If you are going to take a thesis or dissertation during your study period having the best possible supervisor is a vital issue. Since a well-experienced supervisor makes this part of your educational program productive and fruitful, the aim of the present article was to provide its reader with a few practical advices on how to select the best possible supervisor.

Objectives: On December 2003 in Iran, the "Bam earthquake" caused 43,000 people lost. On August 2005 in the United States, "Hurricane Katrina" caused 986 people lost. The aim of the current study was to determine how scientific communities have responded to these natural disasters by documenting the different aspects of them in the format of scientific articles. Methods: The well-known PubMed search engine (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) was searched in June 2014 using "Bam earthquake" and "Hurricane Katrina" as the keywords. In the second round of the search, the Persian Scientific Information Database search engine (http://www.sid.ir/fa/index.asp) was also searched using two previous keywords that were translated into Persian. Results: The first search strategy retrieved 54 articles for "Bam earthquake" and 864 articles for "Hurricane Katrina." The second search strategy retrieved 66 articles for "Bam earthquake" and 0 articles for "Hurricane Katrina." Dividing the total retrieved articles by the number of deaths has revealed that for "Bam earthquake" nearly 0.0028 articles and for "Hurricane Katrina" nearly 0.88 articles per death have been indexed, respectively. Conclusions: The results of the current study have clearly demonstrated that overall there are shortages of scientific studies of "Bam earthquake" in comparison to "Hurricane Katrina."

Background: A healthy diet has beneficial effects on reducing risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. This study was aimed to determine the effect of theoretical educational program on commitment and adherence to healthy diet in rural hypertensive patients. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 138 hypertensive patients (68 in the intervention group and 70 in the control group) those referred to Ardabil rural health centers during 2013. The data were collected by a validated and reliable questionnaire. The pretest and posttest had an interval of 2 and 6 months. Health promotion model was used as a theoretical framework to explain the motivation of a behavior. Descriptive analysis, repeated measure, t-test, and T-paired with SPSS-18 were used to analyze data. Results: After intervention, knowledge scores, health promotion model constructs, and follow-up score increased significantly in the intervention group compared to the control group (P < 0.001). In contrast, perceived barriers reduced in the intervention group compared to the control group (P < 0.001). Conclusions: Educational intervention provided based on Pender's health promotion model had a beneficial effect on commitment and adherence to healthy diet.

Introduction: Patients' adherence to medication has an important role in controlling the disease and is the key to treatment success; however, the situation of patients' adherence to medication is not optimal and despite the importance of the issue, little research has been conducted in Iran to investigate the factors influencing it. Objective: This study focuses on determining the relationships between adherence to medication, patients' beliefs and some demographic factors in patients with chronic diseases. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 patients with a chronic disease in the hospitals and clinics in the Khalkhal city in the year 2014. Data were collected through interviews by questionnaires of the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale and the Beliefs about Medication Questionnaire and were analyzed using the SPSS software (version 18) through Chi-square test and Pearson Correlation Coefficient. Results: Findings showed that 42.5% of the participants were male and the rest were female (57.5%) with an average age of 33 ± 13.7. Nineteen percentage of the participants specified that they had no problem taking their medication as directed; but, 58.5% of the patients usually discontinued their medications after feeling better. Concerning the demographic factors, the level of education had a significant relationship with drug discontinuation without counseling a doctor, the feeling of being worse by medication use was significantly higher in male patients and no significant relationship was observed between adherence to medication and age. The results also indicated a significant relationship between adherence to medication and patients' medication beliefs. Conclusions: Regardless of the type of the disease, patients with more positive beliefs about medication had higher adherence to medications as well; therefore, identifying the factors influencing patients' medication beliefs can improve their medication adherence and controlling of the disease.

Background: Hospitals worldwide are increasingly concerned by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). In recent years, nasal colonization of MRSA among health-care workers (HCWs) is one of the major sources of nosocomial infections in the hospital. The aim of the study was to find out the prevalence of MRSA carriers among the heath care workers and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of the isolates and postdecolonization screening for clearance of MRSA. Materials and Methods: Nasal swabs of HCWs were collected, cultured, and identified as MRSA using standard microbiological procedures. Antibiotic susceptibility was done by Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion method according to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines. Decolonization with mupirocin ointment was given to MRSA carriers and postdecolonization screening was done. Results: Nasal carriage rate among the HCW was found to be 3.25%. MRSA isolates showed higher resistance erythromycin (40%) followed by ciprofloxacin (30%) and all the isolates were sensitive to amikacin, teicoplanin, linezolid, mupirocin, and rifampicin. Successful decolonization was done for 9 (2.9%) MRSA carriers. Conclusion: Screening and decolonization of HCWs MRSA status should always be part of a comprehensive infection control policy including staff education and emphasizing high compliance with hand hygiene and contact precautions.

Introduction: The presented protocol is a part of psycho-behavioral empowerment program (sponsored by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences) and aims at studying the effect and the rate of its achievement to the determined goals. Materials and Methods: This is an observational study conducted in four relevant sections including: Contractual agreements, investigating documents, and interviewing the program's chief subjects according to context, input, process, and product (CIPP) evaluation checklist by external evaluators, examining some of the subjects including parents, Education Ministry advisors and staff of the related region, and after all conducting a cross-sectional study with one control group among life skills educational program participants. The study population included all the students, parents, principals, Education Ministry staff, and advisory experts. The data were collected through CIPP evaluation model checklist, CIPP evaluation model questionnaire, parents and advisors' attitude, and practice evaluation questionnaire, adolescent' abilities developmental questionnaire, and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21. Conclusion: This study aims at designing a modern framework to evaluate the life skills educational program in the Iran based on CIPP evaluation model.

Induction: This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity of the evaluation scale based on context, input, processes, and product (CIPP) evaluation model, within the framework of life skills education programs in schools of Isfahan (Iran) was performed.Methods: Researcher designed scale of the study was prepared with regard to the objectives of the program based on the checklists of CIPP evaluation model. The primary scale had 43 items. Face validity and content validity of the scale were examined using a panel of experts. Ultimately, the scale was conducted in a group of people participating in the program. Exploratory factor analysis was used to evaluate the construct validity, and Cronbach's alpha was used to measure internal consistency. Results: Content validity index of the scale was 0.84. The results of the factor analysis indicated that the CIPP evaluation model scale consisted of four factors: CIPP and included 34 items. Reliability confident was calculated 0.87 for the whole scale and 0.82-0.93 for four factors. Conclusion: The results of the study showed that the scale based on the CIPP evaluation model as a valid and reliable instrument can be used in the evaluation of life skills training program.