The survey research design was adopted in this study which examined ICT competence and challenges to ICT usage among academic staff. Six research questions were posed to guide the study and a questionnaire was developed, validated and used for data collection from a sample size of 300 academic staff. The collected data were analysed using descriptive statistics (percentages). The results show t...

Background & objectives: Affecting factors and concept of effectiveness is the most important and controversial issue in the field of education. According to this definition, the multiple definitions and different patterns have been formed to assess the training effectiveness and factors affecting it. This research aimed to investigate the factors affecting of educational transfer in health dep...

We examined the use of a staff-completed measure, the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA), to record mental health problems in adolescents in local authority secure accommodation. It proved possible to train staff and implement completion of the HoNOSCA on 64 consecutive admissions. Interrater reliability was high. The HoNOSCA identified high levels of psy...

After major incidents and disasters psychosocial support for the people affected is urgent and sometimes predominant. To plan and train staff for psychosocial intervention European and national guidelines have been developed. The European Policy Paper "Psychosocial support in situations of mass emergencies" offers guidance for policy-makers and health-planners. The quality and time of early psy...

Breaking bad news is one of the most burdensome tasks physicians face in their everyday practice. It becomes even more challenging in the context of HIV+ patients because of stigma and discrimination. The aim of the current study is to evaluate the quality of giving HIV seroconversion news according to SPIKES protocol. Numbers of 154 consecutive HIV+ patients from Imam Khomeini Hospital testing...

OBJECTIVE To examine published evidence on intravenous admixture preparation errors (IAPEs) in healthcare settings. METHODS Searches were conducted in three electronic databases (January 2005 to April 2017). Publications reporting rates of IAPEs and error types were reviewed and categorised into the following groups: component errors, dose/calculation errors, aseptic technique errors and comp...

The article describes the advisable ways of the cloud-based systems use to support students’ collaboration in the process of math disciplines learning. The SageMathCloud-based component that aggregates electronic resources for several math disciplines training is introduced. The learning technique of the SageMathCloud use in the process of educational staff training is proposed. The expediency ...