Introduction: Enhancement of treatment adherence in bipolar disorder is a necessary and promising management component as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy. The main purpose of the study was to find the effect of psycho-educative intervention on adherence to treatment among persons with BPAD. Method: A randomized controlled trial was conducted with a sample size of 50; 24 in experimental and 26 in ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical, methodological and reporting aspects of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in order to determine the efficacy of therapeutic patient education (TPE). METHODS A thorough search of the medical and nursing literature recorded in MedLine database from 1999 to August 2009 was conducted using the keywords: patient education, efficacy, diabetes, asthma, COPD, hy...

This small-scale comparison case study evaluates the impact of an innovative approach to teacher professional development designed to promote implementation of a novel cutting edge high school neurological disorders curriculum. 'Modeling for Fidelity' (MFF) centers on an extended mentor relationship between teachers and biomedical scientists carried out in a virtual format in conjunction with e...

The present work describes an original associative model of pattern classification and its application to align different ontologies containing Learning Objects (LOs), which are in turn related to Open and Distance Learning (ODL) educative content. The problem of aligning ontologies is known as Ontology Matching Problem (OMP), whose solution is modeled in this paper as a binary pattern classifi...

This paper expounded the important significance of construction vocational college social practice system to improve employment quality higher graduates. After analyzing problems existing in students' practice, "three characteristics" system, such as educative nature, professionalism, hierarchical characteristics etc, were explored. The measures strengthen also presented.

Over the past decade there have been increasing calls to develop the capacity of United States students to think and act globally (Stearns, 2009). One method of encouraging the civic of global citizenship is through study abroad (Tarrant, 2010). However, the educational value and legitimacy of study abroad, in particular short-term programs, has been questioned (Tarrant & Lyons, 2012). This rev...

The actions of health promotion directed to adolescents must consider sexual and reproductive health, taking into account doubts on the approached theme. It is a qualitative research which aims to investigate sexuality in male adolescents with the implementation of the circle of culture as an educative action in the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. It was carried out in a public sch...

Abstract As big data-based measurement and assessment in education is expanding worldwide since the turn of century, relationship between evidence-based practical culture Bildung process ( Geistesbildung ) children has continued to provoke discussion among educational scholars. This chapter then attempts rethink teaching-studying-learning by returning classical didactics Didaktik ), namely, Her...