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Bagher Larijani, Soudeh Ghafourifard, Farzaneh Zahedi,
Volume 4, Issue 0 (2-2005)
Abstract
Background: Medical students at all levels of experience, encounter learning opportunities in a wide variety of clinical settings. There are some ethical dilemmas a student may face and possibly carry the burden throughout his file. Most of formal medical ethics teaching focuses on dilemmas that students may face in their future practice, rather than the ethical problems they encounter as medical students. Several studies suggest that students’ clinical experiences constitute an informal or hidden ethics curriculum, which can undermine their developing professionalism. Methods: In this article, we discuss some ethical dilemmas of medical education and also some solutions for them.
Results & Conclusion: In order to promote a setting that is satisfying to the student, to the faculty, and most importantly, to the patients, we have proposed ethical notes for medical students about informed consent, protecting patient confidentiality and managing ethical concerns.
Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Akbar Soltani, Seyede Momeneh Mohammadi,
Volume 13, Issue 3 (3-2014)
Abstract
The P-Value cannot present a complete measure of association in medical studies considering the
association between categorical variables. In such situations, measures are required to reveal the
clinical importance of relation along with their statistical significance, as the effect size. This paper
aims to introduce the measures of associations for categorical variables and inferences about them in
these studies. Principles and method of calculating measures of associations and inference about them
including confidence interval and hypothesis testing were presented to assess the relationship between
qualitative variables for all types of medical studies taking into account relevant considerations.
Additionaly, the method of reporting of findings were introduced in the context of contingency tables.
To investigate the relationship between two binary qualitative variables, should be used the Odds
Ratio in cross-sectional or case-control studies, the relative risk in cohort studies, and prevalence ratio
in cross-sectional studies and risk difference in all type of studies along with their confidence intervals
and/or their significance tests considering the independent or related groups of studies. Additionally,
for bigger than 2 by 2 tables, the method of calculating of above mentioned measures considering a
reference category and other measures such as Phi, Crammers V, contingency and uncertainty
coefficients , Lambda, Gamma, Summers D, Kendals tau-b and tau-c would be recommended. In each
of these situations, based on research based examples, calculations of tests were performed and their
results were presented. To investigate the relationship between a set of risk factors and binary and
multi-category qualitative variables, the introduced analyses are recommended considering the
situation and purpose of the proposed study.
Mohamad Saleh Mohamadabadi , Abdulaziz Aflakseir ,
Volume 17, Issue 3 (3-2018)
Abstract
Background: The aim of the present research is to predict the self-care behaviors based on emotional distress and physician – patient’s relationship in adolescents with diabetes.
Methods: The research design was correlation and the study population included all adolescents with diabetes at Shiraz city. For this purpose, 198 adolescent patients participated in the study through the convenience sampling method. Research instruments included the Questionnaire of Diabetes Self-management, Emotional Distress Questionnaire and finally Physician–Patient’s Relationship Questionnaire. To analyze the data, the simultaneous multiple regression methods were applied using SPPS (version 17).
Results: Regression analysis showed that emotional distress (β=-0.58, P<0.001) significantly (negative) predicted diabetes self-care behaviors. Also, among the components of emotional distress only barriers to treatment (β=-0.53, P<0.001) significantly (negative) predicted diabetes self-care behaviors. However, results showed that physician–patient’s relationship did not significantly predicted diabetes self-care behaviors.
Conclusion: According to the results, it can be argued that the emotional distress (especially barriers to treatment) variable, play an important role in addressing diabetes self-care behaviors in adolescents.
