the aim of this study was the content analysis of elementary textbooks based on gender orientation. method of research was qualitative content analysis. statistical population was textbooks of the elementary. statistical sample of research includes heavenly gifts (hediehaye asmani), social studies, and persian books. components of the study were including personality characteristics, political ...

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: students’ health and future health of the community are related to providing health care in schools and since in every society, different contextual factors affect this matter, the present study aims to recognize the factors influencing the health care elementary students are provided with. methods: this qualitative content analysis was performed in 2014 in isfahan. this study was c...

Qualitative content analysis is commonly used by social scientists to understand the practices of the groups they study, but it is often infeasible to manually code a large text corpus within a reasonable time frame and budget. To address this problem, we are building a software tool to assist social scientists performing content analysis. We present our semi-automatic system that leverages nat...

abstract background: thalassemia major is the most common hereditary anemia in iran. thalassemia major patients require lifelong care and suffer much pain during self-care. knowledge of the nature, meaning, and impact of suffering from the perspective of patients is needed to determine which interventions are helpful. this study was designed to understand the experience of suffering in patients...

Content analysis is a widely used qualitative research technique. Rather than being a single method, current applications of content analysis show three distinct approaches: conventional, directed, or summative. All three approaches are used to interpret meaning from the content of text data and, hence, adhere to the naturalistic paradigm. The major differences among the approaches are coding s...