Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Quality evaluation of Persian nutrition and diet therapy websites

. Zahra Gholizadeh; . Ahmad Papi; . Hasan Ashrafi‑rizi; . Leila Shahrzadi; . Akbar Hasanzadeh

Volume 7, Issue 3 , May and June 2017, , Pages 1-6

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INTRODUCTION: Nowadays websites are among the most important information sources used bymost people. With the spread of websites, especially those related to health issues, the number ... Read More INTRODUCTION: Nowadays websites are among the most important information sources used bymost people. With the spread of websites, especially those related to health issues, the number oftheir visitors also increases, more than half of which are about nutritional information. Therefore,quality analysis of nutrition and diet therapy websites is of outmost importance. This study aims toevaluate the quality of Persian nutrition and diet therapy websites.METHODS: The current work is a survey study and uses an applied study method. The statisticalpopulation consists of 51 Persian websites about nutrition and diet therapy and census method wasused in order to study them. Data gathering was done using a checklist and with direct visit to eachwebsite. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to analyse the gathered data with the helpof SPSS 21 software.RESULTS: Findings showed that content (66.7%), organization (82.4%), user friendlyinterfaces (52.9%) and total quality (70.6%) of most websites had a mediocre score while the designscore for most of the websites (70.6%) was acceptable also organizational websites had better design,organization and quality compared to private websites. The three websites with the highest generalquality score were the websites of “Novel Diet Therapy,” “Behsite” and “Dr. BehdadiPour” (jointly)and “Dr. Kermani” respectively. Also in the dimension of content the factors of goal, relevance andcredibility, in the dimension of design the factors of color, text and sound, pictures and videos, in thedimension of organization the factors of stability and indexing and in the dimension of user friendlinessthe factors of confidentiality, credibility and personalization had the highest scores.CONCLUSION: The results showed that the design score was higher than other scores. Also thegeneral quality score of the websites was mediocre and was not desirable. Also websites didn’t havesuitable scores in every factor. Since most people search the internet for nutritional and diet therapyinformation, the creators of these websites should endeavor to fix the shortcomings of their websitesand increase the quality of their websites in several different areas.

Evaluation of the quality of the college library websites in Iranian medical Universities based on the Stover model

. Mohammad Reza Nasajpour; . Hasan Ashrafi‑rizi; . Mohammad Reza Soleymani; . Leila Shahrzadi; . Akbar Hassanzadeh

Volume 4, Issue 5 , November 2014, , Pages 1-7

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Introduction: Today, the websites of college and university libraries play an important rolein providing the necessary services for clients. These websites not only allow the users ... Read More Introduction: Today, the websites of college and university libraries play an important rolein providing the necessary services for clients. These websites not only allow the users toaccess different collections of library resources, but also provide them with the necessaryguidance in order to use the information. The goal of this study is the quality evaluation of thecollege library websites in Iranian Medical Universities based on the Stover model. Materialand Methods: This study uses an analytical survey method and is an applied study. Thedata gathering tool is the standard checklist provided by Stover, which was modified by theresearchers for this study. The statistical population is the college library websites of theIranian Medical Universities (146 websites) and census method was used for investigation.The data gathering method was a direct access to each website and filling of the checklistwas based on the researchers’ observations. Descriptive and analytical statistics (Analysis ofVariance (ANOVA)) were used for data analysis with the help of the SPSS software. Findings:The findings showed that in the dimension of the quality of contents, the highest averagebelonged to type one universities (46.2%) and the lowest average belonged to type threeuniversities (24.8%). In the search and research capabilities, the highest average belonged totype one universities (48.2%) and the lowest average belonged to type three universities. Inthe dimension of facilities provided for the users, type one universities again had the highestaverage (37.2%), while type three universities had the lowest average (15%). In general the librarywebsites of type one universities had the highest quality (44.2%), while type three universitieshad the lowest quality (21.1%). Also the library websites of the College of Rehabilitation andthe College of Paramedics, of the Shiraz University of Medical Science, had the highest qualityscores. Discussion: The results showed that there was a meaningful difference between thequality of the college library websites and the university types, resulting in college libraries oftype one universities having the highest average score and the college libraries of type threeuniversities having the lowest score.

Quality assessment of Isfahan Medical Faculty web site electronic services and prioritizing solutions using analytic hierarchy process approach

. Nafiseh Hajrahimi; . Sayed Mehdi Hejazi Dehaghani; . Nargess Hajrahimi; . Sima Sarmadi

Volume 4, Issue 5 , November 2014, , Pages 1-5

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Context: Implementing information technology in the best possible way can bring many advantagessuch as applying electronic services and facilitating tasks. Therefore, assessment of ... Read More Context: Implementing information technology in the best possible way can bring many advantagessuch as applying electronic services and facilitating tasks. Therefore, assessment of service providingsystems is a way to improve the quality and elevate these systems including e‑commerce, e‑government,e‑banking, and e‑learning. Aims: This study was aimed to evaluate the electronic services in the websiteof Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in order to propose solutions to improve them. Furthermore,we aim to rank the solutions based on the factors that enhance the quality of electronic services by usinganalytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. Materials and Methods: Non‑parametric test was used toassess the quality of electronic services. The assessment of propositions was based on Aqual modeland they were prioritized using AHP approach. The AHP approach was used because it directly appliesexperts’ deductions in the model, and lead to more objective results in the analysis and prioritizing therisks. After evaluating the quality of the electronic services, a multi‑criteria decision making frame‑workwas used to prioritize the proposed solutions. Statistical Analysis Used: Non‑parametric tests and AHPapproach using Expert Choice software. Results: The results showed that students were satisfied inmost of the indicators. Only a few indicators received low satisfaction from students including, designattractiveness, the amount of explanation and details of information, honesty and responsiveness ofauthorities, and the role of e‑services in the user’s relationship with university. After interviewingwith Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts at the university, measurementcriteria, and solutions to improve the quality were collected. The best solutions were selectedby EC software. According to the results, the solution“controlling and improving the process inhandling users complaints” is of the utmost importance and authorities have to have it on thewebsite and place great importance on updating this process. Conclusions: Although, 4 outof the 22 indicators used in the test hypothesis were not confirmed, the results show that theseassumptions are accepted at 95% confidence level. To improve the quality of electronic services,special attention should be paid to “services interaction.” As the results showed having“controllingand improving the process in handling userscomplaints” on the website is the first and mostimportant one and the process of “changingbrand/factory name/address in the text ofthe factory license/renewal or modification ofmanufacturing license/changing the formula”is the least important one.

Hyper Text Mark-up Language and Dublin Core metadata element set usage in websites of Iranian State Universities’ libraries

. Firoozeh Zare-Farashbandi; . Mahtab Ramezan-Shirazi; . Hasan Ashrafi-Rizi; . Rasool Nouri

Volume 4, Issue 1 , February 2014, , Pages 1-6

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Introduction: Recent progress in providing innovative solutions in the organization of electronicresources and research in this area shows a global trend in the use of new strategies ... Read More Introduction: Recent progress in providing innovative solutions in the organization of electronicresources and research in this area shows a global trend in the use of new strategies suchas metadata to facilitate description, place for, organization and retrieval of resources in theweb environment. In this context, library metadata standards have a special place; therefore,the purpose of the present study has been a comparative study on the Central Libraries’Websites of Iran State Universities for Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML) and DublinCore metadata elements usage in 2011. Materials and Methods: The method of this studyis applied-descriptive and data collection tool is the check lists created by the researchers.Statistical community includes 98 websites of the Iranian State Universities of the Ministry ofHealth and Medical Education and Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and methodof sampling is the census. Information was collected through observation and direct visits towebsites and data analysis was prepared by Microsoft Excel software, 2011. Results: Theresults of this study indicate that none of the websites use Dublin Core (DC) metadata andthat only a few of them have used overlaps elements between HTML meta tags and DublinCore (DC) elements. The percentage of overlaps of DC elements centralization in the Ministry ofHealth were 56% for both description and keywords and, in the Ministry of Science, were 45%for the keywords and 39% for the description. But, HTML meta tags have moderate presencein both Ministries, as the most-used elements were keywords and description (56%) and theleast-used elements were date and formatter (0%). Conclusion: It was observed that theMinistry of Health and Ministry of Science follows the same path for using Dublin Core standardon their websites in the future. Because Central Library Websites are an example of scientificweb pages, special attention in designing them can help the researchers to achieve fasterand more accurate information resources. Therefore, the influence of librarians’ ideas on theawareness of web designers and developerswill be important for using metadata elementsas general, and specifically for applying suchstandards.

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Quality evaluation of Persian nutrition and diet therapy websites

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Evaluation of the quality of the college library websites in Iranian medical Universities based on the Stover model

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Quality assessment of Isfahan Medical Faculty web site electronic services and prioritizing solutions using analytic hierarchy process approach

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Hyper Text Mark-up Language and Dublin Core metadata element set usage in websites of Iranian State Universities’ libraries

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