Diba Askarian BSc

Diba is a Master’s student in Public Health at the School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan. She completed her previous Master’s degree in Health Information Management at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences and her undergraduate degree in Health Information Management at Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

Her research interests include health information management, epidemiological studies in public health, childhood growth and development, public health nutrition, and child nutritional health. She is dedicated to developing pragmatic approaches to applying nutrition sciences to improve health outcomes.

Currently, she is conducting a research project employing a convergent mixed-methods design to investigate the role of milk and dairy food consumption in children’s growth and development, specifically lean mass and fat mass in Canadian children. This project also determines the facilitators and barriers influencing milk and dairy product consumption in this population. Through this research, Diba aims to advance our understanding of the importance of milk and dairy products in supporting healthy growth and development in children.

The association between milk and dairy food consumption and growth and development outcomes among Canadian children: A mixed-methods study

1. Sharifian, R., Askarian, F., Nematolahi, M., & Farhadi, P. (2014). Factors influencing nurses' acceptance of hospital information systems in Iran: application of the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology. Health information management : journal of the Health Information Management Association of Australia, 43(3), 23–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/183335831404300303

2. Khezri, H., Rezaei, P., Askarian, F., & Ferdousi, R. (2021). Developing a Web-based repository of evaluation tools for health-related software. Library Hi Tech News, 38(5), 16–18. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-07-2021-0046

3. Khezri, H., Rezaei, P., Askarian, F., & Ferdousi, R. (2022). HIET Web-based digital repository for health informatics evaluation tools. The Electronic Library, 40(3), 256–268.

4. Jalali, M. T., Sarikhani, Y., Askarian, F., Marzaleh, M. A., Najibi, S. M., & Delavari, S. (2023). Factors facilitating and inhibiting the social participation of the elderly in health-oriented activities in Shiraz, Southern Iran. BMC geriatrics, 23(1), 175. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-023-03892-4

5. Tajik Jalali, M., Ahmadi Marzaleh, M., Askarian, F., Najibi, S. M., Soltani, A., & Delavari, S. (2022). Relationship between Health Literacy and Acceptance of Rumors Related to COVID-19 Vaccination among Iranian Adult Population. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal (IRCMJ), 24(9), e189080. https://doi.org/10.32592/ircmj.2022.24.9.2288

6. Bashiri, A., Askarian, F., Mokhtari, Z., & Ghaznavi, F. (2023). An assessment of the utilization of the HL7 standards of EHR performance model in hospital information systems. Health Management & Information Science, 10(3), 148–152. https://doi.org/10.30476/jhmi.2023.99575.1181