aims: evaluation of patient satisfaction (ps) is one of the most essential factors in improving the quality of healthcare systems. the aim of this study is to determine the norms and to evaluate the validity and reliability of the najmiyeh outpatients satisfaction questionnaire (nosq). methods and materials: this study has been conducted on 240 outpatients in najmiyeh subspecialty hospital (teh...

BACKGROUND Although physical activity is recognised to be an important determinant of health and nutritional status, few instruments have been developed to assess physical activity in developing countries. The aim of this study was to compare the validity of the short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and a locally adapted version of the Physical Activity Question...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: organizations planned in-service trainings for updating of personnel’s information. icdl (international computer driving license) is one of the most important trainings. the purpose of this research is evaluation the some aspects of icdl in-service trainings from the viewpoints of administrators and personnel...

BACKGROUND Delivery of sexual health services rely on rigorous facts extracted from surveys, but often those facts cannot be available due to the lack of culturally-sensitive questionnaires. OBJECTIVE our aim was to show the validity and reliability of the Persian version of the Acquisition of Sexual Information Test (ASIT), a measure selected due to its assemblages with Iranian culture. MA...

We read with interest the article by Perkins et al. (1) titled “Is knowledge enough? Considering HIV/AIDS risk taking behavior and human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) knowledge with African-American women” which recently has been published in your prestige journal. The authors have presented a simple, yet fascinating study on the determinant of behavioral ...