original article   training interventions are regarded as essential managerial strategies in various organizations. the present study investigated managerial interventions in training based on deming model and their effectiveness to decrease the rate of unsafe behaviors of workers. it was a case study, conducted in a rolling industry and a descriptive- analytic research, done periodically durin...

background: a combination of teaching modalities instead of a single method may enhance learning. the purpose of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of integrating e-learning modules into the syllabi of clinical contents from different clinical majors at different levels. methods: a total of 108 undergraduate students enrolled from various clinical majors, and participated via u...

This paper describes an empirical evaluation of communication skills training for nurses in elderly care. The training programme was based on Video Interaction Analysis and aimed to improve nurses' communication skills such that they pay attention to patients' physical, social and emotional needs and support self care in elderly people. The effects of the training course were measured in an exp...

BACKGROUND Internal validity of a randomized clinical trial of a nursing intervention is dependent on intervention fidelity. Although several methods have been developed, evaluating audio or audiovisual tapes for prescribed and proscribed interventionist behaviors is considered the gold standard test of treatment fidelity. This approach requires development of a psychometrically sound instrumen...

O ver the last decade, there have been tremendous advances in our ability to treat valvular heart disease and anatomic cardiac defects utilizing catheter-based approaches. At the same time, the number of patients with acquired valvular heart disease or adult congenital heart disease who may benefit from these procedures has grown at a rapid pace—and will continue to grow with the aging populati...

Construction workplaces still report an unacceptable number of safety incidents every year. To tackle these disproportionate incident rates, training interventions are adopted widely in construction workplaces. Despite their adoption, poor performance continues to be a universal and global problem the industry. In fact, recent research has called into question effectiveness programs that common...

OBJECTIVE This research effort leveraged the science of training to guide a taxonomic integration and a series of meta-analyses to gauge the effectiveness and boundary conditions of team training interventions for enhancing team outcomes. BACKGROUND Disparate effect sizes across primary studies have made it difficult to determine the true strength of the relationships between team training te...