This cross-sectional study describes the level of manual wheelchair skill performance and participation of persons with spinal cord injuries (SCIs) 1 year after discharge from inpatient rehabilitation and tests the hypothesis that wheelchair skill performance is positively related to participation. Participants included 81 persons with SCI from eight rehabilitation centers in the Netherlands. T...

Mountains on the west coast of India are known as Western Ghat (WG). The WG region has a landslide (LS) susceptibility index four and is prone to LSs in monsoon season due rainfall activity. LS study focuses area between 15.5–20.5° N, 72.5–77.0° E Maharashtra state. A catalog 115 events been prepared by collecting data for 17 years (2000–2016) from various sources. windward leeward side mountai...

background :evidence-based practice (ebp) provides nurses a method to use critically appraised and scientifically proven evidence for delivering quality health care and the best decision that leads to quality outcomes. the purpose of this study was to measure the practice, attitude and knowledge/skill of evidence-based practice of nurses in a teaching hospital in iran. methods : this cross-sect...

Current methods for manual evaluation of surgical skill yield a global score for the entire task. The global score does not inform surgical trainees about where in the task they need to improve. We developed and evaluated a framework to automatically generate an objective score for assessing skill in maneuvers (circumscribed segments) within a surgical task. We used an existing video and kinema...

background and purpose: clinical competence has four essential components: knowledge , physical exam , problem solving and communication skill .the communication skill isn’t an optional extra in medical training but it is a core clinical skill. this study is performed in order to determine whether communication skill training for internal medicine and infectious disease residents improves their...

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN AUTONOMOUS SKILL LEARNING AND TASK-SPECIFIC PLANNING

BIOLOGICALLY-BASED FUNCTIONAL MECHANISMS OF MOTOR SKILL ACQUISITION

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of different swimming race constraints on the evolution of turn parameters. One hundred and fifty-eight national and regional level 200-m (meters) male swimming performances were video-analyzed using the individualized-distance model in the Open Comunidad de Madrid tournament. Turn (p<.001, ES=0.36) and underwater distances (p<.001, ES=0.38) ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the level of objective control skill and performance criteria of students with intellectual disability at special school. Three hundred thirty one students with intellectual disability were participated this study (M: 230, F: 101). Their aged was from 10-18 aged old. We had the test the objective control skill by video, objective control skill consisted ...

the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of coping stress skills training on stress and problem solving skill in taleghani dormitory students in kermanshah medical sciences university. the research method is experimental and has been done with pre-test, post-test and control group. research tools were harry inventory (2005) and endler and parker coping scale of stressful situation (1...