This paper seeks to illuminate the sociocultural contexts of attempting suicide among Iranian youth. A qualitative approach was employed to uncover the social and cultural dimensions of attempting suicide. In-depth interviews were conducted with 25 participants aged 14-17 years who attempted suicide and were admitted to 2 of the hospitals in Isfahan. A thematic analysis approach was employed. T...

BACKGROUND In recent decades, patient safety has become a high priority health system issue, due to the high potential of occurring adverse events in health facilities. OBJECTIVES This study was aimed to survey patient safety culture in 2 Iranian educational hospitals. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a descriptive, cross-sectional survey, a hospital survey on patient safety culture, was used in tw...

INTRODUCTION Given the role of personnel working in hospitals in promoting health, there is a clear need for a study to clarify the level of health literacy and affecting factors on it among the non medical and medical staffs working in hospitals. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was performed on 389 employees who were working in hospitals affiliated to Semnan University of Medical Sciences o...

Hospital wastewater contains pathogenic agents and hazardous compounds; so, it will cause many risks on environmental and human health of different communities. The aim of this research was to investigate the efficiency of hospital wastewater treatment plant in north of Iran. This cross-sectional descriptive research was done on four hospital wastewater treatment plant in north of Iran during 2...

Background Recently, nutrition support was implemented as a part of clinical services in hospitals. The implementation of nutrition support needs to be assessed for its improvement. Objective This study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess the state of nutrition support in Iranian hospitals. Methods A mixed method approach was used in this study. This study was performed ...

customer orientation is one of the new approaches which is recently considered by the iranian healthcare centers. the present study aims to identify the main factors of customer orientation in iranian hospitals. the study is done through analysis of a questionnaire designed after recognition of the main variables. iranian social security organization hospitals (the major governmental health ins...