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Objective: To determine the attitudes of the graduates working in the department of mediccal records toward the relationship between educational programs, and employment in the hospitals affiliated to Iran, Shahid Beheshti, and Tehran universities of medical sciences.

Methods: The research sample society includes the graduates of associate and bachlor's degrees, working in the department of medical records, Samples of comprised 131 individuals, of whom 53 were undergraduates, and 78 graduates. The data was compiled by questionnaires and personal visits made to the hospitals. 

Finding(s): 29% of the subjects were engaged in the filing unit, and 6.1 % in the administration. Approximately, half of the subjects had less than 2 years of work experience, and those with more experience were mostly working in the administration unit. These peaple considered factors such as "work experience" and "the combination of theoretical education and work experience" effective regarding the quality of conducting medical records. In addition to these, 76% of the subjects believed that their scientific and practical knowledge is not evaluated. In regards to the effectiveness of core courses of associate degree program, the priority was as follows: physiology and anatomy (52%), mecical terminology books I & II (51.9%), and disease coding (55.4%). The ratings for the basic and specialized courses of bachelor's degree were medical terminology III & IV (43.8%), and disease coding III and IV at 57.1 %.

 Conclusion(s): The results of the study indicated that the existing coursework for associate and bechelor's degrees need to be revised.

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Introduction: Considering the significance of mental health as an inseparable part of human health, and in view of its high prevalence and severe long disabling effect, and the role that people's knowledge and belief have in utilizing mental health services, this research was performed with the purpose of studying the effects of mental health education on the awareness, belief and attitude of high school girl students at pre-university phase, in the year 2001-2002 in Tehran.

Methods:In this quasi-experimental study, Tehran's 7Th educational district was selected for the study. With the application of randomized cluster sampling method, 150 high school girl students from two pre-University phases were chosen. Samples were evaluated at two stages, before the implementation of the educational program and after, by using a questionnaire including the awareness level of mental problems (anxiety, depression), their attitude towards mental problems, self-concept and existing variables. The results were analyzed, using paired T test, one way variance analysis and Schaffer test.

Findings: Results of paired T-test between the mean score of knowledge, components of health belief model and self concept scores of students indicated significant difference before and after educational program implemented (P<0.0005).

Results: Mental health education has a positive effect on knowledge, beliefs, attitude and self-concept of people. This study is considered to be a beginning to more future research in this field

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Introduction: Iron drops administration has been used for preventing Iron deficiency anemia for children. The present study was carried out to assessment using iron drops in 6-24 months age children in Yasuj county

Methods: In a descriptive study by a stratified random sampling method, 300 mothers of 6-24 months old children were selected. A validated questionnaire, (Krunbach Alpha= 0.75 ) , which its reliability was confirmed by nutritionist, was used to data collecting. Findings are reported using SPSS version 13 , in analysis of variances, chi square test, and descriptive statistics.

Results: More than a half (57.6%) of children were consumed iron drops regularly, but 34.9% irregular and 7.5% did not consume it at all. In 38.6% of cases mothers had good knowledge, 47.3% had moderately good knowledge, but the remainder had poor knowledge on using and complications of iron drop in children. The practices of mothers in feeding iron drops to their children were satisfying in 58.3%, moderately satisfying in 35.3% and unsatisfying in 5.9% of cases. There was no significant relationship between age, literacy, job and mothers attitude with iron drops consumption, although the knowledge of mothers were significantly effective in iron consumption ( P<0.05).

Conclusion: Irregular consumption and even not consuming iron drops in children, and also poor attitudes of mothers on iron drops, beside the low tendency of children to ingest iron drop are alarming problems with iron drops usage for preventing iron deficiency anemia in children.

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Introduction: Researches showed the effective role of applying the hospital information systems (HIS) in upgrading quality of the curative care services, increasing satisfactions, and improving treatment economy. Due to the necessities of the HIS development and the important role of managers knowledge and attitudes, present study carried out to achieve the level of Golestan curative centers (province) managers knowledge and attitudes in 2006. 

Methods: Present study is a cross-sectional descriptive study, has been done on 73 people of the Golestan curative centers managers who agreed to participate in this study in the year 2006.Avalid and reliable questionnaire have been sent for each manager. After completing the questionnaire, collected data analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Our research findings showed that 59.3% of managers had average knowledge, and 95.1% had a positive attitude about the HIS. Maximum knowledge scores belonged to the medical records staffs, and minimum knowledge scores to operation theaters and hospital officers. Maximum level of the positive attitude found for laboratories staffs and minimum to finance and operation theaters department.

Conclusions: Due to the average levels of Golestan curative centers managers knowledge and attitudes about HIS, to improve HIS usage at all different departments, to hold the training courses to improving the level of knowledge is necessary.

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Introduction: Beginning the 21century, and the 3th Millennium new roles and scales, bring the idea of the world unity in which followed the net work philosophy. It has been known as a greatest challenge for librarians and information communicator, the challenge that deserved a profound attention and multifaceted study. The present research reviewed the internal factors influences on medical librarian and informatics communicator attitudes in their future professional placement. 

Methods: Present research is a descriptive study, and the studied community is the all librarians and information communicators in medical science areas in Iran. Questioners have been used to collect data. These questioners have two main parts, and an additional section was added for personal information. After examining its validity and reliability, the questioner has been distributed among 1368 individuals, for these amounts 1001 answered them. In statistical calculations which included frequencies distribution, means, percent of distribution indices, correlation coefficient, and binomial tests, SPSS software has been used and the results using the descriptive statistics presents in tables.

Results: Finding data showed that among 1001 individual who answered the questioners, 462 of them had librarianship educations. Also average that calculated of importance to internal factors and their influences were 4.13 and 4.18 comparing to 5. In consideration of the Internal factors influences on medical librarian and informatics communicator attitudes in their future professional placement it showed that except one case, there were significant and positive relation among other factors (P<0.001) it means that increasing each of factors has a positive influence on individuals' attitude toward their position in their future profession. Only the first factor: the pre-professional factor did not exist. It is clear that librarian and informatics communicator are completely aware toward the future of their profession and try to cope with the condition.

Conclusion:To provide a suitable condition to achieve librarian cope with the new conditions, it is needed to review the administrative organization structure in this profession.

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Intrudaction: Health management education is one of ways for health achievement and an absence effective education method is partly accounted for underdeveloped health. Health management education is a noticeable topic in health promotion and Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge and attitude of health managers about health managing before and after education in 2007.

Methods: This is a descriptive analytical study carried out to determine the knowledge and attitude of health managers about health management in health deputy managers personnel in the year 2007.Fourty five people from 60 managers of health have been recruited for our study. The data were obtained by a valid questionnaire in three parts including: demographic information, managers' knowledge, and attitude about health management. We conducted pre-test before education and post-test after education. Twenty five questions were designed to assess knowledge, 13 to assess attitude. Data were analyzed using SPSS.

Results: There was no significant correlation between knowledge, attitude and education of managers about health management before and after education..

Conclusions: According to the above findings, it is necessary to change the educational program with respect to managers' needs and education about health management in the country is important. We need promotion for educational planning.

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Introduction: Nowadays, organizations deal with complexity, ambiguity and dynamics and are consequently under the influence of environmental factors requiring suitable behavior. One of the important factors in organizational survival is the success in achieving the goals. In the current study, which was an attempt to identify the human factors of religious attitude and job stress a prediction model of success was designed.

Method: In this descriptive analytic study, fuzzy neural networks approach was applied to overcome the complexities inherent in the study of organizational success. Moreover, MATLAB software was used to design a fuzzy prediction model. A questionnaire for data collection and MATLAB software to design fuzzy prediction model were used.

Results: It was found that the optimal number of the type of membership function was five. The low error rate (0.000003) showed that the ANFIS model was suitable for the prediction of organizational success. The results showed that religious attitudes and job stress were the determining factors affecting organizational success.

Discussion: The results indicate that there is a direct and significant relationship between religious attitudes and organizational success. However, stress, at its intermediate level, has the most positive effect and at its low or very high level(s), leads to a reduction in organizational success.

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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using social marketing techniques on the knowledge and attitudes of students and faculty members of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences to the Medical Librarianship Services.

Methods: A quasi-experimental method was applied. Data collection was a two researcher made questionnaire based on knowledge and attitude of our aspects of social marketing. The study population included all faculty members and students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2015.  36 people in each test and control groups were randomly selected. The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by a panel or medical library experts and reliability of 0.82 and 0.92 by using Cranach’s alpha respectively. Descriptive and inferential statistics method was performed for data analysis.

Results: Average knowledge and attitudes of the target population has increased significantly after social marketing intervention. Among the aspects of social marketing, most of the changes were in knowledge and attitudes (3/7 and 1/6). The changes of awareness in Dimension of accessibility (3.3), the cost of participation (3.1) and communication (8.0) also increased significantly, while the lowest rate of attitude change was in dimension of accessibility (4.0 -) and communication (1 / 0-).

Conclusion: Lack of awareness to medical librarian services, lead to reducing the role of medical and academic libraries. According to the social role of libraries, social marketing is an appropriate way to informing users of medical librarian services and create a positive attitude among the country's health community.

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Introduction: The extent and distribution of population across the country has made telemedicine technology an effective and comprehensive way to provide health services by physicians. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the capabilities of physicians and their willingness to accept telemedicine technology.
Methods: The population of this analytical-survey study, consists of physicians in Amiralmomenin Therapeutic Research Training Center, Semnan. A questionnaire was used to collect data which were then analyzed using SPSS 19 and SMARTPLS 2 (beta) to test the research hypotheses .
Results: There was a statistically significant positive and direct relationship between the managerial [path coefficient: 0.141] and technical [path coefficient: 0.135] capabilities of physicians and their willingness to accept telemedical technology. In addition, managerial [path coefficient: 0.335] and financial [path coefficient: 0.211] capabilities have an indirect and significant effect on the degree of willingness to accept telemedicine technology through strengthening the physicians’ viewpoint about the change. [path coefficient: 0.301.]
Conclusion: It is recommended that health care administrators and managers of medical education centers, prior to the implementation of telemedicine medical services and investment in related hardware, increase the capabilities of physicians through strengthening their abilities in management, working with information and communications technology, finance and investment. This will improve the attitude of physicians towards change, and facilitates the acceptance of technology.