فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

OBJECTIVE: Exercise evaluation is one of the most important steps and sometimes neglected indesigning and taking exercises, in this stage of exercise, it systematically identifying, gathering, andinterpreting related information to indicate how an exercise has fulfilled its objectives. The presentstudy aimed to assess the most important evaluation techniques applied in evaluating health exercisesfor emergencies and disasters.METHODS: This was meta-evaluation study through a systematic review. In this research, wesearched papers based on specific and relevant keywords in research databases including ISI webof science, PubMed, Scopus, Science Direct, Ovid, ProQuest, Wiley, Google Scholar, and Persiandatabase such as ISC and SID. The search keywords and strategies are followed; “simulation,”“practice,” “drill,” “exercise,” “instrument,” “tool,” “questionnaire,” “ measurement,” “checklist,” “scale,”“test,” “inventory,” “battery,” “evaluation,” “assessment,” “appraisal,” “emergency,” “disaster,” “cricise,”“hazard,” “catastrophe,: “hospital”, “prehospital,” “health centers,” “treatment centers,” were used incombination with Boolean operators OR and AND.RESULTS: The research findings indicate that there are different techniques and methods for datacollection to evaluate performance exercises of health centers and affiliated organizations in disastersand emergencies including debriefing inventories, self‑report, questionnaire, interview, observation,shooting video, and photographing, electronic equipment which can be individually or collectivelyused depending on exercise objectives or purposes.CONCLUSION: Taking exercise in the health sector is one of the important steps in preparation andimplementation of disaster risk management programs. This study can be thus utilized to improvepreparedness of different sectors of health system according to the latest available evaluationtechniques and methods for better implementation of disaster exercise evaluation stages.