Background The menstrual hygiene education is a process for strengthening skills and empowering women, especially young girls. The aim of this systematic review was to investigate the efficacy of menstrual health education on young girls’ knowledge, attitude and practic...

Background For decades, child labor has been an important global issue associated with inadequate educational opportunities, poverty and gender inequality. In order to make effective policies to reduce child labor it is important to understand the specific factors that ...

Introduction: Nursing students require highly specialized competencies to accurately determine patients' states and to predict and cope with problems that may occur during nursing care. This study explores the definition, domains, and levels of nursing students' competency. Methods: This study was a systematic review of nursing students’ competencies in E...

Abstract Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to review a sample of the literature relating to Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) and its deployment for modelling purposes in the area of supply chain management (SCM). Design/methodology/approach- The literature is examined from the three perspectives. First, concept of ISM and examines ISM as modelling technique. Second, use of ISM by ...

introduction: the prevalence of iran deficiency anemia (ida) in pregnant women is in variable between 40-80% in developing countries. there are some differences among different studies on this disorder. so, this present study is been performed for evaluating the prevalence of ida among pregnant iranians with systematic review and meta analysis method. method: this study is based on received inf...

background : the present study aimed to provide better insight on methodological issues related to time preference studies, and to estimate private and social discount rates, using a rigorous systematic review and meta-analysis. methods : we searched pubmed, embase and proquest databases in june 2013. all studies had estimated private and social time preference rates for health outcomes through...

background: esophageal cancer is often diagnosed in the last stages where the chance of patient’s survival is very low. the aim of this systematic review was presentation of valid estimation of survival in patients with esophageal cancer in different regions of iran. methods: a systematic review was carried out based on the reliable domestic medical databases including: sid, magiran, irandoc an...

data extraction primary outcomes were incidence, prevalence, or odds ratio of having osteoporosis, defined as bone mineral density t-score < -2.5 sd. results of 353 articles, 344 articles were excluded, 9 underwent full-length review and data were extracted from 7 studies consisting of 113,558 patients. finally, 3 extracted studies were included in the meta-analysis of osteoporosis. among cohor...