abstract background: admission to an intensive care unit (icu) is recognized as a situation with emotional strain, uncertainty, and fear of losing the patient. in such stressful situations, it is hope that can promote psychological stability in the patient’s family members. related literature revealed that sources of hope in this situation have still not been discussed well in studies. the purp...

PURPOSE Young adult cancer survivors are often unaware of their fertility status and uninformed regarding their fertility and fertility preservation options. This qualitative research study explores the fertility and parenthood concerns of reproductive-age female cancer survivors and how they make parenthood decisions. METHODS Population- and clinic-based recruitment methods were used to iden...

Using ultramorphological and histochemical techniques, this study describes the structural and morphological patterns of Polistes versicolor (Olivier) hypopharyngeal glands, comparing them with patterns of other Hymenopteran groups. Besides, the presence of intra-specific variation was evidenced by morphometric analysis of the secretory cells in wasps with different ages. The studied species pr...

Objectives: Clinical reasoning is at the heart of clinical work; it is affected by different field factors. A clear understanding of the reasoning process could solve practitioners' problems on how to make their underlying theories, assumptions and values more explicit. The aim of this research is to understand how clinical reasoning process is formed in the context of occupational therapists w...