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Background: Numerous questions are generated for physicians during patient care. Facilitators and barriers affect the physicians' clinical information‐seeking behaviour. While most health studies have focused on barriers, few have dealt with facilitators. Objective: This review aimed to identify facilitators in physicians' information‐seeking behaviour to help respond to clinical questions raised during patient care. Methods: A narrative review was conducted, and 9 databases were searched. Selection criteria included original articles in the context of patient care and full‐text articles published in the English language from 2002 to 2019. The articles were selected and analysed by group discussions. Results: Analysis of studies disclosed personal, technical and organisational facilitators including 26 themes. Internet utilisation and information searching skills, more available time, personal interests and knowing preferred sites or textbooks were among the personal factors. The most common technical factors included providing navigation support, and ease of searching and finding needed information. The most commonly reported factors at the organisational level are closeness to Internet facility and access during the consultation. Conclusion: Information systems designers, health service managers and librarians may need to work together to provide systems and settings that encourage doctors to seek information to answer their clinical questions during patient care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Nomophobia, a state of socio-psychological illness, refers to a fear of lack of access to mobile phone, which is thought to be a modern age disorder that causes negative health risks and harmful psychological effects. This study aimed to determine the relationship between the smartphone use and nomophobia disorder among university students. Methods: The study utilized a cross-sectional method in which 320 students were selected via cluster sampling. Data collection tools included a nomophobia and smartphones use questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS 22 software in two sections: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Results: The incidence rate of nomophobia among the students was moderate (3.1), and 73% of the students were moderate smartphone users. Nomophobia had a significant relationship with gender, age group, and level of education; and the frequency of using smartphones had a significant relationship with age group and level of education. There was a positive correlation coefficient between nomophobia and the frequency of using smartphones. The mobile phone use predicted nomophobia with a beta coefficient of 0.402 (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Given the incidence rate of nomophobia disorder was moderate, it is necessary to make preventive decisions and plan educational programs in this regard for the health of university students. Alternative actions are recommended for the treatment in low rate of nomophobia, but drug therapy should be used in more advanced stages; therefore, it is suggested that more attention to be paid to students' free time and entertainments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background and aims: Expert searcher, teacher, content manager, and patient advocate are clinical librarian roles. Clinical Librarian has a potential role in facilitating evidence-based practice in hospital settings. Nowadays, clinical librarian has a role in the treatment group and even in clinical decision makings. The Clinical librarian job is empty in Iran's hospitals but efforts are emerging that clinical librarian enter to Hospital jobs. So the purpose of this research was to investigate the medical library and information science students' readiness to enter hospitals as a clinical librarians. Method: The survey method was used. The population of this research was medical library and information science students (N=74, BSc, MSc, PhD students) in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. The instrument utilized in study was a questionnaire developed by the researchers themselves and its validity was established through a panel of experts. The reliability of questionnaire was determined by calculating the Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Results: Great number of students indicated clinical librarian's mission is to facilitate access to quality information that is necessary for improving health. Students largely stated their current curriculum didn't prepared to clinical librarian mission so they didn't have enough self-confidence to work with physicians and the medical team. Conclusion: Health services are facing organizational change. New technologies and rapid growth of medical knowledge and information creates a demand for new ways of providing information. Clinical librarian programs may deliver patients specific information in a timely manner. To get this target students must be prepared with courses helping them to improve clinical knowledge; so medical library and information science curriculums must change in each level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]