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The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientious...
Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present... -
Increasing Awareness about Antibiotic Use and Resistance: A Hands-On Project ...
Background Health-promoting education is essential to foster an informed society able to make decisions about socio-scientific issues based on scientifically sustained... -
Systematic evaluation of the teaching qualities of Obstetrics and Gynecology ...
Background: The importance of effective clinical teaching for the quality of future patient care is globally understood. Due to recent changes in graduate medical education, new... -
A controlled trial of the knowledge impact of tuberculosis information leafle...
BACKGROUND: Information leaflets are widely used to increase awareness and knowledge of disease. Limited research has, to date, been undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of these... -
What Are the Effects of Teaching Evidence-Based Health Care (EBHC)? Overview ...
BackgroundAn evidence-based approach to health care is recognized internationally as a key competency for healthcare practitioners. This overview systematically evaluated and... -
Outcomes in Registered, Ongoing Randomized Controlled Trials of Patient Educa...
Background With the increasing prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases, patient education is becoming important to strengthen disease prevention and control. We aimed... -
"Cancer – Educate to Prevent" – High-School Teachers, the New Promoters of Ca...
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, and thus represents a priority for national public health programs. Prevention has been assumed as the best strategy to... -
Fitting Characteristics of N95 Filtering-Facepiece Respirators Used Widely in...
BACKGROUND: Millions of people rely on N95 filtering facepiece respirators to reduce the risk of airborne particles and prevent them from respiratory infections. However, there... -
Measuring Health Literacy Regarding Infectious Respiratory Diseases: A New Sk...
Background There is no special instrument to measure skills-based health literacy where it concerns infectious respiratory diseases. This study aimed to explore and evaluate a... -
Effects of Guideline-Based Training on the Quality of Formal Ontologies: A Ra...
Background The importance of ontologies in the biomedical domain is generally recognized. However, their quality is often too poor for large-scale use in critical... -
Validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the Newest Vital Sign: a ...
Health literacy (HL) refers to the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services, and is thus needed to make appropriate health decisions. The... -
Improved STD Syndrome Management by a Network of Clinicians and Pharmacy Work...
Background Sexually Transmitted diseases (STD) syndrome management has been one cornerstone of STD treatment. Persons with STD symptoms in many countries, especially those with... -
Evidence That Personal Genome Testing Enhances Student Learning in a Course o...
: An emerging debate in academic medical centers is not about the need for providing trainees with fundamental education on genomics, but rather the most effective educational... -
Interprofessional education for whom? --challenges and lessons learned from i...
Background Evidence is available on the potential efficacy of interprofessional education (IPE) to foster interprofessional cooperation, improve professional satisfaction, and... -
Behavioral and psychosocial interventions for HIV prevention in floating popu...
textabstractBackground: Floating populations have been repeatedly characterized as "the tipping point" for the HIV epidemic in China. This study aims to systematically summarize... -
Modeling for Fidelity: virtual mentorship by scientists fosters teacher self-...
This small-scale comparison case study evaluates the impact of an innovative approach to teacher professional development designed to promote implementation of a novel cutting... -
What Users Think about the Differences between Caffeine and Illicit/Prescript...
: Pharmacological cognitive enhancement (CE) is a topic of increasing public awareness. In the scientific literature on student use of CE as a study aid for academic performance... -
Mid-level healthcare personnel training: an evaluation of the revised, nation...
Introduction Mozambique suffers from a critical shortage of healthcare workers. Mid-level healthcare workers, (Tecnicos de Medicina Geral (TMG)), in Mozambique require less... -
How accessible was information about H1N1 flu? Literacy assessments of CDC gu...
We assessed the literacy level and readability of online communications about H1N1/09 influenza issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the first... -
Bugging Forecast: Unknown, Disliked, Occasionally Intimate. Bed Bugs in Germa...
Bed bugs appear to be feared more than vector insects and other household pests. The reasons for this exaggerated fear are not fully understood. One hypothesis is that the folk...
