5 results match your criteria: "Centre for Research on Education[Affiliation]"
Prevalence of Internet Addiction among Secondary Level Students.
J Nepal Health Res Counc
October 2024
Centre for Research on Education, Health and Social Science.
Article Synopsis
- A study conducted in January 2022 assessed internet addiction prevalence among 280 secondary students (aged 15-19) in Waling Municipality, Nepal, using a structured questionnaire and an Internet Addiction scale with 20 questions.
- Results revealed that 30.7% of students had mild and 15.4% had moderate internet addiction, with higher likelihoods linked to factors like excessive use (over 2 hours), preferred access methods, friends' encouragement, family living arrangements, and gender.
- The study's conclusion emphasizes the need for public awareness campaigns to promote positive internet use while reducing negative impacts, given that nearly half of the adolescents showed signs of internet addiction.
Emerging technologies and research ethics: Developing editorial policy using a scoping review and reference panel.
PLoS One
October 2024
UCL Knowledge Lab, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
Article Synopsis
- - The text discusses the need for better communication on research ethics due to emerging technologies, highlighting that academic articles often fail to adequately express these ethical concerns.
- - It outlines a project that aims to create new editorial policies for how research ethics should be addressed in scholarly publications, especially in the context of learning and technology.
- - The findings reveal significant gaps in current journal policies, with over half lacking ethical statements and many papers not addressing ethical considerations, leading to the development of materials designed for cross-disciplinary application to improve research involving AI and emerging technologies.
Measuring social isolation in older adults: A rapid review informing evidence-based research and practice.
Clin Gerontol
June 2023
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Objectives: Older adults account for 18.5% of the Canadian population and are at risk of experiencing social isolation, compared to other age groups. Researchers define social isolation as a lack of social contact and relationships, but many social isolation measures do not reflect this definition.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCaregivers' Role in Cybersecurity for Aging Information Technology Users with Intellectual Disabilities.
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw
September 2021
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Information technology (IT) users with intellectual disabilities (ID) are likely to experience online privacy violations without adequate support from their caregivers. Given that aging users face additional challenges when using IT than their younger counterparts, the goal of this exploratory study is to investigate caregivers' strategies and barriers for helping to protect the privacy of aging IT users with ID. Six caregivers (four paid caregivers, two family members) of aging users with ID completed a series of six focus groups about their experiences assisting the people they support with using IT, including their strategies and barriers for helping to protect these users' privacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWicked water: engaging with communities in complex conversations about water recycling.
Ecohealth
September 2009
Centre for Research on Education, Poverty and Social Inclusion, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia.
Water security is at the forefront of public attention in Australia. One response to Australia's current water situation is water recycling; however, community responses to recycling have been contentious. Examining reactions to recycling reveals that debates are underpinned by competing discourses about water, giving rise to different ways of talking, writing, making meaning, and responding to issues of water security.
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