background & aim:  pain and anxiety are the most common complications after cesarean section. the use of medications is the most common strategy for alleviating these problems. however, the adverse effects of these drugs and lack of access to them for some patients, has led to an increase in application of non-drug methods such as massage. methods:this blind clinical trial was performed in omol...

major salivary gland tumors are uncommon and the exact nature of these tumors is not obvious. this study was carried out to compare the histological results of intraoperative frozen sections against those of permanent reports for major salivary glands masses. one hundred thirty-nine patients with major salivary gland masses who were candidates for surgery underwent an intraoperative frozen sect...

melatonin has been suggested as a new natural pain killer in inflammatory pain and during surgical procedures. we designed this randomized double-blind controlled study to evaluate the analgesic efficacy and also optimal preemptive dose of melatonin in patients undergoing cesarean section under spinal anesthesia.one hundred twenty patients scheduled for cesarean section under spinal anesthesia ...

background & aim: to decrease the rate of caesarean section, complicated intervention for changing behaviors are required. the present study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness education on anxiety, fear of delivery, pain catastrophizing, and selecting caesarean section as the delivery method among nulliparous pregnant women who referred to ziaeian hospital. methods & mat...

objective: to assess the association between intrapartum intrathecal opioid use and breastfeeding and weight gain following cesarean section. materials and methods: the prospective double-blinded study was conducted on term pregnant women, undergoing elective cesarean section under spinal anesthesia. they divided into two groups. in the first group, intrathecal morphine was used to achieve anal...

background: to assess the effect of method of delivery on women's mental health to improve of health status. methods: eleven hundred healthy women who had recently either normal vaginal delivery (nvd) or cesarean section (cs) were studied 6 week after delivery in 2005. the data were collected with using the 36-items short-form (sf-36) questionnaire by interviewing method. spss software version ...

background: post-cesarean section analgesia improves functional ability of the mother and her interaction with the infant. pharmacological methods such as painkillers and narcotics are commonly used to reduce post-cesarean section pain. however, due to the complications of current pharmacological therapies, the use of non-pharmacological methods is currently receiving special attention. the pur...

background: according to the world health organization, the acceptable range for cesarean delivery is only 10-15% of the total delivery. increased  rate of cesarean can increase maternal mortality rate. statistics from provinces in iran shows that the rate of unnecessary caesareans is growing in the country. methods: this qualitative research evaluated the comments of 20 mothers who had caesare...

objective: over the past two decades, the incidence of cesarean section in most countries has increased. cesarean section increases the risk of death and complications in the mother and fetus. educational interventions based on behavior change models can play an important role in reduce the rate of cesarean section. the aim of our study is investigation the effect of educational intervention ba...

objective: to evaluate the increased rate of cesarean section in recent decades and natural desire of women probably due to social, economic& cultural issues in our country. while that in many cases, vaginal delivery can be replaced by unnecessary cesarean. in the absence of need the trend of cesarean section has implications for both future healthy populations and the equitable distribution of...