There is a requisite need to document the health literacy status and its determinants for making recommendations for public health promotions. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of limited health literacy and its associated factors in Iranian studies. Search queries were made in PubMed, SCOPUS, SID, Irandoc, IranMedex, and Magiran from 2000 to 1 April 2016. The quality of the...

context resilience can be seen as an adaption to stress, such as that caused by health problems or disease, that attenuates the negative effects of stress. the present research performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to study resilience scores among adults diagnosed with chronic physical diseases. evidence acquisition electronic databases, including persian language (scientific informat...

background praziquantel, an antischistosomal compound, is used as first-line drug for chemotherapy of schistosoma japonicum since 1984. in this article, we conducted a systematic review and mete-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of different dosages of praziquantel (pzq) for treatment of schistosoma japonicum. evidence acquisition: a number of six articles published in peer-reviewed ...

abstract background: research shows that the age at menarche, as an essential element in the reproductive health of women, had been decreasing in the 19th and 20th centuries, and shows a huge variation across different countries. there are numerous studies performed in iran reporting a range of age at menarche. thus, this meta-analysis aimed to determine the overall mean age at menarche of the ...

In this paper, we compose six different Python and Prolog VMs into 4 pairwise compositions: one using C interpreters; one running on the JVM; one using meta-tracing interpreters; and one using a C interpreter and a meta-tracing interpreter. We show that programs that cross the language barrier frequently execute faster in a meta-tracing composition, and that meta-tracing imposes a significantly...

Background: healthcare organizations is being increasingly used. The aim of this study was to clarify PSC statusin Iranian hospitals using a meta-analysis method.Nowadays, for quality improvement, measuring patient safety culture (PSC) inMethodsSID and IranMedex using the search terms including patient safety, patient safety culture, patientsafety climate and combined with hospital (such as “ho...

Background: The internet has unique properties that include ease of access, ease of use, low cost, anonymity, and its attractiveness which resulted in problems such as internet addiction. Different statistics has been reported about internet addiction rate, but there is not a suitable estimation about the growth of Internet addiction in Iran. The aim of this study is to analyze the growth of In...