aim: the importance of osteoporosis is on its relationship with disability, mortality, adverse effects on quality of life, and also the imposed costs on individuals and society. osteoporosis begins in early adolescence. therefore, educational programs should begin at an early age. the present research evaluated the effect of designed pamphlet on the knowledge of female seventh grader students i...

background: hundreds of patient education materials i.e. pamphlets are annually published in healthcare systems following their design, correction, and revision. aim: to design and evaluate patient education pamphlets based on readability indexes and their comparison with literacy level in society. method: the average literacy level among 500 patients admitted to two training hospitals in bojnu...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether social media, specifically Facebook, is an effective tool for improving contraceptive knowledge. METHODS English-speaking women aged 18-45 years receiving care at an urban academic center obstetrics and gynecology clinic were included and randomized to a trial of standard contraceptive education and pamphlet (n=74) compared with standard contraceptive education ...

Helping the large number of problem drinkers who will never seek treatment is a challenging issue. Public health initiatives employing educational materials or mass media campaigns have met with mixed success. However, clinical research has developed effective brief interventions to help problem drinkers. This project employed an intervention that has been validated in clinical settings and the...

IntroductionIn most developing countries, antimicrobial resistance is a public threat, and insufficient knowledge of antibiotics among the adds to it. This study aimed determine efficacy clinical pharmacist's pamphlets video-based educational tools address public's knowledge, attitude, practice gaps on antibiotic use.MethodsThis was pre-and post-intervention cohort adult population in South Ind...

BACKGROUND Helping the large number of problem drinkers who will never seek treatment is a challenging issue. Public health initiatives employing educational materials or mass media campaigns have met with mixed success. However, clinical research has developed effective brief interventions to help problem drinkers. This project will employ an intervention that has been validated in clinical se...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether providing information about normal findings before a diagnostic test improves patients' reassurance and reduces anxiety about symptoms. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Outpatient cardiology clinic. PARTICIPANTS 92 patients with chest pain referred for a diagnostic exercise stress test. INTERVENTION Before undergoing testing patients were rand...

background: pamphlet is a tool used for distance continuous professional development programs. in this study, we assessed the impact of an educational pamphlet on improving prescription writing errors in general physicians’ performance.   methods : in this randomized controlled interventional study, we prepared a training pamphlet according to the most prevalent prescription writing problems. w...