Hossein Safizadeh; Maryam Azimi
Volume 2, Issue 1 , July 2005, , Pages 40-49
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Background : Inappropriate nutrition has an important role in many pathological conditions including such common diseases as diabetes cancer and cardiovascular diseases Despite the recognition that physicians are often called upon to provide counseling in nutritional aspects of diseases nutrition does ...
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Background : Inappropriate nutrition has an important role in many pathological conditions including such common diseases as diabetes cancer and cardiovascular diseases Despite the recognition that physicians are often called upon to provide counseling in nutritional aspects of diseases nutrition does not hold the place it deserves in medical schools curricula especially in clinical and casebased teaching Objectve: The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge attitude and practice of interns in Kerman Medical University regarding the nutrition Methods: Selfadministered questionnaires including 29 questions and in a crosssectional study were completed by 105 interns Results: The mean knowledge attitude and practice scores were 693 ± 189 (out of 14) 1550 ± 354 (out of 40) and 148 ± 158 (out of 7) respectively There were no significant differences in knowledge and practice scores between males and females but male interns had higher score in attitude (P
Esmat Nouhi; Ashraf Adhami; Aliakbar Haghdoost
Volume 2, Issue 1 , July 2005, , Pages 56-62
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Background: Teaching Methodology workshop aimed at development of education therefore it must offer the best developed methods of teaching Objectives: To determine the quality of the teaching methodology workshops held in Kerman University of Medical Sciences based on the views of the participators Methods: ...
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Background: Teaching Methodology workshop aimed at development of education therefore it must offer the best developed methods of teaching Objectives: To determine the quality of the teaching methodology workshops held in Kerman University of Medical Sciences based on the views of the participators Methods: The views of all 171 faculty members participated in six teaching methodology workshops were evaluated using the questionnaire approved by The Ministry of Health and Medical Education The questionnaire consisted of two sections: demograophic features & statements on the views based on a 5 Likert scale (from strongly agree to strongly disagree) Its validity was 09 measured by the views of experts Findings: 673 percent of the participators were male and assistant professors 624% 697% of the participants were strongly agreed or agreed upon the statements The most agreement was on proper planning of aims (84%) then giving introductory information in the beginning (81%) sequential outline (82%) respectively The least agreement was found on the facilities (404%) enough time allocated to individual & group discussion (472%) A significant difference was observed between the views based on different workshop sessions (P
Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Hazavehei; Yadollah Fathi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , January 2005, , Pages 85-93
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Background: According to the educational policy and regulation offering academic advising to the students is one of the essential faculty members responsibilities and medical universities must guide the students during their education in order to prevent any academic problems and barriers and improve ...
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Background: According to the educational policy and regulation offering academic advising to the students is one of the essential faculty members responsibilities and medical universities must guide the students during their education in order to prevent any academic problems and barriers and improve academic achievement Objective: To Compare the effect of two educational methods on academic advisors knowledge attitude and practice Methods: Eightyseven advisors participated in this experimental study The participants were randomly divided into two groups The first group (N=43) receiving selflearning educational materials participated in a oneday workshop The second group only received selflearning educational materials A reliable and valid questionnaire was distributed to gather data Results: The findings indicated the knowledge of the advisors about advising and counselling in the first group ( =1477 SD=31) was higher than the advisors in the second group ( =1154 SD=276) so that a significant difference was observed between the two groups (P
Zahra Jalili; Sakineh Mohammad alizadeh; Soraya Atta-ollahi
Volume 1, Issue 1 , July 2004, , Pages 41-47
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Background: Adolescence is accompanied with deep psychological physiological and social changes Girls lack of awareness about this period could form the basis of many physical and behavioral problems Planned health education programs carried out to develop required skills and abilities leave clear impression ...
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Background: Adolescence is accompanied with deep psychological physiological and social changes Girls lack of awareness about this period could form the basis of many physical and behavioral problems Planned health education programs carried out to develop required skills and abilities leave clear impression on the manner the youth handles these changes Objective: The aim of this study was determining the impact of health education on the knowledge and practice of 3rd grade guidance school girls of Shahrbabak city (Kerman/Iran) in relation to the health of menstruation Methods: The present study is a quasi experimental (beforeafter) in which 200 Subjects were chosen by multistage random sampling method Data collection was carried out through a questionnaire containing 23 questions divided into two parts of knowledge and practice After determining the validity and reliability questionnaires were distributed among subjects (pretest) Final testing (posttest) was administered after training courses Results: Findings of the pre test stage represented weak knowledge and practice of the students concerning health of menstruation and there was significant increase in mean scores of knowledge [from 58 (414%) to 127 (907%)] and practice [from 237 (658%) to 283 (786%)] after training program (P