Health Management and Information Science
Year:2023 | Volume:10 | Issue:2|Papers Count:8

Introduction: Reproductive health services have remained a top priority in humanitarianemergencies. As more people are displaced, and their mobility areas become more diverse,emergency response efforts must ensure access to standard RH care services. This systematicreview aimed to evaluate and interpret the research on reproductive health in disastersconducted in 2022.Methods: From January 2010 to December 2022, a systematic search was conducted in thePubMed, Cochran Library, Scopus, and EMBASE databases, as well as Science Direct, Web ofScience, and ProQuest databases. The author chose the articles based on keywords. Inclusionand exclusion criteria were also considered for the selection of articles, and the quality ofthe articles was checked with the relevant checklists. Finally, the articles were mined forinformation on Reproductive health (RH) in disasters.Results: 213 articles were extracted after searching the databases. 7 articles were completelyin line with the study objective after their titles, abstracts, and texts were evaluated. A crosssectionalarticle, a combined article, two qualitative articles, an experimental article, and acase report were among the chosen articles. These 6 studies uncovered a diverse range of RHissues. Most women’s problems in disasters are caused by lack of awareness and knowledge,lack of support and protection equipment, lack of support from organizations in charge, andignorance of cultural factors.Conclusion: The most vulnerable individuals in society are women and girls. Women’s livingconditions are worsened, and they experience mental, psychological, and physical stress dueto emergencies and disasters. Therefore, the issue of RH among women should be givenspecial consideration by health policymakers. Creating RH programs for women affected bydisasters is essential to disaster management. Therefore, to lessen their suffering and issuesduring disasters, countries should develop thorough guidelines and programs to improve theRH of women and girls of childbearing age.

Introduction: Health marketing is gaining prominence as a vital field in both healthcareand marketing, especially in Iran, where improving the nation’s health is of paramountimportance. This study aimed to formulate a robust and comprehensive health marketingmodel tailored to the unique context of Iran. This research was conducted in 2023 in Tehran,using a mixed-method approach.Methods: In the qualitative phase, grounded theory was utilized to select 18 participants withexpertise in executive management, healthcare service provision, marketing, and scientificknowledge. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, and Nvivo software facilitated dataanalysis. Subsequently, Delphi method was employed to gather insights, and the data wereanalyzed using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) software.Results: Among the interviewees, 62.75% were male, and approximately 31.37% had 15 to20 years of work experience. Nearly 41.18% fell within the age range of 40 to 50 years, and19 participants held doctoral degrees. The majority of interviewees were university facultymembers and experts. The qualitative phase identified influential variables categorized intocausal factors, contextual factors, intervening factors, strategies, and consequences. Theresulting model exhibited high internal validity (over 70% for each component), substantialmeasurement quality (over 39% for each component), and a strong goodness of fit (0.791 forthe entire model).Conclusion: The key findings of the study highlighted the significant influence of interveningfactors, phenomenon-oriented factors, and consequences on health marketing in Iran.These insights offer valuable guidance to decision-makers and healthcare managers in Iran,facilitating the enhancement of health marketing strategies to better serve the nation’s publichealth objectives.

Introduction: Every organization should train its employees to improve their performance.Organizational staff education is useful when evidence shows its effectiveness in changingthe performance of participants. However, the evaluation of the results is often neglected.The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the education course in theinsurance and discharge unit of Abu Ali Sina Transplantation Hospital.Methods: The sample consisted of 18 people, of whom 14 participated in the research. Theeducation course was held in 8 sessions in the hospital environment for the personnel. Themain tool of this research consisted of 4 questionnaires for the four levels of the Kirkpatrickmodel, the content validity and reliability of which have been confirmed. At the learninglevel, in addition to the questionnaire, pre-test and post-test were used. These questionnaireswere completed by the participants after the end of the education course, and the results wereanalyzed using SPSS software.Results: Based on the results, the highest score was obtained at the learning level. The reactionlevel also had the lowest score. In total, the effectiveness of the course was 84.05% (4.2±0.5).Conclusion: Considering the positive results of the education course and its effectiveness,organizations are encouraged to train their employees to increase the motivation, initiative,and quality of the employees’ work.

Introduction: Increasing job stress weakens the nurses’ health, subsequently increasesemotional exhaustion, and decreases their efficiency; therefore, the aim of this study was toinvestigate the effect of resilience and optimism on emotional exhaustion and job stress innurses fighting against the COVID-19 epidemic in Hajar Hospital of Shahrekord in Iran in2021-2022.Methods: The method of the current study is practical in terms of purpose and descriptivesurvey in terms of data collection. The statistical population included 330 nurses workingin inpatient wards of patients with COVID-19 in Hajar Hospital of Shahrekord; the samplesize was determined using Cochran’s formula (178 people) and available methods. Thedata were collected through standard questionnaires including resilience questionnaire byConnor and Davidson (2003); optimism questionnaire by Caliskan & Uzunkol (2018); jobstress questionnaire by Sosik & Godshalk (2000), and emotional exhaustion questionnaire byMaslach & Jackson (1981).Results: The findings showed that job stress had a significant effect on the nurses’ emotionalexhaustion (P=0.000). Also, optimism had a significant effect on the nurses’ emotionalexhaustion with the mediation of job stress (P=0.004) and resilience had a significant effecton the nurses’ emotional exhaustion with the mediation of job stress (P=0.025).Conclusion: According to the results of the research, it was found that as nurses’ optimismand resilience increased and their stress decreased, their emotional exhaustion also decreased.Therefore, hospital supervisors could be helpful in formulating strategies in the field ofincreasing hope and positive energy, as well as training nurses to enhance their resilience.

Introduction: Labor is the most important process in every woman’s pregnancy. This requiresoptimal handling of various parties until labor takes place smoothly. The purpose of the studyis to determine the triage classification of labor referral patients in hospitals using GaussianNaive Bayes as the final model.Methods: This study used 90 data, each consisting of 15 parameters which are divided intotwo categorical data types: 9 data and 6 continuous data types. Two treatments were used inthis study, namely Gaussian Naive Bayes (first) using the independence assumption on allparameters, and Categorical Naive Bayes for categorical data types, and Gaussian Naive Bayesfor continuous data types. These two types of data were combined using Gaussian Naive Bayesas the final model. The data went through a preprocessing stage, stratified cross-validation;then, we used the method of Naive Bayes according to the data type and continued for thefinal stage classification using Gaussian Naive Bayes.Results: The results of the first treatment had an accuracy of 91%, recall of 97%, precision of64%, and F1-score of 73%. Also, the second treatment had an accuracy of 96%, recall of 88%,precision of 86% and F1-score of 86%. The treatment of different data types had a differencein the final results compared to the treatment of the same data type.Conclusion: The diversity of data types is best handled according to the model used.

Introduction: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmentaldisorder that usually begins in childhood. Inconsistent with one’s developmental stage, thiscondition is marked by attention deficit, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. The present studyaimed to investigate the effect of virtual reality intervention (VRI) on impulsivity, sustainedattention, and divided attention in children with ADHD.Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest control group design. Thestudy population consisted of 103 boys and girls diagnosed with ADHD seeking treatmentat Baqiyatullah Hospital in Tehran in 2021. Thirty children who met the inclusion criteriawere purposefully selected and allocated to two groups: a control group (only taking Ritalin)and an intervention group (n=15 per group). The intervention group received VRI (twelve60-minute sessions held three times weekly). The research instrument included the integratedvisual and auditory continuous performance test. Data analysis was conducted using analysisof covariance (ANCOVA).Results: The results revealed that VRI improved impulsivity, sustained attention, and dividedattention in children diagnosed with ADHD (P<0.001).Conclusion: Based on the findings, VRI can improve sustained attention, divided attention,and impulsivity in children with ADHD.

Introduction: Health Information Management, as a well-established field of study which hasits own voice, genre, and journals, introduced itself as an independent and significant fieldof academia which deals with issues like health classification and terminologies, electronichealth records (HER), confidentiality, health systems and technology, and health informatics.The current study was set to investigate the most frequent 4-word lexical bundles, thesemantic structures of lexical bundles, and the pragmatic functions of lexical bundles in thecorpus of Health Information Management academic texts.Methods: In this study, a content analysis method was used. The health informationmanagement corpus included 2,210,466 words from the research articles and course books.Antconc 3.4.4 Software package was used to identify the lexical bundles. Lexical bundles interms of 3-grams to 5-grams were identified using the software, with a cut-off point frequencyof 20 per one million words, as per Biber et al. (2006).Results: The results showed that the most frequent bundle was “at the time of ”. It was alsorevealed that the most frequent types of phrases in the health information managementcorpus were noun phrases and prepositional phrases, followed by verb phrases.Conclusions: The study found that the pragmatic functions of lexical bundles in the HealthInformation Management Corpus were grouped into three major categories includingresearch-oriented bundles, text-oriented bundles, and participant-oriented bundles.

To meet the health needs of the community, health care systems should involve various crucial resources, including humans, finance, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, information, and physical space. These resources are needed to balance the healthcare system, providing people with a continuum of services for health promotion, disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment, disease management, rehabilitation, and palliative care services based on people’s living conditions. Also, appropriate management and leadership are other vital resources to provide quality, safe, and equal healthcare services. It is clear that strategic planning is one of the most crucial elements of healthcare management, and the importance of this subject becomes more considerable in crisis conditions, which involve the organization or even the whole society. Therefore, it is better for societies to design scenario-based crisis management programs, which would be extremely beneficial for them to overcome the crisis faster with the lowest losses. This scenario-based planning should be given much more importance in countries where the population density and poverty rate are higher and they may not be sufficient in terms of the provision of quality and timely healthcare services. It seems that designing crisis management programs based on three scenarios, which are explained below, can be highly advantageous in paving the way for handling the crisis situation.