Unmet needs in Iranian cancer patients.

The identification and management of unmet needs is an essential component of health care for the growing cancer patient population. Information about the prevalence of unmet need can help medical service planning/redesigning. Therefore, this study aimed to identify unmet needs in Iranian patients suffering from cancer.

Why don't you share your satisfaction with me?

Background: Healthy spousal communication of marital and sexual expectations is one of the most important factors to improve the quality of sexual relations in marriage.

Objectives: This paper has attempted to explore women's expectations of men for having pleasurable sex in a monogamous and steady sexual relationship within the context of Iran.

Methods: In this qualitative study, 20 interviews were conducted in Tehran from December 2013 to May 2014.

Comparing the Effect of Concept Mapping and Conventional Methods on Nursing Students' Practical Skill Score.

Background: Development of practical skills in the field of nursing education has remained a serious and considerable challenge in nursing education. Moreover, newly graduated nurses may have weak practical skills, which can be a threat to patients' safety.

Objectives: The present study was conducted to compare the effect of concept mapping and conventional methods on nursing students' practical skills.

Sexual Satisfaction Concept Analysis in Iranian Married Women: A Hybrid Model Study.

Background: Sexual satisfaction is considered to be a sexual right and an important component of sexual health. The purpose of this qualitative study was to clarify the meaning and the nature of sexual satisfaction in Iranian married women, and to provide a cultural-based definition of it.

Method: Sexual satisfaction was examined in three phases by the Hybrid Model of concept analysis: (1) the theoretical phase; (2) the fieldwork phase and (3) the analytical phase.

Married Women's Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire; A Developmental and Psychometric Evaluation.

Background: Despite the significant contribution of cultural factors to sexual satisfaction, most of the current sexual satisfaction scales pay little attention, if any, to cultural factors and marital status.

Objectives: The current study aimed to develop and validate the Married Women's Sexual Satisfaction Scale.

Patients And Methods: The current methodological study went through three consecutive phases.

HIV-infected patients' adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy: a phenomenological study.

Adherence to the treatment regimen is essential to the success of highly active antiretroviral therapy for patients who are infected with HIV. The evidence suggests that poor adherence to antiretroviral drug therapy is a major problem that has the potential to diminish effective viral suppression, promote viral resistance, and place patients at risk for hospitalization, opportunistic infections, and an increased risk of HIV transmission. The primary aim of this study was to understand patients' experiences regarding their adherence to antiretroviral drug therapy.

Strategies and criteria for clinical decision making in critical care nurses: a qualitative study.

Purpose: To explore the reasoning strategies and criteria for clinical decision making used by Iranian critical care nurses.

Design And Methods: In this qualitative descriptive study, 14 critical care nurses from four educational hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) participated. Data were collected through semistructured in-depth interviews.

Coming to terms with a diagnosis of HIV in Iran: a phenomenological study.

The number of people living with HIV (PLWH) has increased in all Asian regions, including Iran. Discovering that one has any serious illness can be a traumatic experience, but coming to terms with an HIV diagnosis is made more difficult by social constructs and negative reactions to the infection. This interpretative phenomenological study was carried out to understand and describe the lived experience of HIV-infected Iranians during the period immediately following an HIV diagnosis.

A new approach for teaching nursing ethics in Iran.

Ethics is a core concept in nursing practice. However, traditional approaches to teaching ethics are not sufficient and ethicists have to devise creative new approaches for the new generation of students.

Competence development among nurses: the process of constant interaction.

Background: The importance of competence to nursing practice was the motivation for this study, which explored nurses' experience in developing their competence as they progress through their careers.

Methods: In accordance with grounded theory method, data collection and data analysis were performed simultaneously using the constant comparative method.

Results: Data revealed that nurses developed competence through an iterative process called "the process of constant interaction.

Nursing experience in Iran.

The aim of this study was to describe Iranian registered nurses' experience of nursing, and to discuss some of the sociocultural viewpoints that are relevant for such experience. Data were collected by asking 75 registered nurses (RNs) to write statements about their nursing experience. Written descriptions were analyzed by an interpretative phenomenological method.