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    Veterinary peer study groups as a method of continuous education—A new approach to identify and address factors associated with antimicrobial prescribing

    Valerie-Beau Pucken; Gertraud Schüpbach-Regula; Manuela Gerber et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 9 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …known to be influenced by their peers, peer study groups as a continuous education might contribute to this. Therefore, the objective of this study was to analyse written records of veterinary peer study group meetings to identify factors associated with antimicrobial prescribing decisions, and to…

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    The Better Management of Patients with Osteoarthritis Program: Outcomes after evidence-based education and exercise delivered nationwide in Sweden

    Thérése Jönsson; Frida Eek; Andrea Dell’Isola et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 9 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    We evaluated a structured education- and exercise-based self-management program for patients with knee or hip osteoarthritis (OA), using a registry-based study of data from 44,634 patients taken from the Swedish “Better Management of Patients with Osteoarthritis” registry. Outcome measures included…

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    The role of health and social factors in education outcome: A record-linked electronic birth cohort analysis

    Annette Evans; Frank Dunstan; David L. Fone et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 8 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    Background and objective: Health status in childhood is correlated with educational outcomes. Emergency hospital admissions during childhood are common but it is not known how these unplanned breaks from schooling impact on education outcomes. We hypothesised that children who had emergency…

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    Curricula for empathy and compassion training in medical education: A systematic review

    Sundip Patel; Alexis Pelletier-Bui; Stephanie Smith et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 8 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …the biomedical literature on empathy and compassion training in medical education to find the specific curricula components (skills and behaviors) demonstrated to be effective. Methods: We searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL using a previously published comprehensive search strategy. We…

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    Changing educational gradient in long-term care-free life expectancy among German men, 1997-2012

    Olga Grigoriev; Gabriele Doblhammer

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 9 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …(LE), life expectancy without (CFLE) and with (CLE) long-term care by education for older German men; and by assessing the trends in the education-LE/CFLE/CLE gradient over time. Data and methods: We apply survival analysis and Gompertz regression to German Socioeconomic Panel data (1997–2012) to…

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    Primary pupils, science and a model bird species: Evidence for the efficacy of extracurricular science education

    Katharina Hirschenhauser; Didone Frigerio; Victoria Leithinger et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 7 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …adds empirical evidence for the potentials of advancing primary science education e. g. by fostering the collaboration of schools with scientists.

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    In-school eyecare in special education settings has measurable benefits for children’s vision and behaviour

    S. A. Black; E. L. McConnell; L. McKerr et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 8 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …majority moderate (40%) or severe (35%) learning difficulty] of a special education school in the UK. Results: 199 participants completed baseline and follow-up measures. 122 (61%) participants presented with at least one significant visual or ocular health deficit and 90 (45%) participants had at…

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    Towards developing and validating Quality Physical Education in schools—The Asian physical education professionals’ voice

    Walter King Yan Ho; Md. Dilsad Ahmed; Selina Khoo et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 8 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    Physical education professionals aim to develop quality programmes for physical education. This study aimed to develop and validate a scale using professionals’ perceptions of Quality Physical Education QPE in Asia using twenty-four items regarding QPE quality issues. The items covered status and…

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    First glimpse on attitudes of highly educated consumers towards cell-based meat and related issues in Brazil

    Júlia de Paula Soares Valente; Rodrigo Alonso Fiedler; Marina Sucha Heidemann et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 8 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …and 218 from Joinville, the majority was women with higher level of education; 65.2% and 70.2% frequently consumed meat and 50.7% and 50.9% would not stop eating meat; 81.6% and 82.6% had little or no knowledge about cell-based meat. After watching an explanatory video, 41.9% and 34.4% stated they…

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    Nutritional status, cognitive achievement, and educational attainment of children aged 8-11 in rural South India

    Yubraj Acharya; Nancy Luke; Marco Faytong Haro et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 10 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …As part of the South India Community Health Study (SICHS), we collected educational attainment and anthropometric data from 1,194 children in rural Vellore district of Tamil Nadu, India, and assessed their math and reading skills. We analyzed the relationship between continuous and binary…

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    Validating a scale to measure engineers’ perceived self-efficacy for engineering education outreach

    Laura Fogg-Rogers; Tim Moss

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 10 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    Education outreach in schools has been identified as a critical route to influence children’s perceptions and capabilities for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics careers. Evidence suggests that providing non-teaching professionals like engineers with training programmes and…

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    To tweet or not to tweet, that is the question: A randomized trial of Twitter effects in medical education

    Lauren A. Maggio; Todd C. Leroux; Anthony R. Artino Jr.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 10 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    Introduction: Many medical education journals use Twitter to garner attention for their articles. The purpose of this study was to test the effects of tweeting on article page views and downloads. Methods: The authors conducted a randomized trial using Academic Medicine articles published in 2015…

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    Educational achievement at age 9.5 years of children born to mothers maintained on methadone during pregnancy

    Samantha J. Lee; Lianne J. Woodward; Jacqueline M. T. Henderson

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 10 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …little is known about their school-age functioning, particularly their educational achievement. This analysis examined the educational outcomes of a regional cohort of 100 prenatally methadone-exposed children who were prospectively studied from birth to age 9.5 years alongside a comparison group…

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    Newly educated care managers’ experiences of providing care for persons with stress-related mental disorders in the clinical primary care context

    Lilian Wiegner; Dominique Hange; Irene Svenningsson et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 11 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …Setting: Primary health care centres Subject: Twenty-eight newly educated care managers in primary health care participated in the study. The median age was 50 (31–68) years. Twenty-seven were women and one was a man. Twenty-one were employed as nurses and seven as counsellors. Results: The…

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    Improving emotional health and self-esteem of Malaysian adolescents living in orphanages through Life Skills Education program: A multi-centre randomized control trial

    Marjan Mohammadzadeh; Hamidin Awang; Suriani Ismail et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 14 No. 12 · 2019 · English · PLOS Scopus

    Generally speaking, institutionalised children and adolescents are at greatly increased risk of serious mental and behavioural problems, up to seven times more than their peers. Life skills- based interventions using peer enforcement have been introduced as effective program to improve adolescents’…

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    Effectiveness of a culturally appropriate nutrition educational intervention delivered through health services to improve growth and complementary feeding of infants: A quasi-experimental study from Chandigarh, India

    Nikita Sharma; Madhu Gupta; Arun Kumar Aggarwal et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2020 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …was to determine the effectiveness of a culturally appropriate nutrition educational intervention that can be delivered through health services and digitized child undernutrition tracking module for health workers to improve complementary feeding of infants of age six months to 12 months in…

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    School-based health education for dengue control in Kelantan, Malaysia: Impact on knowledge, attitude and practice

    Rattanam AhbiRami; Wan Fatma Zuharah

    PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Vol. 14 No. 3 · 2020 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …unflooded areas and to evaluate the effectiveness of the dengue health education program in improving their KAP level. A school-based pre- and post-tests design was utilized in this study whereby a booklet on dengue was distributed during the interphase of the tests. The information collected was…

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    The knowledge and self-management educational needs of older adults with knee osteoarthritis: A qualitative study

    Siti Salwana Kamsan; Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh; Maw Pin Tan et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2020 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …they needed more information about KOA. A targeted strategy is needed to educate older adults about KOA in order to support and prepare them for self-management.

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    Cortical thickness and its associations with age, total cognition and education across the adult lifespan

    Christian Habeck; Yunglin Gazes; Qolamreza Razlighi et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 15 No. 3 · 2020 · English · PLOS Scopus

    Early-life education (years of schooling) has been investigated in regards to cognition, health outcomes and mortality. It has been shown to confer cognitive reserve that might lessen the impact of brain pathology and its impact on cognitive and motor functioning in a variety of neurodegenerative…

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    Differences in study workload stress and its associated factors between transfer students and freshmen entrants in an Asian higher education context

    Kin Cheung; Tsz Leung Yip; C. L. Johnny Wan et al.

    PLOS ONE, Vol. 15 No. 5 · 2020 · English · PLOS Scopus

    …stress and learning experiences. Our findings provide a message, both for educators in higher education and policy makers in the government—there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to different student populations when it comes to enhancing their learning experiences.

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