Requirements and Key Features of a Mobile Application for Adolescent Self-Care From a Stakeholders Perspective: A Qualitative Study.

Adolescence is characterized by many changes and these changes differentiate adolescents' self-care needs. The use of smartphones and tablets to provide healthcare services has expanded, and the user-centered design could help to create mobile applications based on users' needs. Therefore, the present study aimed to identify the data requirements and key features of mobile application for adolescent self-care from a stakeholder perspective.

Design and evaluation of mobile application for adolescents' self-care: protocol for a randomized controlled field trial.

Background: Adolescence is a critical stage for the development of self-care. Many adolescents use mobile apps to monitor and improve their health. Health information technology plays a significant role in the field of self-care.

Design and usability evaluation of a mobile application for self-care among Iranian adolescents.

Background: Mobile phones can be an ideal platform to engage adolescents to maintain, improve, and promote self-care. Therefore, the current study aims to design and evaluate the usability of a mobile application for self-care in adolescents with a user-centered approach.

Methods: The current applied developmental study was done in four steps.

Clonal dissemination of isolates causing nosocomial infections, Tehran, Iran.

Objectives: In the current research, the prevalence of clones and genes encoding antimicrobial resistance and toxins were examined among 120 strains from nosocomial infections in tehran, Iran.

Materials And Methods: Antimicrobial susceptibility was examined, based on disk diffusion and PCR method to identify resistance and toxin-encoding genes. Based on the polymorphisms in SCC, , and MLST, the isolates were typed.

Relationship of coping ways and anxiety with Pregnancy Specific-stress.

Objectives: To explore whether coping strategies and general anxiety are associated with pregnancy-specific stress (PSS) and how much of variance of PSS is explained with these variables.

Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted at two teaching hospitals between November 2013 and December 2015. Total 190 pregnant women (60 women at 6-13-weeks of gestation, 60 at 13-26 weeks, and 70 at 27-40 weeks of gestation) completed the study.

Predictors of mental health during pregnancy.

Background: Pregnancy with anxious or depressive symptoms might be associated with worse birth outcomes. The aim of this study was to determine the demographic predictors of anxiety and depression symptoms in pregnant women.

Materials And Methods: We assessed pregnancy anxiety and depression levels among 142 women in three trimesters.