BACKGROUND Trained healthcare workers are an essential resource for effective health systems. However, healthcare workers' perspective on healthcare, the challenges they face to provide quality health services, and opportunities to improve motivation and providing adequate care are rarely investigated in resource-constrained settings of sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS All reachable nurses of Abou...

Introduction: We aimed to find out how medical students coped with online learning at home during the COVID 19 pandemic 'lockdown'. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried from July December 2020, using an SurveyMonkey Questionnaire®, four sections: biodata; environment; habits; open comments; sent 1359 of International Medical University, Malaysia. Responses strongly disagree, somewhat ne...

The purpose of this study was to explore the contexts that shape obese children's engagement in physical activity (PA) focusing on children's perceptions. The qualitative design consisted of non-participant observations, and unstructured and semi-structured focus group and individual interviews. Data were analyzed by use of conventional content analysis. Participants were overweight/obese child...

ExercisePill is a Microsoft Kinect®-based exercise application developed for balance problems in the elderly. There were three factors to be considered when developing application. First, it must functional, usable, and reliable. To ensure this, each of 20 participants program was observed evaluated by experienced physicians over course 2 months duration program. The equally divided between con...

BACKGROUND Although preparation for educational activities is considered beneficial for student learning, many students do not perform preparatory assignments. This phenomenon has received little attention in the literature although it might provide medical educators with the opportunity to enhance student learning. Therefore, we explored why students prepare or not prepare. METHODS An explor...

This article explains attitude formation programs related to students’ disciplinary behaviour at SMPN 1 Gondangwetan and the efforts made by teachers motivate students' decreasing learning, especially for students who often violate rules. aims serve as an example other schools improve quality of discipline, which is followed a decrease in their learning motivation. The approach used this descri...

This study used existing digital technologies as probes to explore teenager’s use of exerciserelated technology, their usage contexts, and their ideas for the design of ubiquitous technology that would persuade their peers to be more active in their daily lives. The teenagers formed two groups using two different types of step counters as their data collection device. Both groups used the same ...

Exercise video games combine entertainment and physical movement in an effort to encourage people to be more physically active. Multiplayer exercise games take advantage of the motivating aspects of group activity by allowing people to exercise together. However, people of significantly different fitness levels can have a hard time playing together, as large differences in performance can be de...

Abstract Positive student engagement is a prerequisite for students’ educational success. In this study, microanalytic approach was used to explore patterns in teachers’ use of specific motivating teaching behaviours from the perspective self-determination theory relation indicators positive engagement. The lessons 52 teachers were observed and event-based coded. Results showed that specificall...