The paper explores the factors that affect employees’ attitude and behaviour towards knowledge sharing in Saudi Arabian organisations. A mixed methods approach was used to gather data through a survey and semi-structured interviews. Trust was found to have a negative relationship with knowledge sharing attitude while collaborative climate, management support, openness, and rewards were found to...

background: children and adolescent smoking is one of the most important health problems in the world. there is a major concern that child labor may generate a pseudo maturity syndrome, including smoking.the current survey focus on smoking behavior, knowledge and attitude of child labor are working in tehran. m aterials and methods: the study adopted a cross-sectional design, based on a primary...

background: appropriate management of chronic conditions requires full knowledge of the situation-related complications and preventive behaviors, which can improve or eliminate these complications. it is also essential to evaluate treatment methods regularly, with respect to the features of each social group and the available resources. objectives: this study aimed to evaluate the level of know...

background: improper nutritional knowledge is one of the most important causes of nutritional problems, which can affect practice and cause more complications. the aim of this study was to assess the association between nutritional knowledge, attitude and practice (kap) of iranian households with socioeconomic status (ses).   methods: the study population was 14,136 households (57 clusters of 8...

background and aims. temporomandibular disorders (tmd) account for the most common orofacial pains rising from musculoskeletal origin. the aim of this study was to investigate the level of knowledge, attitudes and practice of dental practitioners regarding tmd in tehran, iran. materials and methods. a questionnaire, containing 29 questions on etiology, signs and symptoms, diagnosis and treatmen...

introduction: the ministry of health and medical education of iran, and similar institutions in many other countries, advises physicians to use current guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute otitis media (aom). however, there has been no evaluation of the effectiveness of such guidelines or whether physicians in iran adhere to them. thus, as laryngologists are the most important gr...

thalassemia (thal) is the most single gene disorders in southeast of iran. about one quarter of total iranian new thal cases were born in the sistan and balouchistan province so the aim of this study is to assess knowledge level and attitudes towards thal in high school students in zahedan, capital of sistan and balouchistan province in iran.cross-sectional descriptive survey.this study was con...

objective: to assess the knowledge, attitude, practice and preferences on contraceptive methods among the female population, to determine the association between knowledge and attitude on contraceptive methods with the variables. materials and methods: a descriptive survey of 136 females between 18-45 year of age were done using a structured knowledge questionnaire, structured attitude scale an...

objective: the aim of this study was to determine knowledge and attitude about emergency contraception among women using condom, coitus interruptus and rhythm methods. materials and methods: between april and september 2006, 400 women referring to the health centers in shahrekord, were evaluated. they entered the study if they were using condom, coitus interruptus or rhythm methods. a questionn...