Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviour medical students lecturers regarding lectures their effects on students’ learning behaviour. Materials Methods: This was a qualitative including multi-methods. Researchers observed lecture ambiance activities in two courses. Lectures were slide-presentations evaluated. Additionally, in-depth focus group i...

The purpose of this study was to analyze people’s attitudes to disasters by investigating how people feel, behave and think during disasters. We focused on disasters induced by humans, such as terrorist attacks. Two types of textual information were collected – from Internet blogs and from research papers. The analysis enabled forecasting of attitudes for the design of proactive disaster adviso...

To document knowledge and attitudes regarding sexuality and sexual practices of male adolescent high school students in Lima, Peru, a self-administered, anonymous survey was completed by 991 male adolescents aged 12-19 as part of a School-Based Sex Education Intervention model. Questions concerned sociodemographic information; family characteristics; personal activities; knowledge and attitudes...

BACKGROUND Despite efforts to identify effective interventions to implement evidence-based practice (EBP), uncertainty remains. Few existing studies involve occupational therapists or resource-constrained contexts. This study aimed to determine whether an interactive educational intervention (IE) was more effective than a didactic educational intervention (DE) in improving EBP knowledge, attitu...

The theoretical models of teachers’ knowledge bases, as developed by Shulman (1987) and Turner-Bisset (1997, 1999), do not overtly support Elbaz’s (1983), Lampert’s (1984) and Nias’ (1989) earlier suppositions that a teacher’s knowledge of self influences their pedagogic work. A review of the empirical literature produced by Connell (1985), Sikes, Measor and Woods (1985), Weber and Mitchell (19...

The aim of this study was to identify factors affecting HIV risk reduction among 150 Black and 150 White South Africans chosen by systematic random sampling. Main outcome measures included sexual behavior and condom use, knowledge about correct condom use, intention of condom use, behavioural norms, attitudes, normative beliefs, and subjective norms about condoms, HIV/AIDS health beliefs, and H...