Designing, implementing, and evaluating a gamification approach in childbirth training for midwifery students using computer and mobile application.

Background: Clinical education is a cornerstone in equipping medical science students with essential skills. Improving the quality of childbirth protocol training for midwifery students through innovative and engaging approaches can significantly enhance learning outcomes and student interest. This study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate a gamified approach to childbirth protocol education for midwifery students via computer and mobile applications.

Checking the Validity and Reliability of the Delirium-O-Meter Questionnaire in the Persian Language.

Compiling and designing short and practical psychometric tools are among the benefits and strengths of a good standard test. The Delirium-O-Meter questionnaire measures patients' delirium status. Accordingly, the main aim of this research was to check the reliability and validity of the Persian version of this questionnaire.

Integrating theoretical and practical constructs in patient education: A comprehensive scoping review.

Objectives: This study systematically categorizes, synthesizes, and maps patient education concepts within existing theories, models, and other patient education constructs to clarify its conceptual foundations and address key challenges in the field.

Methods: Following Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) guidelines, we conducted a scoping review using the PCC (Population, Concept, Context) framework. A systematic search was performed across Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, PubMed, and Embase.

New roles of students as partners: Importance of students' roles, level of preparedness and available opportunities on the basis of a validated self-assessment questionnaire.

Background: Unlike in the past, when students were considered clients of universities, today, students are expected to be partners in designing, implementing and evaluating educational programs.

Methods: In this explorative study, a questionnaire was designed and validated to assess the importance of health professions students'roles, the level of opportunities available and the level of students' preparedness to fulfill their roles from their own perspectives. Its face, content and construct validity and reliability were assessed in different steps by 25 faculty members and 468 students.

Designing and validating a patient education model for cardiovascular patients: protocol for a multilevel mixed-method study.

Introduction: Patient education is an integral component of advanced nursing care. However, current educational practice approaches exhibit numerous deficiencies and have not yielded favourable outcomes. The models used for educating patients with cardiovascular conditions lack specificity for these patients, and each addresses only a particular aspect of patient education.

Psychometric assessment of the Persian version of the stanford integrated psychosocial assessment for transplantation.

Objective: Despite advancements in surgical techniques and immune system suppression, methods for assessing psychosocial risks for transplant candidates or recipients have not progressed significantly. One tool that can assist in this regard is Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplantation (SIPAT). The present study aimed to design and conduct a psychometric evaluation of the validity and reliability of the Persian version of this instrument.

Design and validation of the reflection skills self-assessment questionnaire (RSSAQ).

Background: Reflection is one of the main components of the medical sciences curriculum. It is one of the learner-centered educational strategies, leading to deep learning, and is necessary to attain professional capabilities. A pertinent challenge is how to assess reflection.

Designing, implementing and evaluating childbirth training protocol for undergraduate midwifery students with a computer and mobile application based on gamification method: study protocol.

Background: Clinical education plays a very important role in creating the necessary abilities and skills in the students of medical sciences. Any problem in clinical education complicates the patient safety and quality of health care delivery. In this regard, "continuous evaluation", "educational innovation", and "participatory learning" will contribute to more efficiency, and all the mentioned items can be implemented in gamification.

The next generation of physician-researchers: undergraduate medical students' and residents' attitudes, challenges, and approaches towards addressing them.

Background: Undergraduate medical education and residency training are critical periods for conducting research. Medical diagnoses and therapies are direct results of successful research efforts that have advanced several scientific fields. This review highlights the importance of incorporating scientific research training into the curricula of undergraduate medical education and residency programs.

Exploring the experiences of medical students regarding the factors affecting academic achievement: a qualitative study.

Background: Academic achievement is one of the most important criteria in assessing students' ability to complete their university studies and reach the graduation stage. Students in medical sciences are considered the primary recipients of educational services and are the best source for identifying problems in medical or clinical education, as they are directly and indirectly involved in this interaction process.

Methods: This study was conducted in the years 2022-2023 using conventional content analysis at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences.

Essential core competencies for health policy graduates: a multi-method consensus type study.

Background: In light of the multi-faceted challenges confronting health systems worldwide and the imperative to advance towards development goals, the contribution of health policy graduates is of paramount importance, facilitating the attainment of health and well-being objectives. This paper delineates a set of core skills and competencies that are requisite for health policy graduates, with the objective of preparing these graduates for a spectrum of future roles, including both academic and non-academic positions.

Methods: The study was conducted in three phases: a scoping review, qualitative interviews and the validation of identified competencies through brainstorming with experts.

Readiness for self-directed learning among basic sciences medical students.

Background: Self-directed learning is a required skill for medical students for remaining lifelong learners. This study focuses on measuring the readiness for self-directed learning of basic sciences medical students.

Materials And Method: In the second half of 2022, a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 288 basic sciences medical students at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences in Iran.

International study of 24-h movement behaviors of the early years (SUNRISE): A pilot study from Iran.

Background: This study examined the proportion of Iranian children who met the World Health Organization (WHO) Guidelines for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep for children under 5 years. Additionally, it investigated the feasibility and acceptability of the methods to be used in the SUNRISE study.

Methods: This pilot study was conducted among 83 children aged 3 and 4 years in preschools and health care centres in Iran, in 2022.

Exploring the experiences of dentistry students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences of academic motivation: a content analysis study.

Background: Students' academic motivation is crucial to their academic performance, success, and future career performance. Understanding the experiences of students regarding academic motivation can help address this issue. This qualitative study aimed to explore the experiences of dentistry students of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences regarding academic motivation.

Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and evaluation of the Iranian Persian version of student survey on writing nursing care plan.

Aim: The objective of this study was to validate the Iranian translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Student Survey on Writing Nursing Care Plan (SSW-NCP).

Background: To provide supporting evidence about the nursing students' skill in planning and documenting nursing care plans based on nursing process, Salvador et al. developed the SSW-NCP to measure the extent to which nursing students are qualified in writing nursing care plans.

An appropriate simulation-based training for surgical technology students.

Background: Using simulation in an appropriate education plan which has always been challenging; To be used alone or in combination with other methods and the order of it's use. This article was intended to compare student's knowledge, clinical skill and readiness-capability using simulation and combination of it with traditional training methods to collect necessary evidence for development of an appropriate simulation- based educational plan for surgical technology students.

Methods: This is a controlled pre/post-test quasi-experimental study in 2019.

Development and psychometric testing of a clinical reasoning rubric based on the nursing process.

Background: To facilitate the development of clinical reasoning skills in nursing students, educators must possess the ability to teach and evaluate them. This study aimed to describe the development and validation process of an analytic rubric of clinical reasoning skills based on the nursing process in undergraduate nursing students.

Methods: A seven-step method was used for rubric development.

Policy options for strengthening evidence-informed health policy-making in Iran: overall SASHA project findings.

Background: The institutionalization of evidence-informed health policy-making (EIHP) is complex and complicated. It is complex because it has many players and is complicated because its institutionalization will require many changes that will be challenging to make. Like many other issues, strengthening EIHP needs a road map, which should consider challenges and address them through effective, harmonized and contextualized strategies.

Application of the PRECEDE -PROCEED model in prevention of brucellosis focused on livestock vaccination process.

Background: This article reports the steps of an educational intervention, which is designed to change livestock breeders' preventive behavior in terms of vaccinating their livestock against brucellosis. The study has been conducted in a rural area in a country with the second highest brucellosis prevalence in the world.

Methods: In a quasi-experimental study and applying PRECEDE-PROCEED model, 45 livestock breeders were trained through basket method, accompanied with constructive feedback from researchers and peers and a brief interactive lecture at the end.

Knowledge, attitude, performance, and determinant factors of Vitamin D deficiency prevention behaviours among Iranian pregnant women.

Background: Pregnancy is a high-risk period for vitamin D (Vit D) deficiency, and there is a direct relationship between Vit D deficiency during this period and maternal and fetal complications. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of pregnant women concerning the adoption of behaviors to prevent Vit D deficiency and identify the determinant factors of such behaviors.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 185 pregnant women with a mean age of 27.

Psychometric properties of the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale-Persian version (TPDS-P).

Background: Given the importance of screening pregnant women's distress, it was intended to investigate the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale (TPDS-P) for screening pregnancy distress.

Methods: This methodological psychometric study was conducted with participation of 360 pregnant women. The TPDS was translated into Persian.

Design and validation of brucellosis prevention questionnaire focused on animal vaccination.

Background: The inadequate awareness of livestock breeders on brucellosis transmission, as well as their improper knowledge about preventing brucellosis is considered as one of the important barriers to animal vaccination against brucellosis. The present study aimed to design and validate a brucellosis prevention questionnaire focused on animal vaccination. The valid questionnaire was used to design, implement, and evaluate an interventional training program.

Teaching professionalism in medical residency programs: a scoping review protocol.

Background: Professionalism is a core competency of medical residents in residency programs. Unprofessional behavior has a negative influence on patient safety, quality of care, and interpersonal relationships. The objective of this scoping review is to map the range of teaching methods of professionalism in medical residency programs (in all specialties and in any setting, whether in secondary, primary, or community care settings).

Assessment of the effect of application of an educational wiki in flipped classroom on students' achievement and satisfaction.

Background: Active participation in group assignments is an invaluable way to realize collaborative learning; however, there are several challenges attributed to the traditional way of doing group assignments. This study explores the synergistic effects of flipped classrooms and a wiki-authoring group activity on students' learning outcomes and the quality and quantity of their group-work.

Methods: In this action research, 205 master students of a medical school were involved in a course blended with flipped classrooms.