Iranian Journal of

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Background: Children with Type 1 diabetes were present one of the greatest challenges in the worldwide. Health-care providers must be sufficiently aware of diabetes so that such children make utmost benefit of their educational opportunities. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect of three educational methods in raising the level of knowledge of school health-care providers. Therefore the best method would be applied for this purpose.

Methods: In this interventional study 132 samples were randomly chosen from the list of school health care providers of Tehran and divided to the three groups (educated by posters, booklets, and group education). A questionnaire was completed for all the three groups before and after the education. Questionnaire consisted of two parts: -demographic information and 16 questions about diabetes information. Scores were analyzed by descriptive and inferential methods (T-test, ANOVA).

Results: The level of knowledge of school health-care providers was weak in   23.5% of the case, average in   59.8% of cases, and good in 16.7% of cases. The level of knowledge in the groups educated by booklets and group education increased meaningfully, while no obvious increase was observed in the group trained via posters.

Conclusion: From the three aforementioned training methods, group education and education by booklets have the most effect on raising the level of knowledge of health-care providers.

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Objective: Health of old people is one of the critical issues in many societies that needs to accurate health policy making and adjust planning in health issues of elderly. The present study designed to compare the efficacy of the two traditional and electronic training methods in nutritional issues in order to life style modification in old people to develop of healthy elderly. Methods: This survey was a quasi-experimental method via applying the Pre-test and Post-test among 65+ years old people in a retirement association of Sari province, Mazandaran state. By simple random sampling method, 60 old people were selected, and then trained in two separated classes to 15 persons as women and men (30 persons) via film technique. The other method was a traditional which applied in the two separated classes of 15 persons as women and men (30 persons) by book technique. The questionnaire applied to measure of nutritional knowledge made up by the health center. Data were described by using SPSS software in accordance to descriptive statistics indexes (mean and standard deviation), and inferential statistics indexes (independent T and dependent T) were used in order to generalize results. Findings: The mean score of increasing knowledge in training group by film was 18/57 and the mean score in training group by book was 16/90 (T =5/299, df= 58). To satisfaction evaluating, the mean score in training group by film was 59 and the mean score in training group by book was 35/73 (T =1/96, df=58). Conclusion: Based on results training of old people by electronic method as a film is more effective than traditional method to increasing of nutritional knowledge in elderly. On the other hand, they had more satisfaction to life style modification by using film method in comparison with traditional method as book reading technique. Also, the training cost of the elderly via educational film is lower than training by book. So, should be suggested to consider in training by film rather than book as an efficient and effective method to improve of elderly health.