Forougheh Montajeb; Zahra Atai; Hosein Safizadeh
Volume 6, Issue 1 , July 2009, , Pages 57-65
Abstract
Background & Objective: Maintaining the international standards and research elements in dissertations leads to clearly showing the results in a scientific way It also facilitates indexing abstracting and easily using them in information sources This study aimed to assess ISO 7144 standards ...
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Background & Objective: Maintaining the international standards and research elements in dissertations leads to clearly showing the results in a scientific way It also facilitates indexing abstracting and easily using them in information sources This study aimed to assess ISO 7144 standards and research elements in dissertations of different schools from 1999 to 2004 in Kerman University of Medical Sciences Methods: In this crosssectional study 602 dissertations in schools of medicine dentistry pharmacy and nursing (masters degree) were evaluated Data was collected using a checklist Results: Results of this study showed that there was a general ascending trend in maintaining ISO standards and research elements in the dissertations The mean rate of maintaining ISO standard and research elements in references (9081%) results (7787%) figures and tables (7729%) were higher than the other parts In literature review (484%) thesis statement (502%) and abstract (5518%) it was lower than other parts This score was the highest in the dissertations of the School of Nursing (709%) in comparison with the other three schools Conclusion: Our results suggest that although an ascending trend in maintaining ISO standards and research elements in the dissertations is met but the general status is not satisfactory Hence it is suggested that maintaining international standards become obligatory so internal dissertations would be applicable and documented in international spectrum together with improvement in quality
