____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ . BScN, MScN, PhD, Associate Professor, Nursing Care Research Center and School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected], [email protected] . (Corresponding author) BScN, MScOH, DrPH, Professor, Nursing Care Research C...

STUDY DESIGN Development and psychometric evaluation. PURPOSE Design and psychometric assessment of the Nursing Low Back Pain Predictor Questionnaire addressing nurses suffering from chronic low back pain in Iran. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Low back pain is the most prevalent behavior-related health problem among nurses, and it needs to be assessed through a validated multi-factorial questionna...

The increased commission of sex crimes in Iran highlights the need for more efforts to design strategies towards prevention and reduction such crimes. Accordingly, present research aimed identify factors affecting sexual victimization children adolescents as well personality characteristics delinquents criminal justice system Iran. method is mixed terms data nature (qualitative quantitative) pr...

OBJECTIVE Hospital services are the most expensive component of modern health care systems and inappropriate hospital stay is one of the most important challenges facing hospitals in many countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of inappropriate hospital stay and investigate the related factors in Semnan city (Iran). METHODS In this study, the Iranian version of Approp...