Relation between sexual function, perceived social support, and adherence to treatment with infertility factor in women: A cross-sectional study.

Background: In some societies, childbearing is a part of women's identity and infertile women are under a great amount of pressure from others.

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the relationship between infertility factors and sexual functioning, perceived social support, and adherence to treatment in infertile women.

Materials And Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 230 infertile women who referred to the infertility center of Shahrekord, Iran in 2022 were enrolled.

Effects of Husband Involvement in Prenatal Care on Couples' Intimacy and Postpartum Blues in Primiparous Women: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Background: Husband involvement in prenatal care is a relatively new concept in Iran. This study aimed to determine the effects of husband involvement in prenatal care on couples' intimacy and postpartum blues in primiparous pregnant women.

Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed on 72 primiparous pregnant women with a gestational age of 20-36 weeks in Rafsanjan in 2021 (January to September).

Comparison of pregnancy outcome during pandemic of COVID-19 and non-pandemic situations, Yazd, Iran, in 2019-2020.

This study aimed to compare the pregnancy outcomes during pandemic and non-pandemic COVID-19 in women referred to health service centres in Yazd. This descriptive study was performed based on the information obtained from all pregnant women referred to comprehensive health service centres in Yazd city using census method, between March 21 2019 and December 21 2019 and between March 20 2020 and December 20 2020. The pregnant mothers' information, including their pregnancy outcome, and maternal and neonatal complications, was extracted from the electronic health information system of Yazd city.

The Effects of Kinesio Tape on Low Back Pain and Disability in Pregnant Women.

Background: Low Back Pain (LBP) is one of the most common complaints during pregnancy, which could cause performance disability. Kinesio tape is a drug-free elastic therapeutic cotton tape used in treating musculoskeletal problems. This study aims to determine the effects of Kinesio tape on LBP and disability in pregnant women.

Randomized controlled trial of oral bicarbonate treatment for labor stagnation.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of oral sodium bicarbonate solution on delivery outcome of primiparous women with labor stagnation.

Methods: This randomized controlled trial study was performed on 142 primiparous pregnant women referred to Jiroft University hospitals who had stagnation during labor. In the intervention group, in addition to oxytocin, 4.

The effect of practicing yoga during pregnancy on labor stages length, anxiety and pain: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Anxiety and fear of labor pain has led to elevated cesarean section rate in some countries. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of yoga in pregnancy on anxiety, labor pain and length of labor stages.

Methods: This clinical trial study was performed on 84 nulliparous women who were at least 18 years old and were randomly divided into two groups of yoga and control groups.

A study on association of premarital attitude toward intact hymen in new grooms: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Young people's attitudes toward marriage have been undergone changes in recent years and it seems to be contradicting in the struggle between conservative and modern liberal attitudes. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitude of new grooms toward intact hymen in Kerman.

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study has been conducted on 790 new grooms in Kerman, Iran.

Religious teachings and sexuality of women living in Rafsanjan: A qualiattive inquiry.

Background: Islamic doctrine and related teachings play a seminal role in constructing the sexual performance of followers, women in particular

Objective: The aim was to explore women's understandings of Islamic Shiite principles related to their sexuality.

Materials And Methods: In a qualitative content analysis approach, four individual interviews and seven focus groups conducted in Rafsanjan, a big city in Kerman province in Iran. Content analysis was used to extract meanings and themes.

Measuring Iranian women's sexual behaviors: Expert opinion.

The cultural compatibility of sexually related instruments is problematic because the contexts from which the concepts and meanings were extracted may be significantly different from related contexts in a different society. This paper describes the instruments that have been used to assess sexual behaviors, primarily in Western contexts. Then, based on the instruments' working definition of 'sexual behavior' and their theoretical frameworks, we will (1) discuss the applicability or cultural compatibility of existing instruments targeting women's sexual behaviors within an Iranian context, and (2) suggest criteria for sexually related tools applicable in Iranian settings.

The effects of oral fluid intake an hour before cesarean section on regurgitation incidence.

Background: The fear of aspiration of gastric contents and its life-threatening disadvantages in patients have encouraged many medical practitioners to follow conservative policies for clear fluid/liquid and solid intake from midnight to the time of surgery. These policies have been pursued more severely in case of pregnant women, leading the physicians to follow "nil per os" policy. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the incidence of regurgitation in two groups of pregnant women during general anesthesia for cesarean section, with standard fasting policy and taking clear fluid an hour prior to the induction of anesthesia.

Differential expression of CXC chemokines CXCL10 and CXCL12 in term and pre-term neonates and their mothers.

Background And Aim: Pre-term delivery is a mostly unknown frequent disorder worldwide. This project aimed to investigate the circulating levels of CXCL12 (SDF-1) and CXCL10 (IP-10) in cord blood of term and pre-term delivered fetuses and their corresponding mothers.

Material And Methods: Cord and peripheral blood samples were collected from 50 pre-term and 50 term infants and their mothers.

Expression of IP-10 chemokine is regulated by pro-inflammatory cytokines in cultured hepatocytes.

Chemokines are classified in four distinct groups as CXC, CC, CX3C and C, depending on the presence or absence of a motif called ELR (Arg-Leu-Glu) before the first cysteine residue in their structure. CXC chemokines are also subdivided into ELR+ and ELR-. Increasing evidence has indicated the existence of a chemokine network in the liver which is involved in both physiological responses and, under certain circumstances, pathological and repair processes following hepatic injury.