Kamran Yazdani

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

[ 1 ] - A 5-year scientometric analysis of research centers affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences

  Background: Since Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) has the oldest and highest number of research centers among all Iranian medical universities, this study was conducted to evaluate scientific output of research centers affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) using scientometric indices and the affecting factors. Moreover, a number of scientometric indicators we...

[ 2 ] - مروری بر ابزارها و آزمون‌های غربالگری شناسایی اختلالات مصرف الکل

Background and Objectives: People with high risk alcohol use disorders are influenced by behaviors that have devastating consequences for them and those around them. The main objective for alcohol screening is to identify people with alcohol use disorders, or people who are at high risk for progression to these disorders. Several screening tools have been designed for this purpose. The aim of t...

[ 3 ] - مروری بر تکنیک‌های غیر مستقیم پاسخ‌گویی به سؤال‌های حساس دو حالتی

  Sensitive questions about people’s behaviors are often discussed in studies in the fields of human, social, and medical sciences. Obtaining valid answers to these kinds of questions is one of the main challenges in the mentioned studies. The most important risk factors for the validity of these studies are response bias and non-response bias, which occur because of concerns about divulging pe...