nursing standards of prevention of suicide in the hospital , is caution s related to suicide . this involves assigning a room with several beds near the nursing station, collecting of dangerous instruments, limiting of each unit, and excessive caring by nurse. the purpose of this policy is preventing of self- destructing behaviors in hospital. however these interventions are not effective unles...

background: more than 8% of iran's populations are elderly. the greatest challenge in this generation is improvement of health and quality of life. so we decided to perform an interventional study with the aim of promoting the health of the eld­erly. methods: this study was a community interventional in ekbatan complex. subjects were elderly. at first, need assessment was done with the particip...

Tracing the historical development of mixed-mode modelling from a theoretical and practical perspective leads to an understanding of the domain as substantially underpinned by critical social theory. A ‘natural’ progression is discerned, from which it is argued that the logical future direction for mixed-mode modelling is one grounded on theories of communicative action. The beginnings of a fra...

I would like to thank the CJPH for their commitment to population health intervention research (PHIR). Publication of the special issue “Population Health Intervention Research: Advancing the Field” (CJPH, Vol. 103, Supplement 1, September/October 2012) sheds light on elements in need of clarification and debate among population health intervention researchers. Despite a high level of conceptua...

In this paper, we introduce the Intervention Mapping (IM) taxonomy of behaviour change methods and its potential to be developed into a coding taxonomy. That is, although IM and its taxonomy of behaviour change methods are not in fact new, because IM was originally developed as a tool for intervention development, this potential was not immediately apparent. Second, in explaining the IM taxonom...

Abstract: There are two stages for selecting the clinical intervention outcome variables. One is crude collection and the other is precise collection. The selection methods include brainstorming method, Delphi method, Gordon method, systematic review, systematic analysis method, mathematic model method and so on. Each method has some advantages or disadvantages. When selecting the clinical inte...

background one of the most painful experiences of women in life is labor. the use of non-drug methods for pain relief is on the increase. this study aimed to compare mono-stage and bi-stage acupressure at sp6 point on the severity of labor pain and the delivery outcome. methods this is a quasi-experimental single blind study from december 2010 to june 2011 in which 150 term pregnant women in la...