Beyond talking groups: strategies for improving adolescent health education.

Parent peer education: Lessons learned from a community-based initiative for teen pregnancy prevention.

PURPOSE The Parent Peer Education program addresses a community-identified need to increase parent-child communication about sexuality, teen pregnancy prevention, and related issues. Community members are trained to lead workshops of peers on how to talk with their children about these topics. METHODS The program was pilot tested in 1997; three waves of workshops were conducted by 35 parent p...

Beyond Talking: We Need Effective Measures to Tackle Systemic Corruption and the Power That Allows It to Persist in Health Systems; A Response to Recent Commentaries

Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-based Program for Parents to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health

Parents play an important role in the sexual health of their adolescent children. Based on previous research, formative research, and theories of behavioral change, we developed Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, an intervention designed to help parents improve communication with their adolescent children, promote healthy adolescent sexual development, and reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors. ...

The effect of peer education on the prevention of high-risk behaviors in adolescent girls: a randomized clinical trial study

Background: High-risk behaviors are one of the challenges of adolescence and can become lifelong habits. Existing educational strategies in the prevention of high-risk behaviors have been challenged. Therefore, this study aims to determine the effect of peer education on the prevention of high-risk behaviors in adolescent girls. Done. Method: The present study is a randomized clinical trial. I...

Educational strategies for improving clinical reasoning.

Clinical reasoning serves as a crucial skill for all physicians regardless of their area of expertise. Helping trainees develop effective and appropriate clinical reasoning abilities is a central aim of medical education. Teaching clinical reasoning however can be a very difficult challenge for practicing physicians. Better understanding of the different cognitive processes involved in physicia...