Imagine that while commuting home you receive an email message on your pager from your spouse asking you to pick up some milk on your way home. Compare this with commuting home and receiving an email message on your pager from a coworker with a monthly reminder to use the recycle bins at work. One of these messages would likely be relevant to you at that particular point in time, while the othe...

OBJECTIVE This audit assessed the impact of individualised written recommendations and a computer message, on repeat prescriptions for calcium and vitamin D supplements, for patients on long term AEDs. METHODS 1041 adult patients with epilepsy were retrospectively followed from 2004, from the time of the introduction of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and the publication of the Natio...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of a tailored message intervention compared with a non-tailored message intervention for increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among a non-adherent population, in a community-based client reminder program. METHODS After a baseline survey for psychological segmentation, 2140 eligible individu...

Jet lag syndrome (JLS) is a clinical syndrome of disrupted nocturnal sleep and daytime neurocognitive impairment which occurs in the context of rapid transmeridian travel. Many strategies for treatment of JLS exist, and include hypnotics to enhance nocturnal sleep, chronotherapeutic approaches (eg, light therapy, melatonin, or gradual schedule shifting), and alerting agents to counter daytime s...

Network security checking is a vital process to assess and to identify weaknesses in network for management of security. Insecure entry points of a network provide attackers an easy target to access and compromise. Open ports of network components such as firewalls, gateways and end systems are analogues to open gates of a building through which any one can get into. Network scanning is perform...

The present research proposes that sources in the numerical majority (vs. minority) can affect persuasion by influencing the confidence with which people hold their thoughts in response to the persuasive message. Participants received a persuasive message composed of either strong or weak arguments that was presented by a majority or a minority source. Consistent with the self-validation hypoth...

objective studies on the effect of various antiepileptic drugs on serum lipids show contradictory results. we aimed to find the effect of phenobarbital and sodium valproate monotherapy on serum lipid profile and liver function tests in epileptic children. materials & methods this cohort study was conducted in amirkola children hospital. one hundred and ten children with epilepsy were included i...

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to compare the effectiveness of two methods of follow-up: Short Message Service (SMS) versus telephone call on glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in type 2 diabetes. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This semi-experimental study consisted of 77 patients with type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned into two groups: telephone follow-up (n = 39) and Short Message Service ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the after-effects of an acute bout of moderate intensity aerobic cycling exercise on neuroelectric and behavioral indices of efficiency of three attentional networks: alerting, orienting, and executive (conflict) control. Thirty young, highly fit amateur basketball players performed a multifunctional attentional reaction time task, the attention netw...

Background: Aphasia is frequently observed in post-stroke patients, and this population usually presents attention impairment. Attention considered to play an important role the language recovery of patients with Post-Stroke (PSA). However, it no idea whether function correlates performance. In our study, we investigated association between PSA patients. Methods: This cross-sectional study was ...