Hamide Toluyi Gooki; Mozhdeh Salajegheh; Vahid Moazed
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The rapid spread of COVID-19 and its transformation into a pandemic has caused anxiety and worry, especially in patients with underlying diseases such as Cancer. The present study aimed to investigate the information-seeking behaviors to prevent COVID-19 disease in cancer patients in Kerman in 2020. ...
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The rapid spread of COVID-19 and its transformation into a pandemic has caused anxiety and worry, especially in patients with underlying diseases such as Cancer. The present study aimed to investigate the information-seeking behaviors to prevent COVID-19 disease in cancer patients in Kerman in 2020. The present study is an applied study of objectives and a descriptive-correlational study in its design and methodology. The research population included cancer patients admitted to Shahid Bahonar, Afzalipoor Hospitals, and Javadalameh Clinic in Kerman. Out of 3000 patients, the sample size was randomly estimated to be 250 persons. This study's findings indicated that most patients needed Information about a healthy diet to boost their immune system against COVID-19 disease. Moreover, the patients were more likely to search for COVID-19 Information through simple search (common words that came to their mind). They frequently used COVID-19-related TV programs as a source of Information to raise awareness of the disease. The patients reported that reading or hearing shocking Information about COVID-19 made it difficult to access sources and Information related to the disease. Besides, the retrieved Information helped them to identify COVID-19 symptoms. Most of the patients also stated that they washed their hands regularly with soap and water to prevent COVID-19 disease.
Mozhdeh Salaghegheh; Adel Soleimaninezhad; Mahbobeh Ghaeemaghami
Volume 14, Issue 1 , March 2016
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify challenges of digital resources in academic libraries of Kerman province. Research methodology is descriptive- survey, a questionnaire is used for gathering data. Research sample includes 41 librarians of Kerman libraries and their managers. Results show that ...
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The purpose of this study is to identify challenges of digital resources in academic libraries of Kerman province. Research methodology is descriptive- survey, a questionnaire is used for gathering data. Research sample includes 41 librarians of Kerman libraries and their managers. Results show that economic challenges, in order, are: infrastructures and equipment purchasing, printed and digital resources providing, and using license. Libraries technological challenges respectively, are: their inability to compete with printed materials in features like user friendliness and energy consumption. Information services challenges are as follow: information preservation, identification and acquisition of suitable materials and linking electronic resources to printed information resources. It seemed that Kerman libraries are faced with problems more than these, and they were not able to provide their necessary technological infrastructure for keeping and providing access to library resources yet. In addition, financial constraints of resources, and especially, digitization of printed resources made the situation very chaotic for the academic libraries.
