A Study on Employees' Attitude towards Training Design and Delivery at Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, India

Purpose Difficulty in understanding spoken speech is a common complaint among aging adults, even when hearing impairment is absent. Correlational studies point to a relationship between age, auditory temporal processing (ATP), and speech perception but cannot demonstrate causality unlike training studies. In the current study, we test (a) the causal relationship between a spatial–temporal ATP task (temporal order judgment [TOJ]) and speech perception among aging adults using a training design and (b) whether improvement in aging adult speech perception is accompanied by improved self-efficacy. Method Eighty-two participants aged 60–83 years were randomly assigned to a group receiving (a) ATP training (TOJ) over 14 days, (b) non-ATP training (intensity discrimination) over 14 days, or (c) no training. Results The data showed that TOJ training elicited improvement in all speech perception tests, which was accompanied by increased self-efficacy. Neither improvement in speech perception nor self-efficacy was evident following non-ATP training or no training. Conclusions There was no generalization of the improvement resulting from TOJ training to intensity discrimination or generalization of improvement resulting from intensity discrimination training to speech perception. These findings imply that the effect of TOJ training on speech perception is specific and such improvement is not simply the product of generally improved auditory perception. It provides support for the idea that temporal properties of speech are indeed crucial for speech perception. Clinically, the findings suggest that aging adults can be trained to improve their speech perception, specifically through computer-based auditory training, and this may improve perceived self-efficacy.

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Women's status: Vision and reality, bridging east & west International Women's Conference 27 February–3 March 2000, New Delhi, India

Reproductive Health Matters ◽

10.1016/s0968-8080(99)90075-7 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 7 (14) ◽

pp. 194 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Women's Status ◽

New Delhi ◽

Women’S Status ◽

East West

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The integrated training design matrix: Validation vis-a-vis meta-analysis

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e518442013-245 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Ethan Waples ◽

Lauren McEntire ◽

Vykinta Kligyte

Keyword(s):

Meta Analysis ◽

Design Matrix ◽

Training Design

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TO STUDY THE ETIOPATHOLOGICAL SPECTRUM OF ADULT PATIENTS WITH PANCYTOPENIA

International Journal of Medical and Biomedical Studies ◽

10.32553/ijmbs.v4i10.1461 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Harimohan Garg ◽

Haritej Anand Khirawari ◽

Sona Priyadarshi

Keyword(s):

Acute Leukemia ◽

Aplastic Anemia ◽

Indian Subcontinent ◽

Megaloblastic Anemia ◽

Anaplastic Carcinoma ◽

Adult Patients ◽

Research Centre ◽

New Delhi ◽

Nutritional Anemia ◽

Male Preponderance

Background: Pancytopenia is diagnosed when there is a reduction in all three hematopoietic cell lines. Till date there is limited number of studies on the frequency of various causes of pancytopenia. Of these some have been reported from the Indian subcontinent. There appears to be a changing spectrum of pancytopenia over the past two decades. The objective was to study the etiopathological spectrum of adult patients with pancytopenia over a period of one and half year. Methods: The Prospective and retrospective observational study was conducted in the Department of Family Medicine, Batra Hospital and Medical Research Centre, New Delhi. A total of 120 Patients were included in the study. All patients gave their consent to take part in the study and were subjected to a questionnaire regarding symptoms, past relevant history, lifestyle and detailed clinical examination and investigations as mentioned in materials and methods. Results: Six broad diagnostic groups could be identified in adults with pancytopenia. Megaloblastic anemia (D1) was the largest group comprising 57.5% of all patients. 11.7% of patients with pancytopenia were diagnosed as Aplastic anemia (D2).11.7% of patients with pancytopenia were diagnosed as leukemia/lymphoma (D3) such as lymphoma (1), metastatic anaplastic carcinoma (1), acute leukemia (11), and metastatic gastric carcinoma (1). 15% of patients with pancytopenia were diagnosed with infections (D4) such as complicated malaria cases (7), HIV (5), disseminated tuberculosis (4), viral (2). We also encountered (D5) 0.8% was Myelophthisis/Storage disorder as myelodysplastic syndrome (1) and 3.3% were other (D6) as reactive marrow (4). Conclusion: Pancytopenia is not a disease itself. It is a hematological feature of varying etiology with slight male preponderance. Megaloblastic anemia along with mixed nutritional anemia is leading cause of pancytopenia in India followed by infections being second and aplastic anemia and acute leukemia being third common causes. Keyword: Pancytopenia, Megaloblastic anemia, Nutritional anemia.

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