AIMS To investigate the correspondence between readiness for behaviour change in general and readiness for alcohol related help-seeking in particular. A related aim was to examine how, if at all, measures of dependence severity, use, and consequences were related to a composite measure depicting agreements and disagreements between general change readiness and help-seeking readiness. METHODS ...

Abstract Objectives Shared decision making (SDM) requires an active role from patients, which might be difficult for some. We aimed to identify what patients need ready (i.e., well-equipped and enabled) participate in SDM about treatment, patient- decision-related characteristics may influence readiness. Methods conducted semi-structured interviews with professionals (physicians, nurses, genera...

An assessment of the readiness Ukrainian teachers to provide online education has been made in context a world coronavirus pandemic. According experts, pandemic radical and irreversible changes modern ideas about learning, role educational process, set competencies XXI century.

Children’s fine motor skills are associated with enhanced drawing skills, as well as improved creativity, self-regulation skills, and school readiness. Assessing these skills enables parents and teachers to target areas of improvement for their children, so that they are better prepared for learning and achieving once they enter school. Conventional approaches rely on psychologybased tracing an...

The article has substantiated the pedagogical conditions for formation of readiness future educators young children work in a sensory enriched environment preschool educational institution, namely: integration humanitarian disciplines with methodological and practical training necessary implementation further professional activities by groups (stages – propedeutic motivational; motivational emo...

Before children reach school age they must negotiate threats from a number of diseases. More than 50% of child deaths are caused by pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, measles, malnutrition and HIV. Health and nutrition can affect education in many ways. In resource-poor countries, physical and mental disability can be a major barrier to schooling. This can result from iodine or folate deficiency or ...

OBJECTIVE Youth in war-affected regions are at risk for poor psychological, social, and educational outcomes. Effective interventions are needed to improve mental health, social behavior, and school functioning. This randomized controlled trial tested the effectiveness of a 10-session cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)-based group mental health intervention for multisymptomatic war-affected you...

The purpose of this study was to investigate alternative methods for evaluating deaf students' readiness to meet the English language and literacy demands of postsecondary educational programs. In the first part of the study, scores obtained by a large sample of deaf students on the ACT Assessment (ACT Composite score and scores on the ACT English and Reading tests) were compared to their score...

In this paper we applied our previously developed assessment framework to the data collected from an internet security readiness survey targeted at households. We used the assessment framework to compute an Internet Security Readiness index for each household, which was in turn derived from Internet Security Readiness capital, skill, and actual uptake/use of infrastructure indices. We then exam...