Background & aim: The increased prevalence of infertility and using assisted reproductive technologies including donation procedures has currently become a public concern. The familiarity of midwives with legal and religious aspects of these procedures is a salient issue in their care giving practice. However, this issue has been less considered in the curriculum planning for midwifery students...

background: hospitals in iran are not prepared for disasters the aim of this study was to determine the effect of training functional and nonstructural hospital safety to nurses and their intervention on hospital preparedness in psychiatric razi hospital and day hospital in tehran based on hospital safety index (hsi). materials  and  methods:  this  semi-experimental  study  included  nurse  ma...

background : studies have shown a gradual decline in empathy of medical trainees with increasing years of education. methods to augment empathy show some promise, but the most effective methods are both expensive and time consuming.to assess effectiveness of communication skills training program as a distant learning method in improving empathy.   method s: fourteen first year residents of psyc...

background parents’ mental health could be intensively influenced by disabled child, especially when there is a disorder such as autism including a wide range of behaviors and particularly social behaviors. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of negative mood management training on mental health and depression of mothers of children with autistic disorder. material and methods sample of thi...