Abdalrasool Khosravi; Sareh Ebrahimidavvasi; Reza BasirianJahromi; Shohreh SeyyedHosseini
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Improving information retrieval skills and promoting maternal health literacy of pregnant women leads to their ability to access, understand, and use health information. It leads to maintaining and promoting the health of of pregnant women. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between ...
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Improving information retrieval skills and promoting maternal health literacy of pregnant women leads to their ability to access, understand, and use health information. It leads to maintaining and promoting the health of of pregnant women. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between health literacy and the health information-seeking behavior of pregnant women referring to health centers in Bushehr. This is applied research that is carried out in a survey method. The statistical population of this study is 271 pregnant women referring to health centers in Bushehr who were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data were collected using health information behavior and health literacy questionnaires and analyzed by SPSS software version 24. Findings showed that 25% of women had good health information-seeking behavior. Also, 51% of pregnant women had inadequate health literacy, 25% had border health literacy, and 24% had adequate health literacy. The findings also confirmed a significant relationship between health information-seeking behavior and health literacy (P = 0.011). As the low and unfavorable health literacy among the pregnant women in Bushehr municipality, health policymakers should pay more attention to improving such a situation. If we accept that the poor information-seeking behavior alongside the low health literacy causes the wrong health information, then it can be advised that the health information-seeking skills education becomes a part of the policymakers' planning. Furthermore, they have to provide proper educational materials with an understandable language to enable pregnant women.
Mojgan ZareiVenovel; Abdolah Hajivandi; Abdolmajid Omrani; Farshid Danesh; Abdolrasoul khosravi
Volume 20, Issue 3 , July 2022, , Pages 109-121
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For physicians, choosing the correct and up-to-date health information is one of the most important challenges. Therefore, they need to acquire information retrieval skills. The present study examines clinical librarian's educational role in improving medical students’ accessing health information ...
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For physicians, choosing the correct and up-to-date health information is one of the most important challenges. Therefore, they need to acquire information retrieval skills. The present study examines clinical librarian's educational role in improving medical students’ accessing health information skills. This study is a quasi-experimental applied survey. The study participants were senior medical students of BPUMS1 taking the clinical course in 2013 (n=52). They were divided into two groups, test and control groups, each containing 21 (test group) and 23 (control group). Subsequently, a two-month workshop program besides training sessions was held with the participation of a clinical librarian at the clinic and a scenario by a physician present in the test group. The data collection tool was a self-administered questionnaire used before and after intervention (two months later) to both test and control groups. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and an independent T-Test. The findings of this study show that, in total, there is an increase in mean scores of familiarity with medical databases, their use, and the need for clinical librarian services after an educational intervention. This increase was revealed in (37.33 ± 9.61), (36.85 ± 10.1), and (42.85 ± 3.5) respectively; and the difference was significant (p<0.001). The lack of use of updated medical evidence and resources by medical students was due to the lack of knowledge of specialized medical databases. One of the useful strategies in this regard is the inclusion of clinical librarians in the treatment teams and different hospital units.https://dorl.net/dor/20.1001.1.20088302.2022.20.3.7.4
Abdolrasool Khosravi; Khadijeh Ahmadzadeh; Mojgan Zareivenovel
Volume 16, Issue 1 , February 2018
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Diabetes is one of the main causes of death and around 4.5-5 million people suffer from it in Iran. Therefore, having information about this disease and self-care activities is essential. It seems that measuring the level of health literacy is important. This research aims to investigate the appropriateness ...
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Diabetes is one of the main causes of death and around 4.5-5 million people suffer from it in Iran. Therefore, having information about this disease and self-care activities is essential. It seems that measuring the level of health literacy is important. This research aims to investigate the appropriateness of the available information and educational resources as well as the level of the health literacy of diabetic patients attending health centers in Shiraz (Iran).In this descriptive research, some available information resources were prioritized by diabetic patients, and educational planes were chosen to assess their appropriateness. The study population included 400 diabetic patients who were selected through stratified random sampling. Their level of health literacy was measured by TOFHLA questionnaire. The findings showed that 87.5% of the patients had regular doctor appointments as a resource for getting information; however the information given by the physicians are little and the level of the patients` health literacy is in marginal level. Marginal health literacy is a threat for diabetics whereas they need to have adequate knowledge and skills about controlling and improving their disease; thus, providing understandable information and educational materials for patients is expressed as a way to enhance their health literacy level. Based on their knowledge and skills hospital librarians, can work as health literacy educators in health centers and hospitals, and as role-players in promoting health literacy community.
