AIM To assess and compare the effectiveness of Manual toothbrushing reinforced with audiovisual instructions with powered toothbrushing, among the institutionalized mentally challenged individuals under supervision of trained caretakers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A randomized cross over clinical trial of 6 months duration which included 16 subjects consisting of two phases of three months, for ea...

Health education can be effective with audiovisual aids. However, oral communications often fail because they are misunderstood and/or forgotten. Therefore, information leaflets could be considered as a way of supplementing health education. Number of guidelines for producing written information have been produced over the last few years; these include advise on planning, writing and design but...

An experimental system called SoundView has been developed, which allows the exploration of a color image through touch and hearing. The image is mapped onto a virtual surface with a fine-grained color dependent roughness texture. The user explores the image by moving a pointer device over the image. The pointer acts like a virtual gramophone needle, and the sound produced depends on the motion...

BACKGROUND Fear and anxiety often inhibit patients from seeking dental care. Audiovisual, or A/V, distraction techniques have been shown to reduce patient anxiety and pain during dental procedures. The authors investigated the effects of a virtual image A/V eyeglass system on patients' anxiety and pain. METHODS Twenty-seven routine dental prophylaxis patients participated and completed the De...

AIM The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the eff-cacy of 'audio distraction' in anxious pediatric dental patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty children were randomly selected and equally divided into two groups of thirty each. The first group was control group (group A) and the second group was music group (group B). The dental procedure employed was extraction for both the groups...

OBJECTIVES We examined the quality of instruction in a continued medical education course and the correspondence between the residents and lecturers evaluations of the program. MATERIALS AND METHODS Resident psychiatrists and instructors completed structured evaluation forms immediately following each lecture in a psychiatry course for one academic year. RESULTS Residents' and lecturers' ev...

In 2003, Touch Graphics Company carried out research on a new invention that promises to improve accessibility to science museums for visitors who are visually impaired. The system, nicknamed Ping!, allows users to navigate an exhibit area, listen to audio descriptions, and interact with exhibits using a cell phone-based interface. The system relies on computer telephony, and it incorporates a ...

The Audio Interactive Tutor (Tait) is an interactive audio/oral computer-aided study device. It is most easily understood in comparison to the familiar notion of self-study audio tapes, which are non-interactive audio study devices. A selfstudy tape presents information and typically solicits responses from the user; however, it continues with a set pattern of instruction no matter what the use...

There is increasing evidence to suggest that patients with cancer require more information about their disease and its consequences than they receive. In an attempt to address these needs, a variety of methods have been used to facilitate the passage of information from health professionals and other cancer information sources to cancer patients and their families. These include written materia...

Purpose. To determine the long-term effectiveness of comprehensive education given to parents and caregivers with respect to the incidence of preventable oral diseases, utilization of dental services, and retention of knowledge related to oral health. Methods. Group presentations on oral health were conducted for caregivers of infants (n = 161) using an interactive audio-visual aid. Followup oc...