introduction: the objective of the study was to develop an instrument to measure patient education content. materials and methods: first of all, literature searches were undertaken to determine current national and international patient education questionnaires. then a forty five item questionnaire was developed. questionnaires were filled by 399 patients in surgery wards of kerman medical hosp...

Laypersons ("consumers") often have difficulty finding, understanding, and acting on health information due to gaps in their domain knowledge. Ideally, consumer health vocabularies (CHVs) would reflect the different ways consumers express and think about health topics, helping to bridge this vocabulary gap. However, despite the recent research on mismatches between consumer and professional lan...

aim : in this retrospective survey women with and without self-reported postpartum depression (ppd) were compared in regards to consumption-frequency of foods and supplements rich in nutrients beneficial to nervous system (ns) health, in regards to consumption-frequency of compounds which may counteract the effect of the above and in regards to nutritional support provided to them during a preg...

World Wide Web acts as one of the major sources of information for health related questions. However, often, there are multiple conflicting answers to a single question and it is hard to come up with “a single best correct answer”. Therefore, it is highly desirable to identify conflicting perspectives about a particular question (or topic). In this paper, we have described our participation in ...