BACKGROUND The PRECEDE model is a useful tool for planers to assess health problems, the behavioral and environmental causes of the problems, and their determinants. This study aims to understand the experiences of patients and health care providers about the behavioral causes of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) risk factors and their determinants. METHODS This qualitative study utilized conten...

The number of videos produced specifically for infants and toddlers has grown exponentially in the last decade. Many of these products make educational claims regarding young children’s language development. This study explores infant media producer claims regarding language development, and the extent to which these claims reflect different distributions of strategies known to promote young ch...

One of the major advances in medicine has been the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) procedure since the 1960s in order to save human lives. This procedure has so far saved thousands of lives. Although CPR has helped to save lives, in some cases, it prolongs the process of dying, suffering, and pain in patients. This study was conducted to explain the experience of Iranian physicians r...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the number one cause of death in the world. In most analyses of health problems, environment plays a significant and modifiable role in causing the problem either directly or indirectly through behavior. OBJECTIVES This study aims to understand the patients and healthcare providers' experiences about the environmental determinants of CVD risk fact...

background: university staff plays an important role in breeding a healthy and prosperous generation. their right for attending to interests and selfactualization are noticeable. this qualitative research has been conducted in order to understand and explain the perspective and experience of staff working at ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences (ajums) about leisure time. methods: a...

conclusions: the core variable of our research is acceptance of the reality of the conditions caused by the disease. the research finalized our knowledge about patient problems regarding social support and revealed many problems of supporting patients by health team members, family members and organizations. the findings suggest that individual aspects of patient experiences must be considered ...

background :this study aimed to understand the confront strategies of parents of premature infants hospitalized in nicu.   methods : this study was performed using qualitative content analysis approach. twelve participants including nine parents whose infants were hospitalized in nicu, two nurses and one physician, all selected by purposive sampling method were interviewed by a female expert oc...

A natural language interface is directed toward the database query languages that access machine stored data. A pattern driven transformation mechanism supports natural language access. A natural language is mapped onto a more formal computer database language. A human-like "understanding" of the query statement is not required. The transformation mechanism is separate from the target database ...