In this initial phase of our multi-year research study we set out to explore the development of leadership skills in our pre-service secondary teachers after using an online wiki, Wikispaces. This paper presents our methods for preparing a group of 13 mathematics and 3 science secondary pre-service teachers to demonstrate the essential knowledge, skills and dispositions of beginning teacher lea...

OBJECTIVES This overview reviews the impact of second-generation antipsychotics on less frequently researched outcomes such as medication-adherence behaviour, quality of life, and subjective tolerability in patients with schizophrenia. METHODS We selectively reviewed recent literature and considered our own research and experiences in the field. RESULTS Most published studies about second-g...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine whether patient navigation in a comprehensive community cancer center affects patient and staff perceptions of patient preparation for treatment, access to care, and overall satisfaction. DESIGN Program evaluation with patient and staff surveys. SETTING Comprehensive community cancer center accredited by the American College of Surgeons in the southeastern Un...

PURPOSE To evaluate the subjective performance of modern scleral lenses in patients of the clinics of Visser Contact Lens Practice. METHODS In this cross-sectional survey, all the necessary data were collected at the first follow-up visit during the 5-month study period. In accordance with the preformed fitting technique developed at Visser Contact Lens Practice, four types of scleral lenses ...

Patient satisfaction and how it is measured is an important field of study in healthcare. Consequently, there have been many patient satisfaction studies. However, there is a lack of studies that focused on how male and female patients perceive, or weigh, their overall satisfaction. Determining the weights of these attributes by gender is an important outcome to determine overall patient satisf...

We developed and tested a behavioral measure to better understand the entire experience and related satisfaction for a commercial packaged food. Measures were performed at home considering the entire food experience, i.e. food unpacking, food preparation and consumption. Participants filmed their interaction at home with the food and also scored in a questionnaire their satisfaction for a list ...

Extending research by Stephanie Wilson (2003), who investigated the effects of music on perceived atmosphere and purchase intention in a restaurant, using four musical styles (jazz, popular, easy listening and classical) and no music, were played in a restaurant over two consecutive weeks, is closely related to the present study which also investigated the effects of music on customer behaviour...

BACKGROUND Consumer satisfaction with the acute-care experience could reasonably be expected to be higher amongst those treated in the private sector compared to those treated in the public sector given the former relies on high-level satisfaction of its consumers and their subsequent recommendations to thrive. The primary aims of this study were to determine, in a knee or hip arthroplasty coho...

background: outbreak and spread of bacterial infections resulted in increasing use of antibiotics which subsequently leaded to bacterial resistance to conventional antibiotics. objectives: to evaluate the effects of organic acids (selko-ph®), probiotic (primalac®) and echinacea purpurea (ep) alcoholic extract on the immune system of the broiler chickens, a completely randomized design experimen...