Background and Objectives: Stress among students of the health sciences can lead to reduced performance of future healthcare human resources. To address this threat there is a need to develop a robust understanding of the nature and intensity of stress in these professionals. To help approaching this goal, the present study assessed stress-induced life change in students of Tehran University of...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. MD of Hematology and Oncology, Genetic Researcher Center in Non-Communicable Disease, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zaheedan ,Iran, [email protected] 2. MSc of Hematology, Hematology Department, Allied Medical School, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, T...

Design Based Research (DBR) is a new and still-emerging approach to research about design, learning, and allied areas. This article reports one designer’s experiences within a DBR project. Whereas most reports of DBR focus on the outcomes of the design itself, the current paper offers a hermeneutical perspective by focusing on the personal narrative of the designer. Using Edelson’s (2002) categ...

purpose: this study investigated the relationship between organizational factors and job burnout using descriptive-analytical method (correlational) at bank melli iran in the city of mahabad. materials and methods: fifty employees occupied in this organization were participated in the present study, using random selection method. questionnaire was means of collecting data. the studied variables...

INTRODUCTION Medicare items were introduced in 2005 to encourage general practitioners (GPs) to involve other healthcare providers in the management of patients with chronic disease. However, there appears to be barriers to converting financial incentives and the use of information technology as a communication tool to better patient outcomes. The aim of this study was to explore these barriers...

289  Dr. Meares is Professor of Psychiatry, University of Sydney; Academic Head, Western Area of Sydney Mental Health Services. In this paper I suggest that the origins of the “contamination/ cleaning” form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) include a developmental history characterized by marked overprotectiveness allied with parental failure to respond to core aspects of the child’...

BACKGROUND Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs) are birth defects directly linked to consumption of alcohol during pregnancy and hence completely preventable. Many health and allied health professionals are in prime positions for primary prevention of FASDs through work with women of childbearing age and secondary prevention through work with affected individuals whose lives can be greatly ...

Objectives The aim of the present study was to explore the perspectives of allied health professionals on appropriate content for effective clinical supervision of staff. Methods A set of statements regarding clinical supervision was identified from the literature and confirmed through a Q-sort process. The final set was administered as an online survey to 437 allied health professionals workin...