ABSTRACT
In the last decades efforts have been dedicated to improve research activities among academic staff in the universities. However less attention has been paid to improve research skills among nonacademic staff of health system, especially physicians. Thus, in this research capability of the physician working in Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari for doing applied researches has been investigated. In this interventional research, the study population was consisted of all general physicians who were working in health care centers in Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari [CMVB] province. From the whole population of general physicians 60 physicians were selected and were randomly divided into two separate groups [30 physician as case group and 30 physicians as control group]. Case group participated in a research methodology workshop. In this workshop they were trained how to find the health system priorities and how to write a research proposal. After finishing the workshop, they returned to their work and conducted their research proposal and then they participated in the second workshop to present their research results. In second workshop they improved their abilities for writing a scientific article, preparing a poster, giving a scientific talk and paper publishing. Prior and after the workshop their knowledge about the subject was collected in both groups, using a questioner. At the end, results collected from both groups were analyzed using paired and independent-t tests. The average scores of knowledge about research methodology in case group was 6.23 +/- 0.24 and 12.97 +/- 2.3 5 prior and after interventions, respectively [P<0.05]. The capacity of case group for conducting research activities was significantly higher compared to the control group. They were principle researchers in 16 research projects and co-workers in 70 research projects. We conclude that continuous naming of this project may lead to improving performance of more applied research projects and to solve more health problems
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Humans , Physicians , KnowledgeABSTRACT
Diabetes is a multi-factorial and metabolic disease, which is diagnosed by chronic hyperglycemia. Although a few epidemiological researches have focused on the genetic of the type 2 diabetes in Iran, but it is not clear that which of the parents are more important to transmit the disease to their children, mothers or fathers? This study was performed in Chaharmahal va Bakhteyari province in Iran to answer to this question. This survey was a cross - sectional epidemiological study on all diabetic patients in Chaharmahal va Bakhteyari province in 2008. A two-stage random sampling method was used to select 254 diabetic patients. Data was collected by interview and analyzed by stata9 software, using Chi-square test. From the total number of the type 2 diabetic patients, 59% were female. The average age of the patients was 54.8 +/- 8.6 years and the average duration of the disease was 7.4 +/- 5.8 years. A positive history of the disease was seen in the family of 116 patients [45.7%], for example 61.4% of the patients had a family history in their mothers, 19.8% in their fathers, 62.9% in their sisters, 18.1% in their brothers, 40.5% in their daughters and finally 18.1% in their sons. Positive family history was higher in mothers than fathers. This was seen more in sisters and daughters compared to the brothers and sons [P<0.001]. Our findings showed that the chance of having diabetes from the mothers is higher than from the fathers. It means that type 2 diabetes can be inherited from the mothers more than the fathers