background: diabetes mellitus) type 2) is an important health problem throughout the world. this study aimed at evaluat ing the effect of a designed educational program on the lifestyle of the patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus. methods: ninety eligible diabetic patients aged 30-60 years old were recruited and then willingly assigned to two groups of clinic group (n= 45) who recei...

objective: the present study aimed to evaluate the effect of parenting education on improvement of reading and writing disabilities in children. methods: a randomized controlled trial was done on primary school students with reading and writing disabilities and their mothers. the subjects were divided into three groups with 26 members in each group. the first group (mothers’ education group) re...

abstract background: illness perception can affect health-related behaviors and disease outcomes. objectives: to determine the effect of an educational intervention of improving illness perception on some modifiable risk factors of coronary artery disease. methods: in this clinical trial, 100 patients undergoing coronary angiography that met the inclusion criteria were divided randomly into two...

This study was designed to answer three main questions: 1) Does asthma self-management education reduce asthma morbidity? 2) Are the two programmes "Living With Asthma" and "Open Airways" equally effective in doing so? 3) Is a shortened version of these programmes (4 weeks) as effective as the longer original programme (8 weeks)? Twelve Italian centres of paediatric bronchopneumology selected 3...

BACKGROUND Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) comprise a heterogeneous group of hematologic malignancies, with an incidence rate of 3.4 cases per 100,000 in the United States. MDS affects patients predominantly over 60 years of age. As these syndromes are not well understood by many medical practitioner, patients with MDS may be underrecognized or underdiagnosed. The availability of new MDS treatm...

Background: Students' educational success depends on various factors, one of the most important factor is applying appropriate study methods To achieve this, a mobile educational application called: "Appropriate study and learning practices for students" was designed by the researchers to investigate the effect of using educational mobile application on study habits for students' educational su...

We report on focus group feedback regarding the services provided by existing education-related Digital Libraries (DL). Participants provided insight into how they seek educational resources online, and what they perceive to be the shortcomings of existing educational DLs. Along with useful content, social interactions were viewed as important supplements for educational DLs. Such interactions ...

Previously a framework for integrating web resources providing educational services in dotLRN was presented. The present paper describes the application of this framework in a rural school in Cauca – Colombia. The case study includes two web resources about the topic of waves (physics) which is oriented in secondary education. Web classes and educational resources are designed for a group of 35...