BACKGROUND There is an increasing awareness of the perceived stress and approach to learning effects on academic achievement. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess the educational environment and approach to learning in clinical phase medical students. METHODS This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted among fifty-nine clinical stage medical students at Omdurman Islamic University ...

BACKGROUND Empathy is a key aspect of the physician-patient interactions. The Jefferson Scale of Empathy (JSE) is one of the most used empathy measures of medical students. The development of cross-cultural empathy studies depends on valid and reliable translations of the JSE. This study sought to: (1) adapt and assess the psychometric properties in Spanish students of the Spanish JSE validated...

BACKGROUND Beta thalassemia major has a considerable impact on quality of life. The purpose of this study was to determine the life satisfaction of beta-thalassemic children and adolescents compared to healthy controls. METHODS This research, conducted in 2009, was a controlled, cross-sectional study in which beta-thalassemic patients, who were being followed-up by the Thalassemic Center in B...

BACKGROUND Bedside teaching is a patient-based teaching method in medical education. The present study has been conducted with the aim of investigating the quality of bedside teaching in the internal wards of Qaem and Imam Reza Educational Hospitals. METHODS This study follows a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach using checklists on educational clinical rounds in Imam Reza and Qaem Hospi...

BACKGROUND Nonscholastic abilities among medical students are an important area of concern for the health professionals. Very few studies had been conducted in the past with regard to it. OBJECTIVE This study was an exploratory study aimed to assess the nonscholastic abilities among medical students in a medical institution in coastal South India. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study assessed t...

previous or unpleasant previous anaesthetic experience compared with those whose previous experience had been pleasant. This was also the case in this study, and the table shows the anxiety shown by these more nervous patients (n=50). These patients had a lower anxiety score after they took timolol 10 mg. This effect was often described as "a surprising absence of the 'butterflies'." Scores cha...

INTRODUCTION Elderly people may suffer from the multiple health disorders due to the vulnerability for many physical and mental disturbances. Quality of life in elderly population can be affected by many environmental factors. The aim of this study was aimed to examine the quality of life in elderly people in Tabriz, Iran in 2012. METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out on 184 elde...

BACKGROUND The Internet increases the availability of health information, which consequently expands the amount of skills that health care consumers must have to obtain and evaluate health information. Norman and Skinner in 2006 developed an 8-item self-report eHealth literacy scale to measure these skills: the eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS). This instrument has been available only in English ...

BACKGROUND Women's empowerment was defined as their ability to achieve awareness and control their personal, social, economic and political forces aiming at taking measures in order to improve their lives. This study aimed to compare the empowerment of the married women in medical sciences university in social, economic and familial domains in three cities, IRAN. METHODS This was a descriptiv...

BACKGROUND Any defect in extremities of the body can affect different life aspects. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Roy's adaptation model-guided education on promoting the adaptation of veterans with lower extremities amputation. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a randomized clinical trial, 60 veterans with lower extremities amputation referring to Kowsar Ortho...