background attitude and knowledge of the different groups of society play an important role in facilitating living conditions and meeting the needs of the disabled elderly. objectives the current study aimed to evaluate the attitude and knowledge of medical sciences students toward the disabled elderly from different angles. patients and methods ninety students from semnan university of medical...

introduction: patient/customer satisfaction and loyalty have gained increasing attention from executives across the healthcare industry. discharge against medical advice (dama) can be considered as one of the indicators of patient dissatisfaction. it has negative effects on patient treatment and leads to increased hospital costs. study of predictors of dama in a teaching hospital was the aim of...

abstract introduction: introduction: traditionally, the central library of any university is the main source of scientific data retrieval for respective faculty members. exploration of rate and pattern of such usage makes it possible to promote the quantity and quality of library services and increasing the efficacy of faculty members' activities. objective: to determine the rate of usage ...

introduction: discharge against medical advice (dama) can be an important indicator of patient dissatisfaction. this study examined the reasons for the dama in shafa hospital (kerman, iran). methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study within august 2010 to march 2011 on patients in this hospital. over 9295 inpatients were discharged, 483 had dama and were assigned 190 contacts and out...

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...

the aim of this study was to compare overall life satisfaction, subjective well-being, family stress, and stress symptoms of wives of three groups of iranian disabled veterans.participants included 97 wives of three groups of disabled veterans (group 1with 25-49% disability; group 2 with 50-69% disability; and group 3 with larger or equal to 70% disability). the participants were selected rando...

objective: this study was conducted to compare the personal well-being among the wives of iranian veterans living in the city of qom. method: a sample of 300 was randomly selected from a database containing the addresses of veteran’s families at iran’s veterans foundation in qom (bonyad-e-shahid va omoore isargaran).the veterans' wives were divided into three groups: wives of martyrs (killed ve...

background the objective structured clinical examination (osce) has been introduced as an efficient method for the assessment of medical students. objectives the aim of the present study was to determine the satisfaction level of undergraduate medical students of internal medicine department with the osce. materials and methods this was a descriptive cross-sectional study, performed on all avai...

background despite the paramount importance of the patient’s satisfaction, there are limited data on mothers’ satisfaction with the nursing care provided to their children in iranian clinical settings. objectives this study aimed to evaluate mothers’ satisfaction with two systems of providing care to their hospitalized children. patients and methods this research was a two-group quasi-experimen...

patients and methods the current methodological study went through three consecutive phases. in the first phase, the concept of sexual satisfaction was defined and analyzed by the hybrid model approach. in the second phase, an item pool was generated by the findings of the first phase. finally, the psychometric properties of the scale were evaluated in the third phase. all data analyses were pe...