Exploring the Perceived Difficulty and Importance of Lower Limb Physical Activities for People With and Without Osteoarthritis: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

Background: Many outcome measures used in lower-limb osteoarthritis (OA) present ceiling effects. This compromises the ability of those measures to accurately assess people with higher levels of physical function. Understanding of the difficulty and importance of physical activities would enable the inclusion of challenging and meaningful activities in new outcome measures.

Using MCQ response certainty to determine how aspects of self-monitoring develop through a medical course.

Introduction: Self-monitoring of clinical-decision-making is essential for health care professional practice. Using certainty in responses to assessment items could allow self-monitoring of clinical-decision-making by medical students to be tracked over time. This research introduces how aspects of insightfulness, safety and efficiency could be based on certainty in, and correctness of, multiple-choice question (MCQ) responses.

Preventing upper respiratory tract infections with prophylactic nasal carrageenan: a feasibility study.

To observe upper respiratory tract infection (URTI) symptoms, rhinovirus levels and compliance with daily carrageenan nasal spray. 102 adults were randomized to carrageenan or saline placebo three times daily for 8 weeks and URTI symptoms were recorded. A control group (n = 42) only recorded URTI symptoms.

Can storytelling of women's lived experience enhance empathy in medical students? A pilot intervention study.

Purpose: This pilot study aimed to investigate the acceptability and efficacy of a patient storytelling intervention (live and recorded) on empathy levels of medical students.

Materials And Methods: Medical students participated in a storytelling intervention that had three components: listening to live or recorded stories from women with abnormal uterine bleeding, reflective writing, and a debriefing session. Empathy scores of students pre- and post-intervention were measured using the Jefferson Scale of Empathy-student version (JSE-S).