Discovering the pros and cons of participation of Iranian women with substance use disorder in women's only narcotics anonymous meetings and offering strategies for harm reduction: A grounded theory study.

Women with substance use disorder participate in women's only narcotics anonymous meetings. Therefore, this study aimed to discover the advantages and disadvantages of Iranian women's participation in this type of meetings. Accordingly, this research was done in Behboud Gostaran Hamgam Women's Rehab Center in Tehran.

Qualitative analysis of family interactions with Iranian women with substance use disorder: from before becoming aware of addiction to consecutive relapses.

Family is the most important social institution since birth with which the person has been in direct contact. Family relationships with children play a major role in both the tendency toward substance addiction and the withdrawal of drugs. The present study aimed to examine the form of family interactions with Iranian women with substance use disorder.

A pilot randomized controlled trial to assess the effect of Islamic spiritual intervention and of breathing technique with heart rate variability feedback on anxiety, depression and psycho-physiologic coherence in patients after coronary artery bypass surgery.

Background: This study investigated the effects of Islamic religious and breathing techniques with heart rate variability (HRV) biofeedback therapies on HRV and psycho-physiologic coherence (resonance frequency), depression and anxiety in coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) patients.

Methods: Sixty CABG patients were chosen and randomly assigned to religious, breathing techniques and control groups. The experimental groups received 8  weeks of treatments; a 2-h session with home works in each week.

Introduce a New Intervention Model Based on Islamic Lifestyle for Decreasing the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in People at Risk: A Comparative Study.

The main purpose of the present study was designing and assessing the common lifestyle and Islamic lifestyle interventions and comparison of them. Sample of the study was thirty-nine subjects participated in a healthy lifestyle program. The Islamic group were received the Islamic healthy lifestyle program.

WordCommentsAnalyzer: A windows software tool for qualitative research.

There is a lack of free software that provides a professional and smooth experience in text editing and markup for qualitative data analysis. Word processing software like Microsoft Word provides a good editing experience, allowing the researcher to effortlessly add comments to text portions. However, organizing the keywords and categories in the comments can become a more difficult task when the amount of data increases.

Psychometric Properties of Farsi Version of the Revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children.

This study examined the psychometric properties of the Farsi version of the Revised Fear Survey Schedule for Children (Ollendick, 1983), namely the FSSC-FA, in a sample of Iranian children and adolescents (N = 394, 206 girls) aged 9-11:11 years. The internal consistency coefficient was found to range from .79 to .

Psychometric properties of the persian version of the multidimensional scale of perceived social support in iran.

Background: Social support is a complex and multifaceted construct. Thus, It is important that a given social support scale be theoretically grounded and its purview clearly defined. The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability, validity and factor structure of the Iranian version of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS).

Sexual desire in Iranian female university students: role of marital satisfaction and sex guilt.

Objective: To determine association between sexual desire and marital satisfaction and sex guilt among a sample of Iranian female university students.

Methods: The data presented here were obtained from a total of 192 married Iranian female university students who were selected via a multi-cluster sampling method from universities of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation, Tarbiat Modarres, and Islamic Azad. The subjects' sociodemographic data, marital satisfaction (using ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire), sex guilt (using Mosher Revised Sex-Guilt Inventory), and sexual desire (using Hurlbert Index of Sexual Desire) were gathered.

Relationship between left ventricular ejection fraction and depression following myocardial infarction: an original article.

Background: The aim of this study was to examine the association between left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and incidence of depression following the myocardial infarction (MI).

Methods: In a prospective study, 176 patients aged 32-84 years with the mean age of 56 years (SD = 10.05) with a definitive diagnosis of myocardial infarction and admitted to one of the coronary care units (CCU) of Isfahan during April to August 2006 were selected through consecutive sampling method.

Psychometric Properties of the Persian Version of Type D Personality Scale (DS14).

Objective: Type D personality is based on negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI). The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Persian version of 14-item Type D personality scale (DS14).

Methods: The study included 191 normal participants and 176 patients with myocardial infarction (MI).

Assessment of the role of religious tendency in domestic violence.

The present study assessed relationships between religiosity and the perpetration of violence by husbands and wives toward one another in an Iranian context. 180 Iranian couples living in Iran were administered the Islamic Religious Tendency and Domestic Violence questionnaires. Patterns of relationship between aspects of religious tendency and expressed violence were similar in men and women.