Ali_Montazeri

Ali Montazeri

Ali Montazeri

Iranian public health scientist (born 1958)

Ali Montazeri (Ali Montazeri Moghaddam, born September 2, 1958) is an Iranian public health scientist at the Health Metrics Research Center of the Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research.[1] He is editor-in-chief of an Iranian health journal: Payesh (Health Monitor-the journal of Iranian Institute for Health Sciences Research),[2] the associate editor of Health and Quality of Life Outcomes [3] up to Feb. 2024, and academic editor for PLOS One.[4] He has been three times the director of Academic Center for Education, Culture and Research.[5]

Education

Montazeri received his PhD from University of Glasgow. His thesis concerned the quality of life in lung cancer patients, and was jointly supervised by Charles Gillis and James McEwen.[6]

Research

Montazeri published a paper in 2004 that found knowledge of cancer diagnosis does not change how a person fills out a questionnaire about his or her quality of life.[7] In a 2012 book chapter, he proposed that research be conducted to see how quality of life in people with cancer is affected by the way a cancer diagnosis is disclosed and how the person's level of education affects quality of life.[8]

He also published papers in 2002, 2003, and 2015 about the epidemiology of breast cancer and breast cancer preventive behaviors such as breast self-examination[9][10][11]

In 2008 and 2009, he published two reviews of the literature on the quality of life in women with breast cancer which are still receiving considerable attention .[12][13]

Recently he published an updated review on the quality of life in breast cancer patients[14] and a systematic review of qualitative studies on the topic.[15] He and his colleagues also developed a guideline for reporting bibliometric reviews, namely the BIBLIO.[16]

Montazeri also contributed to development of a number of instruments for measuring health literacy which are available for use with adults - HELIA [17], adolescents - HELMA [18], oral health -OHLAQ [19], and postpartum depression - PoDLiS.[20] In a recent publication he and his colleagues initiated a comprehensive review of existing measures for health literacy.[21]

References

  1. [1]
    "CV at the Institute of Health Sciences" (PDF). Retrieved 21 February 2017. Linked from Departmental web page
  2. [2]
    Payesh Health Monitor, retrieved 2017-02-21.
  3. [3]
    http://hqlo.biomedcentral.com, retrieved 2017-02-21.
  4. [4]
    "PLOS ONE".
  5. [5]
    "Montazeri Prominent In Cancer Studies". Archived from the original on 2021-09-27. Retrieved 2023-01-16.
  6. [6]
    Montazeri, Ali (August 1996). Quality of Life in Patients with Lung Cancer: An Epidemiological Study (PDF) (PhD). University of Glasgow.
  7. [7]
    Montazeri, A; Hole, DJ; Milroy, R; McEwen, J; Gillis, CR (2004-05-19). "Does knowledge of cancer diagnosis affect the quality of life? A methodological challenge". BMC Cancer. 4: 21. doi:10.1186/1471-2407-4-21. PMC 420242. PMID 15151702.
  8. [8]
    Montazeri, Ali (2012). "Cancer Disclosure, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Psychological Distress: An Iranian Perspective". In Surbone, Antonella; Zwitter, Matjaž; Rajer, Mirjana; Stiefel, Richard (eds.). New Challenges in Communication with Cancer Patients. New York: Springer. pp. 403–409. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3369-9_33. ISBN 978-1-4614-3369-9.
  9. [9]
    Ebrahimi, M; Vahdaninia, M; Montazeri, A (2002). "Risk factors for breast cancer in Iran: a case-control study". Breast Cancer Research. 4 (5): R10. doi:10.1186/bcr454. PMC 125302. PMID 12223127.
  10. [10]
    Montazeri, A; Haji-Mahmoodi, M; Jarvandi, S (June 2003). "Breast self-examination: do religious beliefs matter? A descriptive study". Journal of Public Health Medicine. 25 (2): 154–5. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdg031. PMID 12848405.
  11. [11]
    Montazeri, A; Ebrahimi, M; Mehrdad, N; Ansari, M; Sajadian, A (2015-09-28). "Delayed presentation in breast cancer: a study in Iranian women". BMC Women's Health. 3 (1): 4. doi:10.1186/1472-6874-3-4. PMC 166160. PMID 12846932.
  12. [12]
    Montazeri, A (29 August 2008). "Health-related quality of life in breast cancer patients: a bibliographic review of the literature from 1974 to 2007". Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research. 27 (1): 32. doi:10.1186/1756-9966-27-32. PMC 2543010. PMID 18759983.
  13. [13]
    Montazeri, A (2009). "Quality of life data as prognostic indicators of survival in cancer patients: an overview of the literature from 1982 to 2008". Health Qual Life Outcomes. 7: 102. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-7-102. PMC 2805623. PMID 20030832.
  14. [14]
    Mokhtari-Hesari, Parisa; Montazeri, Ali (December 2020). "Health-related quality of life in breast cancer patients: review of reviews from 2008 to 2018". Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 18 (1). doi:10.1186/s12955-020-01591-x. ISSN 1477-7525. PMC 7552560. PMID 33046106.
  15. [15]
    Heidary, Zohreh; Ghaemi, Marjan; Hossein Rashidi, Batool; Kohandel Gargari, Omid; Montazeri, Ali (April 2023). "Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review of the Qualitative Studies". Cancer Control. 30. doi:10.1177/10732748231168318. ISSN 1073-2748. PMC 10236425. PMID 37082898.
  16. [16]
    Montazeri, Ali; Mohammadi, Samira; M.Hesari, Parisa; Ghaemi, Marjan; Riazi, Hedyeh; Sheikhi-Mobarakeh, Zahra (2023-12-15). "Preliminary guideline for reporting bibliometric reviews of the biomedical literature (BIBLIO): a minimum requirements". Systematic Reviews. 12 (1). doi:10.1186/s13643-023-02410-2. ISSN 2046-4053. PMC 10722750. PMID 38102710.

17. Tavousi M, Haeri-Mehrizi A, Rakhshani F, Rafiefar S, Soleymanian A, Sarbandi F, Ardestani M, Ghanbari S, Montazeri A. Development and validation of a short and easy-to-use instrument for measuring health literacy: the Health Literacy Instrument for Adults (HELIA). BMC Public Health. 2020 May 12;20(1):656. doi: 10.1186/s12889-020-08787-2. PMID: 32397970; PMCID: PMC7216550.

18. Ghanbari S, Ramezankhani A, Montazeri A, Mehrabi Y. Health Literacy Measure for Adolescents (HELMA): Development and Psychometric Properties. PLoS One. 2016 Feb 16;11(2):e0149202. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149202. PMID: 26881933; PMCID: PMC4755574.

19. Naghibi Sistani MM, Montazeri A, Yazdani R, Murtomaa H. New oral health literacy instrument for public health: development and pilot testing. J Investig Clin Dent. 2014 Nov;5(4):313-21. doi: 10.1111/jicd.12042. Epub 2013 Apr 4. PMID: 23559571.

20. Mirsalimi F, Ghofranipour F, Noroozi A, Montazeri A. The postpartum depression literacy scale (PoDLiS): development and psychometric properties. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2020 Jan 3;20(1):13. doi: 10.1186/s12884-019-2705-9. PMID: 31900131; PMCID: PMC6942397.

21. Tavousi M, Mohammadi S, Sadighi J, Zarei F, Kermani RM, Rostami R, Montazeri A. Measuring health literacy: A systematic review and bibliometric analysis of instruments from 1993 to 2021. PLoS One. 2022 Jul 15;17(7):e0271524. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0271524. PMID: 35839272; PMCID: PMC9286266.
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