BackgroundBecause of the variety of services and resources offered in the delivery of home health care, its management is a challenging and difficult task.ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to explore the administrative aspects of the delivery of home health care services.MethodsThis qualitative study was conducted based on the traditional content analysis approach in 2015 in Iran. The participants were selected using the purposeful sampling method and data were collected through in-depth semi-structured personal interviews and from discussions in a focus group. The collected data were analyzed using the Lundman and Graneheim method.Results23 individuals participated in individual interviews, and the collected data were categorized into the two main themes of policymaking and infrastructures, each of which consisted of some subcategories.ConclusionHealth policymakers could utilize the results of this study as baseline information in making decisions about the delivery of home health care services, taking into account the contextual dimensions of home care services, leading to improvements in home health care services.
Background
Human instinctively desire to have offspring. Infertility can cause painful emotional experiences throughout the life mainly known as quality of life impairment. This study aimed to investigate the impact of infertility on a woman’s quality of life.
Methods
A number of 180 infertile and 540 fertile women participated in this matched case-control study. The cases were selected through a combination of multistage stratified and cluster sampling methods. For each infertile woman three fertile women were randomly selected. The data gathering instrument consisted of demographic variables and the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. Data collection was conducted through interview with participants. The multivariate marginal model and SPSS software 21 were used for data analyses with a significance level of 0.05.
Results
The results of the multivariate modeling show infertility can potentially affect various aspects of women’s quality of life such as physical health (
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< 0.001), mental health (p < 0.001), social health (p < 0.001) and the total score of quality of life (p < 0.001) significantly.
Conclusion
An infertile woman practice a relatively lower scores in QOL sub-scales of mental, physical and environmental health; while they experience a higher social health score than a fertile woman.
BackgroundThe self-efficacy of educators plays a crucial role in their professional competence and subsequent provision of care. The present study aims to explain the main sources contributing to the development of self-efficacy beliefs among healthcare providers in delivering health education.MethodsThis qualitative study was conducted from 2015 to 2016 in various settings of Isfahan such as hospitals, doctor’s offices, and healthcare centers. Twenty three health educators with an average of 10-year work experience in healthcare participated in the study. Data were collected using semi-structured in-depth individual interviews and were analyzed through conventional content analysis. Prolonged engagement with the participants, maximum variation in the participants’ characteristics, sampling, and member check were among the factors enriching the research.ResultsThe six main categories extracted during data analysis included: 1) Quantity and quality of their experience; 2) Encountering unexpected events; 3) Client trust; 4) Self-concept; 5) Professional knowledge and skill; 6) Vicarious experiences.ConclusionsThe study results show two new findings, including “encountering unexpected events” and “client trust”, affecting professional self-efficacy beliefs among healthcare providers in the delivery of health education. The other main findings were extremely similar to Bandura’s theory. These results can be used as a basis in planning and implementing health development educational models for human resources.
A novel method has been proposed to enhance efficiency of cataluminescence reaction by applying a plasma-assisted cataluminescence (PA-CTL) system. The obtained results clearly indicated that the PA-CTL system exhibited substantially higher sensitivity for the detection of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) on the surface of nanosized ZrO(2). There are two distinctive advantages in the PA-CTL system; on one hand, the plasma activates the BTEX molecules for the detection, and on the other hand, the working temperature range of the catalytic reaction is lowered with the plasma assistance. A detection limit (LOD = 3sigma) of 20 ng mL(-1) was achieved for benzene in air samples. Using a graphite electrode in the designed plasma provides an additional opportunity for solid-phase microextraction (SPME) sampling of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) on its surface followed by PA-CTL detection. This ability has been investigated for detection of m-xylene in air samples.
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