Masoumeh Latifi; Nilofar Barahmand; Fatemeh Fahimnia
Volume 13, Issue 5 , October 2016, , Pages 326-332
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Introduction: Women experience many challenges post mastectomy. Information seeking plays a key role in empowering them to do self-care, improving their quality of life and improving their health. However, individual and contextual barriers hinder their access to needed information. This research aimed ...
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Introduction: Women experience many challenges post mastectomy. Information seeking plays a key role in empowering them to do self-care, improving their quality of life and improving their health. However, individual and contextual barriers hinder their access to needed information. This research aimed to identify those barriers.Methods: This was a qualitative research using conventional content analysis. 17 women were recruited through purposive sampling in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran, and semi-structured interviews were conducted among them.Results: Seven central themes were emerged to explain women's experiences of barriers in information seeking post mastectomy among which fear, shame, and inadequate literacy were individual; and economic status, physicians and healthcare personnel, lack of access to information resources and others’ behavior were contextual barriers.Conclusion: Despite the necessity of access to health information for women post mastectomy, results showed individual and contextual information seeking barriers. Hence, necessary actions should be taken by health authorities especially institutions for women health to reform and revise heath system in order to tackle information seeking barriers for women post mastectomy.
Malihe Nikkar; Nilofar Barahmand
Volume 11, Issue 4 , November 2014, , Pages 454-463
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Introduction: International scientific collaboration is one of the important aspects of scientific collaboration and study of different aspects of it is conducive in demonstrating scientific communication behavior of faculty members. Findings of its study can be used in policy making, strategic management ...
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Introduction: International scientific collaboration is one of the important aspects of scientific collaboration and study of different aspects of it is conducive in demonstrating scientific communication behavior of faculty members. Findings of its study can be used in policy making, strategic management of research and paving the way for collaboration. Regarding that, this research is to study international scientific collaboration among Shiraz University of Medical Sciences faculty members. Method: Research method was citation analysis and research type was applied. This study was carries out on the articles published by researchers affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in WOS from 2005–2011. Data were examined and modified in Excel which resulted into 338 records. Findings were analyzed with descriptive statistics (frequency charts) and inferential statistics (Spearman Correlation) in Excel software. Findings: Based on the results, there were 338 internationally published articles which constitute 11.6 percent of all of the articles (2893) published in WOS during 2005-2011. Spearman test of correlations showed a weak and non-significant positive correlation between the rate of the growth of all of the articles and internationally authored articles (rs: 0.344, p value= 0.544). The most number of collaborations were with US, Australia an England respectively. Overall, 313 faculty members wrote their articles with international collogues. Results: In general, the rate of internationally collaborated articles grew during the timed studied. However, the proportion of their growth in comparison to the growth of all articles is small. Non meaningful correlation between them could show that the growth of all articles is not a result of the growth of internationally collaborated articles and vice versa.
