BACKGROUND Blended learning as a method of learning that includes face to face learning, pure E-learning and didactic learning. This study aims to investigate the efficacy of medical education by this approach. METHODS This interventional study was performed in 130 students at different clinical levels participating in class sessions on "congenital adrenal hyperplasia and ambiguous genitalia"...

PURPOSE To evaluate the validity and reliability of the telephone-administered long IPAQ version. METHODS The questionnaire was administered by telephone to adults on days 1 and 6. On day 1, the same questionnaire was administered by face-to-face interview, and accelerometers were delivered to subjects. Reliability was measured by comparing data collected using the telephone questionnaire on ...

METHOD – We used face-to-face questionnaire based survey sessions as our main approach to collect data from twenty-three software development practitioners of eight Vietnamese software development companies. We asked practitioners to choose and rank various SPI motivators against the five types of assessments (high, medium, low, zero, or do not know). From this, we propose the notion of ‘percei...

objective: the appropriate choice of a contraceptive method has been a major issue in reproductive health research. cu t intrauterine device (cu t iud) has been introduced as one of the most effective contraceptive methods in the world, however, the relationship between prior use of cu t iud and secondary infertility has not been evaluated in iran. to examine the association of cu t-380a iud an...

Objective: To determine the knowledge, awareness and the practice of various contraceptive methods in the women who wanted termination of pregnancy during I trimester. Materials and Methods: The study is a descriptive, questionnaire-based prospective study, conducted amongst 50 consecutive termination-ofpregnancy seekers during their first trimester who attended our hospital. The interview for ...

Unequal access to language learning resources has been exacerbated by the global expansion of English private tutoring (EPT). Despite its popularity, no study examined implications EPT during COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this mixed-methods explored nature and effectiveness that first-year Kazakhstani undergraduate students had experienced over previous 12 months It was informed Benson’s (2011)...

introduction phenylketonuria (pku) is a congenital metabolic disorder of phenylalanine, if which, the diet is not to be followed exactly, it can lead to progressive mental retardation. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of face to face and non-face to face trainings by parental on controlling serum phenylalanine levels in the children with phenylketonuria. materials and met...

Face book is virtual and cybernetic network which causes an effective force and among the youth. It shows that if the usage of the face book network increases at home the rate of the interaction and the bounding social capital decreases as well. It also indicates that the effect of face book usage among the young people has increased already. Through a questionnaire by a survey method, more tha...