Israel has provided immediate healthcare to Syrian children, civilians and fighters since early 2013 despite being in an official state of war with Syria since 1973. We present qualitative findings from a larger mixed-methods phenomenological study to understand how the geopolitical and social history of Israel and Syria influences healthcare providers and Syrian patient caregivers in northern ...

OBJECTIVE To determine how healthcare professionals, family members and community members responded to an art exhibit created by people living with mental illness. STUDY DESIGN Phenomenological study with qualitative analysis. METHODS Forty-six participants with various relationships with people living with mental illness attended an art therapy exhibit and art making workshop. Surveys, res...

Engineering of knowledge-intensive processes is far from being mastered. Processes are defined knowledge-intensive when people/agents carry them out in a fair degree of “uncertainty”, where the uncertainty depends on different factors, such as the high number of tasks to be represented, their unpredictable nature, or their dependency on the scenario. In the worst case, there is no pre-defined v...

ôbjective: presently, the issue of attempted suicide now poses one of the major challenges facing the health-care providers in ïran and other countries. âlthough in previous years, the number of people entering to hospital emergency departments after deliberately taking overdoses or injuring themselves has been steadily increased in ïran, however, there is less attention to the issue of suicide...

Background and aims: The concept and meaning of futile care depends on the existing culture, values,religion, beliefs, medical achievements, and emotional status of a country. In Iran, futile care hasbecome a challenge for nurses working in intensive care units (ICUs). Considering the differencesobserved in defining futile care based on the patients’ conditions and the nurses’...

background: adopting another person’s child by infertile couple might not alleviate their pain so much but direct the suffering and pain of infertility towards parenthood and parental experience. therefore, this study aimed to explore the challenges of adoption to assist in proper planning to improve the quality of adoption. methods: this qualitative study was conducted with conventional conten...

introduction: since weight management is affected by various factors, including social and behavioral ones, this study aimed to explore the peoples’ experience of barriers and facilitators of weight management. materials and methods: this qualitative content analysis was conducted as the initial step of tabassom study. participants, who tried to reduce their weight at least once, were selected ...