background: smoking among youths is a main public health concern, and detecting predictors of smoking is essential for designing preventive programs. any interventional program should plan with highlighting on behavioral change models and based on operative interventional program. so, this study aimed to investigate school-based smoking prevention programs for middle school students in nowshahr...

BACKGROUND Schizophrenia is mainly characterized by chronic psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and negative symptoms such as social withdrawal. These symptoms cause behavior problems, i.e. aggressive behavior violence, or social isolation that affect the patients' lives, and the health status and daily routine of caregivers or family members. Psychological distress or burden ...

OBJECTIVE To assess compliance with hand hygiene (HH) in ICU workers before (P1) and after (P2) implementation of a HH promotion program and distribution of an alcoholic solution for HH, and to analyze factors independently associated to HH before and after patients care. DESIGN Fifty hours of observational evaluation were carried out during each period of the study (P1 and P2); the number of...

This paper describes ongoing research of design of web-based support system for educational program held in a science museum. We are now going to develop the system at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan. Educators and learners can access to the web site for making learning activity plan, searching learning resources, carrying out their researches, and discussing ...

BACKGROUND The evidence supporting the effectiveness of educational games in graduate medical education is limited. Anecdotal reports suggest their popularity in that setting. The objective of this study was to explore the support for and the different aspects of use of educational games in family medicine and internal medicine residency programs in the United States. METHODS We conducted a s...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine whether a comprehensive educational program influenced the incidence of hub colonization of central venous catheters (CVCs) and bloodstream infection rates in children with cancer, to identify risk factors related to infection rates, and to determine the impact of an educational program on nurses' knowledge of CVC care for children with cancer. DESIGN Prospecti...

introduction: ageing brings different experiences for individuals. any individual learn about ageing from childhood whatever formal or informal. no matter they learn, what and how they learn is important. this study aimed to assess impact of an educational program on ageism in those people lower 20 years of age. methods: this interventional study was conducted among school and university studen...

The quantitative methodologies have been traditionally employed in the educational research so far. However, as long as with the appreciation and widespread use of the qualitative methodologies in many disciplines, many different educational areas have started to be examined in terms of qualitative research aspects. Particularly, the qualitative evaluation of the education programs has received...

Environmental interventions such as labeling and an increased availability of healthy foods may help consumers to meet guidelines for a healthy diet. This article describes a study into the effectiveness of two environmental programs to be used in worksite cafeterias along with an educational program. The aim of the interventions was to reduce fat intake, and to increase fruit and vegetable int...