Iranian Journal Of Nursing and Midwifery Research
Volume:12 Issue: 3, summer 2007

Life style is the collection of behaviors influenced by individuals'' characteristics, social interactions and socio-economic situations. Since, pregnancy is a part of life it can change persons'' life style. This study has tried to evaluate the relationship between life style and some characteristics of pregnant women. This study was an analytic cross sectional study. The data were collected by a questionnaire about different life style dimensions and some characteristics of pregnant women from 326 subjects referred to selected health and treatment centers of Shiraz in 2005. The data were analyzed by SPSS using t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient. Findings of this study indicated the more acceptable life style was nutrition and the less acceptable was physical activity. There were significant relations (P

In recent century, planning is one of the most important care skills for health service development.Nurses should be ready scientifically for managing situations in order to develop and perform appropriate models forpatient care. It is necessary for manager to know about the process and standards of planning and how to apply them inreal conditions. With regard to importance of health care planning and lack of nursing management planning accreditationin Iran. This triangulating research was carried out between 2004 and 2006. Fifty professional nursing managers indifferent level of Iran medical universities and central hospitals, having experience in nursing management at least forfive years, and an MS or BS degree in nursing management, were included in a study through purposed sampling. Atfirst, a pilot study with an open questionnaire was conducted in Isfahan and Shiraz and then the study went on in 3phases including searching for international standards in method by 15 professional nursing manager after consensus on70% and sending the final was used for data analysis. At last standards for nursing management planning were obtainedin Iran. 48 standards of nursing management planning were obtained. The findings showed that most of the standardswere accepted (90%) and there were not any standards with agreement lower than 70%. These standards, accompaniedwith the standards of other nursing units, can be used for quality improvement. The researcher suggests the ministry ofhealth to use these findings and other related ones to accredit the nursing system and to identify its deficiencies.

Nowadays, schizophrenia is one of the most important disabling mental disorders in the world. Regarding to occupational therapy as one of the most essential treatment for this disorder, the main aim of this study is to determine the effect of it on negative symptoms of schizophrenias patients. This study is a clinical trials research and the samples were 84 schizophrenia patients of psychiatric ward of Farabi hospital in Isfahan. Sampling method was convenient and the samples were divided in to two interventional and control group randomly. The data collecting tool was scale for assessment of negative symptoms (SANS) and analyzing was performed by T-test, Wilcoxon and Mann-Whitney test. Findings showed that occupational therapy activities decrease the mean of significant differences of negative symptoms of schizophrenia such as flat affect, mutism, apathy, dissocial, loss of attention and the mean of significant difference in two groups, revealed a significant statistics difference in both at the beginning and the end of this study. Because occupational therapy and its related activities has an effective role on the symptoms of schizophrenia patients, rehabilitation is suggested in different field of treatment so that patients can get appropriate self respect and as well as a good level of social interactions.

Pregnancy prevention is an important factor in women''s life changing in various periods. Selection ofcontraception method is personally unique and can bridge between their experiences and their unmet needs. The aim ofthis study was to determine contraception experiences in the first years of marriage. This was a qualitative phenomenological study. The studied population was composed of young women intheir first years of marriage (before their first delivery). The data were collected with in-depth and unstructured interviewsand analyzed by Collaizi method. The findings of the study were classified in 75 codes and four categories as following; Impedimental factors,Motivating factors, Exchanging factors, Abandon factors. Young women mentioned their positive and negative experiences of the first years of marriage. Theirexperiences are useful to promote the quality of services to fulfill their needs.

Each member of society needs suitable services in recovery wards including patient safety in the ward,improvement and taking care of patients after surgery and anesthesia in order to decrease undesirable evidences, mortalityand morbidity. The special characteristic of recovery cares is nursing cares. The nurse is one of the effective membersof a health group and her/his effective role in admitting, preparing, caring, and physical, moral and social supportsof patient is accepted by all experts of medical sciences. The aim of the present study was to determine standards observancein the recovery wards of the treatment centers of Isfahan University of Medical sciences (IUMS) in 2003. This was a descriptive study with easy sampling. The quality of cares given by personnel of recovery wardsafter anesthesia was determined by using questionnaire and checklist. Obtained data was analyzed by SPSS software. This study showed that in the recovery ward, most of the cases were managed near the standard status. Basedon the criteria of patient discharge from recovery wards, the results demonstrated that nurses observed the criteria inmost of the cases; only in reporting description of events during and after operation, 68.8% were substandard. Since the side effects of anesthesia may appear during the transfer of patient to the recovery room, in recoveryroom or even after transferring to the ward, so a codified recovery room care plan and professional and skilledpersonnel who have the ability to observe standards in recovery room can be effective in prevention and treatment ofthese side effects.

Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a complex hormonal disturbance that has numerous implicationsfor general health and fertility. It is the most common cause of ovulatory disturbance, leading to infertility andprobably, pregnancy loss. This study evaluated the complications and outcome of pregnancy in women with polycysticovarian syndrome (PCOS). The course and outcome of 47 singleton pregnancy in women with well-documented PCOS were comparedwith those in 100 healthy controls. The incidence of an abnormal glucose-challenge test, gestational diabetes mellitus and pregnancy inducedhypertension were significantly increased in pregnant women with PCOS (P

The present study discussed the effect of Lamaze practices on the outcome of pregnancy and labor inprimpara women referring to selected hospital of Tehran university of medical sciences in 2005. This study was a controlled semi-experimental clinical trial. Samples included 70 selected women referringto selected hospitals in Tehran. The subjects were divided into control and study group. Study group received Lamazetechnique included a training program for the study group containing 6 sessions. In each session, various subjects basedon educational program were taught. Subjects were followed from 24-26 weeks of pregnancy to 24 hours after delivery.A checklist and a questionnaire were used for collecting the data. Data was analyzed by SPSS software. The findings showed the subjects were the same regarding demographic characteristics and level of knowledgeconcerning various methods of labor and Lamaze technique. There was no significant difference between twogroups regarding the type of delivery, longitude of the first stage of delivery and the first and fifth minute APGAR scoreas well as mean gestational age. But, a significant difference in frequency of normal vaginal delivery and forceps orvacuum usage between two groups was mentioned (p