Background: Providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the Iranian Mental Health Office and the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (affiliated with WHO). The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

background: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of filmed modeling in comparison with commonly used tell-show-do technique (t.s.d) on the anxious and cooperative behavior of 4-6 years old children during dental practice. materials and methods: forty six children aged 4-6 years were enrolled in this study and randomly allocated into two groups. group i: at the fi rst visit, the proc...

BACKGROUND This study addressed the need for studies of the efficacy of the Born to Learn (BTL) curriculum. METHODS Based on random assignment, 227 families of infants received the BTL curriculum conducted in monthly home visits, and 237 families received general child development education only. RESULTS The BTL curriculum resulted in higher mastery motivation (task competence) at 36 months...

1. This document is a new publication in a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date: May 2017. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. For a copy of the Florida Citrus Production Guide, request information on its availability at your county ext...

According to Nielsen (1990), "hypertext is non-sequential writing: a directed graph, where each node contains some amount of text or other information. The nodes are connected by directed links. In most hypertext systems, a node may have several out-going links, each of them is then associated with some smaller part of the node, called an anchor. When users activate an anchor, they follow the a...

11 growth in recent years, and reflects on some future trends, the outline of which are already evident. Given the relatively long history of the field in the US, it is impossible to give a comprehensive historical account in this article. Therefore, only selected foundational concepts and events that have been instrumental in developing the contemporary theory and practice of distance educatio...

1. This document is SL127, one of a series of the Soil and Water Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date January 1994. Reviewed June 2003. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. J.H. Graham, Professor, Soil Microbiologist, Soil and Water Science Department; L.W. Timm...

The implementation efforts of 65 early childhood professionals involved in the Getting Ready project, an integrated, multi-systemic intervention that promotes school readiness through parent engagement for children from birth to age five, were investigated. Digital videotaped records of professionals engaged in home visits with families across both treatment and comparison conditions were coded...

1. This document is BUL838, one of a series of the Animal Science Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date December 1984. Reviewed June 2003. Visit the EDIS Web Site at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu. 2. Peacock, F. M. ; Koger, M., Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida,...