During the Covid-19 pandemic, universities adopted several learning modes to ensure contention of education activities. They many methods such as online once (online real-time with no recorded lecture; face-to-screen instead face-to-face), repeatable lecture), Self (pre-recorded lecture only), and blended face-to-face learning). Since all these are without any evidence their acceptance by stude...

background : the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) and hepatitis b infections in drug addicts is one of the most important problems of human societies. this study was conducted in order to determine the serologic prevalence of hepatitis b and hiv infections and its relationship with behavioral risk factors in drug addicts in zamzam health center, southern tehran, iran. methods: t...

INTRODUTION One of the most common methods to control chronic renal failure, Hemodialysis creates numerous changes in the style and the quality of life in patients. Educating patients is one of effective factors to improve the quality of life. The present study aims to investigate influences of self-care education by face-to-face method on determining quality of life in hemodialysis patients in...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to ascertain the feasibility of using rapid oral fluid testing as an alternative HIV testing method in China. METHOD This is a mixed-method study among men who have sex with men (MSM), female sex workers (FSW) and VCT clients, conducted in 4 cities in Shandong Province. A pre-tested questionnaire was administered to 1137 participants through face-to-face in...

objective: this study aimed to determine the psychometric properties of sociocultural attitude towards appearance questionnaire in female adolescents. method: this was a methodological study. the english version of the questionnaire was translated into persian, using forward-backward method. then the face validity, content validity and reliability were checked. to ensure face validity, the ques...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Prior to elective surgery it is essential to know in advance the patient's clinical condition. The aim of this study was to compare the preoperative evaluation (POE) through questionnaire responses with preanesthetic evaluation by the anesthesiologist. METHOD Prior to their preoperative evaluation, patients answered a questionnaire with information regarding age, weig...