Shaghaghi Abdolreza, Matlabi Hossein
The Medical Education Research Centre, R & D Campus; Department of Health Education and Promotion, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Health Promot Perspect. 2012 Jul 1;2(1):48-52. doi: 10.5681/hpp.2012.006. eCollection 2012.
Quality of health behavior research determines usefulness of the findings for application. The authors individually scrutinized quality of a representative sample of abstracts (n=315) submitted to the 1st International and 4th National Congress on Health Education and Promotion, held in Tabriz, Iran on 16-19 May, 2011. Among the assessed abstracts, introduction section had the standard format in 18.1% (CI: 14.2-22.7%), sampling method and sample size were concurrently explained in 56.3% (CI: 50.3-62.1%), and the data in 40.6% (CI: 35.4-46.1%) were insufficient to support the conclusion section. The observed heterogeneity in the quality of Iranian research may reflect gaps in research methodology education. Revision in the current research performance is recommended to ensure a more stringent national research output.
健康行为研究的质量决定了研究结果在实际应用中的有用性。作者们分别对提交至2011年5月16 - 19日在伊朗大不里士举行的第一届国际和第四届全国健康教育与促进大会的摘要代表性样本（n = 315）进行了质量审查。在评估的摘要中，引言部分有标准格式的占18.1%（置信区间：14.2 - 22.7%），抽样方法和样本量同时得到解释的占56.3%（置信区间：50.3 - 62.1%），并且40.6%（置信区间：35.4 - 46.1%）的数据不足以支持结论部分。伊朗研究质量中观察到的异质性可能反映了研究方法教育方面的差距。建议对当前的研究表现进行修订，以确保更严格的国家研究产出。
