Publications by authors named "Mohammad Khandan"

Mental health and academic performance of students in the quality of dental education is very important to the learners in this field. This study was designed to investigate the relationship between personality traits and distress tolerance with mental health and academic performance of dental students attending Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Seventy three dental students from Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Iran, participated in the present study.

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Background: Improving health care quality is a global concern, and providing patients with safe healthcare is a WHO Patient Safety priority. The technological revolution in health services has highlighted the role of human factors in committing such errors, and since the number of medical errors, including nursing errors, increases on a daily basis.

Objectives: This research aimed to identify the causes of Nursing Task Errors in Emergency Department Using SHERPA Technique and adopt strategies to prevent and reduce them.

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Background: Safety climate is a common insight of staff that indicates individuals' attitudes toward safety and priority of safety at work.

Objectives: Nursing is a risky job where paying attention to safety is crucial. The assessment of the safety climate is one of the methods to measure the safety conditions in this occupation.

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Background: Prevention of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMSDs) is crucial as they jeopardize the well-being of the workforce in workplaces and are prevalent in developed and developing countries.

Objective: This study aimed to determine the prevalence of WRMSDs among Iranian workers.

Methods: A systematic review and meta-analysis of WRMSDs in Iran was performed by searching relevant keywords in authentic databases and search engines such as SID, Google Scholar, Medlib and PubMed.

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Background: Nowadays, the health work decision makers need to analyze a huge amount of data and consider many conflicting evaluation criteria and sub-criteria. Therefore, an ergonomic evaluation in the work environment in order to the control occupational disorders is considered as the Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) problem. In this study, the ergonomic risks factors, which may influence health, were evaluated in a manufacturing company in 2014.

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Introduction: In a healthy organization, psychological health and physical health are as important as production and productivity; and healthy workers have higher productivity. Regarding lack of information about workers' general health profile in Qom Province, this study aimed to assess and compare the staffs' general health and its components among different workplaces in 2014.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 2,276 employees working at 46 industries and organizations completed a standardized General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28) and a demographic questionnaire.

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Background: Major injuries and death in accidents have roots in drowsiness. Sleepiness is a main result of insufficient sleep. It is vital to explore drowsiness and its level.

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One of the most important ways to prevent accidents is to consider safety climate or culture. Moreover, some studies suggest that behavior contributes to 86%-96% of all injuries. This cross-sectional study took place in an Iranian petrochemical company in 2010.

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