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With the aim of achieving a method to develop and increase the social, communication, and daily life skills of independent children, the present researcher investigated the effect of the applied behavior analysis method on these children’s social and emotional skills. In terms of purpose and data acquisition, the research was applied and semi-experimental, with control and experimental groups and a covariance analysis model. This study’s statistical population consisted of 48 volunteer boys aged 4 to 11 years old who resided in Tehran between 2020 and 2021. Of this population, 24 boys were selected and assigned to two control and experimental groups (12 individuals in each group). For data collection, the Social and Emotional Skills Questionnaire for Preschoolers (KIST) was utilized. Individually, the applied behavior analysis program was administered to the experimental group in 8 one-hour sessions twice per week. Using SPSS-24 software and multivariate covariance analysis, the data were analyzed. The results demonstrated that the applied behavior analysis program improved the social and communication skills of bereaved children as well as their day-to-day functioning (p

Background: Development of the tourism sector and health tourism specifically can improve the Non-Oil GDP. In this regard, in accordance with the policies of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, international patient department establishment has been facilitatated health tourism development in the affiliated hospitals. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of international patient department and its effect on the attraction of medical tourists among hospitals affiliated to Medical Sciences Universities in Tehran City. Matrials and Methods: This analytical cross-sectional study was designed and conducted in 2017. Study population consisted of all hospitals affilliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Iran University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) and Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU). In this study, hospital entrance criteria was certified by the Health Tourism Department of MOHME. Data was collected using the health tourism assessment checklist which approved by the MOHME. SPSS version 24 utilized to data analysis using descriptive and Inferential statistics. Results: The study results revealed that the overall performance of international patient department was evaluated at a desirable level (87.5 score) in hospitals of Tehran city. Hospitals had the highest rank of hoteling indices (95/100), in compliance with the regulations and functional indicators gained 87.03 and 82.2 score, respectively. Also, data analysis highlighted that there was no significant difference between hospitals of TUMS, IUMS and SBMU. The establishment of international patient department had no effect on health tourists attraction. Conclusion: Considering the purpose and mission of international patient department to facilitate the provision of quality and satisfactory services in health tourists, management and oversight mechanisms for the standards implementation such as patient admission, follow up in the origin country and development of hospital marketing policies in order to attract international patients and increase hospital incomes are recommended.

Background: Several studies indicate that the structure of scientific articles in Phycology, particularly in methodology, have not met the required scientific standards. To achieve standardization, it is required to analyze the structure and configuration of articles as well as the components such as research design, characteristics of sample groups, instruments, and statistical methods. Aims: The present study aims to analyze scientific articles in different branches of psychology, in order to identify condition of the research papers based on: authors’ interest, diversity, gaps, inconsistencies, and deficiencies in methodology. One thousand one hundred twenty-six original articles from scientific research journals approved by Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology during the 2007 - 2010 period were reviewed. Nine postgraduate students extracted the data and the four authors re-examined them. Method: This study has a descriptive design, and data is displayed in frequency tables. Results: The results indicate that, the use of some research designs, sample groups, instruments, and statistical methods were very low or non-existent; and in contrast, some other research design, instruments, and methods were widely applied in the studies. Conclusions: The findings were compared to the frame work suggested by known scientist associations, and suggestions for improving the structure and writing style of methodologies are put forth.

Introduction: Educational system of any country should establish the appropriate status for the development of learners and flourish all attitudes of people to learn and educated. Therefore, this research was aimed to compare role playing and lecturing teaching styles through organizational behaviour among health care management students. Methods: This was a interventional-analytical research. The research population was all third year students of health care management in school of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 150 persons who were conducted organizational behaviour lesson while doing this research, divided into 25 students in each test and control groups. The required data collected using active learning, Students satisfaction questionnaires of lecturing and role playing teaching styles, and two types of checklists including standard manager and scenarios assessment and analysed by SPSS software for presentation of percent, average, and standard deviation as descriptive results, and Kolmogrov-Smirnov to determine data normalization, two sample T-Test and Mann-Whitney as analytical results. Result: There were significant correlation between role playing teaching style and active learning (P

Background and Aims: Passive fit of prosthetic frameworks is a major concern in implant dentistry. Impression technique is one of the several variables that may affect the outcome of dental implants. The purpose of this study was to compare the three dimensional accuracy of direct and indirect abutment level implant impressions ofALL-ON-4 treatment plan.Materials and Methods: A reference acrylic resin model with four Branemark fixtures was made according to All-On-4 treatment plan. Multiunit abutments were screwed into the fixtures and two special trays were made for direct and indirect impression techniques. Ten direct and ten indirect impression techniques with respective impression transfers were made. Impressions were poured with stone and the positional accuracy of the abutment analogues in each dimension of x, y, and z axes and also angular displacement (Δθ) were evaluated using a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM). Data were analyzed using T- test.Results: The results showed that direct impression technique was significantly more accurate than indirect technique (P

Introduction:The aim of the present study was to compare the body temperature measurement by three methods, glass-mercury thermometry, tympanic and cutaneous.Material and Methods:274 pediatric patients participated in the study. Body temperature was measured by three methods, glass-mercury thermometry, tympanic and cutaneous by three individuals separately. The results were compared with each other.Results:274 children aged 1 month to 12 years were studied. The mean temperatures by glass-mercury thermometry, tympanic and cutaneous were 36.9, 36.5, and 37.1  0.8. There was a significant correlation between two methods (P