OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of an educational intervention on doctors' knowledge and perceptions towards generic medicines and their generic (international non-proprietary name) prescribing practice. METHODS This is a single-cohort pre-/post-intervention pilot study. The study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Perak, Malaysia. All doctors from the internal medicine departm...

INTRODUCTION One of the main determinants of adolescents' life satisfaction is parenting skills. Due to the lack of educational trials in this field, this research was done to evaluate the effect of a parenting education program on girls' life satisfaction in governmental guidance schools of Shiraz.  METHODS This study is an educational randomized controlled trial. At first, 152 female studen...

INTRODUCTION there is high prevalence of overweight and poor food habits among adolescents, and these factors contribute to the development of chronic diseases. OBJECTIVE the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention designed to reduce the consumption of high-calorie foods in public school children in Teresina, Piaui, Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS qu...

Objective: The study intended to assess the impact of educational intervention on knowledge of osteoporosis among female university students of Quetta. Methods: This interventional study was conducted on female university students by using convenience sampling technique. A total of 163 female students were enrolled for the study, these are those female students who did not heard about the disea...

School-based body image interventions for girls have typically been evaluated in single-sex rather than coeducational settings. However, there may be advantages to including boys within classes and it might also be more practical to deliver interventions to co-educational classes. Hence, it is important to examine any difference in outcomes between these two delivery settings. This study evalua...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding is the ideal form of nutrition for newborns, yet our recent pan-Canadian study showed that the knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of primary care pediatricians and family physicians are suboptimal with regard to breastfeeding. OBJECTIVE We aim to develop, implement, and evaluate a national breastfeeding educational intervention at the postgraduate residency level. ME...

BACKGROUND Compliance with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) guidelines remains poor despite a substantial body of evidence indicating that guideline-concordant care improves patient outcomes. The aim of this study was to compare the relative effectiveness of a general educational and a targeted emergency department intervention on improving physicians' concordance with CAP guidelines. METHO...

This research explored whether asking patients about their pets would enable better environmental/social history taking, and improve patient communication/care. Primary health care providers (PHPs) were surveyed about prevalence of patients living with pets, the health impact of pets, and influences on patient communication. Following an educational intervention, they committed to asking patien...

AIM To evaluate the effect of an educational intervention among primary care physicians on several indicators of good clinical practice in diabetes care. METHODS Two groups of physicians were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group (IG and CG). Every physician randomly selected two samples of patients from all type 2 diabetic patients aged 40 years and above and diagnosed more ...

Objectives The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of the Kids' Calcium Project, a milk promotion campaign targeting middle school children. Methods The Kids' Calcium Project is an in-school educational intervention program to increase calcium consumption among teenagers. The program develops promotional materials, provides education objectives, and stimulates environmental chang...