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Introduction: Osteoporosis is an important health problem and the most common metabolic bone disease, that according data statistic, more than 6000000 Iranian have this disease.
Material and Methods: This research is a descriptive analytical study which has been conducted in order to evaluate application prevention behaviors of osteoporosis in health caregivers and how them educating for women referred to the health care centers of Arak City in 2002.
The research units were composed of 24 health caregivers 110 women referred to these centers that had been selected by convenience.
Results: The results of the research show medium age of caregivers were 33.7 years and in women were 29.3 years. (%58). Caregivers and (%80.9) women had adequate education intake daily and (%80.2) caregivers and (%16.4) women had regular exercise, (%62.5) Caregivers and %63.5) women exposed to the sunlight. Also the results show (%49.1) units research in the day gave discussion of caregivers about osteoporosis. (%79) intake calcium, (%90) exercise, (%85.5) exposing to the sunlight, but (%80.9) women did not discuss about taking hormonal drugs.
Conclusion: The result show significant relation between age, educational level and family history of osteoporosis in health caregivers with before education, but relation between adequate calcium intake in women and education was nonsignificant and relation between doing exercise and education was significant.

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Background: Mothering handling plays an important role in the daily life of children with cerebral palsy (CP) and their mothers, so that the greatest amount of handling of children with CP is done by the mothers at home. The study aimed to explore the process of mothering handling in the children with CP at home.

Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was conducted using grounded theory methodology in Tehran. The purposeful sampling followed by theoretical sampling. Selecting participants continued to achieve theoretical saturation. The number of participants was 26 including 15 caregivers, 3 children with cerebral palsy, 5 occupational therapists, 1 physiotherapist, and 3 rehabilitation manegers. The main source for gathering data was in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed by Corbin & Straus method (2008).

Results: Six categories/themes emerged from the data, including: motherly care, confronting with unusual co-occupation, confusion in roles, effort to special care, dynamic management of handling, and continuing care. The central category, confrontation with unusual co-occupation, represented the main theme of the research, and all major categories had been related to it.

Conclusion: The results of this research could provide broad perspective to rehabilitation therapists, managers and policy makers for understanding the needs, meeting challenges and concerns of caregivers and children with CP and designing a comprehensive plan for handling process of children with CP and helping them to be empowered for achieving the proper management and effective handling.