The review concludes …