background and aim: foot problems are common among patients with diabetes mellitus. in most cases, these problems finally result in amputation. the aim of this study was to investigate the impact of teach-back education on foot self-care among patients with type ii diabetes.   materials and methods: this controlled quasi-experimental study was conducted on 70 patients with type ii diabetes refe...

Some students with intellectual disabilities require explicit instruction of language skills, including preposition use; however, little is known about effective ways to teach preposition use to this population. This study examined direct instruction (DI) to teach students to use and respond to prepositions. Results indicated that DI was an effective way to teach prepositions. Limitations and d...

We studied whether vision can teach touch to the same extent as touch seems to teach vision. In a 2 × 2 between-participants learning study, we artificially correlated visual gloss cues with haptic compliance cues. In two "natural" tasks, we tested whether visual gloss estimations have an influence on haptic estimations of softness and vice versa. In two "novel" tasks, in which participants wer...

To ensure comprehension, clinicians have been urged to use "teach-backs"-explicitly asking patients to repeat back key points of instruction-with every patient receiving new care management instructions. Yet, it is not known whether certain patient groups are more likely to receive teach-backs than others. This study used results from the patient survey of the Communication Climate Assessment T...