Showing 9 results for Qualitative Study
Hamid Tavakoli Ghouchani, Shamsadin Niknami, Farkhondeh Aminshokravi, Seyed Kaveh Hojjat,
Volume 2, Issue 2 (6-2014)
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Aim: Substance abuse is a substantial threat and problem to public health. The goal of drug abuse treatment is to return people to a productive normal situation in the family, workplace, and community. Treatment dropout is one of the major problems, encountered by the treatment programs. The maintenance of treatment is associated with retention in treatment, and many factors are associated with retention. The main purpose of this study is to examine the factors that play important role in retention of addiction treatment. Methods: This is a qualitative research with conventional content analysis method. Purposive sampling was applied and continued until data saturation was achieved. The participants were 22 volunteers, including outpatients, physicians and psychotherapists. The method of data collection was semi-structured face to face interview (30- 40 minutes). All interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. Findings: By content analysis, two categories were obtained, including emotional and informational support. The main common theme of categories was social support, which was the major requirement to retain the treatment among drug abuse outpatients. Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that social support is one of the essential services to stop or reduce substance abuse. Recognizing this factor could improve interaction between the family, clinical staff and patients in addiction treatment retention.
Volume 5, Issue 1 (6-2020)
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Aim: In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in workplace health-related problems. The issue of Musculo Skeletal Disorders (MSD) has received considerable critical attention. Taking healthy posture has a pivotal role in prevention of MSD. In this study the management roles in taking proper sitting posture in workplace were assessed.
Method and Istruments: A Semi-structured interview according to purposive sampling was conducted with a convenience sample of office workers working in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBUS). Interviews were recorded and transcribed into MAXQDA software version. Content analysis was used to establish the presence of certain themes and concepts within the text.
Findings: This study revealed that there are four determinants as management role related to taking healthy sitting behavior among workers in workplaces. These determinants including: role modeling, setting policy, management support and manager healthy mindset.
Conclusions: The identified factors provide organizational managers with a list of factors by which they can encourage their employees to use healthy postures in the workplace leading to significant reductions in job absenteeism and insurance fees associated with health problems.
Volume 8, Issue 4 (1-2023)
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Aims: The expansion of the female population in the society and the high prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) is a significant issue because these disorders directly affect the quality of life and lead to a inability and also an increase in individual and social costs. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of explaining the predictors related to MSDs in women who are housewives.
Method and Materials: The present qualitative study was conducted among the housewives of Akbar Abad city in Fars province of Iran. This study was conducted in 2020 using the method of conventional content analysis and using the purposeful sampling method in a semi-structured way. Informed consent was obtained from the participants. The inclusion criteria included married women who were housewives and had musculoskeletal pain in one or more areas of their body.
Findings: After analyzing the results, the predictors of pain inhibition and expression were extracted in three main categories, including personality and cognitive characteristics, cultural factors, and the individual's living conditions.
Conclusion: These results showed that the women who had more confident, skills, and expectation beliefs were more likely to do proper back behavior. In this regard, MSDs prevention interventions should address using key individually cognitive factors that consider the potential change strategies.
F. Zareharofteh , M. Eslami ,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (5-2021)
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Aims: The purpose of this study was to explain pedestrians' perception of the factors affecting the use of bridges according to the theory of planned behavior.
Participants & Methods: This qualitative study included 25 participants who were knowledgeable about pedestrian bridge use, and it was conducted in Yazd, Iran, from April to October 2018. Semi-structured interviews were used to extract the perceptions of behavioral, control, and normative beliefs of pedestrians. After transcribing the interviews, a directed content analysis was performed. Data analysis was performed by researchers with existing logic and MAXQDA 12 software. Finally, the beliefs of the pedestrian were extracted, and their outstanding beliefs were determined according to their frequencies.
Findings: 18 subcategories, 42 integrated codes, and 331 codes were identified. "Less stress and more relaxation" were identified as the most important advantage, and "high energy consumption and traversing long distances" were identified as the main disadvantage of pedestrian bridge use. The most frequent verifies were family members, and the main disapproving community was familiars, sick and disabled people, and family, respectively. "Unsafe and non-standard equipment and facilities" was introduced as the most important factor making it difficult to use the bridge, and the most effective facilitator was "providing amenities such as escalators".
Conclusion: To increase using bridges by pedestrians, we require focusing on feeling more relaxed as the main advantage, family members as the main verifier, friends and peers as the most frequent disapprover, creating standard and safe facilities, and installing escalators the pedestrian bridges.
E. Kheirandish , M. Rahnama , H. Noorisanchooli , H. Rashki Ghalenow , A. Abdollahimohammad ,
Volume 9, Issue 3 (7-2021)
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Aims: Nurses are a key component of the treatment team in times of crisis and are currently at the front line of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Since understanding nurses' experiences can help identify the relevant problems, this study aimed to explain nurses' experiences in the coronavirus crisis by content analysis approach.
Participants & Methods: This qualitative study with a conventional content analysis approach conducted purposeful sampling in 2020. Ten nurses who were working in the COVID-19 wards of Amir Al-Momenin Hospital in Zabol were selected. The data collection method was semi-structured interviews. The data analysis process was performed according to the steps proposed by Graneheim and Lundman 2004. The trustworthiness of the data was checked by Lincoin & Guba criteria, and the research's ethical standards were observed.
Findings: Two main themes of nurses and families under the shadow of coronavirus and the dual reaction of nurses to coronavirus crisis, as well as six categories (Nurse's family challenges, Joys and Concerns of nurses, Nurses and care injuries, Nurses and conflicting thought to the profession, Dual care reactions, Dual feeling reactions) and ten subcategories, were extracted.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicate the individual, family, and occupational effects of the corona crisis on nurses, which can affect their care performance in addition to individual life.
L. Mokhtari , A. Feizi , H.r. Khalkhali , A. Khorami Markani ,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (1-2022)
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Aims: Meaning of life is of great importance to promoting various dimensions of the quality of life in women with breast cancer. The current study aimed to find out and describe the experience of the meaning of life in women with breast cancer.
Participants & Methods: 22 women with breast cancer were selected using the purposive sampling method in this qualitative study. The data were collected via semi-structured interviews and then analyzed by conventional qualitative content analysis and Graneheim & Lundman’s approach in MAXQDA software (ver. 10).
Findings: Two themes and ten categories have appeared. Seven categories in the “development in the process of life” theme include: feeling the change in the life routine, achieving a better recognition of the life value, having life satisfaction despite the illness, hoping for and accepting that the illness will end, trying to cope with the illness, tolerating the pain and suffering from illness, worrying about future of the children, in the “the attempt to promote spiritual well-being” themes three categories: personal belief, spiritual contentment, and religious acts.
Conclusion: The meaning of life in women with breast cancer is multidimensional. Due to the important roles of women in the family and even in society, the health system should take necessary measures and supporting actions to improve the meaning of life in these patients.
F. Jafarzadeh-Kenarsari , P. Pourghane, F. Kobrai-Abkenar,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (5-2022)
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Aims: People's experiences of home quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic are essential to maximize its prevention and minimize its negative effects on families and society to better understand public needs and concerns. This study was aimed to explore the lived experiences of home quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iranian families.
Participants & Methods: This is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. Participants were 34 residents of Guilan province, north of Iran, who had experienced living in-home quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants were recruited by purposive sampling and the method of data collection was semi-structured interviews. All data were recorded and transcribed and thematically analyzed based on Colaizzi proposed steps. To ensure the rigor of the data, the 4-item scale was used, which includes dependability, credibility, confirmability, and data transferability.
Findings: Four main themes were extracted from data analysis; "emerging experiences" such as the emergence of new habits, compulsory rest, paying more attention to spirituality, "anxious days" such as constant anxiety, trapped in a cage, and increased tensions at home, "in contrasting of fear and hope" such as simultaneously positive and negative emotions, and being engaged with true and false news, and "in financial strait" such as the need to buy expensive personal protective equipment, low wages, and forced to the sale of personal belongings.
Conclusion: The Iranian society experienced various consequences in its social life, economic situation, and psychological condition during the home quarantine for the COVID-19 pandemic, which should be considered by the country's health officials and decision-makers.
M. Shahnavazi, F. Rigi, N. Heydarikhayat,
Volume 10, Issue 4 (9-2022)
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Aims: This study aimed to determine the adherence to treatment and affecting factors in tuberculosis patients during COVID-19 outbreaks.
Instrument & Methods: This is a mixed-method study with an explanatory sequential design. The first phase was a cross-sectional study on 108 tuberculosis patients. Data were collected with an adherence questionnaire in patients with chronic disease. Descriptive statistics and linear regression tests were used for quantitative data analysis. The second phase was a qualitative study with the conventional content analysis approach. Participants included 12 patients and healthcare providers involved in the directly observed treatment short course program for tuberculosis in related centers to Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Southeast of Iran.
Findings: The median scores of treatment adherence were 110.00±35.00, and 48 (44%) of subjects had poor to moderate scores. COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 factors have influenced the adherence to treatment in patients with tuberculosis patients.
Conclusion: A worldwide and unanticipated crisis can negatively affect the control of chronic diseases. Anxiety and panic over the unknown nature, lack of definitive treatment, and mortality of COVID-19 led to the disruption of the directly observed therapies program by both tuberculosis patients and healthcare providers. Giving part of the tuberculosis management responsibility to the patient and family was not an effective solution during the COVID-19 crisis.
G.v. Gobel , L. Lusmilasari , F. Haryanti,
Volume 12, Issue 2 (6-2024)
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Aims: This study aimed to explore caregiver practices for optimizing toddlers’ healthy growth and development.
Participants & Methods: This qualitative research was done using an explanatory case study design. Qualitative exploration was conducted through semi-structured in-depth interviews with 19 parent participants selected via purposive sampling. All interviews were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim. The transcriptions were screened for relevant information, manually coded, and analyzed using qualitative content analysis.
Findings: Five themes related to caregiving practices emerged, including the fulfillment of children’s health requirements, the provision of sufficient nutrition, responsive parenting, ensuring safety and security, and offering early learning opportunities.
Conclusion: Comprehensive support for optimizing the growth and development of stunted children requires collaboration among parents, family members, health centers, government initiatives, community organizations, and professionals in the health, education, and social sectors.
