Studies of the link between housework and sex sometimes reach divergent conclusions—partly resulting from varying perspectives on this relationship. We identify three perspectives found in prior studies of housework and sex—temporal, distributional, and fairness—each reflecting a different view of the processes linking these two domestic realms. To contribute to this literature, we examine hous...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of illicit medicine abuse among pregnant women who referred to the general teaching hospital in tehran. materials and methods: a non-randomized sample of 2189 eligible pregnant women, which were at 2nd and 3rd trimester, were visited for 2nd prenatal care or subsequent consultation and being confident regarding the time of taki...

Background: Infertility is one of the crises that can cause various mental problems such as depression that is stressful, but personal characteristics can influence the quality of response to infertility stress which is important to be recognized in depressed infertile women. In order to study the incidence of depression in infertile women and comparing individual and socio-economic characteris...

extended abstract 1- introduction power is regarded as an important social variable when studying any social structure and institution. accordingly, distribution of power in family structure has a great importance and could affect many familial experiences such as development of personality, socialization, self-esteem, solidarity, satisfaction, happiness, etc. (mahdavi & saboori khosroshahi, 20...

CONTEXT Older women commonly assume a caregiving role for their husbands at the end of life and are more vulnerable to poorer health, well-being, and social and economic challenges. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to ascertain older women's experiences of spousal caregiving at the end of life and the ways in which this experience impacts on the transition to widowhood. METHODS Longitud...