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- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Nursing and Midwifery Studies
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Quality of Life,Mindfulness,Pregnant Females
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Background The pregnancy period is associated with a variety of physical and psychological changes, which can affect the females’ quality of life (QOL). Objectives The current study aimed to examine the effect of mindfulness training on QOL among pregnant females. Methods In this clinical trial, 80 pregnant females eligible for inclusion were selected by convenience sampling method from Akramian, Taleghani and Ketabchi health centers in Kashan, Iran. The participants were randomly allocated into experimental and control groups (n = 40, each group) by block randomization method. Females in the experimental group received eight sessions of 90-minute mindfulness training, while females in the control group only received routine prenatal care services. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire and a short-form 36 (SF-36) health survey questionnaire to measure the QOL. Chi-square, independent samples T-test and repeated measures analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. Results The results showed that the total QOL score and subscales of emotional role functioning, vitality, mental health, social functioning and general health in the experimental group had significant changes compared to those of the control group. However, there was no significant difference between other subscales. The mean total QOL score before intervention was 44.84 ± 4.44 and after intervention and follow-up was 50.42 ± 3.71 and 49.42 ± 5.24, respectively (P < 0.05). Conclusions Mindfulness training can be used as a psychological prenatal care to moderate negative emotions, improve social functioning and cope with psychological and physical changes.
- انتشار مقاله: 11-10-1348
- نویسندگان: Reza Yazdanimehr,Abdollah Omidi,Hossein Akbari,Zohreh Sadat
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: attitude,Knowledge,Midwives,Oral health
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: BACKGROUND AND AIM: All primary care providers contribute to oral health promotion of the community, especially when they are more frequently visited by individuals compared to dentists. The aim of the present study was to assess midwifery students’ knowledge on and attitude toward oral health promotion of pregnant women and its relationship with the students’ own oral health status and their backgrounds. METHODS: In a cross-sectional study, a questionnaire was distributed among all midwifery students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (n = 104). The questions consisted of information on their demographic data and knowledge on and attitude toward oral health during pregnancy. The students’ oral health status was assessed in terms of decayed, missing or filled teeth (DMFT), community periodontal index of treatment need (CPITN), and plaque index (PI). The data were analyzed by Kruskal-Wallis, ANOVA, NPAR tests, and logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: The mean scores of the students’ knowledge about oral health were 5.2 ± 0.9 (maximum score = 8), attitude toward oral health 22.4 ± 4.8 (maximum score = 40), and attitude toward oral health of pregnant women 67.5 ± 11.5 (maximum score = 120). The mean DMFT was 4.55 (SD = 3.19), max CPITN was 1.48 (SD = 0.81) and PI was 0.9 (SD = 0.46). There was a significant relationship between oral health attitude and students’ mean DMFT, PI, and max CPITN (P = 0.005, P = 0.005, and P = 0.011), but there was no significant relationship between these indices and the knowledge of the students. CONCLUSION: The students seemed to have limited oral health knowledge and fairly negative attitudes, while better oral health status was related to a more positive attitude among them. Negative oral health attitude could affect their role in education of patients; therefore, it is necessary to incorporate oral health promotion educations in their curriculum.
- انتشار مقاله: 19-09-1392
- نویسندگان: Reza Yazdani,Simin Zahra Mohebbi,Atousa Janeshin,Zeinab Tartar
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Rangeland Science
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Rangelands,remote sensing,Drought,MODIS,VTCI
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: The drought caused a series of effects on many sectors of economy, especially natural resources. During two last decades, Iran has suffered from several severe to extreme agricultural droughts which caused significant decreases in rangeland and agriculture yields. This paper discusses the detection of agricultural drought severity over the rangelands of Markazi Province between 2000 and 2014 using remotely sensed data. Vegetation Temperature Condition Index (VTCI) is a near-real time drought assessment and monitoring approach which have been developed using Terra-MODIS normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) products. VTCI is defined as the ratio of LST differences among pixels with a specific NDVI value in a sufficiently large study area. VTCI has capability of drought stress classification which therein lower VTCI is for drought and higher one for wet conditions. The ground-measured precipitation data from the synoptic stations of Markazi Province are used to validate the VTCI drought monitoring approach (11 stations). For this objective, after the calculation of Standardized Precipitation Index ) SPI) with different periods and VTCI month of July during 2000 to 2014 (warm and cold edges from NDVI and LST scatter gram extracted), linear regression analysis between VTCI (15 maps) and SPI 1, 3,6,9,12,18 months were surveyed and finally, the best map was extracted. Based on the statistical analysis, higher correlations were found for July 2006 (R2 =0.73 for warm edge and R2=0.86 for cold edge) and the best linear correlation was created for SPI-18 month in July. Results showed that within VTCI classified map, moderate and low drought classes constituted most area of studied region. Also, the results showed that VTCI is closely related not only to recent rainfall events but also to past rainfall amount (18 month) indicating that VTCI is a better and near-real time drought monitoring approach for rangelands.
- انتشار مقاله: 27-05-1394
- نویسندگان: Ali Akbar Damavandi,Mohammad Rahimi,Mohammad Reza Yazdani,Ali Akbar Noroozi
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Information Technology Management
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: information quality,Salespeople's relational competency,Relationship marketing
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Despite the vital role of information in relational-oriented firms, there are limited studies on the impact of information quality on relationship marketing. To address this gap, this study develops a conceptual model to examine the impact of information quality on the successful implementation of relationship marketing by assessing the mediating role of salespeople's relational competency. The proposed model is tested using structural equation modeling (SEM) technique with data collected from 140 employee-customer pair sample of Shatel Group (Tehran, Iran). Stratified sampling is our applied research methodology, we also employed questionnaire for data collection. The results indicate that while there is no meaningful relationship between information quality and salespeople's relational competency, there is a significant relationship between salespeople's relational competency and relationship marketing. Accordingly, it could be concluded that salespeople's relational competency cannot act as a mediating variable and thus information quality cannot affect relationship marketing indirectly.
- انتشار مقاله: 03-04-1398
- نویسندگان: Elmira Salari,Hamid Reza Yazdani,Abouzar Arab Sorkhi
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Information Technology Management
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: E-Learning,Higher Education,Learning Management System,Functional areas,Leraning processes
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Currently, ICT and educational processes are experiencing development and innovation. This new trend will help promote educational technology and enhance innovations regarding educational planning. E-learning is considered as one of the most prominent ICT applications across the world. Advantages of virtual learning have entailed daily usage in various universities. Learning management systems are specific web-based systems to manage, track students, define courses, and evaluate the learners. However, these systems may involve inefficiencies and disadvantages as well. This paper attempts to identify the LMS functional areas in University of Tehran based on a specific conceptual framework and to present the relevant issues and problems for each dimension. The data for the present study were collected using focused group interviews, system observations. The researchers also compared the documents and the university system with that of other universities. The results of the theme analysis indicated that “communication” and “system cooperation” dimensions are involved with more important problems and issues. The researchers believe that the main issues are due to the test modules, evaluations, and systemic and underlying databases.
- انتشار مقاله: 11-08-1395
- نویسندگان: Ali Akbar Farhangi,Hamidreza Yazdani,Maryam Haghshenas
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Information Technology Management
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Outsourcing,Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM),IT outsourcing,IT sourcing,Organizational change management
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Outsourcing, a key strategy for Information Technology sourcing due to cost reduction, concentration on core competencies and acquisition of the latest and the most up to date technologies, has been seriously taken into consideration by organizations in the last two decades. Information Technology outsourcing is a key decision in that field which can lead to successful investment management in this area. Despite the popularity and attention to this outsourcing strategy, statistics indicate an increasing failure rate in Information Technology outsourcing projects rooted in the changes occurred due to adapting with this strategy. Moreover, mismanagement of these changes can be considered as a cause for many of these failures which not only led to the failure of outsourcing process but also bring about additional risks and costs. The aim of this paper is to identify and prioritize change management requirements in supplying resources based on Information Technology services outsourcing process. Therefore, following a systematic literature review in preview of Information Technology outsource and change management researches, 12 semi-structured interviews were conducted by experts in the field of outsource and organizational change management. Finally, factors affecting change management success in Information Technology outsourcing were prioritized using Interpretive-Structural Modeling. The present study has contributions both to the developed model and the research methodology in outsource researches domain.
- انتشار مقاله: 01-01-1397
- نویسندگان: Mona Jami Poor,Mohammadhossein Sherkat,Hamid Reza Yazdani
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Information Technology Management
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: KM,Implementation Road Map,KM Strategic Alignment,Maturity Model
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Effective and on time satisfaction of organizational requirements, implementation of KM projects and above all aligning KM with business strategies are the main concerns of executives which make the existence of KM strategic alignment roadmap necessary. In order to address challenges of aligning KM with critical business needs, this paper proposed a comprehensive road map of alignment with best practices and critical success factors of KM implementation. By applying survey approach, we investigated opinions of experts which were related to the KM alignment roadmap architecture and customization of roadmap factors. Then, by using evaluating research, the application of roadmap illustrated in Regional Electricity Company. Sampling method was purposeful (judgmental) which is a non-random method. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential statistics. The proposed roadmap had five levels with specific factors. Regional Electricity Company was in the second level of KM strategic alignment. By applying developed road map in Regional Electricity Company, current maturity of strategic aligning KM, strength and weak points of KM project were identified. Consequently, by considering the results of assessment, future strategies, focus and investment priorities of KM were extracted.
- انتشار مقاله: 25-02-1394
- نویسندگان: Mona Jamipor,Hamid Reza Yazdani,Freshteh Sadeghi
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Information Technology Management
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Information Technology,Human Resource Management,Functional Performance,Strategic Performance
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: The information technology has profoundly changed the way organizations are structured as well as the nature and the role of the business divisions. Human resource department, as one of the most vital units of any organization has also not been immune from these changes and many of its functions has transformed from traditional techniques to IT-based methods. The current research aimed to clarify some controversial issues regarding the nature of IT effects (i.e. positive or negative) on human resource department performance from two dimensions: operational and strategic. Based on the methodological approach, the nature of this research is field study. A questionnaire was designed and distributed in order to collect the data and test research hypotheses. The results showed that the IT utilization in auto-manufacturing firms, operating in the city of Tehran, would improve the operational and strategic performance of HR departments. In addition, the result supported the hypothesis that enhancing operational performance will result in strategic performance improvement.
- انتشار مقاله: 11-10-1348
- نویسندگان: Hasan Abedi Jafari,Mehdi Asadnejad Rokni,Hamid Reza Yazdani
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Information Technology Management
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Supply Chain,Supply chain performance,Information Technology,Multiple Case Study,Supply Chain Capabilities
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Nowadays all organizations are somehow involved with information technology revolutions and the applicable aspects of information technology are evident in any field of supply chain, from the relationship with suppliers and producers to the relationship with the customers. In other words, the application of information technology is influential in the improvement of the supply chain. In this study, the effect of information technology tools on the capabilities and performance of the supply chain in the dairy companies of Fars province is investigated. In this research, in information technology sets of tools ,supply chain communication system (SCCS), electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic mail (Email), bar-coding, and radio frequency identification (RFID), in supply chain capabilities, four dimensions including information exchange, coordination, interfirm activity integration, and supply chain responsiveness, and in performance of supply chain, two variables of performance including marketing performance and financial performance will be examined. The results indicate that using information technology tools is effective on the capabilities and hence performance of the supply chain.
- انتشار مقاله: 11-10-1348
- نویسندگان: Ali Mohammadi,Maryam Sahrakar,Hamid Reza Yazdani
- مشاهده
- جایگاه : پژوهشی
- مجله: Journal of Information Technology Management
- نوع مقاله: Journal Article
- کلمات کلیدی: Risk Management,Critical success factors,Information systems,Outsourcing Reasons
- چکیده:
- چکیده انگلیسی: Information systems outsourcing issues has been attracted in recent years because many information systems projects in organizations are done in this case. On the other hand, failure rate of this kind of projects is also high. The aim of this article is to find success factors in risk management of information systems outsourcing in commercial banks using these factors leads to increase the success rate of risk management of information systems outsourcing projects. Research methods in the present article based on purpose are applied and descriptive- survey. In addition, research tool is questionnaire which was used among commercial bank experts. For this purpose, First information systems outsourcing risks were identified and then ranked. In the next step, the information systems outsourcing reasons were surveyed and the most important reasons were identified. Then the risks which have not any relationship with the most important reasons were removed and success factors in managing residual risks were extracted.
- انتشار مقاله: 11-10-1348
- نویسندگان: Abbas Asosheh,Ali Divandari,Amir Karami,Hamid Reza Yazdani
- مشاهده