BACKGROUND Delayed presentation of symptomatic breast cancer is a public health issue in Iran, making a major contribution to low survival. Despite the importance of this problem, current knowledge is insufficient to inform interventions to shorten patient delay. The aim of this study was to explore factors influencing patient delay in Iranian women with self-discovered breast cancer symptom. ...

Background Developing and guiding new knowledge are futile unless the organizational culture can also be transformed. Future leaders cannot emerge out of an organizational environment that is not conducive to the accumulation of experiences. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the role of organizational culture in creating a succession-planning system at the Ministry of Health and ...

INTRODUCTION Barriers to medication adherence in patients with hypertension can have significant differences that made researchers confute to conclude that medication adherence is required to be more explored, and then, beneficial interventions develop to decrease these barriers. Thus, the current study was aimed to identify barriers to adherence in Iranian society. MATERIALS AND METHODS A qu...

OBJECTIVE Understanding the factors that play a role in maintaining people with inflammatory arthritis in the workforce may aid the design of interventions to support work participation. The objective of this systematic overview is to summarize qualitative studies that explore experiences of patients with inflammatory arthritis to remain employed or return to work. METHODS Bibliographic datab...

Research syntheses suggest that verbal content cues are more diagnostic than other cues in discriminating between truth and deception. In many studies on content cues, raters are trained to rate the presence of specific content cues, an inherently subjective process. This necessitates to demonstrate inter-coder reliability first. Depending on the statistical coefficient used, establishing adequ...

BACKGROUND Technical, human, operational and organizational factors have been influencing the sequence of occupational accidents. Among them, organizational factors play a major role in causing occupational accidents. The aim of this research was to understand the Iranian safety experts' experiences and perception of organizational factors. METHODS This qualitative study was conducted in 2015...

OBJECTIVES to determine how the immigration phenomenon influences the response to informal care in the domestic level through the caregiver activity, and to analyze the cultural dialogue established in the residential area of Murcia (Spain). METHOD This is an ethnographic study, conducted in 26 informal immigrant caregivers. As data collection instruments, semi-structured interviews and parti...

Çalışmanın amacı, strateji öğretiminde kullanılan farklı yaklaşımlarla öğrencilerin okuma stratejileri bilişsel farkındalık becerileri arasında nasıl bir ilişki olduğunu belirlemektir. Araştırmada 6. sınıf düzeyinde 2 deney ve 1 kontrol grubuyla çalışılmıştır. 1. grupta öğretmenin “rehber”; 2. açıklayarak “model” olduğu açık öğretim yaklaşımları benimsenmiştir. Deney gruplarında öğretiminde, bü...

Son yıllarda ülkemizde yaşanan demografik dönüşüm ve toplumsal değişim yaşlıların yaşamının geri kalanını nerede geçireceği konusunu gündeme getirmiştir. Yerinde yaşlanma, fiziksel psikolojik iyi oluşları üzerindeki olumlu etkileri düşük maliyetiyle yaşlı nüfusun yoğun olduğu gelişmiş ülkelerde kurumsal bakıma alternatif olarak geliştirilmiş bir bakım modelidir. Bu modelinin ülkemiz için uygula...