Evaluation of a university course to promote physical activity: project GRAD     

Sallis JF  Calfas KJ  Nichols JF  Sarkin JA  Johnson MF  Caparosa S  Thompson S  Alcaraz JE 《Research quarterly for exercise and sport》1999,70(1):1-10

Project GRAD (Graduate Ready for Activity Daily) evaluates a university course to promote physical activity. In a randomized study, 338 university seniors participated in either an intervention or control course for academic credit, and posttest data were collected on 321. The control course was knowledge-oriented. The intervention course taught behavior change skills in weekly lectures and peer-led labs. Physical activity was assessed with 7-Day Physical Activity Recall interviews. The intervention had no significant effects on men. Among women, the intervention increased total physical activity during leisure, strengthening exercises, and flexibility exercise. This university course had the intended effects of promoting healthful patterns of physical activity among women, but no effects were observed on men, who were more active than women at baseline.  相似文献   

The Gaelic Athletic Association and the Irish diaspora in Scotland, 1897-1947     

Bradley JM 《国际体育史杂志》1999,16(3):135-146

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Environmental health on the Net     

Shams ML 《Medical reference services quarterly》1999,18(2):63-80

All living organisms are affected by natural or induced modifications of their surrounding physical environment. A distinct relationship exists between the health of the environment and the health of the individuals living in it. This paper presents a selection of resources about environmental health resources readily accessible on the Internet in October 1998.  相似文献   

GaIN (Georgia Interactive Network for Medical Information) study on health professionals' search requests and continuing education needs     

LaBeause J  Van de Water N  Carey P  Fielder M  Sorrow B  Woolbright C 《Medical reference services quarterly》1999,18(2):81-89

Health sciences librarians are being called upon to be more proactive in their institutions' continuing education efforts. In an effort to identify whether search requests indicated CE needs, a study was conducted by a group of members of GaIN (Georgia Interactive Network for Medical Information). MEDLINE requests from health care professionals for subject specific clinical topics were collected during a six-month period via a standard search request form created for the study. Copies of all completed requests were collected and broad ICD-9 codes assigned to the search topics. Institutional reports were generated for each participating library to share with hospital CE coordinators. They were also compiled for the group as a whole, and reflected the "hottest" topics requested during the study period for physicians and for non-physicians (nurses, allied health, administrators). A survey to hospital librarians and CE educators showed some value in the reports, but greater potential for further collaboration between librarians and CE coordinators.  相似文献   

The comparative importance of books: clinical psychology in the health sciences library     

Wehmeyer JM  Wehmeyer S 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1999,87(2):187-191

Clinical psychology has received little attention as a subject in health sciences library collections. This study seeks to demonstrate the relative importance of the monographic literature to clinical psychology through the examination of citations in graduate student theses and dissertations at the Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University. Dissertations and theses were sampled randomly; citations were classified by format, counted, and subjected to statistical analysis. Books and book chapters together account for 35% of the citations in clinical psychology dissertations, 25% in nursing theses, and 8% in biomedical sciences theses and dissertations. Analysis of variance indicates that the citations in dissertations and theses in the three areas differ significantly (F = 162.2 with 2 and 253 degrees of freedom, P = 0.0001). Dissertations and theses in biomedical sciences and nursing theses both cite significantly more journals per book than the dissertations in clinical psychology. These results support the hypothesis that users of clinical psychology literature rely more heavily on books than many other users of a health sciences library. Problems with using citation analyses in a single subject to determine a serials to monographs ratio for a health sciences library are pointed out.  相似文献   

Identity in customer service chat interaction: Implications for virtual reference     

Michelle M. Kazmer  Gary Burnett  Michael H. Dickey 《Library & information science research》2007

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Information needs and uses: An analysis of the literature published in Spain, 1990–2004     

A. González-Teruel  M.F. Abad-García 《Library & information science research》2007

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Evaluation of online catalog systems for the hospital library     

M J Jarvis 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1991,79(4):402-404

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MELVYL MEDLINE: a library services perspective     

M M Horres  S S Starr  B L Renford 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1991,79(3):309-320

The MELVYL MEDLINE project resulted in the addition of a full five-year subset of MEDLINE to the University of California's (UC) MELVYL online union catalog. As one of the nation's largest MEDLINE end-user searching systems, MELVYL MEDLINE provides online bibliographic access to the biomedical journal literature for all UC personnel at over seventy library sites or by remote access. This paper summarizes the project's accomplishments, reports MELVYL MEDLINE use and its impact on library services, and provides insights for other end-user search systems. The project serves as a model for adding databases to the MELVYL catalog and demonstrates the potential for use by other disciplines of a specialized database when readily accessible. Evaluation results report high user satisfaction and high usage. However, many advanced searching features of the interface are little used by searchers. Effects on library services include marked increases in reference transactions and interlibrary loans, with significant declines in mediated search services. Future MELVYL MEDLINE enhancements include matching search retrievals to journal locations, linkage to an online document delivery system, and consideration of building a superset of databases by combining MELVYL MEDLINE with citations from another database in the MELVYL catalog.  相似文献   

Problems encountered by clinical end users of MEDLINE and GRATEFUL MED     

C J Walker  K A McKibbon  R B Haynes  M F Ramsden 《Bulletin of the Medical Library Association》1991,79(1):67-69

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