background and aim: patients’ hospitalization is associated with family members’ anxiety. fulfilling family members’ needs such as providing them with information and helping them have physical contacts with their patients can alleviate their anxiety. this study was conducted to investigate the impacts of family members’ supportive presence in a neurological intensive care unit on their anxiety...

The Bayesian analysis was used in this study to investigate the diagnostic value of the bronchial provocation test with methacholine in patients with asthma. The best cutoff value of accumulated concentration of methacholine administered that caused a 20 percent fall in FEV1 post-saline (PC20) in our sample, determined with a receiver operator characteristic curve, was 15 mg/ml. The interval se...

Background: In the future, aging becomes one of problems society and country's health care system brings many costs in sector. Purpose: This study examines effect imagery on performance cognitive ability elderly. The research method is quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design. 40 older adults were selected divided into experimental control groups. subjects group performed for four week...

This study aims to determine the effect of using hand puppet media on story-listening skills in children aged 5-7. The method used this is a quasi-experimental research design with control group pretest-posttest design. took sample 32 experimental and class students. instrument test. data analysis technique SPSS Statistic 25 program. Based results, it can be seen from comparison average pretest...

This study is conducted to determine the effectiveness of teaching grammar-in-context minimize students‘ grammatical errors in writing. The design was a quasi-experimental with non-randomized pretest-posttest control group. samples were taken from population tenth-grade students. group taught by conventional grammar which separately given writing skills. Likewise, experimental one treated gramm...

Objective: To estimate the pretest probability of Cushing’s syndrome (CS) diagnosis by a Bayesian approach using intuitive clinical judgment. Materials and methods: Physicians were requested, in seven endocrinology meetings, to answer three questions: “Based on your personal expertise, after obtaining clinical history and physical examination, without using laboratorial tests, what is your prob...

Online learning is that uses technology such as electronic devices. In this case, a teacher must have other alternative ways to deliver materials in order arouse students' enthusiasm for learning. The information search method one of the methods can be used by teaching during online learning, namely giving students freedom seek answers or from any source accordance with related material. purpos...

introduction: this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of neurofeedback on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. methods: this is a quasi-experimental study without a control group. the study population included all children aged 5 to 12 years old affected with attention deficit hyperactivity disorders in tehran, iran who were referred to psychiatric clinics and given the diagnosis. t...