objectives:  stroke is a major event in one's life, and patients will inevitably require the use of coping strategies in order to try to reestablish acceptable life equilibrium. due to the extensive role that nurses can be active members in the patient's rehabilitation plan, the mauk model is a model that focuses on stroke patients. for each stage of this model,  mauk has developed ap...

abstract background: acute coronary syndrome is one of the major cardiovascular diseases that leads to a significant amount of morbidity. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on quality of life in patients with acute coronary syndrome. materials and methods: this was a clinical trial study conducted on 50 patients with acute coronary syndrome ...

AIM To determine the factors affecting medical students' choice of the specialty of family medicine. METHODS The study was conducted in the period from 2004-2006 and comprised 770 first-year medical students from Ondokuz Mayis, Karadeniz Technical, Kocaeli, and Adnan Menderes Universities, Turkey. The questionnaire included questions on demographic data and 6 "yes/no" or open-ended questions ...

BACKGROUND Oral implant rehabilitation should be considered a treatment option for any edentulous patient and Implant Dentistry is currently a discipline taught in the undergraduate formation. The level of knowledge acquired and how the students perceive the quality of training in Implant Dentistry could assess to know if it is necessary to improve the syllabus. MATERIAL AND METHODS A questio...

Clinical placements can be instrumental in encouraging nursing students to consider a future career in rural Australia. Twenty nursing students from a metropolitan university were provided with the opportunity to undertake a clinical placement in mental health in a rural or remote setting. The majority of placements were between 2 and 4 weeks in length. They took place in community health centr...

PURPOSE We performed video-oculography to evaluate vergence eye movement abnormalities in students diagnosed clinically with vergence disorders. We tested the efficiency of a novel rehabilitation method and evaluated its benefits with video-oculography cross-correlated with clinical tests and symptomatology. METHODS A total of 19 students (20-27 years old) underwent ophthalmologic, orthoptic ...

UNLABELLED Postural balance is a sensory-motor function resulting from a learning process. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the postural control of underachieving students through static posturography together with virtual reality stimulation. METHODS This was a controlled cross-sectional study of a group of 51 underachieving students and a control group of 60 students with good school performance, wi...

Peeling P, Dawson B. Influence of caffeine ingestion on perceived mood states, concentration, and arousal levels during a 75-min university lecture. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 332–335, 2007; doi:10.1152/ advan.00003.2007.—This investigation aimed to assess the effect of a caffeine supplement on perceived mood state, concentration, and arousal during a 75-min university lecture. Methods. This randomiz...