In this study, a scale was developed in order to determine the levels of life skills supporting learning university students. The study group consisted 378 students from different faculties Pamukkale and Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Universities. process developing scale, literature review conducted, pool items constructed, expert opinions were sought, preliminary studies carried out, first application, ...

Dental education strives to balance the use of traditional teaching methods with technologically advanced systems to meet the needs of an ever-expanding curriculum. Establishing distance education technologies is an identified goal of dental education. Technologically adept students desire meaningful and efficient distance education instruction. A majority of preclinical instruction is devoted ...

Strengthening life skills is a popular approach for prevention and health promotion in schools. It aims to empower students deal effectively with the demands of everyday by improving self-regulation, making informed decisions, building supportive social relationships. By addressing various health-related topics such as friendship, sexuality, violence, or substance use, education has potential n...

objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of life skills workshops on marital satisfaction. methods: eighteen female counselors, psychologists and social workers working at welfare organizations of khozestan participated in life skills workshops. the program focused on communication skills training, assertiveness training, anger management and negative mood management. da...

conclusions the present study showed that life skills training program did not affect self-efficacy of nursing students. perhaps, the methods used in education were influencing and then, more effective techniques such as role-play and group discussion should be substituted in life skills training. results in the untrained and trained groups, 23% and 8% of the students had very high self-efficac...

OBJECTIVE To determine mediators of 12-month outcomes of Internet interventions for youth with type 1 diabetes transitioning to adolescence. METHODS In this multisite clinical trial, 320 youth were randomized to one of two Internet-based interventions: Coping skills (TEENCOPE™) or diabetes education (Managing Diabetes). Mediators of the interventions' effects on glycosylated hemoglobin and qu...

The doctor–patient relationship (a good bedside manner) has always been recognised as central to medicine. However, the systematic teaching of communication skills and assessment of students communicating with their patients is a relatively new element in medical education. It is only recently that we have moved from the belief that entrants to medical school, by virtue of their intelligence, a...

Context Given the increasingly complex treatments in cancer care, patient–provider communication may become overly medically focused. The authors highlight the need of oncology providers to understand ‘where the patient stands’ to be patient centred in their communication and to maintain hope in their patients. Today’s oncology nurse provides expert psychosocial and biomedical care to cancer pa...