conclusions our findings revealed that aerobic exercise increases self-esteem. an improvement in educational, family, social, and general self-esteem scores was seen only in the experimental group. results the results showed that although the self-esteem average score was not significant before the intervention, it increased significantly in the experimental group. in the experimental group, th...

BACKGROUND Chinese medical workers suffer from a high incidence of mental health problems, resulting in reduced efficiency, increased medical malpractice, rising medical costs, and other issues. The effective alleviation of mental health problems among medical workers is therefore an important focus of research and social attention. METHODS The mental health of 842 medical workers from the Fi...

To the Editor: Gable et al have presented an interesting study into the effectiveness of an educational intervention involving simulation and didactic teaching.1 Certainly the problems with caring for obese patients are not going to go away quickly – so it is vital that we have adequate numbers of fully-trained staff that can care for them. However, there are some parts of the intervention and ...

Clinical skills are an important and necessary part of clinical competence. Simulation plays an important role in many fields of medical education. Although role-playing is common in communication training, there are no reports about the use of student role-plays in the training of technical clinical skills. This article describes an educational intervention with analysis of pre- and post-inter...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether an educational intervention that focused on physician communication training influenced physician empathic expression during patient interactions. METHODS This study used a quantitative research method to investigate the influence of communication training on physician-expressed empathy using two measures (global and hierarchical) of physician empathic behavior. ...

OBJECTIVE To review the empirical research examining behavioral and medical treatments for constipation and fecal incontinence. METHOD Sixty-five articles investigating intervention efficacy were identified and reviewed. Twenty-three of the studies were excluded because they were case studies or were less well-controlled single-case designs. The intervention protocol for each study was identi...

pain relief by soaking in hot water can be used for women who want to birth their child with minimal medical intervention . this achieved in new division of labor in the hinchinbroke hospital in september 1983 . in this part, control of childbirth pain has done with minimal medical intervention . if consultation of maternity is necessary, have be done in this hospital. midwives and doctors in t...

OBJECTIVE We report the preliminary assessment of InsuOnline©, a serious game designed for medical education on insulin therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a pilot study with 41 undergraduate medical students and Internal Medicine residents to assess the educational effectiveness of InsuOnline©, as compared to a traditional educational activity (lecture, cases discussion). Knowledge, ...