The impact of self-transcendence on physical health status promotion in multiple sclerosis patients attending peer support groups.

This study aimed to investigate the effect of self-transcendence on the physical health of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients attending peer support groups. This study was a quasi-experimental before-and-after design including 33 MS patients in three groups: 10 men in the men-only group, 11 women in the women-only group, and 12 men and women in the mixed group. Participants were required to attend eight weekly sessions of 2 h each.

How baloch women make decisions about the risks associated with different childbirth settings in southeast iran.

Background: In Zahedan City in Southeast Iran, some women prefer to give birth at home despite the availability of the equipped hospitals and expert advice that hospital births are safer.

Objectives: This study explains how Baloch women make decisions regarding the risks associated with childbirth at home versus a hospital. This study identifies and defines the factors that influence the choice of the place of delivery by Baloch women.

Problems of clinical nurse performance appraisal system: a qualitative study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore problems of clinical nurse performance appraisal system.

Methods: This study employed a descriptive qualitative approach. The participants were purposively selected from clinical nurses working across all of the hospital units in a large metropolitan teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran in 2012.

Childbirth at home: a qualitative study exploring perceptions of risk and risk management among Baloch women in Iran.

Objective: to explain how women who choose to give birth at home perceive and manage the risks related to childbirth.

Design: a qualitative, methodological approach drawing upon the principles of grounded theory. Data were gathered by in-depth interviews with women who had given birth at home.

'Safe passage': pregnant Iranian Kurdish women's choice of childbirth method.

Aim: This article is a report of a grounded theory study of the influence of emotions on women's selection of a method of childbirth.

Background: There is substantial evidence to indicate that a pregnant woman's emotions play an important role in the decision-making process of selecting a child delivery method. Despite this, however, there is a notable lack of research about the relationship between pregnant women's emotions and their choice of a childbirth method in developing countries.

Kurdish pregnant women's feelings: a qualitative study.

Objective: to gain a deeper understanding of how Kurdish pregnant women feel about their pregnancy.

Design: a qualitative study analysed by a grounded theory approach.

Setting: the study was conducted among women in the third trimester of their pregnancy in either their homes or the health-care centres in Sanandaj in the western part of Iran.