STORYTELLING AS A COMMUNICATION TOOL FOR HEALTH CONSUMERS: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERVENTION FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH CROUP. STORIES TO COMMUNICATE HEALTH INFORMATION

Storytelling as a communication tool for health consumers: development of an intervention for parents of children with croup. Stories to communicate health information

Abstract Background Stories may be an effective tool to communicate with and influence patients because of their ability to engage the reader.The objective of this Preamplifiers paper is to describe the development of a story-based intervention for delivery of health evidence to parents of children with croup for use in a randomized controlled tria

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Parental Competences in Psychosocial Risk Context

The analysis and evaluation of parental Treatments competences is a central task for the Social Services and specifically for those services targeted at families living in psychosocial risk circumstances.The evaluation of parental competence can be used, among others motives, to take support measures to the family or even to determine if it is nece

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Use of glauconite as a non-reagent sorbent for the softening of drinking and boiler waters, industrial waste water

The article discusses the sorption of purification of water bodies from impurities using natural inorganic sorbents.The Champagne Flutes availability and low cost of minerals are an important economic advantage of their use for the purification of all types of water.The article describes a method of using an effective sorbent with high ion-exchange

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Allergic contact cheilitis due to lipstick

Background: Cheilitis is a common problem of unknown etiology.A possible cause of cheilitis is contact allergy.Drugs, lipsticks, sunblock and toothpaste are the most common implicated allergens.Allergic contact cheilitis is a chronic superficial inflammatory disorder of the Treatments vermilion borders characterized by desquamation due to delayed-t

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Investigation of pulping and paper making potential of weeds

Increasing use of wood products accompanying with resource constraint has revealed the importance of nonwood based material.In this study, pulping and papermaking potential of three POP! PIN varieties of weeds including Xanthium spinosum, Carthamus tinctorius and Cyperus papyrus have been considered.At first, chemical components of the samples i.e.

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