background: university staff plays an important role in breeding a healthy and prosperous generation. their right for attending to interests and selfactualization are noticeable. this qualitative research has been conducted in order to understand and explain the perspective and experience of staff working at ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences (ajums) about leisure time. methods: a...

conclusions: the core variable of our research is acceptance of the reality of the conditions caused by the disease. the research finalized our knowledge about patient problems regarding social support and revealed many problems of supporting patients by health team members, family members and organizations. the findings suggest that individual aspects of patient experiences must be considered ...

aim: the aim of this study was to explore the experiences of the syrian type 2 diabeticfemales and the way they control it.methods: a qualitative design based on the content analysis approach was used to collectdata and analyze the females' experiences with type 2 diabetes. semi-structured interviewscarried out with 12 females who had visited the diabetic center in lattakia from march todecembe...

background: it is the responsibility of each occupational therapist to always act ethically and professionally in a clinical setting. however, there is little information available concerning the factors influencing ethical behavior of occupational therapists at work. since no study has been conducted in iran on this topic, this qualitative study aimed to identify the factors influencing ethica...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to understand the confront strategies of parents of premature infants hospitalized in NICU. METHODS This study was performed using qualitative content analysis approach. Twelve participants including nine parents whose infants were hospitalized in NICU, two nurses and one physician, all selected by purposive sampling method were interviewed by a female expert occup...

abstract background: the quantitative studies show that due to the widespread prevalence, high death rate, high treatment expenses, and long hospital stay, leukemia influences the families and their children to a great extent. in this regard, no qualitative study has been conducted in iran. so, this study was conducted in arak in 2011 with the aim of expressing the experiences of the parents wh...

background recently, global nursing experts have been aggressively encouraging nurses to pursue creativity and innovation in nursing to improve nursing outcomes. nurses’ creativity plays a significant role in health and well-being. in most health systems across the world, nurses provide up to 80% of the primary health care; therefore, they are critically positioned to provide creative solutions...

this study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. the samples were chosen from rural development experts of hamedan province during a snowball sampling process. the data were collected by the semistructured interviews. the data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. the theoretical saturation was attained ...