BACKGROUND Primary health care system is the basic core of public service provision in Iran. This study aimed to assess clients' satisfaction with primary health care in Tehran, the capital of Iran, as a metropolitan. METHODS Through a cross-sectional study in 2009-10, four urban primary health care clinics were selected through stratified random sampling. Four hundred participants were inter...

Once the research question and the research design have been finalised, it is important to select the appropriate sample for the study. The method by which the researcher selects the sample is the ' Sampling Method'. There are essentially two types of sampling methods: 1) probability sampling - based on chance events (such as random numbers, flipping a coin etc.); and 2) non-probability samplin...

BACKGROUND Adolescents have particular health and developmental needs that suggest they should neither be treated as older children nor younger adults. OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper is to report the protocol for a mixed methods study that set out to investigate the health concerns of Iranian adolescents and their sources of health information with the goal of identifying suitable strategie...

the successful adoption of e-learning systems is mainly dependent on the learners’ attitude and willingness to use them. this survey was conducted to investigate agricultural extension workers’ attitudes toward using e-learning for on-the-job training in iran and factors which affect it. using the stratified sampling technique a sample of 379 extension workers were selected from six provinces. ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the condition cyberbullying that happened city Batam, especially during ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. types research we use are qualitative and quantitative. This conducted with many respondents a total 250 respondents. sampling technique used is Cluster & Stratified Random Sampling technique. results showed 30.8% often experienced or encountered case...

the present study investigated factors affecting risk management by women rice farmers in the township of sari in iran. the statistical population comprised 1677 women who cultivate rice in sari; 248 women were selected for the study using stratified random sampling. the data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics with spsswin16 software. the chronbach’s alpha was 0.84 and th...

This paper seeks to analyze the influence of consumers’ moral intensity, perceived risks and moral judgment in purchasing pirated software by using the issue-risk judgment (IRJ) model. Moral intensity includes magnitude of consequence, social consensus, probability of effect and temporal immediacy; perceived risks of consumers include financial, performance, prosecution and social risks; and mo...