BACKGROUND Acquisition of psychomotor clinical skills has been shown to improve the quality of care provided to patients when care providers are competent. The aim of this study was to explore students, nurses and tutors experience on factors affecting acquisition of psychomotor clinical skills. METHODS The study employed an exploratory qualitative research design. The population was students...

The dramatic increase in distance learning (DL) enrollments in higher education is likely to continue. However, research on DL that includes psychomotor, cognitive, and affective skills is virtually non-existent. Indeed, DL for psychomotor skills has been viewed as impossible. Laboratory coursework, which we define as including learning of psychomotor, cognitive, and affective skills, has becom...

Multi-media is widely regarded as useful in discrete psychomotor skills training and re-familiarisation. However, the effective exploitation of multi-media in Defence requires an empirical evaluation of its effectiveness compared to traditional training methods. Sixty-four participants undertaking weapon handling drills training were assigned to one of two groups: an experimental multimedia rev...

We examined the degree to which depressive symptoms, clinical staging of HIV disease, and neuropsychological (NP) functioning were related to neurocognitive complaints in HIV-infection. One hundred adults with HIV-infection (12 asymptomatic, 41 mildly symptomatic, and 47 with AIDS) were administered NP tests of attention and working memory, language, psychomotor speed, verbal memory, and concep...

purpose: the present study aims at comparing the impact of two teaching/learning approaches-self- directed/paced learning and lecture/demonstration-based instruction-on mastering psychomotor skills among nursing students. material & method: thirty nursing students were selected for the study. they filled out questionnaires indicating the demographic factor, and mean exam scores achieved in the ...

Cognitive deficits are found to be contributors to poorer psychosocial functioning, rehabilitation outcome and lack of treatment success in schizophrenia. Aim of the study was to examine correlation of cognitive functions with some aspects of illness, treatment and social functioning in a group of recurrently hospitalized schizophrenic patients (N=60). Deficient results on psychomotor processin...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the perceived value of aerodigestive endoscopy training using high-fidelity simulation. DESIGN Self-reported survey. SETTING Pediatric tertiary care hospital. PARTICIPANTS Consecutive sample of otolaryngology residents and 1 fellow during the 2006-2007 academic year. INTERVENTIONS Foreign body aspiration and ingestion were simulated in a high-fidelity, computer-ass...

conclusions there was a decrease in cognitive function, including attention, visual memory, naming, and executive function, as well as psychomotor function among residents of department of anesthesiology and intensive care, faculty of medicine, universitas indonesia, who underwent 12 working hours. results cognitive stimulation” test revealed statistically significant decrease at sequential ima...