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Experiences of a web-based psycho-educational intervention targeting sexual dysfunction and fertility distress in young adults with cancer—A self-determination theory perspective
…aimed to describe experiences of participating in a web-based psycho-educational intervention focusing on sexual dysfunction and fertility distress after cancer, and to explore these experiences within the theoretical frame of the basic psychological needs for competence, relatedness and autonomy…
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Interest and learning in informal science learning sites: Differences in experiences with different types of educators
…informal science learning sites and interacted with an adult or youth educator or just the exhibit itself as part of family visits to the sites. Children in early childhood reported greater topic interest and perceived learning, but actually recalled less content, than participants in middle…
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Regulations and practices of structured doctoral education in the life sciences in Germany
Structured doctoral education is increasingly preferred compared to the individual model. Several science policy organisations give recommendations on how to structure doctoral education. However, there is little research on to what extent these recommendations find their way into practice. In our…
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Impact of continuing education on maternal and child health indicators
…the importance and effectiveness of policies on training and continuing education for the Brazilian Unified Health System.
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Effect of practice exergames on the mood states and self-esteem of elementary school boys and girls during physical education classes: A cluster-randomized controlled natural experiment
Reduced physical exercise can impact children’s mental health. Use of active electronic games can help promote psychological health. Physical education (PE class) uses different resources, methods, and contents to promote student health. We investigated the effect of exergames on the mood and…
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Surgeons’ participation in the development of collaboration and management competencies in undergraduate medical education
The teaching of professional roles in medical education is an interdisciplinary concern. However, surgeons require specific standards of professionalism for certain context-based situations. In addition to communication, studies require collaboration, leadership, error-/conflict-management…
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Effects of a peer educator program for HIV status disclosure and health system strengthening: Findings from a clinic-based disclosure support program in Mozambique
…the implementation and impact of a disclosure support implemented by peer educators (PE). Methods: Ten PEs, previously trained in basic HIV and post-test counseling, completed additional training on providing disclosure support for newly-diagnosed persons living with HIV (PLH). Results: Of the…
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Inequalities in education and national income are associated with poorer diet: Pooled analysis of individual participant data across 12 European countries
…regression. The potential mitigating influence of participant-level educational status was explored. Findings: Higher GDP was positively associated with total sugar intake (5·0% energy for each 10% increase in GDP, 95% CI 0·6, 9·3). Scandinavian countries had the highest vitamin D intakes…
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Ad hoc efforts for advancing data science education
With increasing demand for training in data science, extracurricular or “ad hoc” education efforts have emerged to help individuals acquire relevant skills and expertise. Although extracurricular efforts already exist for many computationally intensive disciplines, their support of data science…
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When intents to educate can misinform: Inadvertent paltering through violations of communicative norms
…these norms may be just as misleading. In this work, we demonstrated that educational information presented prominently on the American Diabetes Association website violated the Gricean communicative principles and disrupted readers’ performance on a test of diabetes knowledge. To establish the…
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Measurement of sustainable higher education development: Evidence from China
…equity, earnings and equality, to measure the sustainable higher education development of the 31 provincial regions of China by utilizing the information entropy weight-TOPSIS method. This paper then makes a spatial and temporal analysis of the coupling coordination relationship among the…
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Fruit and vegetable consumption in Europe according to gender, educational attainment and regional affiliation—A cross-sectional study in 21 European countries
Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine fruit and vegetable consumption according to gender, educational attainment and regional affiliation in Europe. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: 21 European countries. Participants: 37 672 adults participating in the 7th round of the…
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The effects of male peers on the educational outcomes of female college students in STEM: Experimental evidence from partnerships in Chemistry courses
A major concern among universities around the world is that female students face gender bias, discrimination and related barriers in male-dominated STEM fields. To investigate this concern, we conducted a novel large-scale experiment of interactions between female and male students in one of the…
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Association of husbands' education status with unintended pregnancy in their wives in southern Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study
…We aimed to examine whether there is an association between husbands’ education status and their wives unintended pregnancy in southern Ethiopia. Methods: The data source for this study was from a cross-sectional study on iron-folate supplementation and compliance in Wolaita, South Ethiopia. Data…
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Digital technology adoption scale in the blended learning context in higher education: Development, validation and testing of a specific tool
…intention to use digital tools in a blended learning context of higher education. The external bidimensional factor of familiarity with digital tools, which is not usually explained by the TAM, was included, and evaluated. Following a four-stage scale development technique, a seven-dimensional…
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Evaluation of educational quality performance on virtual campuses using fuzzy inference systems
…overall online teaching-learning process that give quality to the virtual educational process. To this end, an ex-post-facto research methodology was applied to 1084 university students, who completed an ad hoc designed questionnaire, which allowed us to carry out descriptive analysis…
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Evaluation of awareness about primary immunodeficiencies among physicians before and after implementation of the educational program: A longitudinal study
…conducted in 2016 and in 2019 –before and after the implementation of an educational program. We compare responses from 82 doctors who participated in the 2016 survey, and 67 doctors who have taken part in the survey in 2019: pediatricians, general practitioners / family physicians and physicians…
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How repeated exposure to informal science education affects content knowledge of and perspectives on science among incarcerated adults
Over two million men, women, and youth are incarcerated in the United States. This large and ethnically diverse population has, in general, more limited exposure to education, particularly in scientific fields, than the general public. Formal educational programs for the incarcerated can be…
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Reliability and validity study of the Spanish adaptation of the “Educational Practices Questionnaire” (EPQ)
The Educational Practices Questionnaire is an instrument for assessing students perceptions of best educational practices in simulation. As for other countries, in Spain, it is necessary to have validated rubrics to measure the effects of simulation. The objective of this study was to carry out a…
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Transforming students’ attitudes towards learning through the use of successful educational actions
Previous research shows that there is a correlation between attitudes and academic achievement. In this article, we analyze for the first time the impact of interactive groups (IG) and dialogic literary gatherings (DLG) on the attitudes that students show towards learning. A quantitative approach…
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