Raising patients hope in despair: The culture of nursing care of burn pain: An ethnographic study.

Background: Although many studies have been carried out to address burn patients' pain and suffering, pain relief still remains an immense unsolved challenge with individual, social, and cultural aspects.

Material And Methods: This study was conducted aiming to investigate and explain nursing care in burn patients. This was a semifocused ethnographic research conducted in burns units in a referral teaching hospital (Mazandaran, Iran).

Sustainable political commitment is necessary for institutionalizing community participation in health policy-making: Insights from Iran.

Background: Community participation is currently utilized as a national strategy to promote public health and mitigate health inequalities across the world. While community participation is acknowledged as a civic right in the Constitution of Iran and other related upstream documents, the government has typically failed in translating, integrating and implementing community participation in health system policy. The present study was conducted to determine the level of public voice consideration within the health policy in Iran and address fundamental interventions required to promote the public voice in the context of Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI).

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.

Exploring adults' motives for food choice of sustainable diet components: a qualitative study in Tehran Metropolis.

Background: Todays, due to the impact of human food choices on increasing greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and environmental degradation, there is a new approach about changing the pattern of food production and consumption, including sustainable food and nutrition system related to consumption. This study aimed to explore the components of a sustainable diet among the factors that affect people's food choices.

Methods: This qualitative study was carried out using an in-depth interview with 33 individuals aged 30-64 years old living in different areas of Tehran.

"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.

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.

The Relationship between Resilience with Self- Compassion, Social Support and Sense of Belonging in Women with Breast Cancer.

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations among Resilience, self- compassion, social support and Sense of belonging in Iranian women with breast cancer. Materials and methods: This study was a descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study .The data of 150 patients with breast cancer were collected by convenience sampling using Demographic characteristics questionnaire, Connor-Davidson resilience scale, self-compassion scale and the multidimensional scale of perceived social support in Urmia, Iran in 2016.

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.

Psycho-Socio-Cultural Determinants of Food Choice: A Qualitative Study on Adults in Social and Cultural Context of Iran.

Food choice is a process through which people think, feel, and eat food. It does not only influence individuals' health and well-being, families and communities, but also it has an effect on regional, national, and global levels. This qualitative study was conducted to explore perceptions and lived experiences of Tehran adult residents on psychological, social and cultural determinants of food choice.

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.

An Evolutionary Route for the Moral Development of Nursing Students: A Constructivist Grounded Theory.

Background: Developing moral competency is a main aim of educational systems, especially in healthcare-related disciplines.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the moral development process in nursing students.

Methods: This study used a constructivist grounded theory.

Family Planning Practice by Patterns of Marriage in the North of Iran.

Background: The fertility experience in Iran suggests that the family planning programs had an effective role in the fertility reduction. This study aimed to specify patterns of marriage in Iran and especially in a northern city of Iran and to investigate the association between patterns of marriage and contraceptive use before first pregnancy and current contraceptive use.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, following the implementation of an expert panel in order to investigate marriage patterns, 880 women aged 15-49 yr old, were selected by multistage cluster sampling and completed the "reproductive practices" questionnaire in Babol City, northern Iran, in 2013.