objective: to develop 'moral distress questionnaire' and validate it in a sample of iranian registered nurses. method: 26 registered nurses and 10 professionals attended focused group discussion (fgd) sessions and the acquired qualitative data was analyzed by jameton scale analysis. results: attitudes and definitions of nurses working in private and governmental hospitals of two medical univers...

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Researchers have retrospectively analyzed the training intensity distribution (TID) of nationally and internationally competitive athletes in different endurance disciplines to determine the optimal volume and intensity for maximal adaptation. The majority of studies present a "pyramidal" TID with a high proportion of high volume, low intensity training (HVLIT). Some world-class athletes appear...

this study is a three-year retrospective clinical study (1971-1974) and is based on data recorded in the clinical charts of 2000 patient referred to soraya hospital (clinic of ob/gyn) for different reasons. in addition the physician in charge of the clinic has been personally interested in this study and has meticuloueticulously questioned the patients about the age, of menopause and other rela...

BACKGROUND Anemia in the postnatal period is a common problem, which has been subject of research recently. Though, it is a common problem, it is a less researched topic in India. Hence, this study was undertaken. AIM The aim was to know the clinic-social factors associated with anemia in the postpartum period. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective record-based study conducted in Go...

"This paper details the authors' selection, design, and use of a life history calendar (LHC) to collect retrospective life course data. A sample of nine hundred [U.S.] 23-year-olds, originally interviewed in 1980, were asked about the incidence and timing of various life events in the nine years since their 15th birthday.... The following aspects of the LHC are described: (a) the concept, uses...

A prospective study on the management of suspected malaria using a protocol on a general medical ward during the months of February and March, 1992 was done and the results compared with those of a retrospective study covering the months of November and December, 1991. The retrospective analysis showed that 78 (65%) from a total of 120 patients received antimalarial drugs despite negative or ab...

background malaria affects the health and wealth of individuals, as well as nations. in ethiopia, malaria is identified as both a disease of poverty and a cause of poverty. objectives a retrospective analysis was conducted to investigate the changes in malaria indices at the serbo health center, ethiopia. materials and methods based on existing blood smear examination data. the original case re...

abstract bachground and aim: mutation analysis of mitochondrial genome and brca genes are helpful in the early diagnosis of familial breast cancers. in this study, we investigated mitochondrial common deletion and brca mutations through multiplex pcr and clinical parameters for the detection of familial breast cancers in archival breast cancer samples. methods: the multiplex pcr was conducted o...

Hippocampal place responses can be prospectively or retrospectively modulated by the animal's future or prior trajectory. Two main hypotheses explain this. The "multiple-map hypothesis" switches between different maps for different trajectories (rate remapping). In contrast, in the "buffer hypothesis," the hippocampus encodes an ongoing representation that includes the recent past and/or the im...