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Assessing the Impact of Peer Educator Outreach on the Likelihood and Acceleration of Clinic Utilization among Sex Workers
…clinic visits, we utilize an Extended Cox model to assess whether peer educator outreach intensity is associated with accelerated clinic utilization among sex workers. Methods: Our data comes from 2705 female sex workers registered into Pragati, a women-in-sex-work outreach program, and followed…
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What Medical Oncologist Residents Think about the Italian Speciality Schools: A Survey of the Italian Association of Medical Oncology (AIOM) on Educational, Clinical and Research Activities
Background and objectives: Relevant heterogeneity exists among Postgraduate Schools in Medical Oncology, also within the same country. In order to provide a comprehensive overview of the landscape of Italian Postgraduate Schools in Medical Oncology, the Italian Association of Medical Oncology…
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Accelerometer-Measured Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Differ According to Education Level in Young Adults
This study examined the association of education level with objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in young adults. Data from the Finnish ESTER study (2009–2011) (n = 538) was used to examine the association between educational attainment and different subcomponents of physical…
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Meat Consumption and Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes in the SUN Project: A Highly Educated Middle-Class Population
…61% women) in the SUN Project, an open-enrolment cohort of a highly educated population of middle-class Spanish graduate students. All participants were initially free of diabetes. Diet was assessed at baseline using a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire of 136-items previously…
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The Effects of Financial Education on Impulsive Decision Making
…of great interest. We explored the ability of a semester long financial education course to change delay discounting. Participants were recruited from a financial education course (n = 237) and an abnormal psychology course (n = 80). Both groups completed a delay-discounting task for $100 during…
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Women's Education and Health Inequalities in Under-Five Mortality in Selected Sub-Saharan African Countries, 1990–2015
Background: The aim of the study was to analyse trends in the relationship between mother’s educational level and mortality of children under the year of five in Sub-Saharan Africa, from 1990 to 2015. Data and Methods: Data used in this study came from different waves of Demographic and Health…
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London Education and Inclusion Project (LEIP): Exploring Negative and Null Effects of a Cluster-Randomised School-Intervention to Reduce School Exclusion—Findings from Protocol-Based Subgroup Analyses
This paper presents subgroup analyses from the London Education and Inclusion Project (LEIP). LEIP was a cluster-randomised controlled trial of an intervention called Engage in Education-London (EiE-L) which aimed to reduce school exclusions in those at greatest risk of exclusion. Pupils in the…
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Patient Preferences for Receiving Education on Venous Thromboembolism Prevention – A Survey of Stakeholder Organizations
…prescribing of prophylaxis with relatively less emphasis on patient education. Objective: To develop a patient-centered approach to education of patients and their families on VTE: including importance, risk factors, and benefit/harm of VTE prophylaxis in hospital settings. Design, Setting and…
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Bullying in the American Graduate Medical Education System: A National Cross-Sectional Survey
Objectives: To deliver an estimate of bullying among residents and fellows in the United States graduate medical education system and to explore its prevalence within unique subgroups. Design/Setting/Participants: A national cross-sectional survey from a sample of residents and fellows who…
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Family and College Environmental Exposures Mediate the Relationship between Parental Education and Depression among College Students
Background: Depression is a major health concern for college students due to its substantial morbidity and mortality. Although low parental education has been identified as a factor in depression in college students, the mechanisms through which parental educational achievement affects students’…
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Preterm Birth, Age at School Entry and Long Term Educational Achievement
Objective: To investigate if the detrimental impact of year of entering education in preterm infants persists into adolescence. Background: Preterm infants are often enrolled in school a year earlier than would be expected if this decision is based on their actual date of birth rather than their…
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Forest Owners' Response to Climate Change: University Education Trumps Value Profile
Do forest owners’ levels of education or value profiles explain their responses to climate change? The cultural cognition thesis (CCT) has cast serious doubt on the familiar and often criticized "knowledge deficit" model, which says that laypeople are less concerned about climate change because…
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Indications of a Scarring Effect of Sickness Absence Periods in a Cohort of Higher Educated Self-Employed
…absence on the risk of subsequent periods of sickness absence in higher educated self-employed. Methods: In a historic register study based on the files of a Dutch private disability insurance company all sickness absence periods of 30 days or more were analysed. Results: A total of 15,868 insured…
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The Effectiveness of an Educational Game for Teaching Optometry Students Basic and Applied Science
Purpose: To compare the effectiveness of an educational board game with interactive didactic instruction for teaching optometry students elements of the core optometric curriculum. Methods: Forty-two optometry students were divided into two GPA-matched groups and assigned to either 12 hours of game…
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Attractiveness Compensates for Low Status Background in the Prediction of Educational Attainment
Background: People who are perceived as good looking or as having a pleasant personality enjoy many advantages, including higher educational attainment. This study examines (1) whether associations between physical/personality attractiveness and educational attainment vary by parental socioeconomic…
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Construction and Validation of a Perceived Physical Literacy Instrument for Physical Education Teachers
The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a “Perceived Physical Literacy Instrument” (PPLI) for physical education teachers. Based on literature review and focus group interviews, an 18-item instrument was developed for the initial tests. This self-report measure, using a 5-point…
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Education-Related Parameters in High Myopia: Adults versus School Children
Purpose: Since high myopia in the younger generation may differ etiologically from high myopia in older generations, we examined whether education-related parameters differ between high myopia in today´s school children and high pathological myopia in today´s elderly generation. Methods: The…
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Four Decades of Educational Inequalities in Hospitalization and Mortality among Older Swedes
Background: The inverse association between education and mortality has grown stronger the last decades in many countries. During the same period, gains in life expectancy have been concentrated to older ages; still, old-age mortality is seldom the focus of attention when analyzing trends in the…
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