This study reports the impact of high sensitivity to early exchange in 11-grade, CSCL triads solving welland ill-structured problems in Newtonian Kinematics. Analysis of the evolution of participation inequity (PI) in group discussions suggested that participation levels tended to get locked-in relatively early on in the discussion. Similarly, high (low) quality member contributions made earlie...

Krasno and Green have argued that political advertising has no impact on voter turnout. We remain unconvinced by their evidence, given concerns about how they measure the advertising environment, how they measure advertising tone, their choice of modeling techniques and the generalizability of their findings. These differences aside, we strongly agree that political advertising does little to u...

This commentary talks about patient involvement in one of the biggest EU projects to date-U-BIOPRED. It describes how people and carers of people with asthma have been able to develop and drive their input and have their voice heard among the >200 healthcare professional project members. Five key principles for the success of the patient involvement group are presented: involve early, involve d...

INTRODUCTION Patient and public involvement in healthcare planning, service development and health-related research has received significant attention. However, evidence about the role of patient involvement in quality improvement work is more limited. We aimed to characterize patient involvement in three improvement projects and to identify strengths and weaknesses of contrasting approaches. ...

Evidence-based health promotion programs are effective at reducing health risks and healthcare costs among older adults, but few men participate in the programs. This mixed methods study aimed to gain insight into the barriers to recruiting and engaging older men in evidence-based health promotion programs offered by the Healthy Aging Regional Collaborative of South Florida (HARC). Fourteen pro...

Purpose: Male participation in antenatal care (ANC) is important and contributes to better maternal neonatal birth outcomes. Deaths among mothers remain a serious burden the developing countries, including Nigeria. Lack of male involvement pregnancy related one contributing factors. The purpose this study assess level ANC. In most countries world, promotion child health perceived as women’s rol...

Abstrak Partisipasi pasangan dengan angka Keluarga Berencana (KB) yang rendah di Kota Binjai tentunya tidak lepas dari peran laki-laki sebagai kepala keluarga dalam suatu pasangan. Selama ini Pembina (PLK) melakukan penyuluhan selalu dihadiri oleh perempuan saja. Tujuan utama penelitian adalah untuk mengetahui faktor penyebab rendahnya partisipasi pria program KB, baik secara langsung maupun la...