BACKGROUND The ideal method of providing stroke patients with information has not been established. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of providing stroke patients with computer-generated tailored written information. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with blinded assessor. SETTING Acute stroke unit. PARTICIPANTS 138 stroke patients. METHODS Patients were randomised to receive ...

We applied a decision tool for rationing choices, with a predetermined budget of about 11 US dollars per household per year, to identify priorities of poor people regarding health insurance benefits in India in late 2005. A total of 302 individuals, organized in 24 groups, participated from a number of villages and neighborhoods of towns in Karnataka and Maharashtra. Many individuals were illit...

OBJECTIVE Americans are increasingly turning to the Internet as a source of health care information. These online resources should be written at a level readily understood by the average American. This study evaluates the readability of online patient education information available from the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) professional Web site us...

Between 1977 and 1994, smoking rates declined among men and women, but the decline was steeper for men. While smoking rates fell among people at all levels of education, the smallest drop was among those with high school graduation or less, particularly women. For those who had stopped smoking, health concerns had been the overriding factor. Smokers with lower education reported encountering fe...

Setting up FM systems in the UK has traditionally been the role of the Teacher of the Deaf (ToD) or Educational Audiologist. Most FM systems are purchased by Education services and are considered to be an “educational aid”, an essential piece of equipment to facilitate the inclusion of hearing impaired children into mainstream education. Personal hearing aids are provided by the National Health...

BACKGROUND Although many planners of professional continuing education programs believe that this type of education positively affects the nurses' performance, the results obtained by conducted research do not confirm such a perspective. In fact, inadequate application of these trainings in clinical practice is among the most challenging areas in nursing practices. Hence, this study was conduct...

Cybersecurity competitions are getting more attention as a prominent approach of computer security education in the past years. It is vital to look into better ways to engage beginners in the competitions to improve computer security education. This work collected and analyzed the solutions of about 3600 Capture The Flag (CTF) challenges from 160 security competitions in the past three years. T...

Article history: Received 20 August 2015 Received in revised form 22 December 2015 Accepted 26 December 2015 Available online xxxx What individual factors predict success?We tested Chua and Rubenfeld's (2014) widely publicized “Triple Package” hypothesis that a tendency toward impulse control, personal insecurity, and a belief in the superiority of one's cultural or ethnic group combine to incr...