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This study examines the ways in which program characteristics (i.e., involvement with service users, agency support, and class experience) and psychological engagement interact in university students to affect service-learning outcomes in such areas as personal development and civic commitment. The...
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PMID: 19764273
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Relative to members invited to participate in the Internet-based intervention, those who enrolled were more likely to be older and live in census tracts associated with higher socioeconomic status. While oversampling of minority health plan members generated an enrolled sample that was more racially...
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PMID: 19709990
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This article provides an overview of trends in beginner, pre-licensing driver education and a perspective on the potential for systematic program evaluation to improve driver education programs, policy, and management. It provides a brief digest of the conclusions, limitations, and implications of t...
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PMID: 18702989
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For students pursuing careers in medical fields, knowledge of technical and medical terminology is prerequisite to being able to solve problems in their respective disciplines and professions. The Dean Vaughn Medical Terminology 350 Total Retention System, also known as Medical Terminology 350 (25),...
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PMID: 18794244
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We assessed the success of a first-year evolution course at the University of Cape Town and discovered no statistically significant change in the views of students before the evolution course and thereafter, for questions that challenged religious ideologies about creation, biodiversity, and intelli...
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PMID: 18067569
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All 16 volunteers performed the assessed skills in the use of an AED correctly. Most of the skills of BLS assessed were performed well. Chest compression depth and rate were performed less well (59% and 67% of participants, respectively, performed correctly). Opening the airway and lung inflation we...
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PMID: 17629390
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An education program consisting of classroom and on-road training targeted to common errors of older drivers enhanced performance on knowledge and on-road tests. Such interventions offer older drivers the potential to continue driving safely longer and to maintain their out-of-home mobility....
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PMID: 17921424
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The incontrovertible scientific evidence about tobacco use causing serious health consequences is now accepted even by the tobacco industry. Research continues to enlarge the spectrum of diseases caused by tobacco use among users as well as among nonusers exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke. This re...
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PMID: 18032804
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The children's ability to achieve an adequate depth of chest compression depended on their age and weight. The ability to provide the correct rate and to employ the correct hand position was similar across all the age ranges tested. Young children who are not yet physically able to compress the ches...
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PMID: 17468118
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The aim of this study is to examine the preferences of consumers for different information sources when they have a question about food safety. On the basis of a nationally representative survey conducted in the Netherlands, five distinct consumer groups are identified that not only differ on the re...
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PMID: 17511701
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The mean (S.D.) age was 46 (16) years, 54% of the respondents were females and 11% were people of foreign origin. Forty-five percent had participated in some form of CPR training. Younger respondents, those living in rural areas, those born in Sweden, employees, students and military conscripts were...
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PMID: 16757090
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Between February 2000 and April 2003, the program was offered to 9 groups of single mothers. Most of the mothers in the trial reported high levels of financial and mental health problems. In the short term (after the intervention), mothers in the intervention group had improved scores for mood (p <...
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PMID: 16293780
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Two-thirds of the patients did not believe that their co-habitant had taken part in CPR training. More than half of these would like their co-habitant to attend such a course. Seventy-two percent were willing to participate in CPR instruction together with their co-habitant. Major obstacles to CPR t...
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PMID: 15919572
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An intervention targeted towards parenting may be efficacious in the treatment of children's internalizing symptoms....
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PMID: 15966947
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Both patients and relatives, after a course of 2-3 h, were no longer afraid of making mistakes by providing life-supporting first-aid. The automated external defibrillator (AED) was generally accepted and considered easy to handle. CONCLUSION: We consider equipping high-risk patients and their famil...
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PMID: 15582765
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Any policy recommendation aimed at reducing education costs in kindergarten must take into consideration 3 factors: the prevalence of risk conditions whose amelioration is desired, the potential cost savings associated with reducing those conditions, and the costs of amelioration. Projecting these c...
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PMID: 15342845
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This study explores models of how people perceive moral aspects of socio-scientific issues. Thirty college students participated in interviews during which they discussed their reactions to and resolutions of two genetic engineering issues. The interview data were analyzed qualitatively to produce a...
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PMID: 16317839
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Approximately 90% of all users (133 providers) in the target group of non-medical first responders answered. The number of automated external defibrillators in use by these operators has increased progressively since 1992. Most respondents possessed only one automated external defibrillator, and a m...
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PMID: 15167170
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Coding diet records is a basic element of most dietary surveys, yet it often receives little attention even though errors in coding can lead to flawed study results. In the INTERnational study of MAcro- and micronutrients and blood Pressure (INTERMAP study), efforts were made to minimise errors in c...
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PMID: 15152639
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This home-based caregiver training program is helpful for decreasing problematic behaviors of elder people with dementia and it improves the caregiver's self-efficacy for managing problematic behaviors.
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PMID: 12673611
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This paper reviews the studies for workers and craftsmen established in Granada early in the liberal period. In 1533, the teachings of the Conservatorio de Artes (Art School) of Madrid were extended to various Spanish cities with a view to providing industrial workers with basic education. In Granad...
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PMID: 14626279
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In a planetarium, the visitor is sitting on Earth and looking into an imaginary space. The Planetarium Inversum is the opposite: visitors are sitting in a space station, looking down on Mother Earth. It is a scientifically-based information show with visitors involvement, its elements being partiall...
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PMID: 14565154
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We examine these issues and explore what distinguishes effective pedagogy from ineffective pedagogy in higher education in general and evolution education in particular. The fundamental problem of students' prior conceptions is considered and why prior conceptions often underpin students' misunderst...
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PMID: 12449476
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This study assessed a training programme attended by 25 observers, intentionally chosen for their lay status, who were invited to participate in a prevalence of hypertension study. The results highlight the fact that the 14 trainee observers finally selected were comparable to professionals in terms...
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PMID: 12409883
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Case report.Documentation of complication of neck manipulation by an untrained person.Tertiary care referral teaching hospital at Lucknow, India.Clinical evaluation, plain radiography of cervical spine, spinal MRI.A 30-year-old man who fainted after neck manipulation by a barber and developed spinal...
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PMID: 11402369
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Two independent samples of 800 lay CPR trainees from an original cohort of 7584 were surveyed postally 4 years after training. Only 2% of respondents had used CPR, but 92 had used other aspects of their life support training. Those who had retrained were more confident than those who had not and 89%...
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PMID: 10950314
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This article describes and evaluates the Buddy Program, which uses a natural helping network model to enhance the well-being of persons in nursing homes. Thirty-six nondemented patients ("buddies") and 33 persons with dementia completed the 6-month study that involved an educational program for the...
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PMID: 10495580
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It has been asserted that women's studies classes profoundly influence the students who take them (e.g., Musil, 1992a). This paper reviews the literature on the changes that take place in students as a result of these classes, including changes in self-expression, sense of commitment and responsibil...
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PMID: 10494977
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This article attempts to contextualize the adolescent experience in post-Communist Russia. Based on over one hundred life-history interviews conducted between September 1995 and February 1996, it was found that Russian teenagers emphasized continuity over change, described themselves more as passive...
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PMID: 10494981
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Citizens readily volunteered for the Bystander Trauma Care training program. Results of the questionnaire suggest citizens can be successfully trained to recognize the needs of, and provide initial care for, acutely injured persons, and the positive effects of such training are maintained over time....
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PMID: 10424860
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We are running (hospital, elderly, special elderly, day service, home support center, nursing station). We are trying to maintain close communication between the institutions and local community, but service in keeping with the demand is more necessary than ever. Moreover, in supplying medical care...
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PMID: 9884658
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