The introduction of open and networked learning practices in formal higher education regularly collides with the personal beliefs and convictions that students hold in relation to their own capacity for learning and the structural and procedural conditions that they expect to be met in such settings. A series of systemic intervention studies at Tallinn University highlighted the disabling role ...

BACKGROUND As a result of low numbers and diversity in study type, occupational health intervention studies are not easy to locate in electronic literature databases. AIM To develop a search strategy that facilitates finding occupational health intervention studies in Medline, both for researchers and practitioners. METHODS A gold standard of articles was created by going through two whole ...

objective massage therapy is one of the most widely used complementary and alternative medicine therapies for children. this study was conducted to determine the effect of swedish massage on the muscle tonicity of children with spastic cerebral palsy (cp). materials & methods this study was a single blind clinical trial conducted on forty children with spastic cp, recruited from clinics of the ...

background: studies showed that poor quality of sleep is a common problem among the elderly. because of drug complications and side effects such as drug dependency and resistance and decrease of sleep depth in long‑term intake of sleep medication, cognitive‑behavior therapy including sleep restriction therapy which does not cause these problems is more considered. materials and methods: this is...

there are the different treatments, such as: drugs, psychotherapy, cognitive therapy and behavior therapy, for management of anxiety. but nowadays, an intervention called ”neuro-feedback” which is combination of electronic, behavior, neurology and pharmacology sciences has been innovated in which the neurons can be growth and reinforced and the brain’s function will be increased. in this interv...

background: parents of children with cancer experience high levels of stress and discomfort. religious beliefs are important sources of comfort and support for many cancer patients and their families. the present study aimed to assess the effect of educational-spiritual intervention on burnout of the parents of the children with cancer. methods: in this randomized clinical trial, 135 parents of...

background: the latest studies reported that local endometrial injury is a useful method to improve the success of ivf-icsi outcome. objective: to assess whether local endometrial injury occurred by pipelle in the spontaneous cycle could improve implantation rate, cleavage rate, and pregnancy outcome in the subsequent ivf-icsi cycle in patients who had recurrent ivf failure. materials and metho...