BackgroundCommunity pharmacies are vital access points to provide a range of vaccines adults, including pneumococcal vaccines; however, despite growth in the number given at these sites, most recent rates adults being immunized against disease remain below goals set by Health People 2020. Low patient awareness is leading reason for suboptimal vaccination rates, suggesting that need exists impro...

The purpose of this study was to train three adolescents with mental handicaps the conversational skills of initiating a topic, and continuing the conversation by cueing an adult listener to speak. A reversal design was used to evaluate the effects of treatment (systematic delay, instruction, prompting, modeling, and reinforcement) on the percentage of functional initiating and cueing behavior ...

Background Assertive community treatment (ACT) has become one of the cornerstones of care for people with serious mental illnesses. ACT is usually conceptualized as incorporating a multidisciplinary team approach, active and persistent attempts to engage clients, direct provision of comprehensive health and social care, and in-vivo and out-of-hours working. In addition, the service is ongoing, ...