Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Abstract INTRODUCTION: Nowadays websites are among the most important information sources used by
most people. With the spread of websites, especially those related to health issues, the number of
their 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 to
evaluate the quality of Persian nutrition and diet therapy websites.
METHODS: The current work is a survey study and uses an applied study method. The statistical
population consists of 51 Persian websites about nutrition and diet therapy and census method was
used in order to study them. Data gathering was done using a checklist and with direct visit to each
website. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to analyse the gathered data with the help
of SPSS 21 software.
RESULTS: Findings showed that content (66.7%), organization (82.4%), user friendly
interfaces (52.9%) and total quality (70.6%) of most websites had a mediocre score while the design
score 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 general
quality 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 and
credibility, in the dimension of design the factors of color, text and sound, pictures and videos, in the
dimension of organization the factors of stability and indexing and in the dimension of user friendliness
the factors of confidentiality, credibility and personalization had the highest scores.
CONCLUSION: The results showed that the design score was higher than other scores. Also the
general quality score of the websites was mediocre and was not desirable. Also websites didn’t have
suitable scores in every factor. Since most people search the internet for nutritional and diet therapy
information, the creators of these websites should endeavor to fix the shortcomings of their websites
and increase the quality of their websites in several different areas.

Abstract Introduction: Today, the websites of college and university libraries play an important role
in providing the necessary services for clients. These websites not only allow the users to
access different collections of library resources, but also provide them with the necessary
guidance in order to use the information. The goal of this study is the quality evaluation of the
college library websites in Iranian Medical Universities based on the Stover model. Material
and Methods: This study uses an analytical survey method and is an applied study. The
data gathering tool is the standard checklist provided by Stover, which was modified by the
researchers for this study. The statistical population is the college library websites of the
Iranian 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 checklist
was based on the researchers’ observations. Descriptive and analytical statistics (Analysis of
Variance (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 average
belonged to type one universities (46.2%) and the lowest average belonged to type three
universities (24.8%). In the search and research capabilities, the highest average belonged to
type one universities (48.2%) and the lowest average belonged to type three universities. In
the dimension of facilities provided for the users, type one universities again had the highest
average (37.2%), while type three universities had the lowest average (15%). In general the library
websites of type one universities had the highest quality (44.2%), while type three universities
had the lowest quality (21.1%). Also the library websites of the College of Rehabilitation and
the College of Paramedics, of the Shiraz University of Medical Science, had the highest quality
scores. Discussion: The results showed that there was a meaningful difference between the
quality of the college library websites and the university types, resulting in college libraries of
type one universities having the highest average score and the college libraries of type three
universities having the lowest score.

Abstract Context: Implementing information technology in the best possible way can bring many advantages
such as applying electronic services and facilitating tasks. Therefore, assessment of service providing
systems 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 website
of 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 using
analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. Materials and Methods: Non‑parametric test was used to
assess the quality of electronic services. The assessment of propositions was based on Aqual model
and they were prioritized using AHP approach. The AHP approach was used because it directly applies
experts’ deductions in the model, and lead to more objective results in the analysis and prioritizing the
risks. After evaluating the quality of the electronic services, a multi‑criteria decision making frame‑work
was used to prioritize the proposed solutions. Statistical Analysis Used: Non‑parametric tests and AHP
approach using Expert Choice software. Results: The results showed that students were satisfied in
most of the indicators. Only a few indicators received low satisfaction from students including, design
attractiveness, the amount of explanation and details of information, honesty and responsiveness of
authorities, and the role of e‑services in the user’s relationship with university. After interviewing
with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) experts at the university, measurement
criteria, and solutions to improve the quality were collected. The best solutions were selected
by EC software. According to the results, the solution“controlling and improving the process in
handling users complaints” is of the utmost importance and authorities have to have it on the
website and place great importance on updating this process. Conclusions: Although, 4 out
of the 22 indicators used in the test hypothesis were not confirmed, the results show that these
assumptions 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“controlling
and improving the process in handling users
complaints” on the website is the first and most
important one and the process of “changing
brand/factory name/address in the text of
the factory license/renewal or modification of
manufacturing license/changing the formula”
is the least important one.

Abstract Introduction: Recent progress in providing innovative solutions in the organization of electronic
resources and research in this area shows a global trend in the use of new strategies such
as metadata to facilitate description, place for, organization and retrieval of resources in the
web 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 Dublin
Core metadata elements usage in 2011. Materials and Methods: The method of this study
is 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 of
Health and Medical Education and Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and method
of sampling is the census. Information was collected through observation and direct visits to
websites and data analysis was prepared by Microsoft Excel software, 2011. Results: The
results of this study indicate that none of the websites use Dublin Core (DC) metadata and
that only a few of them have used overlaps elements between HTML meta tags and Dublin
Core (DC) elements. The percentage of overlaps of DC elements centralization in the Ministry of
Health 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 presence
in both Ministries, as the most-used elements were keywords and description (56%) and the
least-used elements were date and formatter (0%). Conclusion: It was observed that the
Ministry of Health and Ministry of Science follows the same path for using Dublin Core standard
on their websites in the future. Because Central Library Websites are an example of scientific
web pages, special attention in designing them can help the researchers to achieve faster
and more accurate information resources. Therefore, the influence of librarians’ ideas on the
awareness of web designers and developers
will be important for using metadata elements
as general, and specifically for applying such
standards.