Department of Applied Chinese Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University, 162, Sec. 1, Ho-Ping E. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, 162, Sec. 1, Ho-Ping E. Rd., Taipei, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University, 162, Sec. 1, Ho-Ping E. Rd., Taipei, ...

Yu-Ju Lan, Nian-Shing Chen and Yao-Ting Sung Department of Applied Chinese Language and Culture, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan // Department of Information Management, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan // Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan // [email protected] // [email protected] // [email protected] Correspon...

Breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer deaths among African American women,1-3 is commonly diagnosed as a result of a biopsy procedure performed as follow-up to an abnormal mammography result.4,5 Lack of knowledge, anxiety about undergoing breast biopsy, and inadequate social support have been associated with delay in screening and follow-up.6-9 There have been a number of calls for ...

background: many of health system services are done in clinical counseling. a patient’s expectation of clinical consultation and physician office visits is to obtain diagnostic-remedial results, while such an expectation can be fulfilled only through an active relationship between the doctor and the patient. the aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of doctor- patient interaction in an e...

BACKGROUND In light of the high prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity, there is a need of developing effective prevention programs to address the rising prevalence and the concomitant health consequences. The main aim of the present study is to systematically develop and implement a tailored family-based intervention for improving lifestyle habits among overweight and obese children, a...

P hysical activity is a vital component of good health, and it also helps reduce the severity of many chronic conditions (1). Currently, evidence suggests that physical activity counselling to patients by healthcare professionals is not being fully utilised (2). In a recent article, Dacey et al. (3) assessed the impact of medical school education on counselling knowledge and skills by future cl...