The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teaching communication strategies on students’ self-efficacy in speaking in content-based courses in Iranian EFL context. To this end, 30 students in two content-based classes, one as the experimental group and another as the control group, in SAMA private junior high school school in Tabriz, participated in this study. Communication st...

Family caregivers have enormous communication responsibilities tied to caregiving, such as sharing the patient's medical history with providers, relaying diagnosis and prognosis to other family members, and making decisions about care with the patient. While caregiver stress and burden has been widely documented in the caregiving literature, little is known about how communication burden, real ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To determine which skills are most important to clinicians and how they correlate with Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies. PATIENTS AND METHODS A descriptive analysis to test four hypotheses: specific skill sets are likely to be important/mandatory for residents to obtain during training; comprehensive and subspecialist ophthalmo...

In this article we present two studies about the relations between peer relationships and somatic complaints in children in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. In the first study (n=711), when the children were average 10 years old, we focused on social status as rated by classmates (popular, neglected, controversial, rejected, and average), self-reported social anxiety and somatic complaints. The seco...

there has been extensive debates about the similarities and differences between urban planning educations in developed versus developing counties. some believe that increasing interdependence among nations, an ever greater need for cross – cultural cooperation,  is required to close the gap in skill and knowledge between developed and developing countries and shrinking international borders mak...

The purpose of this research is to explain how improve teacher’s skill that must-have in the 21st century, which includes critical thinking skill, collaboration, communication and creativity. subject were several principals teachers Elementary Schools East Jakarta, include state or private school, with 15 as participants. This uses a qualitative approach case study method, data collection from ...

The purpose of this research was to assess the role of educational factors in protecting urbanlandscapes in Tehran Metropolitan. This is a quantitative research, applied and descriptivecorrelationmethod was used. The research population consisted of all participants in educationalcourses held by Tehran municipality (N=300) and 172 of them selected by using simple randomsampling method. To gathe...

BACKGROUND A consulting method known as 'shared decision making' (SDM) has been described and operationalized in terms of several 'competences'. One of these competences concerns the discussion of the risks and benefits of treatment or care options-'risk communication'. Few data exist on clinicians' ability to acquire skills and implement the competences of SDM or risk communication in consulta...

This study concerns determining the factors that may influence the communication skill of those university teachers involved in the field of agricultural sciences in Iran. Accordingly, based on a cross-sectional survey method, a conceptual model of communication skill has been devised through reviewing the related literature. Next, the model was revised by the expert panel of the study into a s...