BACKGROUND To investigate the effects of a school-based physical activity-related injury prevention program, called 'iPlay', on risk behavior and neuromotor fitness. METHODS In this cluster randomized controlled trial 40 primary schools throughout the Netherlands were randomly assigned in an intervention (n = 20) or control group (n = 20). The study includes 2,210 children aged 10-12 years.Th...

Objectives: To evaluate the attitude and awareness of the dental students and interns toward infection control measures in prosthodontic clinic and to assess their satisfaction toward applying these measures during prosthodontic treatment. Methods: A questionnaire study was conducted among 360 fourth and fifth dental students and interns (238 males and 122 females) in November 2014 in College o...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy (MCT) and cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) in treating Iranian patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). METHODS Thirty three outpatients meeting DSM-IV-TR criteria for MDD without any other axis I and II disorders were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions, i.e. MCT, CBT and pharmaco...

The Preschool Implicit Association Test (PSIAT) is an adaptation of an established social cognition measure (IAT) for use with preschool children. Two studies with 4-year-olds found that the PSIAT was effective in evaluating (a) attitudes toward commonly liked objects (flowers=good) and (b) gender attitudes (girl=good or boy=good). The gender attitude PSIAT was positively correlated with corres...

Changes in attitude question form, wording, and context have repeatedly been shown to produce change in responses. It is often assumed that such response effects are less pronounced among individuals whose attitudes are intense, personally important, or held with great certainty. We report the results of 27 experiments conducted in national surveys designed to evaluate this hypothesis. Measures...

background: studies show that about 90% of accidents occur because of unsafe behavior and human errors. even if workers do not have the right knowledge, attitude and behavior toward safety measures in a safe workplace, all efforts for an accident-free workplace will be in vain. this study aims to determine the level of knowledge, attitude and behavior of workers toward occupational health and s...

Abstract: North Sulawesi Province is included in the category with highest cases of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) Indonesia. This study aimed to evaluate relationship between know-ledge, attitude, and preventive measures against DHF community. Thia was an analytical descriptive a cross sectional design. Respondents were people who lived Puskesmas (primary health center) Kelurahan Sario Kotabar...

The aim of this study was to investigate how group membership in an online game affects online and offline social interaction. Our main questions were: 1. Do people in online groups socialize more online and offline than people not in groups? 2. Do people in online groups have a different attitude towards bad behavior online? We surveyed Asheron’s Call users and logged online game observations ...