This study was carried out to ascertain the perception of students on the use of social media for educational purposes. It was conducted in three tertiary institutions in Rivers State. The sample comprised 200 respondents randomly selected from three tertiary institutions in Rivers State. Five research objectives and four null hypotheses were used for the study. Mean scores, ANOVA, multiple com...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of an educational program on oncology nurses' attitude, perceived knowledge, and self-reported application of 10 complementary therapies (art, exercise, humor, imagery, journaling, massage, music, relaxation, spirituality, and touch). DESIGN Quasi-experimental with a pre- and post-test design. SETTING A large tertiary care medical center in the mid...

BACKGROUND The nurse's role in healthcare waste management is crucial. OBJECTIVES (1) To appraise nurses quantitatively and qualitatively regarding healthcare waste management; (2) to elicit the determinants of knowledge and attitudes of healthcare waste management. METHOD A cross-sectional study was undertaken at a tertiary care hospital of Mangalore, India. Self-administered pretested que...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of an educational intervention on doctors' knowledge and perceptions towards generic medicines and their generic (international non-proprietary name) prescribing practice. METHODS This is a single-cohort pre-/post-intervention pilot study. The study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Perak, Malaysia. All doctors from the internal medicine departm...

Introduction Access to paediatric rheumatology services in sub-Saharan Africa is currently very limited with major challenges such as lack of trained personnel, diagnostic and therapeutic resources. Knowledge of the spectrum and incidence of paediatric rheumatologic diseases is important to aid in the advocacy for making paediatric rheumatology more visible and to improve access to the services...

Objective: To evaluate the incidence of fetal dextrocardia, associated cardiac and extracardiac malformations, and outcome. Design: Retrospective echocardiographic study. Setting: Two tertiary centres for fetal cardiology. Patients: 81 consecutive fetuses with a fetal dextrocardia presenting at Guy’s Hospital, London, between 1983 and 2003 and at Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, between 1988 and 20...

Data sources Published and unpublished studies were identified by searching Medline (1966–2001), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica (1980–2001), CINAHL (1982–2001), Science Citation Index, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, National Research Register, Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care Group specialist register; contacting autho...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Limited data are available on prescription patterns of the antidepressants from India. We studied antidepressants' prescription pattern from five geographically distant tertiary psychiatric care centers of the India. METHOD In this cross-sectional study, all patients who attended outpatients department or were admitted in the psychiatry wards at Lucknow, Chandigarh, Ti...