Introduction. Learning medicine could have many tension and anxieties like encounter to a strange educational and clinical environment. Early clinical exposure is supposed to suppress these stresses and motivate students with a better attitude and awareness. Methods. In an interventional study with a pretest –post test method 45 first and second year medical students were encountered to cli...

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether an interdisciplinary, multifaceted oral health education program delivered to pediatric nurse practitioner students at the University of California, San Francisco, would improve their knowledge, confidence, attitudes, and behaviors regarding the provision of oral health assessments, consultations, referrals, and services to young children during wel...

Background. Dravet syndrome (DS) is an early-onset epileptic encephalopathy that leads to gross and fine motor skills deficits. Objectives. This study aimed to evaluate the results of a motor intervention program in a child with DS. Methods. We analyzed uma child with DS during the 3-year intervention in Physical Education. Interviews with the child’s mother and the teachers’ class diary were...

background: prostate cancer has been reported as the second leading cause of cancer death among men in 2013. prevention and early detection of cancer are considered as critical factors in controlling the disease and increasing the survival of patients. therefore, we aimed to investigate the effect of health belief model (hbm)-based education on knowledge and prostate cancer screening behaviors ...

INTRODUCTION Menopause is one of the most important crises in the life of women. The control of menopause symptoms is a main challenge in providing care to this population. So, the aim of present study was to investigate the effect of education through support -group on early symptoms of menopause. METHODS In this randomized controlled clinical trial 124 postmenopausal women who had a health ...

On December 3, 2004, President Bush signed into law the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA, 2004). The revised law is different from the previous version in at least one important respect. Whereas practitioners were previously encouraged to use IQ–achievement discrepancy to identify children with learning disabilities (LD), they now may use “Response to Intervention,”...

Early intervention with children at risk or facing developmental problems is a practice defined by three fundamental characteristics: being family-centered, being based on the community and on the child's life context, and being conducted by a team with transdisciplinary practice. In this paper we wish to present how the SNIPI-National System of Early Intervention, implemented in Portugal over ...

BACKGROUND The aim was to test the effectiveness of early home-based group education on knowledge and communication about renal replacement therapy (RRT). METHODS We conducted a randomized controlled trial using a cross-over design among 80 end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Between T0 and T1 (weeks 1-4) Group 1 received the intervention and Group 2 received standard care. Between T1 an...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact pedagogical intervention on early childhood education professionals’ emotional availability children with different temperament characteristics. Participants were 136 (intervention group = 87; control 49) aged 1–6 years from 16 and care centres in Finland. PedaSens a 9-month programme that included theory video-based training for professional...