When Patients Teach

The Effect of Teach-Back Method on Health Promoting Lifestyle of Patients With Type 2 Diabetes

Background: Diabetes is the most prevalent metabolic disease in human being. The lifestyle of this population is important and effective in the treatment process. Training is among the most basic methods of prevention, treatment and control of chronic diseases, including diabetes. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of teach-back method on health promoting lifestyle of people wit...

To teach or not to teach.

when to start dialysis in elderly patients

The Structure of the Mandarin Syllable: Why, When and How to Teach it

In this article, we shall be concerned with the isolated segmental syllable of Mandarin,1 and will be leaving aside the suprasegmental component of tone. A traditional model of the Chinese syllable (see Figure 2) splits up a syllable into two basic subsyllabic components: an initial (shēngmǔ 声母, i. e. an initial consonant), and a final (yùnmǔ 韵母, i. e. the rest of the syllable). This traditiona...

Using newly deceased patients to teach resuscitation procedures.