midwives may play an important role in oral health promotion of pregnant women, whom they are in close contact with. our aim was to evaluate an educational intervention on the oral health attitude and practices among the junior midwifery students of tehran university of medical sciences in 2010.the junior midwifery students were divided into intervention (n=29) and control (n=33) groups. the in...

BACKGROUND High stress levels and mental health problems are common among medical students and there is a lack of studies on group interventions that aim to reduce such distress during medical school. METHODS A full class of students (n = 129) participated in group sessions during their third year of medical school in Bergen, Norway. The subsequent third-year class (n = 152) acted as control ...

introduction: job stress is one of the main factors in decreasing productivity in organizations and the leading cause of psychosomatic disorders in personnel. since job stress of nurses working in intensive care units (icus) is considered as an important segment in health and medical systems, it significantly affects the quality of care and the nurse’s quality of life. to this end, the purpose ...

OBJECTIVE Inexpensive and standardized methods to deliver medical education to primary care physicians (PCPs) are desirable. Our objective was to assess the impact of an individualized simulated learning intervention on diabetes care provided by PCPs. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Eleven clinics with 41 consenting PCPs in a Minnesota medical group were randomized to receive or not receive the l...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of an educational intervention explaining symptoms to encourage graded exercise in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Chronic fatigue clinic and infectious diseases outpatient clinic. SUBJECTS 148 consecutively referred patients fulfilling Oxford criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome. INTERVENTIONS Patient...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of feedback to medical staff in reducing inappropriate hospital days, particularly those attributable to conservative medical discharge policies. DESIGN Quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test with non-equivalent control group. SETTING A publicly funded hospital in industrial belt in Barcelona (Spain), serving a predominantly urban population of 100,00...

BACKGROUND Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a common preventable cause of mortality in hospitalized medical patients. Despite rigorous randomized trials generating strong recommendations for anticoagulant use to prevent VTE, nearly 40% of medical patients receive inappropriate thromboprophylaxis. Knowledge-translation strategies are needed to bridge this gap. METHODS We conducted a 16-week pil...