J Community Health Nurs
September 2000
The purpose of this study was to evaluate if knowledge is gained by rural, elementary school-aged children of sexual assault prevention concepts following implementation of an interdisciplinary prevention program. Rural children (N = 294 pretest and N = 301 posttest) were tested before and after delivery of a theater program developed for teaching sexual assault prevention concepts. The program was delivered to children enrolled in the 3rd and 4th grades of 3 rural elementary schools.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Endoscopic vein harvest (EVH) has been promoted as a possible solution to the wound complications, incisional pain, and prolonged convalesce associated with open vein harvesting (OVH). The purpose of this study was to objectively compare the two techniques.
Methods: One hundred patients were prospectively randomized to EVH or OVH.
Synchronous cancers occur in four per cent of patients with head and neck malignancies but no bilateral synchronous tonsillar carcinomas have been described in the English literature. We describe the first such case and discuss the prognostic aspect of this carcinoma. In the presence of contralateral neck nodes in patients with head and neck malignancies, a careful search should be made for a second head and neck primary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate a ten-year experience (1983-1993) with a part-time residency curriculum.
Method: In 1994, the authors analyzed the curriculum through interviews with graduates of a part-time residency track, surveys of faculty and graduates of a full-time residency program, and a quantitative comparison of faculty evaluations of those part-time and full-time residents.
Results: Both participants and full-time residents supported the part-time track and reported no adverse effect on the residency program as a whole.
Here, the author describes how an information booklet for oncology patients was developed. The booklet's positive reception suggests that the idea could be used in other settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Allied Health
April 1997
This study examined whether students' professional perceptions of interdisciplinary practice change following participation in a planned interdisciplinary experience in the rural setting, relative to their own profession and other health related disciplines. Data were collected from students enrolled in varied academic programs who participated in planned interdisciplinary experiences in the care of patients while in the clinical area through the Idaho Rural Interdisciplinary Training Project. Repeated measures multivariate and univariate analysis of variance revealed a significant change in students' perceptions of professional competence and autonomy of other disciplines and their own following the interdisciplinary experience in the clinical area.
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