OBJECTIVE Little is known about the processes and factors that account for maintenance, with several theories existing that have not been subject to many empirical tests. The aim of this study was to test how well theoretical constructs derived from the Health Action Process Approach, Rothman's theory of maintenance, and Verplanken's approach to habitual behavior predicted maintenance of attend...

PURPOSE The problem regarding the geographic imbalance of the physician workforce has been a long-standing problem in South Korea. Additionally, rural medicine and public health have been marginalized across whole undergraduate curriculums. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an extracurricular program targeting medical students interested in rural and public health. ME...

The objective of the study was to evaluate the efficacy of interactive mobile device application 'Apps on sick newborn care' as a training tool, in improving the knowledge and skill scores of postgraduate nursing students (N = 27). A training workshop was conducted in small workstations by the facilitators using the modules on android device and preloaded videos in which the procedure was syste...

BACKGROUND In July 2007, a large Canadian teaching hospital realigned its general surgery services into elective general surgery subspecialty-based services (SUBS) and a new urgent surgical care (USC) service (also know in the literature as an acute care surgery service). The residents on SUBS had their number of on-call days reduced to enable them to focus on activities related to SUBS. Our ai...

objectives: cerebral palsy (cp) is a static encephalopathy with abnormal reflexes that cause motor developmental delay. in addition to conventional methods, complementary medicine like homeopathy has been used in treatment of neuro-developmental disorders. this study has been done to determine the effect of adding homeopathic treatment to rehabilitation on abnormal reflexes of children with spa...

background: statins, widely used cholesterol-lowering agents, have also been demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory and immunomdulatory effects. objective: to evaluate the effects of atorvastatin in combination with interferon-β in the treatment of multiple sclerosis (ms) in a randomized controlled clinical trial. methods: multiple sclerosis patients were randomized independently, in a double b...

statement of problem: recurrent aphthous stomatitis (ras) is one of the most common diseases affecting human oral mucosa. the etiology of this disease remains unclear; therefore a definitive treatment has not yet been established and corticosteroids might be prescribed to reduce the symptoms associated with ras. purpose: the aim of this study was to determine the effects of a mouthwash containi...