abstract background: continuation of delivery care by a midwife, and establishing a relationship between the midwife and the delivering woman, is so important for women, and preserving such relationship increases woman’s calmness and self-confi dence. the current research aims at studying the effect of midwifery continuing care during delivery on delivery outcomes. materials and methods: this s...

extract   when you are faced with a diabetic person that has been numbness, lethargic or confuse condition and likely to enter into a diabetic coma what nursing interventions should be done?   the answer of question is related to complete review of symptoms by nurses. typically, in the most cases hypoglycemia can cause coma. the next cause of coma is diabetic ketoacidosis that occurs with hyper...

introduction with the increase in women's employment and change in attitudes towards father’s role in family, father involvement in infant care can indirectly influence the physical health and well being of infant and mother. materials and methods this randomized clinical trial was performed on 150 qualified pregnant women and husbands. during the 35-37 weeks of pregnancy, fathers in fathe...

internationally early intervention programmes for infants and preschoolers with disabilities have proved to be remarkably successful. in many countries, they began with teachers for visually impaired or hearing impaired children visiting the family home to teach parents how they could overcome the child's impairments. the logic of early intervention was inequitable. for example, the sooner...

background: self care of diabetes is essential for control of disease and improvement of quality of patients' life. the aim of this study was to assess factors influencing self-care practice of patients in urban area of urmia, northwest of iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 400 diabetic patients were randomly selected from eight healthcare centers in urmia city in 2010. data collecti...

background chronic heart failure (chf) is associated with unpredictably increased prevalence of hospital admissions. self-care is one of the most important aspects of management for patients with chf. self-care adequacy has led to increased satisfaction, independence in daily activities, reduced stress, and morbidity. objectives we aimed to assess the relationship between self-care behavior and...

conclusions the right ventricular outflow tract palliation in children with cyanotic chd leads to long-term favorable outcome regarding improvement in oxygen saturation, increase in z score of both left and right pulmonary arteries and also considerable decrease in spell. also, death and complications are rare following rvot palliation. background the right ventricular outflow tract (rvot) pall...

in order to identify the prevalence of parasitic intestinal infections and to determine the impact of some factors, such as age, health houses, education, environmental health etc, on infection, this survey was carried out on 461 stool specimens and scotch tapes obtained from children resident in day-care centers in damghan city, semnan province, iran. the samples were tested using formalin-eth...