The World Health Organization defines patient education as “any combination of learning experiences designed to help individuals improve their health, by increasing their knowledge or influencing their attitudes.” This combination of learning experiences consists primarily of providing verbal and written material to the patient to improve their motivation to maintain oral health and prevent com...

The structure of the Woodcock-Johnson Cognitive Battery-Third Edition (WJ Cog) has been extensively explored via confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with its normative sample, but there has been little research to verify that the same structure holds for students referred for special education services. Likewise, research on the structure of the WJ Cog with exploratory factor analysis (EFA) meth...

This study examined the barriers and facilitators of HIV counseling, testing, and referral service (HIV CTR) acceptance among 278 youth aged 12-24 years old. Participants completed a questionnaire before health education sessions with trained counselors. Information was collected on individual characteristics, HIV testing acceptance, risk behaviors, reasons for having never been tested, and wha...

Interactive Media can be efficient tools to support patient-doctor communication, yet their development costs make them available for use in institutional communication only. We suggest that Interactive Narratives, whose content is generative by nature, can address this issue by helping to visualise specific data. Using interactive narrative technologies that we have developed over the past 10 ...

Can’t you see them? They’re everywhere. When you start looking, you can’t help but notice them. There they are, huge important sections of teaching about patient management that we’ve locked away in a black box so we don’t have to think about them. We don’t think about the mechanisms or the workings, and we can clamber back onto the comfort zone of biology, like a safe island in a choppy sea of...

OBJECTIVE The population reach of tobacco quitlines is an important measure of treatment seeking and penetration of services. Maine offers an opportunity to examine temporal changes in quitline reach and referral sources in the context of a comprehensive tobacco treatment programme. The impact of a $1.00 cigarette tax increase is also examined. METHODS This is a descriptive analysis of Maine ...

Medical education follows the clinical drive toward patient-centered care and, therefore, puts strong emphasis on the development of empathy by medical students. It has, however, been found that there is a decline in empathy throughout a student's education. Students' participation in role-play as the doctor has been proved to improve patient care in a clinical capacity. Here, it is proposed th...

The present paper reports on the results of a telephone survey of 217 alcohol and drug treatment clinicians on their beliefs and practice, in relation to service provision for women. Nurses comprised the second largest professional group surveyed. Seventy-eight percent of clinicians believed that women's treatment needs differed from men's and 74% reported a range of approaches and intervention...

ABSTRACT Introduction: The hemodialysis patients face with multiple physical problems and psychosocial and social challenges. The proper interventions in the field of their education have a positive impact on the reduction of complications and improvement of the quality of their life. Despite the potential benefits of patient education, its success depends on various factors. The...