PROBLEM Rates of youth suicide and suicidal behavior remain high despite prevention efforts. Training high school personnel as gatekeepers is an important strategy. METHODS Training was implemented in a school district's five comprehensive high schools. Surveys were conducted before and after training sessions, which targeted all adults working at the high school. Two hundred thirty-seven ind...

This article describes the development of an operant conditioning training program for 17 species of New World primates at the Bronx Zoo. To apply less invasive techniques to husbandry protocols, the study introduced behaviors-hand feeding, syringe feeding, targeting, scale and crate training, and transponder reading-for formal training to 86 callitrichids and small-bodied cebids housed in 26 s...

OBJECTIVES To develop, implement and evaluate a training programme for senior doctors to become faculty leaders for patient safety training. METHODS Senior doctors were recruited from across 20 hospitals in the North Western Deanery, England, UK. The intervention comprised a half-day course in patient safety theory, root cause analysis and small-group facilitation, following which participant...

We tested the effectiveness of the preventive behavioral parent training (BPT) program, The Incredible Years (IY), and the independent effects of previously suggested sociodemographic and intervention-based moderator variables (i.e., initial severity of externalizing problem behavior, child gender, social economic status, family composition, and number of sessions parents attended), in a large-...

BACKGROUND Several clinical studies on chronic stroke conducted with end-effector-based robots showed improvement of the motor function in the affected arm. Compared to end-effector-based robots, exoskeleton robots provide improved guidance of the human limb and are better suited to train task-oriented movements with a large range of motions. OBJECTIVE To test whether intensive arm training w...

In resurgence, an operant behavior that has undergone extinction can return ("resurge") when a second operant that has replaced it itself undergoes extinction. The phenomenon may provide insight into relapse that may occur after incentive or contingency management therapies in humans. Three experiments with rats examined the impact of several variables on the strength of the resurgence effect. ...

The birth or presence of a child with hearing defect provides unique and different challenges for family. However, in this situation all family members are hurt and their functions are impaired, but the mother, due to the traditional role of caregiver for these children to have more responsibility, more psychosocial problems may be encountered. The assumption is that the problems associated wit...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of 8 weeks of combined station training on the adiponectin and hs-crp in overweight women. 22 overweight women (mean ± sd, age 26.04±4.43 years; weight 73.10±6.56 kg; body mass index 29.35±2.53) were voluntarily selected and randomly divided into control (n=11) and combined station training (n=11) groups. the subjects of combined station training...

background: in the present era, delinquency in children and adolescents is undoubtedly a difficult and upsetting issue attracting the attention of many experts such as psychologists, sociologists, and criminologists. these experts often try to answer why a number of children and adolescents engage in various crimes such as aggressive and anti-social crimes. they also try to find out how these c...

Objectives: We examined the extent to which characteristics of effective debriefing were observed when conducting high-fidelity, simulation-based operating room (OR) team training under tight time constraints in the actual OR. Methods: The entire OR general surgical staff at an academically-affiliated hospital participated in half-day training sessions. After-action debriefing discussions regar...