seyed mohammad ebadirad

A questionnaire was administered to 142 individuals to determine whether they shared their dreams with others, who they shared their dreams with, why they shared their dreams, and in what social contexts dreams were shared. Respondents were also asked some questions about remembering and sharing dreams, details of dreams, regular sleep, who they shared their dreams with, the purpose of sharing dreams, feelings after awakening, attitude toward dreams, creativity and problem-solving after sharing dreams, lies about dreams, and other people’s views toward dream sharing. The sampling was performed in two stages. A total of 142 individuals were selected for the preliminary administration of questionnaires to calculate Cronbach’s alpha, and 12 individuals were selected for the panel group to validate the instrument. The content validity index and content validity ratio values were acceptable for most items, except for two, which were replaced with others. The value of Cronbach’s alpha was higher than 0.7 for all questions, indicating their acceptance. The findings of the current investigation suggest that this questionnaire is a valid and reliable instrument that can be used for target populations in further studies.

Personalized business courses are an effective way to learn the basics of a business or industry. This study analyzed the effectiveness of the business course offered at Smart University of Medical Sciences.

This study evaluated the personalized business course using retrospective data to assess learner satisfaction. The course was delivered entirely online but was flexible in delivery. It was designed according to the ASSURE educational model, which emphasizes content presentation and personalization of the learning experience. The course was attended by 132 participants. In this study, the validity of the data collection instrument was confirmed by ten SMUMS faculty members, after which a preliminary study was conducted with 10 pilot samples, yielding a Cronbach coefficient of 96%. For the translation into Persian, the World Health Organization guide was used as a methodological model.

A total of 15 out of 18 participants from the Ministry of Science were satisfied with the course, as were 87 out of 107 participants from the Ministry of Health. Satisfaction with the course was higher among males than females, (84.6% versus 74.3%). The course was rated satisfactory by 81.4% of participants.

Satisfaction with the course may lead to similar courses being offered in the future. This personalized business course was a great success. Participants were satisfied with the content they learned and the progress they made.

The presence of the elements such as marital commitment, marital intimacy and marital relationships alongside the absence of the elements such as family violence and infidelity among the couples, are from the most important factors garanting the healthy marriage. The purpose of the current study was to investigation of the effectiveness of the Gottman’ couple therapy (cognitive-systemic) on marital commitment of Mashhad’s couples. The research method was quasi experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all couples referring to counseling centers of Mashhad and the study sample consisted of 32 couples that were selected through convenient sampling and were assigned randomly to experimental (16 couples) and control (16 couples) groups. To gather the data the Adams and Jones's marital commitment inventory (1997) was used. The independent variable was Gottman’ couple therapy (cognitive-systemic) that was trained to Experimental group in 8 sessions of 2 hours (each week one session). The data were analyzed using independent T-tests groups and covariance analysis method. The results indicated that the Gottman’ (cognitive-systemic) couple therapy had a significant effectiveness on marital commitment (p