BACKGROUND Spiritual care is an important part of health-care provision. Spiritual care can improve patients' health. One of the requirements for providing appropriate spiritual care for patients is having the required competence. AIM This study was conducted to investigate the perception of health-care providers of their own competence in providing spiritual cares for patients hospitalized i...

Background and aim Postpartum period is associated with significant changes in the quality of women's lives. These changes can affect the health of both the mother and child. Given the importance of the postpartum period and the factors influencing quality of life after childbirth especially the method of childbirth, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between quality of lif...

High costs related to the preparation of resources, manpower shortages, lack of space, and an inability in information resources have inevitably enforced information needs for their users through resource sharing, ILL library, database intelligence, politics, and political resources instead of using "resource property”. This study is an applied and descriptive study. The tool for gathering data...

background: color blindness is an inherited disorder in which a person cannot distinguish colors from each other.  color blind drivers are involved in car accident twice as much as others. according to the importance of identifying causes of a lot of car accidents in iran and shortage of similar studies in this regards, this research was done to study the prevalence of color blindness in driver...

adverse reactions of streptokinase in patients with or without hydrocortisone injection nasiri m*1 , rahimian b2, bashiri t 3, salmalian f4 received: 25 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: streptokinase is one of the most useful drugs in acute myocardial infarction. researches show that timely given injection of streptokinase decreases total mortality. allergic react...

results in this study, 191 patients (14%) had febrile convulsion. according to the results, respiratory tract infection was mentioned in 97 cases (47.3%) and considered as the leading cause of fever. conclusions according to results, it seems that clinicians should assess patients with infectious disease thoroughly to prevent further health problems. patients and methods this descriptive cross-...

BACKGROUND Maternal mortality is preventable by proper information management and is the main target of the Maternal Mortality Surveillance System (MMSS). AIM This study aimed to determine the status of information management in the Iranian Maternal Mortality Surveillance System (IMMSS). METHODS The population of this descriptive and analytical study, which was conducted in 2016, included 9...

BACKGROUND Today, domestic violence against women is a growing epidemic that can be observed in many countries. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out to determine the types of domestic violence against women who were referred to the Legal Medical Organization of Iran in Urmia, Iran in 2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS The descriptive survey included demographic information, abuse screening, and i...

PURPOSE Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and the leading cause of cancer death among women. In Asian countries such as Iran, the incidence of breast cancer is increasing. The present study aimed to assess the risk factors for breast cancer of women in Tabriz, Iran. METHODS A hospital-based case-control study was undertaken to identify breast cancer risk factors. The ...

This DIB article includes the course artefacts, instruments, survey data, and descriptive statistics, along with in-depth correlational analysis for the first iteration of a design-based research study on designing curriculum for developing online professional identity and social media practices for a multi-major advanced professional writing course. Raw data was entered into SPSS software. For...