UNLABELLED Many oral and pharyngeal cancers (OPC) are preventable. Early detection improves survival rates. Hygienists have opportunities to help reduce the oral cancer burden among their patients. PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to qualitatively assess North Carolina dental Hygienists' views regarding OPC prevention and early detection. METHODS Sixteen practicing dental hygienists ...

The application of cardiovascular guidelines and risk tables may be impeded by many barriers. In the present paper, we explored the role of patients in the feasibility of cardiovascular preventive care in general practice. Patient-related barriers were examined by means of a qualitative study. Fifteen GPs audio-taped one or two consultations on primary cardiovascular preventive care. The tapes ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the process of learning on human resource management in the radiology residency program at Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, aiming at improving radiologists' education. MATERIALS AND METHODS Exploratory study with a quantitative and qualitative approach developed with the faculty staff, preceptors and residents of the program, utilizing...

INTRODUCTION After stroke, spasticity is often the main problem that prevents functional recovery. Pain occurs in up to 70% of patients during the first year post-stroke. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 70 patients (30 female and 45 male) mean age (65.67) participated in prospective, controlled study. INCLUSION CRITERIA ischaemic stroke, developed spasticity of upper limb, post-stroke inte...

BACKGROUND Many medical schools have embraced small group learning methods in their undergraduate curricula. Given increasing financial constraints on universities, active learning groups like seminars (with 25 students a group) are gaining popularity. To enhance the understanding of seminar learning and to determine how seminar learning can be optimised it is important to investigate stakehold...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychosocial issues facing young people living with a chronic medical condition. MATERIALS AND METHODS Subjects were young people with a range of medical conditions who were on a waiting list to participate in the Chronic Illness Peer Support programme at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Austr...

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...

OZ is a distance learning environment for lectures, seminaries, and exercises in computer science at Humboldt-University, where “OZ” means distributed in space (ortsverteilt) and independent of time (zeitversetzt). The focus is on computer-“exercises”, which has certain implications on the technical setup: the back channel is very important and the teacher’s presentation as well as the student’...