Meaning and lived experience of Iranian COVID-19 survivors: A phenomenological study.

Background: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is among the most contagious diseases worldwide. During the first peak of the illness, COVID-19 was considered a considerable crisis for survivors. This qualitative study explored the meaning and lived experience of Iranian COVID-19 survivors.

Painful Dream of Motherhood: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of Married Women with Ectopic Pregnancy in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Ectopic pregnancy (EP) is a significant cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to explore the understanding and experience of women with EP in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This qualitative study carried out through a Heideggerian hermeneutic/interpretative phenomenological approach, using face-to-face semi-structured phenomenological interviews with twenty-five participants referred to a public maternity hospital in Rasht, Iran.

Nursing in oncology ward with intertwined roles: a focused ethnography.

Background: Characteristics of nursing care in the oncology ward depend on this ward's specific context. This study aimed to investigate the nursing care in the oncology ward regarding the culture of this ward.

Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in an oncology ward using a focused ethnographic approach.

Ups and downs of addiction harm reduction in Iran: key insights and implications for harm reduction policy and policing.

Drug use is a critical behavioral disorder or a delinquency behavior (in the judiciary system's words) that comes with a burden at multiple levels: individual, community, public, and global. These social structures apply different interventions to reduce this burden in their field. Given the society as a whole, these structures must be harmonious and synergistic to optimize these endeavors in terms of cost-benefit.

Aspects Influencing Access to HIV/AIDS Services among Afghan Immigrants in Iran: A Qualitative Study.

Background: A successful response to the risk of human immunodefficiency virus (HIV) infection among immigrants requires improved access to HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services. However, most immigrants face significant challenges in accessing HIV/AIDS services. The aim of this study was to explore the aspects influencing access to HIV/AIDS services among Afghan immigrants in Iran.

HIV, migration, gender, and drug addiction: A qualitative study of intersectional stigma towards Afghan immigrants in Iran.

HIV-related stigma has been identified as a major barrier to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of HIV among immigrants. The intersection of HIV with other forms of stigma can lead to greater inequality in health outcomes and access to health services. This study aimed to improve the understanding of HIV stigma towards Afghan immigrants in Iran through an intersectional perspective.

"Applying Intersectionality in designing and implementing health interventions: a scoping review".

Background: Given the potential of intersectionality to identify the causes of inequalities, there is a growing tendency toward applying it in the field of health. Nevertheless, the extent of the application of intersectionality in designing and implementing health interventions is unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the extent to which previous studies have applied intersectionality and its principles in designing and implementing health interventions.

Developing and Validating Food Choice Determinants Questionnaire: An Instrument for Exploring Food Choice Determinants in Iran.

Background: This study was carried out to design and validate a questionnaire to measure the majority of factors influencing food choices among adults in Iran.

Methods: A sequential exploratory mixed-method approach was applied to develop the initial item pool of the Food Choice Determinants Questionnaire (FCDQ) starting with a qualitative study to explore the food choice dimensions and its components. Designing the initial questionnaire using these dimensions and the 36-item Food Choice Questionnaire (FCQ) was then performed.

Bridging the Gap Between Ethical Theory and Practice in Medicine: A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study.

Physicians try hard to alleviate mental and physical ailments of their patients. Thus, they are heavily burdened by observing ethics and staying well-informed while improving health of their patients. A major ethical concern or dilemma in medication is that some physicians know their behavior is unethical, yet act against their moral compass.

Interpersonal Communication among Critical Care Nurses: an Ethnographic Study.

Interpersonal communication in critical care units is one of the most important factors due to complicated and critical conditions of patients. Nurses' confrontation with ethical distresses and conflict resolution techniques are often influenced by the culture governing these units. This study aimed to explore interpersonal communication culture among critical care nurses.

Social science research contributions to antimicrobial resistance: protocol for a scoping review.

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an escalating global health issue with complex and dynamic interdependencies, high uncertainty and decision stakes, multiple drivers and stakeholders with diverse values and interests, and various aspects and outcomes. Addressing and combating this critical global challenge requires the formation and establishment of an interdisciplinary research approach that goes beyond the biosciences principally concerned with antimicrobial resistance to include other relevant natural and social sciences. The objective of this study will be to review and map existing social science knowledge and literature relating to antimicrobial resistance.

The Social Construction of Infertility Among Iranian Infertile Women: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Infertility is considered an important phenomenon in couples' life. Infertility and its treatment process influence all aspects of the individual's life. This study aimed to explain the psycho-social process of social construction of infertility among Iranian infertile women.

Related Factors to Paternal Adaptation: A Cross-sectional Study for First-time Fathers.

Background: Becoming a father challenges men's ability and many men describe fathering as a negative and frustrating experience. This study was designed to determine related factors to paternal adaptation in first-time fathers.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in healthcare centers in Qom and environs, Iran, from July to September 2015.

Setting research priorities to achieve long-term health targets in Iran.

Background: In 2015, it was estimated that the burden of disease in Iran comprised of 19 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), 74% of which were due to non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The observed leading causes of death were cardiovascular diseases (41.9%), neoplasms (14.

Parents' concerns regarding the growth characteristics of their adolescents: a qualitative inquiry in Iran.

In recent times, parents have become increasingly concerned, both subjectively and objectively, about their adolescents' body height/weight growth. Parent-adolescent interactions about this issue and the potential socio-psychological consequences of such interactions should be considered as an important influencing factor on the future of adolescents' sexual and reproductive health. To achieve a greater understanding of such concerns, it is necessary to further elucidate parents' experiences on this topic, so as to expand the existing literature.

Paternal adaptation in first-time fathers: a phenomenological study.

Objective: This study aimed to explore men's experiences of paternal adaptation during their first year of transition to parenthood.

Background: Stepping into fatherhood is one of the most important events that may occur in a man's life and can lead to fundamental changes in their identity and lifestyle. However, to our knowledge, no studies have been conducted on men's experiences of paternal adaptation in an Iranian context.

Opposite-sex relationship questionnaire for female adolescents: development and psychometric evaluation.

Aim The goal of the present study is to adopt state-of-the-art techniques and standards to develop and evaluate a measure, called the opposite-sex relationship questionnaire for female adolescents (OSRQFA), to assess the reasons why adolescent girls would or would not develop, a relationship with an adolescent boy. Methods A mixed-method, sequential, exploratory design was adopted. In the qualitative phase, an in-depth interview approach was used to identify the properties and dimensions to be included in the OSRQFA.

Psychometric properties of the Persian version of Social Adaptation Self-evaluation Scale in community-dwelling older adults.

Introduction: The Social Adaptation Self-evaluation Scale (SASS) is used to measure social function and social motivation in depressed patients. There is little attention to social function in the treatment of depression. The aim of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of the Persian version of SASS (P-SASS) for older adults.

Factors that promote and impede other-sex friendships: a qualitative study of Iranian adolescent girls.

Aim: The aim of this study was to identify factors that promote and impede other-sex (OS) friendships in adolescent girls.

Methods: A qualitative study conducted with 20 adolescent girls recruited in public places in Tehran, Iran. Information was collected through semi-structured interviews and coded via the conventional qualitative content analysis approach.

Socio-Economic Factors Influencing on Total Fertility Rate in Iran: A Panel Data Analysis for the Period of 2002-2012.

Introduction: Over the last few decades, total fertility rate (TFR) has followed a downward trend in Iran. The consequences of this trend from the perspectives of some are negative. Considering the macro-population policies in recent years, this study aimed to examine the effect of some macro socio-economic variables, including divorce, marriage, urbanization, and unemployment rate on TFR in Iran from 2002 to 2012.

Male Iranian adolescent's reasons for having an other-gender friend.

Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the primary reasons why male Iranian adolescents enter into other-gender friendships.

Methods: A qualitative study was conducted with a sample of 21 male adolescents recruited in public places in Tehran, Iran. Information about each boy's experiences with other-gender friends was collected via semi-structured interviews whose contents were analyzed with a conventional qualitative content analysis approach.

Dominance of paternalism in family-centered care in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU): an ethnographic study.

This article examines the culture of family-centered care (FCC) in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) using focused ethnography. Data collection strategy was participant observation, fieldwork, and interviews with main actors of the PICU, namely supervisors, nurses, and parents. This study took place in one PICU in a hospital in Tehran, Iran.

Maternal mortality: a cross-sectional study in global health.

Background: Although most of maternal deaths are preventable, maternal mortality reduction programs have not been completely successful. As targeting individuals alone does not seem to be an effective strategy to reduce maternal mortality (Millennium Development Goal 5), the present study sought to reveal the role of many distant macrostructural factors affecting maternal mortality at the global level.

Methods: After preparing a global dataset, 439 indicators were selected from nearly 1800 indicators based on their relevance and the application of proper inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Virginity Testing Beyond a Medical Examination.

Apart from religious values, virginity is important in different communities because of its prominent role in reducing sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies. Even though virginity testing has been proclaimed an example of violence against women by the World Health Organization, it is still conducted in many countries, including Iran. 16 in-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants aged 32 to 60 years to elucidate the perceptions and experiences of Iranian examiners of virginity testing.