This article explores mutual caregiving between older spouses aging with physical disabilities. Nine older couples, where both partners had lived long lives with physical disabilities, were interviewed as dyads about mutual caregiving. The couples not only had access to different kinds and degrees of formal support but also provided mutual care to each other in a variety of ways. Interview codi...

Observation in Grounded Theory and Ethnography: What are the Differences? Tahereh Fathi Najafi, Robab Latifnejad Roudsari, Hossein Ebrahimipour, and Narjes Bahri PhD Student in Reproductive Health, Student Research Committee, Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran Associated Professor, Evidence-Based Care Research Centr...

BACKGROUND All health professionals are responsible for facilitating empowerment among people with diabetes. However, research suggests that health professionals do not have the knowledge and skills to help people with diabetes become empowered. As a result, many Iranian people with diabetes do not become empowered. The aim of the study was to explore and understand how empowerment occurs in Ir...

This study applied the grounded theory method of data collection and analysis to the social phenomenon of beer consumption in Australia. The aim was to explore a popular Australian consumption activity to provide an insight into the consumption process in general, and the consumption of beer in particular. The output is a substantive theory of beer consumption that describes the specific cognit...

This paper is written with two main aims: first, to justify the use of grounded theory (GT) as a data analysis method in a manner compatible with the case study strategy, by using Straussian GT in this integration. The need for this integration is vital, as no conceptual research specifies how grounded theory can be used as a method within an interpretive case study strategy in order to define ...

introduction: despite the legal and moral sanctions against infidelity and reported negative attitudes, the ubiquity of infidelity in the our country is difficult to deny. due to the growing prevalence and negative effects of marital infidelity, understanding the complex relationships among selected individual and relationship variables that contribute to infidelity it is important and help pre...

improvement in the quality of teacher education is an issue of considerable concern to every country including iran. the challenges that student-teachers face during their education can be highly influential in this regard. consequently, the present study was an attempt to come up with a model for the factors challenging iranian efl preservice teachers using a grounded theory approach. for this...

“economic empowerment” is the ability of vulnerable women to make a decent living for themselves and their family. this ability not only helps them to meet their essential needs continuously, but also decreases the stress level and mental strains caused by deficiencies in the process of satisfying these needs. a range of fundamental and prevalent social issues affecting various societies usuall...

background: the performance of the community health nurse depends on a combination of scientific and practical competencies acquired by educational experiences during the nursing course. curriculum planners of nursing education need to understand nursing education to train professional and community-oriented nurses. the aim of this article is to explore the experiences of nursing students durin...

background: life-threatening and stressful events, such as myocardial infarction (mi) can lead to an actual crisis, which affects the patients spiritually as well as physically, psychologically, and socially. however, the focus of health care providers is on physical needs. furthermore, the spirituality of the patients experiencing heart attack in the light of our cultural context is not well a...