Indirect calorimetry: A faithful guide for nutrition therapy, or a fascinating research tool?

Prescribing premedication for children before surgery is a tool for research or implementation

 Surgery and anesthesia entail significant mental stress for children and their parents, the result of which remains long after the hospital experience, and even in some cases, phobia, anxiety, hysteria or nightly nightmares, and it also appears negatively. According to studies, while in many cases, nothing can take the place of the support and cuddle of the child’s parents, but this support is...

Constructing a clinical curriculum evaluation tool based on community orientation strategy (A guide for application)

Introduction: SPICES is an approach to assist curriculum planners while planning, reviewing or revising a curriculum. However, in the literature, there are few published papers describing the application of SPICES criteria for curriculum evaluation. The goal of this study is development of curriculum evaluation tool based on community-based strategy in SPICES model. Method: This developmental ...

Developing a household survey tool for health equity: A practical guide in Islamic Republic of Iran

Background: An obvious gradient in health outcomes has been implicated in many evidences relating to social and economic factors. Proper data are requested to convince policy-makers calling for intersectoral action for health. Recently, I.R. of Iran has come up with 52 health equity indicators to monitor health equity through the country. Conducting regular surveys on 14 out of 52 national heal...

Nutrition and Food Sciences: Fascinating and Challenging

Constructing basic science theoretical curriculum evaluation tool, based on Problem-based strategy (A guide for application).

Introduction: A variety of educational strategies appropriate for medical student learning have been introduced. Problem- based learning is a major, complex and widespread strategy in medical education, especially in basic science education. In the SPICES model PBL is presented as continuums (from information oriented learning to problem-based learning). In this study, we developed a questionna...