abstract background: studies have shown that, with regard to social, cultural, and institutional contexts, several factors affect family decision-making on organ donation. this study aimed to investigate the effective factors in organ donation by family members with brain-dead patients. materials and methods: this was a descriptive-comparative study in which a researcher-made questionnaire was ...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between family function and marital satisfaction with marital disaffection of married couples (teachers)  in behshahr.   the research method is descriptive and co-relational. the study sample group consisted of 250 married teachers in 2016, of which 150 of them were selected according to morgan random sampling. the research instruments w...

introduction: according to the previous studies, several social, cultural, and organizational factors are involved in the decision of families of brain death victims for organ donation. the present study was performed to determine the effective factors in the decision of organ donation among families of brain death victims. methods: in this descriptive-comparative study data were gathered throu...

conclusions the current study revealed that a significant percentage of sandwich generation females have chronic diseases. results a statistically significant difference was found between the two groups in terms of the presence of chronic diseases (p = 0.001). there was a significant correlation between chronic diseases and number of children (p = 0.03), person receiving care (p = 0.004), educa...

objective: in some areas of iran self -immolation is one of the most common ways for committing suicide and it is very disturbing and painful for those who witness it. due to the presence of the families/relatives of the self-immolation victims in the psychiatric clinics seeking for the treatment of ptsd sings, we decided to carry out a research in this respect. method: this descriptive cross-s...

in the case of the elderly who highly depend on family, serious health problems can be caused due to the reduction of family meals. therefore, this study aims to suggest the fundamental data for management of cardiovascular disease, one of the major causes of death in elderly koreans, by investigating the effects of family meal frequency on the risk factors for cardiovascular disease in korean ...

background: fertility pattern has some influence on health of mother and child as well as it can resist population growth. methods: a cross sectional study on fertility perception among married women of reproductive age group, was carried out in 3 blocks and 2 municipality areas of howrah district of west bengal, india, covering 12 villages and 4 wards, selected by stratified multistage random ...

background: health measurement is one of the major challenges in today’s researches. various indicators including well‑being are used to evaluate health. many factors including culture, structures, and values can be effective on family health, quality of life, and well‑being of family members that these elements themselves are effective on the whole society’s health. one of other effective fact...

a survey was made to study the rational given by women living in rural area of west tehran for using or not using family planning measures (1994). the purposes of this study were to investigate the reasons for using or not using family planning measures and it's relation to personal characteristics of the subjects. the samples were grouped in smaller groups: - those using effective family ...