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Journal of Medical Library and Information Science
Volume:3 Issue: 1, Winter 2022

  • تاریخ انتشار: 1401/04/18
  • تعداد عناوین: 12
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  • Marjan Eshaghi, Fatemeh Sheikhshoaei*, Fereydoon Azadeh, Nastran Poursalehi Page 23
    Introduction

    The field of Library and Information Science has undergone many changes in recent years due to the close relationship of specialists in this field with information and communication technologies. Since the training of skilled and efficient staffing is the goal of any education system, this study aimed to review the Master of Science curriculum in LIS in the selected countries and suggest up - to - date courses with medical orientation.

    Methods

    This applied research is descriptive, reviewing universities’ websites using the Delphi technique, conducted in two phases with checklist and questionnaire as data collection tools. In the first phase, the curricula of selected universities were collected. In the second phase, the summarized curricula were sent to faculty members of the Medical Library and Information Sciences departments at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran in the form of a questionnaire in two rounds of Delphi.

    Results

    The results indicated that 98% of the professors participating in Delphi agreed to update the curriculum. Moreover, Courses such as advanced scientometrics, familiarity with evidence - based medicine and i ts databases, clinical librarianship, advanced health research methodology, and familiarity with the basic concepts of source finder, and crucial indicators in evaluating information resources were their recommended majors to be included in the suggested s yllabus in addition to those extracted from universities’ websites, which were subject to survey by professors in the second round.

    Conclusion

    This research suggests that the professors’ views of Delphi on curricula were primarily aligned with those extracted from universities’ websites under study. Finally, the proposed syllabus was designed considering the review results of curricula and faculty members’ opinions. The findings of this research can be a guide for curriculum and course planners at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Ir

    Keywords: Curriculum, Medical Library Information, science, MSc Syllabus in Library, Information Science, Iran
  • Leila Nemati-Anaraki, Fatemeh Torabi*, Sirous Panahi Page 24
    Introduction

    Proper knowledge of the factors affecting science production is essential to accelerate scientific progress and achieve the goals of the country's vision document and comprehensive scientific map. The present study aimed to identify the factors affecting the science production to move toward third-generation universities.

    Method

    In this descriptive-analytical survey, the sample was based on a stratified random sampling of 270 people selected from 918 faculty members of the Iran University of Medical Sciences. The research tool was a questionnaire designed based on available literature. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS software version 23 using descriptive statistics, Student's t-test, and Friedman test.

    Results

    The results revealed that all managerial, structural, cultural, and human factors were influential in discussing science production from the faculty members’ perspective (P <0.05). Also, from the faculty members' perspective, the essential components of the above-mentioned factors include the university innovations management, scientific structure, communication and collaboration, entrepreneurs, and innovative, entrepreneurial, and community-oriented managers, respectively.

    Conclusion

    From the faculty members’ perspective, all the studied factors were effective in producing science. Therefore, paying more attention to these factors to move toward the goals of third-generation universities can improve the status of the university.

    Keywords: Science production, Third-generation university, Entrepreneurial university
  • Hassan Rafieemehr, Heidar Mokhtari, MohammadKarim Saberi*, Atiye Hosseini, Seyedeh Zahra Mirezati Page 25
    Introduction

     This analysis aimed to investigate the global research output in Iron Deficiency Anemia from a bibliometric perspective.

    Methods

    All 29,789 publications in IDA indexed in Scopus from 1934-2019 were included. Using MeSH-assigned keyword search, this research analyzed and visualized the bibliometric data, including annual publication trends and languages and publications, as well as active and influential authors, research institutes, countries, and journals. The scientific visualization was done by co-authorship, co-citation, and word co-occurrence techniques in VOSviewer.

    Results

    The trend in IDA annual publication growth was increasing. Publications were in over 40 languages, with English as the predominant one. The majority of publications were original research. The highest scientific collaboration was between the USA and UK. Seven out of 13 top authors were from the USA. The top high influential journals were the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine and Blood, respectively. Highly-frequent keywords were in two clusters: epidemiology and IDA management, iron metabolism, and Iron Deficiency Anemia pathophysiology.

    Conclusion

    The increasing trend of publication growth in IDA demonstrates the importance of research on it and being as an international concern. IDA needs to be investigated from many perspectives, with the main contributions of developing countries where the disease has its causes and consequences. More prolific and highly-cited journals in Iron Deficiency Anemia are of prestigious and known journals that can potentially widen the reach of publications and increase their readability and citation rates. Research on Iron Deficiency Anemia has found its way, and many topics have been considered.

    Keywords: Bibliometrics, Iron deficiency anemia, Scientific, visualization, Publications, Scientific collaboration
  • Amir Ghafourian Shagerdi*, Omid Behboodi, Reza Vazifehshenas, MohammadSajjad Ghafourian Shagerdi Page 26
    Introduction

    The improving electronic health record becomes one of the essential goals of social security medical centers. The present study aims to investigate the factors related to the usage behavior of employees towards electronic health records considering the role of behavioral intention in Social Security Medical centers of Khorasan Razavi Province, Iran.

    Methods

    The present correlational research is conducted in 2020. The statistical population was the staff of the social security medical centers (N=180) using the counting method. The data collection tool was a standard questionnaire that its validity and reliability had been verified in the previous studies. The data were analyzed by SPSS and SMART PLS software.

    Results

    Hope for effort (path coefficient: 0.240 and t-statistic: 2.984), social impact (path coefficient: 0.194 and t-statistic: 2.453), facilitation of conditions (path coefficient: 0.150 and t-statistic: 2.005), and personal innovation in information technology (path coefficient: 0.225 and t-statistic: 3.005), positively and significantly affected behavioral intention. Also, behavioral intention (path coefficient: 0.462 and t-statistic: 7.495) positively and significantly affected staff’s usage behavior in e-health record acceptance. This is while the expected performance (path coefficient: 0.048 and t-statistic: 0.548) and resistance to change (path coefficient: 0.106 and t-statistic: 1.690) didn't significantly affect behavioral intention.

    Conclusion

    Considering the positive effect of hope for effort and social impact and facilitation of conditions and personal innovation in information technology, and behavioral intentions on the behavior in e-health record acceptance, it is recommended that Social Security Medical centers of Khorasan Razavi to train and strengthen the above-mentioned factors.

    Keywords: Behavioral Intention, Usage behavior of employees, Electronic health record, Social security, Medical centers Iran
  • Nadia Sani'ee, Hamidreza Tabarraei Natanzi, Fatemeh Torabi, Ahmad Mirzaee, Sirus Panahi* Page 27
    Introduction

    The organizational climate is the organization's personality and employees' perceptions of its environment. The study aimed to determine the relationship between organizational climate and staff attitude in Iranian medical university libraries.

    Methods

    In this cross-sectional study, all librarians of three Iranian medical libraries were included. Data was collected using the ClimateQUAL questionnaire. Specialists confirmed its validity and reliability, and Cronbach's alpha obtained 0.953. The collected data was analyzed in terms of descriptive and inferential statistics (p-value<0.05) in SPSS software version 22.

    Results

    The overall mean of the organizational climate for the studied medical libraries was 111.87±49.00. There were no significant differences between these libraries based on the organizational climate (p=0.711). Regarding staff attitudes, the lowest and highest total mean were for job satisfaction and work unit conflict, respectively. There was a significant relationship between the organizational climate and staff attitudes (r=0.352).

    Conclusion

    The reinforcement of demographic diversity, customer service, teamwork, and continual learning in medical libraries can be more effective in improving the organizational climate of these libraries. The positive organizational climate has a positive effect on staff attitudes, job satisfaction, and continuing to work with the library.

    Keywords: Organizational Climate, Organizational Attitudes, Medical Libraries, Academic Medical Centers
  • Shole Saed Mocheshi, MohammadReza Amiri*, Hossein Vakilimofrad Page 28
    Introduction

    The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of social capital on the emotional-cognitive readiness of faculty members for scientific collaborations with the presence of a mediation of psychological capital.

    Methods

    This practical research was conducted in an analytic-survey method. The statistical population consisted of all faculty members of two medical universities in Iran (709 people), and the sample size is calculated to be 250 people. The stratified and random sampling method was used. All data for this study were collected using three standard questionnaires: (a) Nahapiet and Ghoshal's social capital questionnaire, (b) emotional-cognitive readiness questionnaire, and (c) Lathan's psychological capital questionnaire. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was used to check the normality of data distribution. Spearman correlation and Structural equation modelling (SEM) were used to analyze and test hypotheses using PLS 3 and SPSS version 25.

    Results

    The results showed that social capital and psychological capital and their dimensions affect cognitive-emotional readiness for scientific collaboration. Also, the findings indicate that the level or the degree at which social capital alone contributes to cognitive-emotional readiness is weaker than when it is mediated by psychological capital.

    Conclusion

    Through the creation and development of social and psychological capital, university administrators can gradually create a common language and, as a result, common insight among faculty members to provide the basis for more scientific collaboration.

    Keywords: Scholarly communication, Social capital, Positive psychology, Faculty members, Iran
  • Maryam Okhovati, Zohreh Bagherinezhad*, Vahide Zarea Gavgani, Hossein Safizadeh Page 29
    Introduction

    This study aims to identify the challenges of providing health information prescription services and review the proposed solutions.

    Methods

    This qualitative research was conducted using the thematic content analysis approach. The statistical population included librarians, medical library faculty members, treatment staff, patients with experience in information prescription, and clinical librarian or patient education. Thirty-seven participants were selected by purposive sampling. The interviews lasted from December 2020 to August 2021. Qualitative analysis was then performed using MAXQDA software version 20.

    Results

    After analyzing the data, the challenges of providing information prescription services were categorized into five main themes: challenges related to service improvement, patient, staff, infrastructure, organization, and 25 sub-themes. Some essential strategies have been training, protocol development, and designing educational topics according to the necessary skills, culture building, and budgeting.

    Conclusion

    Providing appropriate and effective health information prescription requires designing and developing protocols, workflow diagrams, and explaining qualified professionals.

    Keywords: Information prescription, IP, Qualitative research
  • Nadia Sani'ee, Leila Nemati-Anaraki*, Shahram Sedghi, Abdolreza Noroozi Chakoli, Salime Goharinezhad Page 30
    Introduction

    There are many different national and international university rankings in the world that rank universities based on different metrics. In previous studies, some educational and research indicators have been investigated, but research and innovation metrics have not yet been compared. The study aimed to compare research performance and innovation-industry indicators in the national and the international university ranking systems based on measured dimensions, data extraction sources, and find a more innovation and research-oriented ranking system than others.

    Methods

    This cross-sectional study has covered the 2019 edition of each ranking website and the data were collected from June through December 2019. The extracted data was updated in January 2021. According to the inclusion criteria, 20 national and international university rankings were selected from 75 ranking systems in different countries. We used thematic method for data analysis.

    Results

    Among 20 included university rankings in the study, 17 were international, and three national university rankings that all have research performance indicators, and seven are using innovation-industry indicators. Overall, the highest research oriented rankings are CWTS, NTU, U.S News, URAP, Research Excellence Framework; and the highest innovative-industrial oriented rankings are U-Multilink and Scivision. U-Multilink and Scievision are the most research and innovative-industry oriented rankings among others.

    Conclusion

    The international university rankings are more innovation and research-oriented ranking systems than national ones. So, the national university rankings must introduce new national research and innovation-industry indicators for their universities performance evaluation.

    Keywords: Research performance, Innovation, Industry, Indicators, University rankings
  • Chittaranjan Nayak*, Arun Kumar Chakraborty Page 31
    Introduction

    The government of India has started concentrating on developing rural health infra - structure to provide primary health care services to most of the rural population, which had been by and large remained neglected. Though the government provides healthcare facilities to rural people, they are not effectively reaching them. The purpose of the study is to explore the public health information services, which ascertain the information needs of the Balasore district’s rural inhabitants, and to develop an integrated Public Health Information Service (PHIS) model for health communication that promotes public health.

    Methods

    A survey was conducted with the help of a structured questionnaire developed to gather information regarding public health communication infrastructures and services rendered by the medical officers, rur al inhabitants, and the librarians of the medical college and public libraries of the Balasore district of Odisha.

    Results

    The authors found a situation that demands an assessment of a suitable PHIS model to fulfill the health information requirement of the rural inhabitants of the Balasore district of Odisha.

    Conclusion

    This integrated public health information service model is conceptualized and is based on the suitability of health information exchange for rural people.

    Keywords: Public Health, Health Communication, Health Information Service, eHealth, mHealth
  • Leila Nemati-Anaraki, Chia Rostami*, Mohammad Karim Saberi, Nadia Sanee Page 32
    Introduction

    Urology and nephrology are the main sub-categories of internal medicine, and relevant research had been grown in recent years.  The present study aimed to analyze the Iranian scientific publications in urology and nephrology indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) from 1900 to 2020.

    Methods

     This cross-sectional and scientometric study was conducted in 2021. The urology and nephrology records were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection (WSCC) with a time limitation from 1900 to 2020. Data analysis was performed in the Excel software in terms of descriptive statistics, and the scientific maps were visualized in VOSviewer.

    Results

     Until 2020, 3439 urology and nephrology scientific publications by Iranian researchers were indexed in the SCIE. These articles had received 25393 citations in total, with an h-index of 55. More than half of the articles (56.12%) were original, and the majority were published in 2012 (345; 10.03%). Tehran University of Medical Sciences was the most productive and top-cited organization on urology and nephrology, with 914 (26.57%) documents and total citations of 7741. Kajbafzadeh (140; 4.07%) and Basiri (133; 3.86%) were the most productive authors. The most productive journals were the Iranian Journal of Kidney Disease (650; 18.90%) and the Urology Journal (386; 11.22%).

    Conclusion

     The results demonstrated increasing of Iranian scientific publications, citations, co-authorship, and international collaboration. While the authors published their articles in higher ranking journals, more significant research budgets and open scientific diplomacy are necessary to promote visibility and motivate international collaboration among Iranian researchers.

    Keywords: Urology, Nephrology, Bibliometrics, Visualization, Iran
  • Rita Okoebor* Page 33
    Introduction

    The Nigerian healthcare system faces a shortage of healthcare workers, facilities, and equipment. Moreover, massive corruption has been found to bedevil the healthcare system, i.e., the little resources allocated to the health sector are often embezzled by those saddled with the responsibility of implementation. The objective of this study is to examine the current state of the country’s health sector and how it combats the Coronavirus.

    Methods

    A one-time survey was adopted in this study; 60 hospitals comprising public and private were randomly selected from the six geopolitical zones, and questionnaires were administered to 3000 purposively selected respondents comprising health workers and patients. One hundred fifty in-depth interviews were conducted with 100 in-patients and 50 health workers.

    Results

    The findings revealed that the problem of inadequate healthcare facilities, such as hospital buildings, bed spaces, hospital equipment, and personal protective equipment for health workers and patients, inadequate health workers characterized almost all the health facilities investigated either at maximum or minimum degrees.

    Conclusion

    Therefore, it was recommended that the government at all levels of authority prioritize investing funds in the health sector and increasing the coverage of the health insurance scheme.

    Keywords: Health care system, Health services, Coronavirus, Health disparity
  • Saied Ghaffari, Soraya Ziaei, Hamid Ghazizadeh, Sholeh Zakiani* Page 34
    Introduction

    Knowledge is considered the most critical resource in the global economic environment, and knowledge management is considered a service lever in libraries. The current study aims to investigate the effects of knowledge management components, including information technology, culture, and organizational strategies, in improving information services in medical sciences libraries in Iran.

    Methods

    This survey is conducted with a statistical population of 630 in the year 2021. The statistical population was selected from the managers of the central and affiliated libraries of the universities of medical sciences in Iran. The sample size was determined to be 373 people using Cochran’s sample size formula. Besides, sampling was done using simple random. The research tool was a consolidated questionnaire that included two standard questionnaires: the Asian Productivity Organization and the LibQual questionnaire. Data analysis was done through descriptive and inferential statistics using Amos software.

    Results

    The results revealed that knowledge management technology had the strongest correlation with the quality of information services, with a beta coefficient of 0.26. The organizational culture variable, with a beta value of 0.23, was in second place, and the strategy variable was in third place, with a beta value of 0.22.

    Conclusion

    Among knowledge management components, information technology, organizational culture, and organizational strategies impact the promotion and optimization of library information services, respectively. Therefore, to provide the best information services, library managers should pay special attention to promoting information technology in libraries. Then, to improve the organizational culture, they should enhance the processes and structural strategies.

    Keywords: Knowledge management, Organizational culture, Information technology, Strategy, Information services, Medical sciences libraries, Iran