background and aim: iran has experienced a great variation in women's status in recent years. there is a little knowledge on how and why advancing gender equality and equity and the empowerment of women play a role in recent fertility reduction in the country. this study was conducted to gain insight into the role of gender beliefs and women's empowerment in the couples 'experien...

background and purpose: one of the main goals of nursing education is training appropriate and efficient nurses. the purpose of this study was to discover the perceptions of nursing students and their teachers about professional competency of academic staff. materials and methods: in this qualitative content-analysis approach study, the data were collected through unstructured in-depth intervie...

critical discourse analysis uncovers the relationship between discourse, ideology, and power. this study investigated and analyzed contents, social relations, and subject positions in conversations of four popular advanced elt textbooks. the findings indicated that for contents, giving/asking for information and interaction were outstandingly significant. regarding social relations, friend was ...

abstract background: since suicide attempt among adolescents is a major challenge and the reasons why this age group attempt suicide are complex, the aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors that contribute to suicide attempt among adolescents. materials and methods: in this qualitative content analysis, 14 adolescents (12–19 years old) who were admitted in two hospitals in shiraz,...

background: the infants, hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), engage with problems from admission to discharge, exploring of which ensures their safe transition. the purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence infant’s transition from the nicu to home. materials and methods: a qualitative study was used for identifying the factors that affect infant’s tr...

background: recently, the relevance of social interactions as determinants of behavioral intentions has been increasingly perceived, but there is a lack of knowledge on how and why it interacts with couples’ fertility intentions. objective: this qualitative study was conducted to explore the influence of social network on couples’ intention to have their first child in urban society of mashhad,...

background and objectives: thermophilic bacteria are less studied but important group of microorganisms due to their ability to produce industrial enzymes. materials and methods: in this study, thermophilic bacteria were isolated from hot spring of tarabalo, india. a bacterium that could tolerate high temperatures was characterized by morphology, biochemistry and sequencing of its 16s rrna gene...

abstract background: nurses’ clinical judgment development is essential for the professional nursing practice. the aim of this study was to explore the facilitators to the development of iranian nurses’ clinical judgment. materials and methods: a qualitative design using conventional content analysis method was employed in the study. a purposive sample of 24 participants was recruited from thre...