TY - JFULL AU - Weidong Xia and Malgorzata Kolotylo and Xuan Tan PY - 2016/11/ TI - Factors Affecting General Practitioners’ Transfer of Specialized Self-Care Knowledge to Patients T2 - International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering SP - 3374 EP - 3384 VL - 10 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10005530 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 118, 2016 N2 - This study examines the key factors that influence general practitioners’ learning and transfer of specialized arthritis knowledge and self-care techniques to patients during normal patient visits. Drawing on the theory of planed behavior and using matched survey data collected from general practitioners before and after training sessions provided by specialized orthopedic physicians, the study suggests that the general practitioner’s intention to use and transfer learned knowledge was influenced mainly by intrinsic motivation, organizational learning culture and absorptive capacity, but was not influenced by extrinsic motivation. The results provide both theoretical and practical implications. ER -