جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "اطلاع درمانی" در نشریات گروه "پزشکی"

Information therapy is one of the new methods of providing health-related information to patients. This method plays an important role in empowering patients to make informed health decisions and participate in the recovery process. In this regard, the present study was conducted to explain the understanding of elderly people with type 2 diabetes regarding information therapy related to self-care.

This study was carried out qualitatively using the content analysis method on 18 patients with type 2 diabetes referred to some specialized diabetes centers in Hamadan City in 2024. Participants were selected based on purposeful sampling method and content saturation with maximum diversity based on gender, education level, marital status, employment status, and duration of diabetes among patients eligible for the study. A semi-structured, in-depth personal interview method was used for data collection. All interviews were recorded, transcribed, and then analyzed using MAXQDA 2020 software.

After data analysis, three categories and thirteen subcategories were extracted in relation to the theme of diabetes control and management. The obtained categories included promoting self-care behaviors, increasing individuals' motivation to perform self-care behaviors, and accessing information therapy communication channels. Subcategories included paying attention to physical, psychological, social, and spiritual self-care; boosting awareness; improving attitude; controlling disease and its complications; reducing costs and making better decisions; and interpersonal media, traditional media, digital media, and social networks.

According to the results, it seems that information therapy is one of the methods of increasing individuals' motivation to perform self-care behaviors and promoting self-care behaviors. Ultimately, it may assist elderly patients in controlling and managing type 2 diabetes.

To identify the effective dimensions and components in the establishment of an evidence-based information therapy approach in the face of the infodemic crisis in the health and medical centers of the country using the meta-analysis method.

Methods and Materials: 

In this research, in terms of practical purpose, qualitative research method and meta-analysis technique was used to collect data and combine qualitative findings, 35 sources were used as the basis of this study.

By analyzing articles and experts’ opinions, two main dimensions and 12 sub-dimensions, including: a) information: including 6 sub-dimensions; Acquiring information, identifying information, sharing information, increasing awareness, meeting information needs, increasing health knowledge; and b) treatment: including 6 dimensions; Patient satisfaction, caring behavior, reducing the cost of inpatient treatment, use of health information, health maintenance education, and disease prevention were obtained.

Non-scientific media are usually exaggerated and dangerous for those who trust them. This issue reveals the need for authentication and authenticity of health information published in the media. In this regard, the establishment of the information therapy approach, as a means of facilitating timely access to health information and its dissemination for both the doctor and patient spectrum, is the new perspective of medical information under the title of information therapy. 

To identify the effective dimensions and components in the establishment of the information therapy approach for immune system deficiency diseases in the children's medical center using the meta-combination method.

In this research, which was an applied study in terms of its purpose, the qualitative research method and meta-composite technique were used to collect data, and CASP was used as a tool to control the quality of selected articles and combine qualitative findings.

By analyzing the articles and experts' opinions, two main dimensions: a) informing (health literacy) including 6 sub-dimensions: acquiring information, identifying information, sharing information, increasing awareness, meeting information needs, increasing health knowledge; and b) treatment (health services) including 6 sub-dimensions: patient satisfaction, caring behavior, reducing the cost of inpatient treatment, use of health information, health maintenance training, and disease prevention (including 12 effective sub-dimensions in total) were obtained.

Paying attention to the effective factors in the establishment of the information therapy approach (separated by dimensions, including information and treatment), as an inevitable pillar in the health system, which is the basis for facilitating access to information and its timely dissemination for both groups, doctors and patients. It not only focuses on the prevention of diseases, but it is also able to help reduce the country's medical expenses by playing a complementary role in the treatment process, as well as improving the level of health literacy of the community.

This study analyzed the information therapy behavior of immunologists in the country, based on the Cohennon self-organized neural network model.

Applied research has been done by descriptive survey method using neural network technique. The tool is a researcher made-questionnaire that was distributed among 149 people. Using MATLAB software, specialists based on the main components of clustering research, and then by removing each of the main sub-components,, the most effective and least effective option was determined.

Analysis showed in information retrieval skills; 63.75% of the population are in the first cluster with an average of 29.88 and in the second cluster 36.24% with an average score of 30.22, and the most important component is the use of keywords and terms related to the required information. About ways to get information; 22.14% of the population with an average score of 54.36 in the first cluster, 18.12% of individuals with an average of 48.11 in the second cluster, 14.09% with an average of 43.28 in the third cluster, 16.1% with an average of 0.04 49 were in the fourth cluster and 29.53% of the people with an average score of 53.72 were in the fifth cluster, and the most important way to find information was to use electronic information sources. Based on the use of various information services, 46% of people with an average score of 54.85 in the first cluster, 20.66% with an average of 49.38 in the second cluster and 32.66% with an average of 43.08 in the third cluster and the most important component of information therapy services has been familiarity with various sources and information services in the specialized field.

Neural clustering of information therapy behaviors of the study population and the resulting information transactions, in addition to resulting in awareness of the needs and information resources required by users, as an accessible and low-cost method that improves the quality of information of immunodeficiency specialists leads to the provision of more effective medical services to patients, provides the necessary basis for anticipating information-oriented arrangements and decisions to meet the needs and information carriers requested by users of medical databases and provides managers and staff This field, and as an effective strategy with the highest level of possible standards, leads to the discovery of the intangible pattern of information seeking behaviors of health users, and teaches the audience to use information media intelligently.

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Six Sigma process management on improving the quality of health information services and reducing treatment costs. Research

The methodology of the present study, which is among the applied studies in terms of purpose, has been a descriptive survey of the type of correlation. The statistical population of this study consists of all managers, supervisors and experts of Farhikhtegan Hospital, which is 125 people. The Cochran's formula has been used to determine the sample size, which is 94 people according to the statistical population. The method of selecting statistical samples is also a simple random sampling according to the subject and nature of the research. The required data were collected using standard questionnaire tools and data analysis using regression analysis through SPSS 23 software.

The management of the six Sigma process through the mediating variable of the quality of health information services has an impact on cost reduction. Therefore, the mediating role of quality of health information services is confirmed.

Six Sigma provides a systematic approach to improving business processes based on customer needs and real-time analysis of ongoing processes in each institution. This is the difference between Six Sigma and other methods and the main reason for using it in health care institutions. Regardless of these differences, the implementation of any approach requires the establishment and acceptance of a culture of quality in that organization.

Bibliotherapy is considered as an effective and inexpensive method to treat some diseases especially mental disorders as well as to alleviate social problems. This therapeutic method requires the training to acquire the skills necessary to bibliotherapy processes. Despite of extensive usage of bibliotherapy, this therapeutic method has not been taught in official academic courses. This article is intended to study the relationship between bibliotherapy and medical library and information science. This study was conducted using the library research and studying results of articles on bibliotherapy retrieved in SID and Pubmed databases. Studying the bibliotherapy processes shows that some processes (such as evaluation and selection of resources) are of skills of medical librarians. Also, literature review shows that: Belief in therapeutic impact of study and the book goes back far into the past; Bibliotherapy helps to improve some mental disorders. In view of effectiveness of bibliotherapy and its relation to medical information science, it is essential that training of bibliotherapy be included in the courses of Librarianship and Medical Information Science.

Information therapy is a process which informs patients and plays a complementary role in the process of therapy. It can enhance public health information literacy, thereby decreasing the health costs. This study evaluates the feasibility of information therapy services in educational hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science. This is a descriptive survey. The population of this study includes chiefs, and physicians of twelve educational hospitals in shahid Beheshti University of Medical Science. Stratified sampling was used to select the study sample from among the chiefs, executive managers and 239 physicians of selected hospitals. Two questionnaires were developed for data collection. The first questionnaire was for investigating the physician’s opinions about creating information therapy centers and the second questionnaire was for evaluating current conditions in educational hospitals. The data were analyzed by Excel 2007. The results of the study showed that all the physicians and chiefs of the hospitals believed in the adoption of information therapy services. Most of the physicians believed that patients’ willingness to receive information from their physicians (89/97%) as well as the variation in educational levels in patients (94/99%) will affect their use of information therapy services. The feasibility study showed that despite funding and staff deficiencies, delivery of information therapy services is possible in educational hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of medical science.