Rohoollah Askari; Mohsen Pakdaman; Mohammad Zarezadeh; Ebrahim Salmani; Payman Asadi; Ahmad Dehghan; Hossein Fallahzade; Alireza Jahandideh Zamidani
Volume 24, Issue 12 , 2022
Abstract
Background: Hazards have always been considered a threat to human life and preparedness to deal with risks for pre-hospital emergency as the first line of care and treatment is highly significant. Pre-hospital emergency (clinical) deals with different natural and man-made hazards which cause various ...
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Background: Hazards have always been considered a threat to human life and preparedness to deal with risks for pre-hospital emergency as the first line of care and treatment is highly significant. Pre-hospital emergency (clinical) deals with different natural and man-made hazards which cause various harms. Preservation of disaster preparedness is one of the pre-hospital emergency concerns.
Objectives: In this regard, the present study aimed to determine the priority of hazards and design preparedness programs based on health response.
Methods: The present study was based on a descriptive-analytical study that was conducted in Rasht, Iran in 2019. The method used in this study was a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. In a qualitative method, the major threats and potential hazards of pre-hospital emergency were identified by reviewing the texts and searching for relevant articles. Afterward, its effectiveness and the significance of its risk or threat were evaluated using a researcher-made checklist. In total, 19 crisis liaisons from the organizations involved in crisis management in Rasht were questioned, 18 of whom responded to the checklist.
Results: The results obtained from the opinions of the experts showed that the risk of earthquakes (88.8%) and seasonal flood (83.3%), among all the risks investigated, have a higher priority than traffic accidents (77.7%) and heavy snowfall (72.2%) in the society. They had a review. The pre-hospital emergency is closely related to many various risks, among which the earthquake risk was chosen as the priority by the community of experts participating in this research. For the emergency of the earthquake, preparedness plans were produced based on the response plan of the health sector and the additional comments of the expert community.
Conclusion: Identification of high-priority risks and design of appropriate response plans will help those in charge to face and prepare in time and reduce damages.
Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad; Mehdi Khankolabi; Hassan Mozaffari-Khosravi; Hossein Fallahzade; Mohammad Hassan Gerami; Amin Salehi-Abargouei
Volume 19, Issue 3 , March 2017, , Pages 1-7
Abstract
Background: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has posed some challenges in many countries. There is a relationship between parenting styles, parental feeding practices, and children’s nutritional status.Objectives: This study aimed to apply Authoritative Parenting ...
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Background: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in children has posed some challenges in many countries. There is a relationship between parenting styles, parental feeding practices, and children’s nutritional status.Objectives: This study aimed to apply Authoritative Parenting style Model in children’s nutritional status.Methods: This research was a cross-sectional study conducted on 1000 parents selected by random cluster sampling. Parents who had primary school children aged 7 - 8 years in Bojnord, Iran, completed questionnaires related to the constructs of the model in 2016. Structural Equation Model Model (SEM) analysis was used to test the fit of the model. CMIN/DF, GFI, IFI, CFI, PGFI, PNFI, and RMSEA indices were employed to check the goodness-of-fit.Results: Correctly completed questionnaires were collected from 294 dyads of parents. The mean age was 36.26 years (SD = ±5.38) in fathers and 32.96 years (SD =±4.88) in mothers. 232 mothers (80.5 %) were housewives and only 99 of them (34.4%) had university education. Most fathers were employee (115, 40%) or self-employed (111, 38.5%) and 120 of them (41.7%) had university education. The values of goodness-of-fit were obtained for CMIN/DF = 4.6, GFI = 0.91, CFI = 0.93, IFI = 0.92, PGFI = 0.68, PNFI = 0.77, and RMSEA = 0.07. Nutritional knowledge and attitude directly affected authoritative parenting style (β = 0.21, P < 0.001) and parental feeding practices (β = 0.33, P < 0.001) and indirectly affected children’s nutritional status (β = - 0.01). The authoritative parenting style construct had a direct effect on feeding practices of parents (β = 0.54, P < 0.001) and an indirect effect on children’s nutritional status (β = - 0.01). The feeding practices of parents construct also affected the children’s nutritional status directly (β = - 0.02, P < 0.05).Conclusions: This study indicated that the use of this model in the children’s nutritional status can result in positive outcomes, and this model can make interventions more effective in this regard.
