ABSTRACT Introduction: The current challenge in tennis training China is the integration with technology because, existing methods, coaches and players pay little attention to strategies using a simple retrograde tactical method. Solutions need be created meet development requirements of modern tennis. Objective: This paper aims analyze players’ technical level, characteristics, methods sports ...

background: congenital heart disease causes large expenditures as well as mental pressures for the parents and, consequently, endangers the mothers’ quality of life and self efficacy. thus, the present study aimed to determine the effect of educational program on the quality of life and self efficacy of the mothers of the infants with congenital heart disease. methods: the present randomized co...

Policymakers increasingly understand the importance of children’s early years for promoting health, learning, and school readiness and for identifying and mediating risk that can compromise later functioning. Yet not all parents receive the services needed to identify developmental and behavioral issues in early childhood. In the National Survey of Early Childhood Health, conducted in 2000, onl...

Evidence supporting seizure-related behaviors in dogs is emerging. The methods of seizure response dog (SRD) training programs are unstudied. A standardized survey was retrospectively applied to graduates of a large SRD program. Subjective changes in quality of life (QOL) parameters were explored. Data were captured on animal characteristics, training methods, response and alerting behaviors, e...

PURPOSE While undergoing a hospital residency training program, residents often suffer anxiety and stress. This study aims to evaluate the change in health-related quality of life and happiness among internal medicine residents, and identify prognostic factors. METHODS Thirty-eight residents in the Ramathibodi Hospital internal medicine training program completed the World Health Organization...

Background Health services provide clinical training to medical, allied health and nursing staff. Ensuring the quality and quantity of this training is critical to workforce supply. Health Workforce Australia (HWA) has funded initiatives to enhance clinical training quality and the availability of clinical training placements. The quantity and quality of clinical placements must be increased. W...

BACKGROUND The ever-growing elderly population of Iran and their physical and mental consequences put emphasis on the necessity of determining the quality of life (QoL) in this social group. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to estimate the mean score of QoL in Iranian elderly citizens. METHODS Twenty-one articles that were indexed in Iranian (MagIran and Iran Medex) and internat...

BACKGROUND Aging is associated with a decrease in physical skills, sometimes accompanied by a change in quality of life (QOL). Long-term martial arts practice has been proposed as an avenue to counter these deleterious effects. The general purpose of this pilot study was to identify the effects of an adapted karate training program on QOL, depression, and motor skills in 50-year-old men. METH...

This issue links together a broad construct (quality) in a defined population (children) with alumni from a specific training program. In so doing, it is both a celebration and a challenge. The supplement celebrates the contributions of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholars to the national discourse regarding the measurement and improvement of quality; it acknowledges the incr...