Showing 9 results for Khankeh
Mehdi Rezaee, Mehdi Rassafiani, Hamidreza Khankeh, Mohammad Ali Hosseini,
Volume 28, Issue 1 (1-2014)
Abstract
Background :Fieldwork education is a core part of all occupational therapy curriculums around the world to enable the students meet minimum competencies required for their professional life. Student experience is a valuable source to explore the nature of fieldwork training and plan more efficient curriculums in the future. This study aimed to explore the students' experiences in the first fieldwork education.
Methods : Data were collected through a focus group and series of semi-structured interviews with 16 occupational therapy students who had passed the first semester of fieldwork education at three occupational therapy departments in Iran. The interviews were transcribed line by line and analyzed according to inductive content analysis.
Results : Following the analysis of the data, three main themes were identified including the importance of supervisors’ management, deficits in the current curriculum and challenges in the educational environment. Each theme included different categories to show students’ concerns and challenges in the first fieldwork education experience and their suggestions for more efficient trainings.
Conclusion : The research argues that several combined key factors determine the nature and utility of occupational therapy (OT) fieldwork experiences of the students. However, further studies are needed to clarify the experiences of the supervisors, department managers and others involved in the fieldwork education.
Asghar Dalvandi, Hamidreza Khankeh, Saiedeh Bahrampouri, Abbas Ebadi, Hojjat Passandeh, Hassan Nouri Sari, Fardin Faraji, Mehdi Rahgozar,
Volume 28, Issue 1 (1-2014)
Abstract
Background :The studies have shown that stroke morbidity and mortality could be decreased if early diagnosis and treatment is delivered faster for patients. This tool is designed based on all Pre-hospital stroke scales across the world as well as experiences of the emergency medicine specialists and pre-hospital emergency technicians to improve the diagnostic accuracy of the stroke scale in Iran.
Methods : This study used mixed methods and was carried out in two main phases. In the first phase (items generating ), concept elicitation was conducted based on the review of the literature related to stroke diagnosis and usual instruments in pre-hospital emergency stroke centers, and a series of semi- structured individual interviews with 35 neurologists, emergency medicine practitioners, and physicians working in hospitals and emergency technicians in the pre-hospital field participated. In the second phase (items reduction), the face and content validity, and reliability of the procedure were checked.
Results: According to results from the first phase of this study (items generation), three domains were introduced as the most important factors influence to detection of early signs and symptoms of stroke. In the second phase (items reduction), the face validity of this tool was based on the comments received from participants (the experts and EMS technicians), and changes were made for clarity of items. The content validity based on Lawshe index was identified. The S-CVI/Ave for Iranian Pre-Hospital stroke scale was calculated (89%). To determine the criterion validity of the instrument, he Iranian pre-hospital stroke scale scores were compared with the final diagnosis based on Brain CT scan result in hospital.
Conclusion : This study made an Iranian pre hospital stroke scale for emergency technicians in pre-hospital field which is dichotomous items, simple and very easy to use. For future this tool could be recommended and employed by emergency dispatch units as well as using it in the triage procedure in the hospital.
Maryam Ramezanian, Joaquim Soares, Hamid Khankeh, Gloria Macassa,
Volume 30, Issue 1 (1-2016)
Abstract
Background: Socioeconomic status has been found to have a significant impact on the health as well as risk behaviors of adolescents across different contexts. This study was conducted to assess the effect of social relations adjusted by social class on physical and psychological well-being of adolescences in Teheran, Iran.
Methods: This was a cross- sectional study and carried out on 1,742 adolescences living in Tehran during 2011. Adolescences were selected, using proportional stratified sampling method and a questionnaire was filled over an interview for data gathering. Data were analyzed, using SPSS18 logistic regression.
Results: The prevalence of psychological symptoms was more than 24% and had a large range (24%-93%), while physical symptoms showed a lower prevalence with a smaller range (12%-33%). Furthermore, there was a significant relation between the adolescences gender and feeling the need for others’ help (p<0.001). Factors related to feeling the need for others help, anxiety, and worrying were the most prevalent among both boys and girls. In the section of family social relations, talking to the mother and talking to the father had the lowest and the highest prevalence among girls and boys, respectively. With respect to relations, the number of close friends and after school gathering time with close friends had the highest prevalence among girls, while the number of close friends and E-communication with close friends had the lowest and the highest prevalence among boys, respectively.
Conclusion: The physical and psychological symptoms were common among adolescents from families with high socioeconomic status.
Seyed Aliakbar Faghihi, Hamid Reza Khankeh, Seyed Jalil Hosseini, Seyed Kamran Soltani Arabshahi, Zahra Faghih, Mandana Shirazi,
Volume 31, Issue 1 (1-2017)
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Background and objective: Traditional approaches in Continuing Medical Education (CME) appear to be ineffective in any improvement of the patients’ care, reducing the medical errors, and/or altering physicians' behaviors. However, they are still executed by the CME providers, and are popular among the majority of the physicians. In the present study, we have done our best to explore the parameters involved in the degree of CME programs’ effectiveness in Iran.
Methods: In this study, 31 participants, consisting of general practitionares, CME experts and providers, were recruited to participate in in-depth interviews and field observations concerning experiences with CME. Application was made of the qualitative paradigm along with the qualitative content analysis, using grounded theory data analysis methodology (constant comparative analysis).
Results: Our analysis demonstrated that: based on participant experiences, the insufficient consistency of the training program contents with the demands of GPs, besides non-beneficiary programs for physicians in addition to non-comprehensive educational designs, created a negative attitude to the continuing education among physicians. This could be defined by unrealistic continuing education, which is the main theme here.
Conclusion: Impracticable continuing education has created a negative attitude toward the CME programs among physicians so much so that they consider these programs less important, resulting in attending the said programs without any specific aim: they dodge absenteeism just to get the credit points. Evidently, promoting CME programs to improve the performance of physicians requires factual needs assessment over and above adaptation of the contents to the physicians’ performance.
Sima Nedjat, Robab Sahaf, Hamid Reza Khankeh, Reza Fadayevatan, Reza Majdzadeh, Masoud Karimlou,
Volume 32, Issue 1 (2-2018)
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Background: The elderly population’s health has become a priority as their numbers are on the rise and they are increasingly becoming vulnerable to physical and mental diseases. Studies show that an elderly person’s health depends on his/her utilization of health knowledge in daily life. Hence, here we investigated the contributing factors of knowledge utilization in the elderly population.
Methods: A qualitative study was conducted through conventional content analysis. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were held with 29 elderly individuals from Tehran. A focus group discussion was conducted (eight elderly individuals), and an expert panel was held with nine experts to complement the results.
Results: Upon data analysis, four categories and seven subcategories were extracted. The main categories included provision of basic needs, maintaining dignity, life satisfaction, and negative feelings toward self and others. The concept of ‘life satisfaction’ held a pivotal role in relation to the other categories.
Conclusion: Life satisfaction was the main category in the utilization of health knowledge among the elderly. Aging should be foreseen and forethought to increase life satisfaction. The followings can be effective in increasing life satisfaction in the elderly: Promoting positive-thinking, placing greater emphasis on spiritualism in life, employment of the elderly, and promoting the culture and tradition of respecting the elderly.
Saiedeh Bahrampouri, Hamid Reza Khankeh, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Mohammadreza Mehmandar, Abbas Ebadi,
Volume 35, Issue 1 (1-2021)
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Background: Iran will face the "aging Tsunami" phenomenon by the 2040s. Therefore, paying attention to the elderly's driving to maintain and promote their independence and quality of life on the one hand and paying attention to the dangers of driving by the elderly for road safety will be important. The purpose of this research was to determine the components of driving competency in the elderly.
Methods: The research has employed a scoping review. To this end, searches of scientific databases were conducted using keywords between 1990 and 2019. The process of selecting the documentation was-based on the PRISMA chart.
Results: In the first phase, 2769 records were found, and finally, 37 records met the inclusion criteria set for this study. The results indicated that 18 components were extracted that were classified into seven main categories including cognitive, sensory, motor, mental functions, and medications, diseases, and driving history.
Conclusion: Sensory, motor, and cognitive abilities are the most important components of elderly safe driving. Therefore, as age increases, chronic disease, multiple drug use, and subsequent problems increase. This can affect the ability to drive safely and can cause traffic injuries. Therefore, it is recommended to use the results of this research to design a suitable tool and model for assessing driving competency in the elderly.
Mohammad Eghbali, Hamidreza Khankeh, Seyed Ali Hosseini, Abbas Ebadi, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar,
Volume 35, Issue 1 (1-2021)
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Background: Traumatic brain injury is now regarded as the silent epidemic. This disease can cause some physical, cognitive, and psychological impairments that require proper and early rehabilitation interventions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the factors affecting early rehabilitation care in patients with traumatic brain injury based on the experiences of the rehabilitation team.
Methods: This qualitative study was conducted as a conventional content analysis from September 2019 to August 2020. For this purpose and given the maximum diversity, 22 members of the rehabilitation team, patients, and their caregivers in trauma level 1 hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences were selected based on a purposeful sampling method. The data were also collected using semi-structured interviews until data saturation is obtained. Graneheim and Lundman's content analysis method was performed to analyze the data.
Results: The data analysis results eventually led to the introduction of three main themes and eight categories. The main themes were associated with early rehabilitation barriers, which included cultural factors and rehabilitation infrastructures. Rehabilitation management was regarded as the main theme regarding the early rehabilitation facilitator.
Conclusion: Early rehabilitation is considered a vital rehabilitation stage for patients with traumatic brain injury. Hence, accurate identification of the influential factors on early rehabilitation can help the rehabilitation team promote early rehabilitation care among these patients; it can lead to the revival of the patients' abilities and the improvement of their quality of life.
Akbar Sheikhrabori, Hamid Peyrovi, Hamidreza Khankeh,
Volume 36, Issue 1 (1-2022)
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Background: Resilience refers to the capacity for suitable responding to stress in achieving the objectives at the least physical and psychological costs. The present review aims to illustrate the individual and contextual features of resilience improvement in healthcare professions.
Methods: A scoping review was conducted according to the PRISMA-ScR guidelines and searching the online databases as PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar from January 2014 to December 2020 using a combination of MESH and EMTREE entry terms and free keywords. The English articles, book chapters, and grey literature were included in the study. The data were recorded to an extraction form designed in Excel. The quality assessment of studies wasn’t performed due to scoping review. Thematic analysis was used to synthesize the data.
Results: 5434 articles were identified via searching in the databases. 63 articles were reviewed that most of them from the USA (30 articles, 46%) and conducted as a qualitative study (32 articles, 50%). The main aspects of resilience that were extracted from the included studies were personal resilience, resilience in the emergency department, and resilience in healthcare providers. The main feature of resilience among healthcare providers was coping.
Conclusion: Studies with more accurate methodology should investigate the situation of the healthcare providers’ resilience in difficult healthcare conditions instead of the mere emphasis on providing a fixed concept for all persons without considering the system impacts.
Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Hamid Soori, Seyed Abbas Motevalian, Omid Aboubakri, Ali Jafari-Khounigh, Alireza Razzaghi, Hamid Reza Khankeh, Seyyed Taghi Heydari, Forouzan Rezapur Shahkolai, Mojtaba Sehat, Davoud Khorasani Zavareh, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Ali Imani, Mohammad Bagher Alizadeh Aghdam, Hossein Poustchi, Mahdi Rezaei, Mina Golestani,
Volume 38, Issue 1 (1-2024)
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Background: Measuring socioeconomic status (SES) as an independent variable is challenging, especially in epidemiological and social studies. This issue is more critical in large-scale studies on the national level. The present study aimed to extensively evaluate the validity and reliability of the Iranian SES questionnaire.
Methods: This psychometric, cross-sectional study was conducted on 3000 households, selected via random cluster sampling from various areas in East Azerbaijan province and Tehran, Iran. Moreover, 250 students from Tabriz University of Medical Sciences were selected as interviewers to collect data from 40 districts in Iran. The construct validity and internal consistency of the SES questionnaire were assessed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and the Cronbach's alpha. Data analysis was performed in SPSS and AMOS.
Results: The complete Iranian version of the SES questionnaire consists of 5 factors. The Cronbach's alpha was calculated to be 0.79, 0.94, 0.66, 0.69, and 0.48 for the occupation, self-evaluation of economic capacity, house and furniture, wealth, and health expenditure, respectively. In addition, the confirmatory factor analysis results indicated the data's compatibility with the 5-factor model (comparative fit index = 0.96; goodness of fit index = 0.95; incremental fit index = 0.96; root mean square error of approximation = 0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results, the confirmed validity and reliability of the tool indicated that the Iranian version of the SES questionnaire could be utilized with the same structure on an extensive level and could be applicable for measuring the SES in a broader range of populations.
