The Effect of Massage With and Without Aromatic Oil on Delirium After Open-Heart Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: The current study aimed to determine the effect of massage with and without aromatic oil on the delirium of patients hospitalized in the cardiac intensive care unit.

Methods: This study was a single-blind, randomized, controlled trial. Using a convenience method, 150 patients were selected and assigned into 3 groups: control, massage with aroma, and massage without aroma using the minimization method.

Meeting death and embracing existential loneliness: A cancer patient's experience of being the sole author of his life.

Facing the truth of death in silence instead of fearing and denying it enables people to regain their freedom. This qualitative case study aimed to illuminate the meaning of a single person's experience of confronting death and living with cancer. The transcripts of unstructured interviews were analyzed using the hermeneutic phenomenological method.

Comparative Effect of Mother's Hug and Massage on Neonatal Pain Behaviors Caused by Blood Sampling: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Background: The early experience of pain can lead to complications such as tachycardia, tachypnea and increased metabolic needs of the body, thereby exacerbation of the behavioral and physiological responses to pain in neonates. The current study aimed to compare the effect of a mother's hug and massage on pain behaviors during and after blood sampling in neonates.

Method: This study was a randomized clinical trial.

Power of Religious Beliefs and Coping with Cancer: Opinions of Iranian Parents.

Childhood cancer as a stressful event has many consequences for both the parents and their children. The aim of the study was to assess the coping strategies used by Iranian parents of children with cancer. The present study was conducted through convenience sampling with the participation of 205 parents with at least one child with cancer referred to the oncology ward, in the southeast of Iran.

The relationship between Iranian patients' perception of holistic care and satisfaction with nursing care.

Background: Holistic care is comprehensive care that emphasizes the interaction of human existential dimensions and has a significant role in accelerating the recovery process. Since nurses interact and communicate with patients more than other health care providers, the current study aimed to determine the Iranian patients' perceptions of holistic care and overall satisfaction with nursing care.

Methods: It is a descriptive-correlational study done on patients admitted to the oncology wards of hospitals in southeastern Iran.

Experiences of Iranian Teen Mothers with Parenting Stress: A Qualitative Study.

Early motherhood may develop various stresses for the teen mothers and have adverse consequences. Current research aims at exploring experiences of teen mothers with stress and stressors of early motherhood. This qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis through in-depth semistructured interview.

Informational Needs of Patients with Cancer: A Qualitative Content Analysis.

One of the most important needs of patients with cancer is informational needs. Getting relevant information about the disease can lead to a proper decision making, better response to treatment, lower levels of anxiety, and higher levels of quality of life. Therefore, the current study aimed to determine the informational needs of patients with cancer in southeast Iran.

"Tender Care": Iranian Women's Needs to Cope with Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy- A Qualitative Content Analysis Study.

Background: Gynecological surgeries associated with loss of feminine organs evoke more personal, interpersonal and psychological distress that may diminish women's quality of life. Women need and seek support to cope with various distresses which may change over the course of diagnosis to treatment. This study aimed to explore Iranian women's needs to cope with hysterectomy and oophorectomy.

Exploring the Challenges of Adolescent Mothers From Their Life Experiences in the Transition to Motherhood: A Qualitative Study.

Early motherhood and its impact on mothers, children, families and communities is a prevalent health challenge in developing countries that needs to be urgently explored. The aim of this study was exploring the challenges encountered by Iranian adolescent mothers during the transition to motherhood. Inductive conventional content analysis approach was used in this qualitative study.

Exploring the experiences of Iranian adolescent mothers about the maternal role: a qualitative study.

Background: Early motherhood is one of the most important issues in developing countries. Adolescent mothers are not sufficiently prepared to accept the maternal role. How to achieve success in the maternal role should be studied.

Body-Mind Healing Strategies in Patients with Cancer: a Qualitative Content Analysis.

Background: Cancer is a major health problem around the world. The use of coping strategies among patients with cancer depends on several issues. This study was conducted to determine coping strategies used by patients with cancer in south-east Iran.

Getting Out or Remaining in the Cage of Inauthentic Self: The Meaning of Existential Challenges in Patients' with Cancer.

Context: Cancer as a life-threatening disease develops a range of existential challenges in persons. These challenges cause the patients to encounter some existential questions and tensions. This study method focuses on a person's experience about them.

Growth: A Journey from Experience to Higher Perception Among Iranian Muslim CPR Survivors.

Several studies have been conducted among cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) survivors. Some studies have shown that positive and negative experiences coexist. Emotional distress and psychopathology in CPR survivors are related to the urgent need to make growth.

Feeling an Invisible Wall: The Experience of Iranian Women's Marital Relationship After Surgical Menopause: A Qualitative Content Analysis Study.

Sexual relationships after surgical menopause matter when talking about sex is taboo and marriage is the only justified way to meet sexual needs. In this qualitative research study, 22 surgical menopausal women shared their experiences of sexual/marital relationship after surgery through in-depth, face-to-face, semi-structured interviews. Qualitative content analysis technique was used for data analysis.

Iranian mothers' experiences of the outcomes of early motherhood: A qualitative study.

Early motherhood is a major health challenge in most developing countries. The aim of this study was to explore Iranian mothers' experiences of the outcomes of early motherhood. This qualitative study was done using the conventional inductive content analysis approach.

Post-traumatic stress and growth among CPR survivors in the southeast of Iran.

Background Almost 7.2%-10.6% of patients survive CPR in Iran.

Theory analysis for Pender's health promotion model (HPM) by Barnum's criteria: a critical perspective.

Background Analysis of nursing theoretical works and its role in knowledge development is presented as an essential process of critical reflection. Health promotion model (HPM) focuses on helping people achieve higher levels of well-being and identifies background factors that influence health behaviors. Objectives This paper aims to evaluate, and critique HPM by Barnum's criteria.

The effect of empowerment program on empowerment level and self-care self-efficacy of patients on hemodialysis treatment.

Background: Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) who receive dialysis confront the burdens of long-term illness and numerous physical problems.

Materials And Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study. The selected patients from Gorgan Dialysis Centre were randomly assigned into an empowerment group (n = 40) and a control group (n = 40).