Background: Mothers’ empowerment in breast-feeding is a key motivational and psychological factor for continuous breast-feeding. Therefore, this study was designed to examine the effects of family-centered educational-supportive program on mothers’ empowerment in breastfeeding. Materials and Methods: In this random clinical trial, pregnant women who met inclusion criteria were gradually select...

Child and mother outcomes are reported for the Abecedarian Project, an early childhood education, pediatric healthcare, and family support program for high-risk children and their mothers. Three randomized intervention conditions for at-risk participants were compared to a control condition. Randomized control group participants received family support social services, low-cost or free pediatri...

background & aim: comparison of existing curriculums together helps to identify strengths and weaknesses of the program and provide to improve healthy competition. this study aimed to compare geriatric nursing curriculum in iran and ireland. methods & materials: this study was carried out in 2015 using beredy model. research community was geriatric nursing curriculums in iran and ireland. compa...

UNLABELLED PROBLEM ADDRESSED The need for effective and accessible educational approaches by which family physicians can maintain practice competence in the face of an overwhelming amount of medical information. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM The practice-based small group (PBSG) learning program encourages practice changes through a process of small-group peer discussion-identifying practice gaps and ...

Like everywhere in our culture, new .technologies gradually penetrate the field of education. This may be seen as a problem area, which asks for appropriate, actions by teachers, curriculum experts, instructional designers and others. As "technology" seems to be the main issue, one may quation whether the introduction of new technologies is to be considered as' an educationaa technological prob...

detection of probable harmful consequences arised from the usage of pharmaceutical products requires decisive, continuous and close monitoring by medical staff whom should have knowledge of adverse drug reactions and they should also have to report any suspected instances, when any kind of adverse drug reactions have been observed. this study has been carried out on the knowledge, attitude and ...

This paper describes the establishment of an educational group, Health through Education in Law and Psychiatry (HELP), within an inpatient forensic psychiatric assessment service. Until recently HELP sessions have been provided twice weekly to suitable patients during their stay of some 30 days at the Metropolitan Toronto Forensic Service (METFORS). We first outline very briefly the function of...

A lthough both disciplines have cooperated for many years, cardiovascular anesthesiology and echocardiography have recently grown and merged in part. Intraoperative echocardiography has demonstrated its usefulness in many aspects of cardiovascular surgery, including valvular repair and replacement, myocardial function, aortic aneurysm repair, congenital heart disease, pericardial disease, compl...