Publications by authors named "Hossein Ghalavand"

Purpose: This article outlines a research study that ranked health information quality criteria on social media from experts' perspectives.

Methodology: A mixed-method approach (qualitative-quantitative) used in current research. In the qualitative phase a literature review explored existing dimensions for evaluating social media content quality, focusing on identifying common dimensions and attributes.

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Background: Data quality in health information systems has a complex structure and consists of several dimensions. This research conducted for identify Common data quality elements for health information systems.

Methods: A literature review was conducted and search strategies run in Web of Knowledge, Science Direct, Emerald, PubMed, Scopus and Google Scholar search engine as an additional source for tracing references.

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Background: The present study was motivated by issues with earlier studies on documenting knowledge and experiences. This scoping review investigates and maps the procedures for documenting organizational knowledge and experiences.

Methods: Following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) guidelines, a scoping review was conducted.

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Background: Planned behaviors and self-care against the coronavirus are two important factor in controlling its spread and self-care behaviors depend on the level of health literacy. This research was conducted to determine the mediating role of health literacy in the relationship between elements of planned behavior and self-care in dealing with the Covid-19.

Methods: In this descriptive-analytical quantitative study, the sample size was calculated using Cochrane's formula and considering a p-value of 0.

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Background: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic caused the closure of many face-to-face classes in Iran's universities of medical sciences, so e-learning was adopted as the alternative method. This study aims to examine the medical students' perspectives on e-learning continuance intention.

Materials And Methods: In this quantitative study, the population included 1,453 students and the statistical sample size was determined to be 305 students using the Cochran formula.

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Introduction: Social media is becoming a new tool for developing health knowledge management. However, despite the rapid growth of research in this area, few attempts have been made to review previous research. This study tried to summarize the opportunities and challenges of using social media to managing health knowledge.

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