An interactive education session and follow-up support as a strategy to improve clinicians' goal-writing skills: A randomized controlled trial

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-13

  Marsland, Elisabeth ^a   Bowman, Julia ^b  

^a Department of Housing Sydney Australia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allied health; Education; Goal setting; SMART Goal Evaluation Method

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALLIED HEALTH EDUCATION; ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FOLLOW UP; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; POWER ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRATEGIC PLANNING; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; SUPPORT GROUP; TELEPHONE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING; YATES CONTINUITY CORRECTION;

ADULT; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; GOALS; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 77149179034     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.01104.x     Document Type: Article

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