Forty-nine schools (N = 5,680 fifth and sixth grade students) were assigned to pretest/treatment, pretest/no treatment, no pretest/treatment, and no pretest/no treatment conditions in the context of an alcohol misuse prevention study. At the first posttest, five months after the pretest and two months after the intervention, the effects of the pretest and of the intervention were examined. The ...

Background:Cardiac rehabilitation program (CRP) is a useful method of modifying cardiovascular risk factors, improving life expectancy and quality of life in patients with ischemic heart disease (IHD). The present study was conducted to evaluate the effects of cardiac rehabilitation on the pulmonary artery systolic pressure (PASP) and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LV...

Aims: The aim of this study examined the acute effects of exhaustive incremental exercise on serum leptin, glucose and lactate in one session in trained men 18-26 years old. Materials and Methods: Thirty students who had 18-26 years old, body fat between 15-25 percent and VO2max between 35-45 ml/kg/min, simple randomly selected through 200 physical education students and they were divided into...

Item parameter calibration is important for tests based on item response theory, because the scoring, equating, bias analysis of the test, and item selection in adaptive tests are all based on the item parameters. As a test is continuously administered, item calibration needs to be conducted for new items at intervals to replace overexposed, obsolete, or flawed items in the item bank. Although ...

Objective: Urban terrorist attacks are increasing worldwide. After suicide bombings in Ankara and Urfa in 2015, the Department of War Surgery in Gülhane Military Medical Academy (GATA) started the “Current Approaches to Firearms Injuries Course” for training civilian doctors potentially unfamiliar with these injury mechanisms. Here we present the attending doctors’ pretest and posttest results....

purpose: to evaluate the effect of a multimedia software program on the ability of interpreting orbscan ii outprints in ophthalmology residents, affiliated to shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, and compared the results with the conventional teaching method. methods: this prosepective randomized crossover study enrolled 17 ophthalmology residents (11 second year and 6 third year). a...