conclusions: marital age, and socioeconomic status had a direct association, and hopefulness and marital satisfaction had an indirect one with iranian women’s decision for timing motherhood. therefore, this is the responsibility of policy-makers and healthcare providers to advise women by providing appropriate interventions and facilities. results: the results revealed that among direct pathway...

Tamadon MR1, Toussy J2, Soleimani AR3, Moghimi J1, Malek F1, Moradi A4, Shahvarani A5, Tavasoli M5 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Internal, Digestion and Hepatology Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences 2. Statistics Counselor, Digestion and Hepatology Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Internal, Kashaan Universit...

dialysis as therapeutic solution for chronic kidney dysfunctions by itself is a chronic stress for patients and can lead to psychological problems in them. this study examined the psychological well-being of two dialysis (no=100) and non-dialysis (no=100) patients in two hospitals – shahid hashemi nejad and imam khomeini hospitals – during the earl y year of 1992. the scale of scl-90-r was used...

b a c k g r o u n d & aim: in many studies, the survival of patients with chronic kidney disease who are treated with peritoneal dialysis technique has been considered, while this is possible in peritoneal dialysis  patients  to switch  to another  treatment.  to achieve  more  accurate  estimation  of patient survival is necessary to examine all events. the purpose of this study is to estimate...

BACKGROUND Investigation of factors associated with variation in dialysis patient employment has focused primarily on patient-level factors. Little is known about facility-level factors that may be associated with patient employment. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, AND MEASUREMENTS The ESRD Facility Survey (CMS-2744A) began in 2004 to collect counts of employed patients aged 18 to 54, in addit...

BACKGROUND The dialysis population is aging worldwide. It is well known that patients on dialysis have limited functional status, but only recently has frailty been considered. SUMMARY The prevalence of frailty among patients on dialysis ranges from 3.4- to 10-fold higher than among community-dwelling elderly, depending on the method of assessing frailty and patient characteristics. Despite i...

introduction: peritoneal dialysis is an established form of renal replacement therapy used in many patients with end – stage renal disease . peritoneal dialysis has different complications this study was conducted in order to evaluate its complications and different survival probabilities of factors in shahid rahnemoon hospital . methods: in this retrospective, historical cohort study, reports ...