BACKGROUND Studies show a high and growing prevalence of mental disorders in the population worldwide. 25% of the general population in Europe will during their lifetime experience symptoms related to a mental disorder. The Mental Health First Aid concept (MHFA) was founded in 2000 in Australia by Kitchener and Jorm, in order to provide the population with mental health first aid skills. The ai...

State education officials have implemented performance standards, but state education aid has not kept up. By focusing on the relationship between spending and property wealth, most existing aid formulas only partially account for cost differences across districts and, thus, fail to fully promote equity in school performance. This paper shows how to estimate comprehensive educational cost index...

In this paper we present an educational tool, named CAMOU, which has been designed to both, acquire (learning) knowledge from the (educational) interactions among students and educators, and aid educators in the process of course design and analysis. CAMOU integrates a system, named IPSS, which uses planning and scheduling modules as main reasoning module. IPSS is used to automatically analyse,...

This paper discusses a knowledge-based model for the design and development of units of learning and teaching aids. The idea behind this model originates from both the analysis of the open issues in instructional authoring systems, and the lack of a well-defined process able to merge pedagogical strategies with systems for the knowledge organization of the domain. In particular, it is presented...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the structure, quality of information and usability of a website on First Aid. The evaluation was performed by information technology (IT) and health care professionals and by students, using specific and validated instruments. The kappa method was used to evaluate the agreement of the answers, and Cronbach's α coefficient was used to assess the reliability...

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The present research is a quasi-experimental study with two groups (before and after training). This study compared the two methods of lecturing training and education by the multimedia software. Two selected battalions were considered in which each battalion had 300 perso...