As in all professions, the practice of psychologists is based on the acquisition and application of knowledge, skills, and behaviors that are often conceptualized as competencies. As students progress through their curricula, they might approach each individual unit as a discrete set of skills embedded in different coursework units. However, these discrete skills and competencies may not reflec...

1 Zeynep Dilli, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, A.V. Williams Bldg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. [email protected] 2 Neil Goldsman, Department of Elect rical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. 3 Janet A. Schmidt, Engineering Administration, College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park. 4 Lee Harper, Institute of ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to assess the patterns of socio-economic inequalities in leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in the different member states of the European Union. METHODS Comparable data on subjects aged 16-64 years derived from national health interview surveys from 15 European countries were used for the analysis. We used log-binominal regression to assess prevalence ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse differences in health by educational level in Spanish adults by comparing the health dimensions of the SF-36 Heath Survey. DESIGN Data were taken from the National Survey on Drug Use carried out in February 1996. The information was collected by home personal interview. In addition to measuring the use of legal and illegal drugs and their associated health risks, the heal...

BACKGROUND Data on the relationship between plasma levels of cholesterol and triglycerides and social class have been inconsistent. Most previous studies have used one classification of social class. METHODS This was a cross-sectional population based study with data on occupational social class, educational level obtained using a detailed health and lifestyle questionnaire. A total of 10,147...

OBJECTIVE To assess the relative importance of perceived health and health related lifestyle in adolescence in the production of educational differences. DESIGN A longitudinal study: survey data from 1981 and 1985 linked with Educational Registry data from 1993. SETTING The whole of Finland. PARTICIPANTS A representative sample of 4761, 16 and 18 year olds. The follow up rate was 82%. M...

introduction: shahid motahari annual educational festival aims to improve the quality of medical education in the islamic republic of iran, and has held since 2008. the present study was performed to determine the satisfaction level of iranian medical universities’ faculty members about holding shahid motahari annual educational festival during the past six years, from 2008 to 2014. methods: th...

BACKGROUND Osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease in the world and it is rapidly increasing in Iran. In this study the relationship between educational levels and osteoporosis was investigated among Iranian postmenopausal women. METHOD AND SUBJECTS Seven hundred and six women aged 50-75 years old were randomly recruited from urban (n = 440) and rural (n = 266) areas in Guilan....

BACKGROUND Relative mortality differences between educational level in mortality have been reported among diabetic as well as among non-diabetic subjects in Europe, but data on absolute differences are lacking. We studied the effect of educational disparities on mortality in a Dutch prospective cohort of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. METHODS This study was part of the ZODIAC study...

Many studies have shown that better education is favorable for lowering the risks for a number of chronic diseases, but little information is available on the relation with bone health. The authors examined the association of educational level, classified as levels I-IV, with bone mineral density (BMD) and with the prevalence of osteoporosis among 685 population-based, postmenopausal, Chinese w...