OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of a (minimally) guided peer support group (GPSG) for people with psychosis on social network, social support, self-efficacy, self-esteem, and quality of life, and to evaluate the intervention and its economic consequences. METHOD In a multi-center randomized controlled trial with 56 patients in the peer support group and 50 patients in the control conditio...

In the present study we examined the importance of parental and peer support for well-being of adolescents with and without a visual impairment. The sample included 178 adolescents who are blind or visually impaired and 338 adolescents without visual impairments. Peer and parental support proved to be important for well-being of both adolescents with a visual impairment and sighted adolescents....

Objective: This study aims to explore the effect of peer support in improving self-efficacy of rural patients with type 2 diabetes and the application of drugs to reduce the pain from diabetes. Methods: Patients with type 2 diabetes in the rural area were selected and they were divided into the peer group and control group with voluntary. The patients in peer support group applied six kinds of ...

Introduction: Peer-assisted learning has been shown to be aneffective teaching and learning method. However, this techniquehas not been proven in Thai medical school. We aimed to comparethe effectiveness of peer-assisted learning and self-study ininterpreting an electrocardiogram in Thai medical students.Methods: This is a prospective, randomized controlled trial,<...

A class of cooperative games is introduced which arises from situations in which a set of agents is hierarchically structured and where potential individual economic abilities interfere with the behavioristic rules induced by the organization structure. These games form a cone generated by a specific class of unanimity games, namely those based on coalitions called peer groups. Different econom...

This paper examines the decentralized formation of groups within a peer-to-peer multi-agent system. More specifically, it frames group formation as a clustering problem, and examines how to determine cluster characteristics such as area and density in the absence of information about the entire data set, such as the number of points, the number of clusters, or the maximum distance between point...