Journal of Education and Health Promotion

In 2019, the COVID‑19 pandemic posed a major challenge to the world. Since the world is constantlyexposed to communicable diseases, comprehensive preparedness of countries is required. ... Read More

A qualitative content analysis for determining indexes and factors affecting for evaluation of disaster exercises immediate feedback stage

. Hojjat Sheikhbardsiri; . Sahar Salahi; . Mahdieh Abdollahi; . Tayebe Ilaghinezhad Bardsiri; . Ali Sahebi; . Mohsen Aminizadeh

Volume 12, Issue 5 , June 2022, , Pages 1-7

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BACKGROUND: Taking exercise in health sector is one of the important steps to implement thedisaster risk management programs, especially preparedness phase. The present study aimed ... Read More

Disaster preparedness in emergency medical service agencies: A systematic review

. Mehdi Beyramijam; . Mehrdad Farrokhi; . Abbas Ebadi; . Gholamreza Masoumi; . Hamid Reza Khankeh

Volume 11, Issue 6 , July 2021, , Pages 1-10

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The Emergency Medical Services (EMSs) are in the frontline between the health-care systems andpeople in emergencies and disasters. With the increase in the frequency of natural or man-madedisasters ... Read More

Evaluating the disaster preparedness of emergency medical service agencies in the world: A systematic literature review protocol

. Mehdi Beyramijam; . Hamid Reza Khankeh; . Mehrdad Farrokhi; . Abbas Ebadi; . Gholamreza Masoumi; . Hassan Nouri-Sari

Volume 10, Issue 12 , December 2020, , Pages 1-5

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INTRODUCTION: Disasters occur almost everywhere in the world, and preparation is essential.Preparedness is an effective approach for disaster management, and it is crucial for the healthsystems, ... Read More

Comparison of readiness for e‑learning from the perspective of students and professors of Medical Sciences

. Parisa Mokaripour; . Nasrin Shokrpour; . Leila Bazrafkan

Volume 10, Issue 5 , May 2020, , Pages 1-7

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INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to evaluate the cognitive, psychomotor, and attitudinalreadiness of faculty members and students of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences for ... Read More

Impact of a training program on disaster preparedness among paramedic students of a tertiary care hospital of North India: A single‑group, before–after intervention study

. Sudip Bhattacharya; . Amarjeet Singh; . Jayanti Semwal; . Roy Rillera Marzo; . Neha Sharma, Manish Goyal; . Shaili Vyas; . Abhay Srivastava

Volume 10, Issue 1 , January 2020, , Pages 1-6

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INTRODUCTION: Disaster can occur at any time any place. Disaster preparedness plays an importantrole to reduce the loss of a community/country. The aim of this interventional study ... Read More INTRODUCTION: Disaster can occur at any time any place. Disaster preparedness plays an importantrole to reduce the loss of a community/country. The aim of this interventional study was to ascertainthe impact of a video‑based educational intervention program on improvement in knowledge andattitude of paramedical students in a hospital.MATERIALS AND METHODS: A pre–post study (interventional study design) was conducted onparamedic students. Our study period was 6 months which was divided into Phases I, II, and III. Foradministrative purpose, we included all paramedical students, and our sample size was 119. Thebaseline assessment of knowledge and attitude of paramedic students was done by a pretestedquestionnaire (Observation 1) with having a baseline scoring. After that, intervention Phase 1 wasimplemented, and later, end line observation (Observation 2) was made. Changes in knowledge andattitude were observed by the score difference (Observation 2–Observation 1). Descriptive statisticswere calculated, and the mean of cumulative score was compared using the Wilcoxon signed‑ranktest. We applied Mann–Whitney U‑test for finding associations between dependent variables withan independent variable using SPSS version 22 (IBM, Chicago, USA) software.RESULTS: Our baseline results showed that most of our participants had averageknowledge (54.6%), followed by poor knowledge (24.4%). Approximately one‑fifth (21.0%) of theparticipants had good knowledge regarding disaster preparedness. A significant improvement wasobserved in cumulative score (P < 0.005). A significant difference was observed in knowledge andattitude with respect to age and courses (P < 0.05). Forty percent of the students responded thatthey would like to get trained by that mock drill, and 26.1% were interested in disaster preparednessworkshops in the future.CONCLUSION: Our present study results indicate that the overall knowledge and attitude level ofthe students was average and required improvement. A similar result was reported in some studiesconducted globally for the same purpose. All of our students perceived that training for disasterpreparedness is necessary for all health facilities, and it is important to have an emergency planand disaster management committee. Regarding training methods, most of our students liked ourinteractive audiovisual method. However, their preferred methods were mock drill and workshops.It can be arranged in the future for them.

Meta-evaluation of published studies on evaluation of health disaster preparedness exercises through a systematic review

. Hojjat Sheikhbardsiri; . Mohammad H Yarmohammadian; . Hamid Reza Khankeh; . Mahmoud Nekoei-Moghadam; . Ahmad Reza Raeisi

Volume 8, Issue 1 , January 2018, , Pages 1-10

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OBJECTIVE: Exercise evaluation is one of the most important steps and sometimes neglected indesigning and taking exercises, in this stage of exercise, it systematically identifying, ... Read More OBJECTIVE: Exercise evaluation is one of the most important steps and sometimes neglected indesigning and taking exercises, in this stage of exercise, it systematically identifying, gathering, andinterpreting related information to indicate how an exercise has fulfilled its objectives. The presentstudy aimed to assess the most important evaluation techniques applied in evaluating health exercisesfor emergencies and disasters.METHODS: This was meta-evaluation study through a systematic review. In this research, wesearched papers based on specific and relevant keywords in research databases including ISI webof science, PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, Ovid, ProQuest, Wiley, Google Scholar, and Persiandatabase such as ISC and SID. The search keywords and strategies are followed; “simulation,”“practice,” “drill,” “exercise,” “instrument,” “tool,” “questionnaire,” “ measurement,” “checklist,” “scale,”“test,” “inventory,” “battery,” “evaluation,” “assessment,” “appraisal,” “emergency,” “disaster,” “cricise,”“hazard,” “catastrophe,: “hospital”, “prehospital,” “health centers,” “treatment centers,” were used incombination with Boolean operators OR and AND.RESULTS: The research findings indicate that there are different techniques and methods for datacollection to evaluate performance exercises of health centers and affiliated organizations in disastersand emergencies including debriefing inventories, self‑report, questionnaire, interview, observation,shooting video, and photographing, electronic equipment which can be individually or collectivelyused depending on exercise objectives or purposes.CONCLUSION: Taking exercise in the health sector is one of the important steps in preparation andimplementation of disaster risk management programs. This study can be thus utilized to improvepreparedness of different sectors of health system according to the latest available evaluationtechniques and methods for better implementation of disaster exercise evaluation stages.

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Identifying the preparedness components in COVID‑19: Systematic literature review

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A qualitative content analysis for determining indexes and factors affecting for evaluation of disaster exercises immediate feedback stage

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Disaster preparedness in emergency medical service agencies: A systematic review

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Evaluating the disaster preparedness of emergency medical service agencies in the world: A systematic literature review protocol

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Comparison of readiness for e‑learning from the perspective of students and professors of Medical Sciences

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Impact of a training program on disaster preparedness among paramedic students of a tertiary care hospital of North India: A single‑group, before–after intervention study

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Meta-evaluation of published studies on evaluation of health disaster preparedness exercises through a systematic review

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