Amir Mohamad Mozafari-Vanani; Rasool Nouri; Akbar Hassanzadeh; Alireza Rahimi
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Introduction: Due to developments in journal management systems (JMS) and the insufficient relevant studies in the field of information systems usability, the purpose of this paper was to compare the most widely used Iranian JMSs based on the 8 usability criteria.Methods: The population of this survey ...
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Introduction: Due to developments in journal management systems (JMS) and the insufficient relevant studies in the field of information systems usability, the purpose of this paper was to compare the most widely used Iranian JMSs based on the 8 usability criteria.Methods: The population of this survey included the users of the selected 4 systems among 13 Iranian journal management systems at Iranian medical science universities. This study used a multi-stage sampling method, and selected 80 users from these systems. Evaluation of users' interfaces was conducted based on the Purdue Usability Testing Questionnaire (PUTQ) questionnaire in 4 layers including chief editors, referees, authors, and regular users. Data were analyzed using descriptive tests and repeated measures ANOVA.Results: Overall, in the 8 usability criteria in sequence, Yektaweb (4.84), Neoscribber3 (4.67), and Open Journal Systems (OJS) (4.59) had the highest and Sinaweb had the lowest average. Furthermore, users showed that the compatibility and the consistency criteria had the highest averages while all systems had the lowest mean in flexibility criterion.Conclusion: It seems that more attention needs to be paid to two criteria of flexibility and user-guide during design of Iranian JMS systems. It is also important to select JMSs, which are user-friendly in order to make processes easier and faster. Researchers and medical librarians also should focus on all usability criteria equally.
Maryam Jahanbakhsh; Majid Matinfar; Sakineh Saghaeiannejad-Isfahani; Akbar Hassanzadeh; Habibollah Nikafraz
Volume 14, Issue 5 , October 2017, , Pages 199-204
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Introduction: Hospital websites have a high potential for providing information and services to customers. The assessment and comparison of hospital websites determine the extent of their utilization and contributes to the formation of constructive competition between hospitals. Therefore, the present ...
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Introduction: Hospital websites have a high potential for providing information and services to customers. The assessment and comparison of hospital websites determine the extent of their utilization and contributes to the formation of constructive competition between hospitals. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparative assessment of the websites of public and private hospitals.Methods: This applied research is an analytical-descriptive study and was conducted in 2017. The study population included 13 public hospital websites and 3 private hospital websites in Isfahan, Iran. The data were gathered through a checklist based on 11 main and 69 sub-criteria and analyzed by inferential statistics.Results: There was a significant difference between the average of scores obtained from public and private hospitals’ websites in terms of the 4 main criteria including contact information and access methods, admission service and reservation, features, design and updating of pages and public relations. However, there was no significant difference between the average of scores obtained in terms of 7 other criteria and the overall score.Conclusion: The assessed websites did not fully utilize web capabilities and did not have a favorable status. Therefore, according to the results of this research, the authorities in this area must provide the information and services to the customers in a desirable way so that they can compete with other hospitals in order to attract more customers and improve customer satisfaction.
Zahra Mosharraf; Ahmad Papi; Firoozeh Zare Farashbandi; Rahele Samouei; Akbar Hasanzadeh
Volume 12, Issue 4 , August 2015, , Pages 457-466
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Introduction: Bibliotherapy is a process or activity that uses dynamic interaction along with reading a book in order to help people to solve problems or increase their cognitive understanding. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of the effect of bibliotherapy on the psychological capital ...
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Introduction: Bibliotherapy is a process or activity that uses dynamic interaction along with reading a book in order to help people to solve problems or increase their cognitive understanding. The goal of this study was to investigate the effect of the effect of bibliotherapy on the psychological capital of the employees of the department of management and medical informatics of Isfahan University of medical science.Methods: This is an applied study using a semi-empirical method. The statistical population consists of all non-faculty employees of the department of management and medical informatics of Isfahan University of Medical Science which was a total of 70 people. 28 members of the population were randomly selected and placed in two experiment and control groups and answered the psychological capital questionnaire. The Data gathering tool was the Psychological capital questionnaire of Lutherans. The experiment group underwent 6 two hour sections of bibliotherapy where the control group underwent no interference. In order to investigate the effect of Bibliotherapy, both groups answered the questionnaire again one month after the final bibliotherapy section. The gathered information was analyzed using descriptive (average and frequency distribution) and analytical (independent t-test, paired t-test, Chi square and Mann–Whitney U test) with the help of SPSS20 software.Results: The findings showed that there was no meaningful distinction between the average scores of physiological capital of both groups before interference by comparing factors of Self-Esteem, hopefulness, Resiliency and optimism. However the average physiological capital score and average score of each factor in the experiment group was meaningfully higher than that of control group after the bibliotherapy sections.Conclusion: With the increase of literacy and the culture of reading in the information age, bibliotherapy is a suitable and harmless treatment method that can be used to help with daily challenges, worries and stresses of the busy everyday life. Due to trainable nature of psychological capital one can use bibliotherapy to increase the psychological capital of the employees of different organizations which will in turn provide both the employees themselves and the organization with material and spiritual gains.
Fariba Rakhsh; Hasan Ashraf-rizi; Akbar Hasanzadeh; Fatemeh Kamali; Zahra Gholizadeh
Volume 11, Issue 7 , December 2014, , Pages 1026-1035
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Introduction: Hospital libraries have vital role in dissemination of information so that Quality Assessment of services is essential for developing health services. The purpose of the present research was to evaluate the quality of services provided by Hospital libraries of Isfahan using the LibQUAL ...
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Introduction: Hospital libraries have vital role in dissemination of information so that Quality Assessment of services is essential for developing health services. The purpose of the present research was to evaluate the quality of services provided by Hospital libraries of Isfahan using the LibQUAL model. Methods: In a an analytical survey research, 302 users of libraries that belong to Library service quality of Isfahan medical university and Social security organization Hospitals of Isfahan participated .Data was collected by using the LibQUAL questionnaire which validity and reliability of it credited in several researches cronbakh’s alpha was 80. Independent t-tests and paired t-test were conducted to analyze the data in SPSS and Excel. Results: In “service effect” dimension there were significant differences in average of minor and major level of expected services with current level of services. In gharazi hospital (0.2) and alzahara hospital (0.1) results showed positive adequacy gap while in “Information control “and “library as place” dimension there weren’t significant differences in average range .in whole hospitals superiority gap was negative and shariati hospital had highest gap . Conclusion: The findings show all highly important aspects of the “Service affect” dimension in Hospital libraries so that all attempts to be done for enhancing availability of sources particularly electronic resources for who are working in diagnosis and treatment departments. Keywords: Evaluation; Library Services; Libraries, Hospital.
Sedigheh Ansaripoor; Akbar Hasanzadeh; Mohsen Rohani; Tahereh Moghadas
Volume 10, Issue 7 , December 2014, , Pages 1095-1105
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Introduction: In general the success of any organization is connected to the struggle and effort of that organization employer in a high degree and these efforts reach to perfection when employers satisfy of their job. The purpose of this research in behvarzan and job satisfaction investigation who working ...
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Introduction: In general the success of any organization is connected to the struggle and effort of that organization employer in a high degree and these efforts reach to perfection when employers satisfy of their job. The purpose of this research in behvarzan and job satisfaction investigation who working in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2011. Methods: This research was an analytical-descriptive of sectional type. The research society was 1400 behvarzan working in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences who 350 samples was selected by systematic taking samples method. The gathering data instruments was a questionnaire consisting of two parts which in first part was personal information as age, sex, job record, academic paper, employment position, material state, work place, residence place, children number, spouse job and in second part was proposed job satisfaction questions about work nature, connection and supervision style, job immunity, promotion opportunities, physical conditions, work environment, advantages and salaries. The questionnaire was from the Herzberg job satisfaction measurement standard questionnaire. Statistical data analyze was by using SPSS18. Results: The average of (standard diversity) the total score of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences behvarzan 68/66 (12/05) and in separation the investigated domains in priority orders include job nature 84/16 (13/08), supervision style and connections 74/33 (12/58), job security 71/76 (17/47), promotion opportunities 61/64 (21/97), job environment physical conditions 56/23 (18/07) and advantages and salaries 51/8 (8/51) from the maximum 100. There was a reversed relation between the total score of behvarzan job satisfaction and age, job record, children number. The difference was very high in advantages and salaries domain between formal and informal behvarzan job satisfaction and in job opportunities domain between job satisfaction and workplace (pvalue<0/05). Also there was no meaningful relation between sex, marital state, residence place and spouse job with job satisfaction in different domain (pvalue>0/05). Conclusion: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences behvarzan in general have medium to high job satisfaction, the more satisfaction is related to work nature domain and the less is related to advantages and salaries and it can increase the job satisfaction of this group by advantages and salaries increasing, providing welfare facilities and promotion opportunities and reducing work time of health houses if possible and equalize it in all country. Key words: Job Satisfaction; Universities; Allied Health Personnel
