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OBJECTIVES To assess community pharmacists' knowledge, attitude and practice towards oral health care in Asir region, Saudi Arabia. METHODS A prospective cross-sectional study was carried out using a self-administered structured questionnaire, targeting 254 community pharmacies across the Asir region. The questionnaire consisted of four domains: demographics, knowledge, attitudes and practice related to oral health care. Statistical analysis was performed using Social Sciences (SPSS) version 23.0. RESULTS Of the 254 pharmacists, 202 respondents completed the survey, yielding a response rate of 79.5%. Almost two-thirds (66%) of the community pharmacists exhibited good knowledge, 65% possessed a positive attitude, and 55% perceived a good practice towards oral health care. Pharmacists have shown a good understanding on dental care (p

In the 21st century, providing accessibility for all to all products and platforms including cultural and literary products is one of the most important fields of study embraced in translation and interpreting studies, media accessibility studies and others. With governments and international organs like the UN and EU working towards full accessibility, it falls to multidisciplinary teams to produce accessible versions of such products and furthermore to provide road maps, guidelines and examples of good practice. The following article outlines a project undertaken with these priorities and concerns. In response to requests from parents with D/deaf children and the wishes of the author N. Neydim, work began on the translation and the intermedial adaptation of the Turkish children’s books series Selim’in Maceralari (2011) in May of 2019. The project was completed and the video-books are currently available online. The initial aims of the project were, to raise awareness about children’s literature in Turkish among preschool and early primary school age Deaf children and to provide these children with the Turkish sign language video-book versions of the author’s works. The following article details the design and implementation of the project, the project cycle, profiles of the interpreting team, technical and design concerns, and options and decisions about the interpreting process to provide an example for similar endeavours and a platform for sharing insight on the issues inherent to the project.

Socrative es una herramienta digital de evaluación formativa que permite al docente crear itinerarios de aprendizaje a través de preguntas, introducir feedback que aparezca inmediatamente al responder y conocer el progreso de los estudiantes. En este artículo se expone una experiencia docente para la enseñanza de contenidos relacionados con las actividades físicas en el medio natural (AFMN) en el grado en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte. Se fomentó el aprendizaje y la autorregulación a través de cuatro formas de feedback. Se recogieron datos sobre la percepción de la herramienta por parte de 30 estudiantes que la utilizaron en varias ocasiones a lo largo de la asignatura. Se empleó el cuestionario sobre la experiencia de buena práctica de la Red de Evaluación Formativa y Compartida en Educación (REFYCE), basado en el cuestionario validado sobre metodología y evaluación en formación inicial de profesorado (Castejón Oliva, Santos Pastor, & Palacios Picos, 2015), junto a dos preguntas abiertas. Los resultados mostraron una gran satisfacción con esta actividad de aprendizaje, correlacionada con su valoración sobre la ayuda que recibieron de sus compañeros. Se presentan implicaciones pedagógicas relacionadas con la creación de grupos de alumnos para la realización de la actividad y sus distintos niveles, la dificultad, orden y naturaleza de las preguntas, el tipo de feedback introducido y el diseño de la tarea para un correcto andamiaje que fomente la autorregulación del aprendizaje. Abstract. Socrative is a formative assessment digital tool that allows the teacher to create learning itineraries through questions, introduce feedback that appears immediately when answering, and check the students' progress. This article presents a teaching experience for the instruction of contents related to physical activities in the natural environment in the degree in Physical Activity and Sport Sciences. Learning and self-regulation were encouraged through four forms of feedback. Data were collected on the perception of the tool by 30 students who used it on several occasions throughout the course. The questionnaire on good practice experience of the Spanish Network for Formative and Shared Evaluation in Education, based on the validated questionnaire on methodology and assessment in initial teacher training (Castejón Oliva et al., 2015), was used together with two open questions. The results showed high satisfaction with this learning activity, correlated with the appreciation of the assistance students received from their peers. Pedagogical implications are presented related to creating groups of students to carry out the activity and its different levels of performance, the difficulty, order and nature of the questions, the type of feedback introduced and the design of the task for a correct scaffolding that promotes self-regulated learning.

Empowering teachers as instructional designers strengthen the link between theory and good practice. The purpose of the research is to explore two teachers’ experiences about a professional development (PD) program. The PD includes a one academic year program with the aim of developing teachers’ instructional design knowledge and skills using Understanding by Design model as reference. Teachers’ instructional designs improved in terms of UbD design principles and they reported change in their attitudes and teaching practices after the fourth cycle. Continuous discipline-specific feedback and trust bond based on prolonged communication underlined as major elements of PD that facilitated teacher change.

Background: Cooperative learning plays a vital role to equip the nursing students with overall needed qualities and skills that suggest clear adoption and effective implementation from clinical nurse educators. Aim: To determine efficacy of instructional program on clinical nurse educators' implementation of cooperative learning at Faculty of Nursing. Subjects and method: A quasi experimental study design was used. Setting: Study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University including all seven academic nursing departments. Subjects: All available (n=80) clinical nurse educators included nursing demonstrators and assistant lecturers enrolled at Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University. Three tools were used; Tool I: Clinical nurse educators’ perception regarding cooperative learning implementation Questionnaire. Tool II: Knowledge questionnaire about cooperative learning implementation. Tool III: Cooperative learning implementation observational checklist. Results: Pre-instructional program, majority (83.7%) of clinical nurse educators had low perception level regarding cooperative learning implementation. Majority (88.7%) of clinical nurse educators had poor knowledge level preinstructional program, while post-instructional program high percent (77.5%) of them had good knowledge level and 96.0% of them showed good practice level. Conclusion: Postinstructional program most of clinical nurse educators had good knowledge level with significant improvement compared to pre-instructional program. Also, majority of them showed good practice level regarding implementation of cooperative learning in clinical sessions. Recommendations: Conduct in-service training programs and workshops for qualifying and encouraging clinical nurse educators for using cooperative learning in their clinical sessions

Summary Regenerative medicine has great potential. The pace of scientific advance is exciting and the medical opportunities for regeneration and repair may be transformative. However, concerns continue to grow, relating to problems caused both by unscrupulous private clinics offering unregulated therapies based on little or no evidence and by premature regulatory approval on the basis of insufficient scientific rationale and clinical evidence. An initiative by the InterAcademy Partnership convened experts worldwide to identify opportunities and challenges, with a focus on stem cells. This was designed to be inclusive and consensus outputs reflected the diversity of the global research population. Among issues addressed for supporting research and innovation while protecting patients were ethical assessment; pre-clinical and clinical research; regulatory authorization and medicines access; and engagement with patients, policy makers, and the public. The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) identified options for action for sharing good practice and building collaboration within the scientific community and with other stakeholders worldwide., Highlights • An inclusive IAP study examined global stem cell opportunities and challenges • Great potential leads to concerns for evidence base in unregulated clinics • Also concerns for premature regulatory approval without sufficient evidence • Recommendations for responsible research and innovation and collaborations, In this article, Fears and colleagues describe an inclusive global initiative by the InterAcademy Partnership examining stem cell opportunities and challenges. Great therapeutic potential brings concerns about the inadequate evidence base used by unregulated clinics. Concerns are also expressed about premature regulatory approval without sufficient evidence. Recommendations cover ethical assessment; pre-clinical and clinical research; regulatory authorization and medicines access; and engagement with patients, policy makers, and the public.

Background: COVID-19 is an emerging respiratory virus which was initially reported to the WHO on December 31, 2019 and declared as a public health emergency by the WHO on March 11, 2020. Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the public knowledge, attitudes, and practice toward COVID-19. Method: This is an online cross-sectional study. The questionnaire was in both Arabic and English languages and consisted of 4 segments (demographic, knowledge, attitude, and practice). The results were collected anonymously. The data were entered in Excel sheets and then exported and analyzed using SPSS software. Results: A total of 1,602 UAE residents completed the questionnaire. The mean knowledge score is 71%, which reflects good knowledge. The mean attitude score is 78%, which reflects a positive attitude. The mean practice score is 76%, which reflects good practice. Ninety-four percent of the population avoid handshakes, 93.3% wear face masks regularly, 85.5% use hand sanitizers, and 66% wash their hands, 22.7% drink honey with ginger, 13% still prefer to take garlic, and 82% chose to constantly update themselves with information about COVID-19; however, only 10% relied on purely medical sources. Conclusions: This study showed that UAE residents have satisfactory knowledge and favorable practice, with an overall high positive attitude. However, it is still encouraged to continue efforts in spreading awareness and public health education across all platforms, as well as increase awareness campaigns and correct misconceptions circulating on nonmedical platforms since they are a major source of information for the public.

Background: Academic nursing students considered from the most groups who are at risk for COVID-19 infection. To protect them should keep them away from infection and improve their knowledge and practice about preventive measures towards COVID-19 by healthcare authorities. The study aimed to compare the preventive measures among academic nursing students' awareness regarding COVID-19. Subjects and Methods: Design: A comparative research design was used for the study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Beni-Suef and El-Fayoum Universities. Sample: A convenient sample of 660 including all the third academic nursing students' year in the previous setting. Tools: A self-administered questionnaire which consisted of three parts; (1) demographic characteristics of academic nursing students, (2) knowledge and (3) preventive measures regarding the COVID-19. Results: The major source of information among academic nursing students for COVID-19 was social media (70%) in Fayoum group and (74 %) in Beni-Suef group. Most of academic nursing students (95%, 93%) in Beni-Suef group and Fayoum group had satisfactory level of knowledge about COVID- 19. A statistical significant differences were observed in academic nursing students about the preventive measures regarding COVID -19 in almost tested areas (P

Background and aims: Patients with cancer frequently present with disease-related malnutrition and functional decline. The scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA (c)) is a malnu-trition screening and assessment tool commonly used in patients with cancer. The aim of the current study was to translate and culturally adapt the original English PG-SGA for the Greek setting, including assessment of comprehensibility, difficulty and content validity in patients and healthcare professionals.Methods: Our study was conducted according to the ten steps of the International Society for Pharma-coeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Principles of Good Practice for Translation and Cultural Adaptation. Comprehensibility and difficulty of the Greek translation were assessed in 100 patients and 100 healthcare professionals (HCPs) from Greece. Content validity of the translation was assessed among HCPs. Item and scale indices were calculated for comprehensibility (I-CI; S-CI), difficulty (I-DI; S-DI), and content validity (I-CVI; S-CVI).Results: Patient perceived comprehensibility and difficulty of the PG-SGA were considered to be excel-lent (S-CI = 0.97, S-DI = 0.97). HCPs perceived content validity for the patient component was also excellent (S-CVI = 0.95). The perceived content validity, comprehensibility and difficulty for the pro-fessional component of the PG-SGA, as perceived by the HCPs, was excellent (S-CVI = 0.94, S-CI = 0.94, S-DI = 0.90), with the physical exam being perceived as most difficult (I-DI = 0.78-0.92).Conclusions: Our study resulted in the successful translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the original English PG-SGA for the Greek setting. The Greek language version of the PG-SGA is characterized by high comprehensibility, low difficulty, and is considered relevant for use in Greece. (C) 2021 European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

It is important that doctors of the various specialties in a health facility requesting for radiological examinations are knowledgeable about the effect of ionizing radiation. When referring doctors know the amount of radiation their patients receive there will be justification for such investigations in line with the guiding principle of radiation protection – As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) - to minimize risk to the patient. The objective of this study is to assess the knowledge and practice of radiation protection and safety amongst doctors in a Teaching Hospital in the Niger Delta, Nigeria. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study using a self-administered structured questionnaire among 131 doctors in Delta State University Teaching Hospital (DELSUTH), Oghara. Data was analyzed using the IBM SPSS v.21. Eighty-eight (67.2%) respondents had a good knowledge of radiation safety while 49 (37.4%) of respondents had a good practice of radiation protection and safety. There was an association between the department of respondents (p=0.009), awareness of body parts sensitive to radiation (p=0.005) and their knowledge of radiation safety. Also, there was an association between the department of respondents (p=0.016), their years of experience (p=0.016) and the practice of radiation safety. Knowledge of radiation safety was high while the practice of radiation protection and safety was low amongst respondents. Gender, department of doctor and awareness of body parts that are sensitive to radiation were associated with good knowledge; while department and years of experience was associated with good practice. It is recommended that doctors receive regular updates on radiation hazards, risks and protection in order to reduce the risk of exposure of patients and health workers to unnecessary ionizing radiation.

Background: Antibiotic abuse is a shared problem worldwide. People misuse antibiotics for simple viral infection without a medical prescription. This practice could lead to potential harmful effects on community health. Physician's knowledge is also very important to prescribe proper antibiotics for the patients. Thereby, this study aimed to assess the knowledge and practice toward antibiotics use among medical students at Majma’ah University in Saudi Arabia. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study conducted among 304 medical students of Majma'ah University. Data were collected between February and March 2018, by using self-administered questionnaire among a sample of 171 medical students from different academic years. Results: Overall, the majority of participants (64.1%) had a good knowledge of the irrational use of antibiotics, while 26.1% had adequate knowledge. There were no significant associations among the academic level, gender, and the knowledge of the irrational use of antibiotics. The results showed most of the students (66.7%) took antibiotics prescribed by physicians, (16.3%) by self-prescription, and (6.5%) by pharmacists. Almost, 58.2% students' source about irrational use of antibiotics was from the physician and health care professionals. Conclusion: The study showed that the overall level of knowledge of medical students at Majma'ah University was good. Physician and health care professionals were the source of information for most of the students. Majority of the students took antibiotics as prescribed by a physician, which indicated a good practice.

This article provides prospects on how English First Additional Language (FAL) teachers working in overcrowded intermediate phase classrooms can assess meaningfully. It is in response to numerous reports that highlight the poor performance in English First Additional Language by South African intermediate learners. Seeing that overcrowdedness has been singled out as one of the possible causes of this reality, this paper integrates overcrowdedness as an important variable. This work, informed by the complexity theory, was steeped in phenomenology as a research design, resulting in the use of the interpretive paradigm. Qualitative research methods were used where interviews and observations provided insight into good practice. Data were analysed mostly thematically, ultimately revealing the significance of assessment tools, the length and weight of assessments, selective approaches to assessments, informal assessments, observations and group assessment. These results illuminated the nonlinearity of the language classroom since other teachers can assess productively despite the number of learners in their classrooms. A notable issue about the insights is that it is rewarding to combine ingenuity and simplicity.

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Independent work and silent classrooms appear to be part of a wider discourse adopted by some schools across England and promoted as good practice by England’s Education Secretary. This paper explo...

PURPOSE: We present the KAP levels and the determinants for diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening and management at a private hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A chart review was performed of DM patients to collect the demographics and diabetes related information in June to December 2017. A close ended questionnaire was used that queried knowledge (7), attitude (5) and practice for DR screening (7). RESULTS: Two hundred participants were interviewed half from endocrinology unit and half from the eye clinic. An excellent knowledge of the ophthalmic effects of diabetes was noted in 91 [45.5% (95% Confidence Interval CI 38.6–52.4) of participants. Thirty-eight [19% (95% CI 13.6–24.4)] participants had a positive attitude. None had an excellent grade of practice and poor practice was noted in 168 [74% (95% CI 78.9–89.1)] participants. Longer duration of DM (P = 0.07) and systemic complications (P = 0.06) were associated with good knowledge. Attitude was not significantly associated with any determinants. Good practice was associated with the presence of systemic complications of DM (P < 0.01) and those recruited to the eye clinic (P = 0.06). Only 35% of patients had undergone an annual DR screening. Only 4 patients had a history of laser treatment. CONCLUSION: The KAP of diabetic patients regarding DR screening and management is less than desired. Establishing protocols and public health promotion activities directed at early detection and management are urgently needed in private sectors of Saudi Arabia.

Provision of feedback forms an integral part of the learning process. Receipt of feedback enriches the learning experience, and helps to narrow the gap between actual and desired performance. Effective feedback helps to reinforce good practice, motivating the learner towards the desired outcome. However, a common complaint from learners is that the receipt of feedback is infrequent and inadequate. This paper briefly explores the role of feedback within the learning process, the barriers to the feedback process, and practical guidelines for facilitating feedback.

Ethics as the “first theory” of men is philosophically founded in the so called is-ought-problem. Men find themselves in this difference not only in private, but also in work-related contexts. What is worth striving for? How is the Status-Quo and is the situation in question satisfaying? What is good? What is desirable? Which circumstances, challenges, problems should be or must be solved? Ethics in this sense is the question for a good life and for good practice and is therefore closely linked to the question of meaning. Both ethics and the question of meaning are “twins” of one and the same anthropological basis.

Objectives: This study aimed to determine sociodemographic correlates of practice towards oral hygiene (OH) among university students in a private university. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed among university students in Malaysia using a prevalidated questionnaire. The convenient stratified sampling method was adopted to recruit participants from four main faculties of a private university. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Version 24.0 was used to analyze the data. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to determine the correlates of practice of OH among the study participants. Results: Out of a total of 324 participants, female students had far-good practice towards OH than males. The final year students showed better OH practice than the pre-final years. Among the studied races, the Chinese students had the highest percentage of adequate practice than the rest. Overall, this study found that most of the students had fair to good practice towards OH. Conclusion: Multiple logistic regression analyses showed that statistically significant differences (p

En este artículo presentamos una experiencia de Evaluación Formativa y Compartida (EFyC) durante la asignatura de Prácticum II, desarrollada en el segundo cuatrimestre del curso 2018/2019 en la Facultad de Educación de Segovia (Universidad de Valladolid). En esta experiencia hemos diseñado y utilizado unos instrumentos de EFyC para cada actividad de aprendizaje que se lleva a cabo en esta asignatura: (a) desarrollo de las prácticas en los centros escolares; (b) memoria de prácticas; (c) diario de prácticas; (d) seminarios grupales. Para recoger los datos de esta experiencia nos hemos servido tanto del cuestionario anónimo de evaluación de la asignatura y la escala de autopercepción de competencias, como del informe de buenas prácticas docentes. Los instrumentos de EFyC que se han diseñado para esta asignatura son: (a) escala de autocalificación; (b) ficha de autoevaluación para la memoria de prácticas; (c) rúbrica de autoevaluación del diario. Los resultados muestran que: (a) el alumnado valora muy positivamente el progreso de la asignatura y concretamente, el diario reflexivo como buena práctica de EFyC; (b) las puntuaciones en la escala de autopercepción de adquisición de competencias transversales y docentes por parte del alumnado son muy altas en esta asignatura; (c) gracias a la EFyC el rendimiento académico es muy positivo. Como conclusiones hemos obtenido una alta valoración por parte del alumnado sobre el sistema de EFyC utilizado, que a su vez ha permitido desarrollar una evaluación orientada hacia el aprendizaje del alumnado de manera continua durante todo el proceso del Prácticum con resultados muy positivos.

The National Awards for Pastoral Care in Education were organised by the National Association for Pastoral Care in Education (NAPCE) for the first time in 2020. The purpose was to give work in past...

Religion, belief and culture should be recognized as potential sources of moral purpose and personal strength in healthcare, enhancing the welfare of both clinicians and patients amidst the experience of ill-health, healing, suffering and dying. Communication between doctors and patients and between healthcare staff should attend sensitively to the welfare benefits of religion, belief and culture. Doctors should respect personal religious and cultural commitments, taking account of their significance for treatment and care preferences. Good doctors understand their own beliefs and those of others. They hold that patient welfare is best served by understanding the importance of religion, belief and culture to patients and colleagues. The sensitive navigation of differences between people's religions, beliefs and cultures is part of doctors' civic obligations and in the UK should follow the guidance of the General Medical Council and Department of Health and Social Care. In particular, apparent conflict between clinical judgement or normal practices and a patient's culture, religion and belief should be considered carefully. Doctors' own religion or culture may play an important role in promoting adherence to this good practice. In all matters, doctors' conduct should be governed by the law and arrangements for conscientious objection that are in effect. The strongest ethical arguments in favour of conscientious objection provisions concern the moral integrity of professionals, the objectives and values of the medical profession, the nature of healthcare in liberal democracy and the welfare of patients. In practice, arguments mounted against conscientious objection have not been found persuasive.

To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of biomedical waste management among undergraduate dental students of a private teaching hospital in Chennai. Biomedical wastes are all wastes that are being generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunisation of human beings in the testing of biologicals and it's contaminated with human fluids. The waste generated by the healthcare workers during the treatment of patients is the most dangerous of all wastes and has a higher potential for infection and injury. This was an online questionnaire-based study, conducted on an online survey platform in April. The questionnaire was circulated among the Undergraduate dental students (third and fourth years and interns) of Saveetha dental college and hospitals, Chennai. The responses were collected and tabulated using the excel sheet and were exported to the SPSS software by IBM for statistical analysis. Among the interns, 85% had good knowledge and practice of biomedical waste management. 85% had a positive attitude towards the management of BMW. Amongst the final years, 80% had good knowledge, only 65% had a positive attitude and only 18% of the final years practice good BMW management. In the third year, 50% had good knowledge, 58% had a positive attitude and 58% had a good practice of biomedical waste management. The interns had good knowledge, a more positive attitude and good practice of biomedical waste management compared to the third and final years.

Feedback pedagogies and research tend to focus on immediate corrective actions rather than learning for the longer term. This approach means that feedback may not support trainees who are managing complex, competing, and ambiguous practice situations, often with limited supervision. There is an opportunity to consider how feedback can help medical trainees sustain their own development into the future, including when they have completed formal training. This article explores how feedback pedagogies can facilitate medical trainees' abilities to develop challenging aspects of practice across multiple clinical environments to eventually practice without supervision. From a sociocultural perspective, clinical training takes place within a practice curriculum; each clinical environment offers varying opportunities, which the trainees may choose to engage with. The authors propose feedback as an interpersonal process that helps trainees make sense of both formal training requirements and performance relevant information, including workplace cues such as patient outcomes or colleagues' comments, found within any practice curriculum. A significant pedagogic strategy may be to develop trainees' evaluative judgment or their capability to identify and appraise the qualities of good practice in both themselves and others. In this way, feedback processes may help trainees surmount complex situations and progressively gain independence from supervision.

Introduction: Knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) survey provides a suitable format to evaluate existing programs and to identify effective strategies for behavior change in society. This study aimed to investigate and compare KAP concerning COVID-19 among Health Care Professionals (HCPs) at Paropakar Maternity and Women’s Hospital (PMWH). Method: This was a cross sectional descriptive study conducted in HCPs (doctors and nurses) of PMWH, Nepal, from May to June 2020. A pre-validated questionnaire was used to access the objectives where knowledge and attitude score was 10 each and practice score was 20. Collected data was entered in Microsoft excel spreadsheet and analyzed using IBM SPSS software and p-value < 0.05 was taken as statistically significant. Result: A total of 168 doctors and nurses responded to the survey, of which 112 (66.6%) were in 25-34 years of age group, 87.5% females, and 61.9% nurses. Mean score for knowledge, attitude and practice score was 5.8 (out of 10), 8.1 (out of 10) and 17.4 (out of 20) respectively. The score was significantly different among doctors and nurses in ‘knowledge’ (p=0.000) and ‘attitude’ categories (p = 0.006). There was no significant difference in ‘practice’ scores (p = 0.664). Conclusion: Doctors and nurses of PMWH have positive attitude and good practice towards COVID-19. This characteristic can prove handy in bringing about useful behavioural changes and promoting safe practices while managing maternity patients in this hospital.

Citizenship is a core concept in public administration research. This article examines how the concept was employed in twenty-nine research articles published in Public Administration Review since 2009. It finds two difficulties. The first is a tendency to omit an explicit definition of the concept, contrary to good practice. The second is a tendency to adopt an implied definition of citizenship that encompasses all of the general population. The paper considers possible justifications for current practice. Research would be improved by using the concept less frequently, defining it explicitly, adopting a definition that is closer to ordinary usage, and attending more carefully to the ways in which attitudes and behavior are influenced by a person's status within a jurisdiction.

Action research (AR) offers an ideological fit with the culture and the work of the academy - they share a culture of collegiality, evidence- and theory-based practice, and a focus on reflection an...

Pharmaceutical residue pollution remains as an underexplored issue, especially in Asian countries. Along with that line, the purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of pharmaceutical residues in tap water and its associated potential health risks, involving a total of 80 Putrajaya residents. Besides, this study also aimed to evaluate public awareness (knowledge, attitude, and practice) levels with regards to pharmaceutical handling. The highest pharmaceutical residue occurrence was caffeine (0.38 ng/L) while the lowest was diclofenac (0.14 ng/L). These pharmaceutical residue occurrences in tap water were linked with rapid urbanization and industrialization in river water, poor removal efficiencies in wastewater and drinking water treatment plants as well as improper pharmaceutical waste handling and disposal from the general public. The potential health risks (RQT) indicated residents in Putrajaya with ages between 61 and 75 were exposed to the highest health risks caused by the pharmaceutical residues in tap water. In general, low public awareness (knowledge, attitude, and practice) levels were identified with only 44.5% of Putrajaya population having good knowledge, 27.5% having good attitude and 1.6% having good practice related to pharmaceutical handling and its effect to tap water quality. Findings of this study reflected the importance of public awareness program to educate the general public on proper unused/expired handling and disposal to minimize pharmaceutical pollution.

The world is going through pandemic times, and about 85% of learners are affected by the fact that educational institutions have suspended their face to face classes. However, teachers are transitioning towards online education and the current paper looks at an example of good practice in finding a unitary teaching strategy during this crisis. Our aim is to review the practices and instruments used by colleagues from the West University of Timisoara, Romania, as well as to group together some solutions to potential issues arising from the sudden changes in pedagogical approach. We would like to propose seven steps “in resetting” education in disruptive times, which can be followed for a smooth and efficient digital transformation.

Midterm student feedback is a common process in post-secondary institutions that can lead to enhanced teaching practices and thereby potentially to higher ratings of instructional skills in summati...

espanolSe parte de una perspectiva de la educacion patrimonial de caracter interdisiciplinar, simbolica-identitaria, sociocritica, constructivista y sistemica. El objetivo de la investigacion consiste en detectar las buenas practicas que se desarrollan en los centros educativos para trabajar el patrimonio en conexion con los centros patrimoniales. Se disenan instrumentos de obtencion de informacion (entrevistas y hojas de registro) y tablas de categorias para el analisis de los datos obtenidos. Con estos instrumentos se analizan las exposiciones y observaciones de experiencias educativas en centros patrimoniales de diversa tipologia (historicos, artisticos, etnologicos, cientificos y de la naturaleza) de los paises que participan en la investigacion (Espana, Portugal, Italia, Argentina, Chile y Estados Unidos). A partir de la informacion obtenida en este proceso, se determinan criterios basicos de buenas practicas que permiten el diseno de propuestas educativas, su experimentacion y evaluacion en las que se interconectan las intervenciones didacticas en centros docentes y patrimoniales. Los resultados evidencian los aspectos clave para desarrollar propuestas de buenas practicas en educacion patrimonial, partiendo de las conexiones entre la conformacion de la identidades, la educacion emocional y la inteligencia territorial, para abordar la formacion de una ciudadania participativa, critica y reflexiva en el alumando de ensenanza secundaria obligatoria. EnglishIt starts from a perspective of heritage education of an interdisciplinary, symbolic-identity, socio-critical, constructivist and systemic nature. The objective of the research is to detect the good practices that are developed in the educational centers to work the heritage in connection with the heritage centers. Instruments for obtaining information (interviews and registration sheets) and category tables are designed for the analysis of the data obtained. With these instruments, the exhibitions and observations of educational experiences in heritage centers of different types (historical, artistic, ethnological, scientific and nature) of the countries participating in the research (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Argentina, Chile and United States) are analyzed. From the information obtained in this process, basic criteria of good practice are determined. These allow the design of educational proposals, their experimentation and evaluation in which educational interventions are interconnected in educational and heritage centers. The results show the key aspects to develop proposals for good practices in heritage education, based on the connections between identity shaping, emotional education and territorial intelligence, to advocate the formation of a participatory, critical and reflective citizenship in the student of compulsory secondary education.

El presente estudio describe y analiza la valoración del alumnado universitario ante la propuesta “More than able”. Esta es una propuesta de buenas prácticas sobre la sensibilización hacia la diversidad funcional desde el área de Educación Física, y específicamente, mediante tareas relacionadas con las habilidades motrices básicas. El objetivo de este trabajo fue diseñar, aplicar y valorar una buena práctica que ofrezca una propuesta de sensibilización al alumnado basada en el uso de personajes de cómics como son los superhéroes y las superheroínas. Para valorar el grado de satisfacción de la propuesta, se empleó el cuestionario sobre la experiencia de buenas prácticas y el análisis de contenido sobre una pregunta abierta en relación a la experiencia. Los resultados mostraron que la práctica fue valorada como útil, innovadora, sostenible y transferible a su futura experiencia docente, así como una experiencia satisfactoria para el alumnado. Por tanto, el profesorado de las facultades de Magisterio o de otras que preparen a los/as futuros/as docentes, así como ellos mismos, deben ser conocedores de este tipo de propuestas y llevarlas a cabo en la formación reglada de los/as futuros/as egresados/as para acercar la escuela actual a una escuela inclusiva.Abstract. The present study describes and analyzes the assessment of university students with regard to the “More than able” proposal. This is a diversity awareness proposal from the area of Physical Education, and specifically, through tasks related to fundamental motor skills. The aim of this work was to design, apply, and evaluate a good practice offering a proposal for raising students’ awareness based on the use of comic characters such as superheroes and superheroines. In order to assess the degree of satisfaction of the proposal, a questionnaire of good practices and an open question in relation to the experience were used. The results showed that the practice was valued as useful, innovative, sustainable, and transferable to their future teaching experience, as well as a satisfactory experience for students. Therefore, the teaching staff of this or other Schools that train future teachers, as well as currently employed teachers, must be aware of these types of proposals and carry them out in the formal training of future teachers to bring the current school closer to an inclusive approach.

This study explored the extent to which distance learning tutors found sharing practice through participating in a tutor-led online programme of online events helped them to develop as practitioners and hence support students more effectively. The regular online sessions, delivered by tutors for tutors, was a staff development initiative introduced at the Open University (OU) to (i) provide tutors with opportunities to share good practice with a view to improving their online interactions with students, and (ii) help nurture a sense of community, providing a supportive situated learning environment which fosters peer support and in which tutors can share ideas and concerns. Quantitative and qualitative analysis of feedback obtained through surveys demonstrated the programme succeeded in providing opportunities for distance learning tutors to share good practice in a friendly supportive environment, hence relieving some of the isolation they feel. Moreover, it helped nurture community cohesion. Similar programmes could help strengthen tutor communities and provide valuable opportunities for sharing concerns and good practice in any institution where tutors feel isolated. Examples might include institutions where much tuition is delivered online, where staff are located on different sites or where many staff have insecure contracts and therefore building community spirit is likely to be challenging.

This paper has two purposes. First, to explore ways in which a western-centric in-service teacher education programme has transformed the teaching of 14 teacher participants who hitherto used a mor...

(1) Background: The literature shows a general lack of sexual knowledge and appropriate sexual health education in persons with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Moreover, the existing interventions mainly target the neurotypical population, without addressing the specific needs of individuals with ASD. (2) Aims: The current systematic review aimed at analyzing the literature encompassing psycho-educational interventions on sexuality addressed exclusively to people with ASD, in order to report the good practices and to describe the effectiveness of the existing programs. (3) Methods: The systematic review followed the PRISMA-P method. The literature search was conducted in June 2022, examining PsycInfo, PsycArticle, PubMed, and Education Source. The search strategy generated 550 articles, of which 22 duplicates were removed, 510 papers were excluded for not matching the criteria, and 18 articles were finally included. (4) Results: Ten papers presented good practices and eight focused on intervention validation. The analysis showed that the good practices were essentially applied in the intervention studies. No intervention proved to be successful both in increasing psychosexual knowledge and in promoting appropriate sexual behaviors; thus, further research is needed. (5) Conclusions: The current review allows for critical reflection on the need for validated sexuality interventions.

This introductory chapter is intended to emphasise the importance of two fundamental duties: the anaesthetist looking after the patient, and the anaesthetist looking after themselves. Looking after the patient requires building a culture of good practice, and encompasses perioperative safety, the causes of complications, briefing and debriefing, documentation, drug safety, vigilance and crisis management, handling of serious events, and evidence-based medicine. Self-care encompasses resilience, recognition of fatigue and burnout, mental health issues among anaesthetists, working while pregnant, personal protective equipment, manual handling, and dealing with a complaint.

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of high levels of knowledge, positive attitude, and good practice on evidence-based medicine (EBM) and identify the associated factors for practice score on EBM among emergency medicine doctors in Kelantan, Malaysia. This cross-sectional study was conducted in government hospitals in Kelantan. The data were collected from 200 emergency physicians and medical officers in the emergency department using the Noor Evidence-Based Medicine Questionnaire. Simple and general linear regressions analyses using SPSS were performed. A total of 183 responded, making a response rate of 91.5%. Of them, 49.7% had a high level of knowledge, 39.9% had a positive attitude and 2.1% had good practice. Sex, race, the average number of patients seen per day, internet access in workplace, having online quick reference application, and attitude towards EBM were significantly associated with EBM practice scores. It is recommended that appropriate authorities provide emergency doctors with broader access to evidence resources. EBM skill training should be enhanced in the current medical school curriculums.

Background The NHS National Quality Board published its first edition of ‘National Guidance on Learning from Deaths’ in March 2017. Although a charitable hospice care provider, Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice Care (PTHC) followed NHS, Care Quality Commission (2016, 2018) and Royal College of Physicians (2016) guidance and established a pilot process for learning from deaths in 2018. Aims This report outlines the approach taken to establish a new process and culture of learning from deaths in a UK hospice and shares our experience as a model of good practice. Methods Terms of Reference (TOR) were established to guide the structure and the culture of the learning from deaths process. The TOR linked learning from deaths with PTHC’s core values including keeping patient care at the heart of our practice, acting with honesty and integrity and fostering a culture of continuous learning. Results The first Learning from Deaths review occurred in December 2018 following the death of a patient during transfer to hospital for acute treatment. An outcome of this meeting was to review the care of three further patients who were transferred to the acute sector. Learning translated directly into a change in clinical practice in August 2019 through the roll-out of the National Early Warning Score 2 (Royal College of Physicians, 2017; Frinton, Malia, Owen, et al., 2019) on the inpatient unit. The learning from deaths approach is now integrated into PTHC’s clinical governance system and 19 cases have been reviewed between April 2019 and March 2021. Conclusions Conducting formal reviews into the deaths of patients under hospice care offers an important opportunity for reflection and learning to improve services for future patients. Senior support and a constructive, positive culture are essential facilitators in establishing staff engagement with the process. A literature review did not identify any reports of existing models for learning from deaths in hospice care. This innovative approach is transferrable to other charitable units.