AIM To compare the 2-stage and 4-stage basic life support teaching technique. The second aim was to test if students' self-evaluated knowledge was in accordance with their actual knowledge. METHODS A total of 126 first-year students of the Faculty of Medicine in Ljubljana were involved in this parallel study conducted in the academic year 2009/2010. They were divided into ten groups. Five gro...

Background: Improvement of attitudes toward breast cancer positively affects the screening behaviors of women. Imagery has been shown to have a positive impact on the screening behaviors of women. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effects of breast cancer screening training based on the systematic comprehensive health education and promotion (SHEP) model on the attitudes and breast self-...

Background: The most important barriers to patient education are nurses’ poor motivation and training, and poor quality of managerial supervision. Clinical supervision could be a powerful tool for overcoming these barriers. However, the associated patient, staff, and organization-related outcomes still require further research. Aim: The present study aimed to evaluate the patient-, staff-, and ...

This research aims to determine the use of project-based learning (PjBL) in achievement students' mathematical problem-solving abilities. The variables this were PjBL and instrument was a description test abilities, which analyzed by testing hypothesis using Mann Whitney U test. results showed that average value students higher than conventional models. show is effective improving

Materials Multicenter, prospective, observational study from February 3 to April 3, 2014. We included all adult critically ill patients of 26 CCUs of Spain who had diarrhea. All feces samples were sent to the reference laboratory and we considered CDI when cytotoxicity in cell culture or toxigenic culture were positive. The ribotypes were determined by PCR. Incidence of CDI, clinical characteri...

Methods Patients with aSAH and occluded aneurysm who developed clinical signs of DCI were randomised to either induced hypertension or no induced hypertension. Hypertension was induced with norepinephrine. Cerebral perfusion was assessed with CTP as CBF (ml/100g/s) in predefined regions (ROIs) on two time points: CTP1) at time of clinical deterioration and CTP2) 24 36 hours after randomisation....

Materials and methods This is an observational cross-sectional study. Patients with T1D associated with another autoimmune disorder were selected from all the T1D patients that regularly attended the outpatient clinic of the Diabetes unit. A group of patients of the same outpatient clinic without those disorders was randomly selected as a control group. The presence of retinopathy, nephropathy ...

The nonparametric Wilcoxon Rank Sum (also known as the Mann-Whitney U) and the permutation t-tests are robust with respect to Type I error for departures from population normality, and both are powerful alternatives to the independent samples Student's t-test for detecting shift in location. The question remains regarding their comparative statistical power for small samples, particularly for n...