Showing 5 results for Qualitative Study
Davoud Hekmatpou, Eisa Mohammadi, Fazlalah Ahmadi, Seyea Hasan Arefi,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (12-2008)
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Background: Hospital readmission rate as a global health problem has increased over the last few decades. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is one of the most common causes of hospital readmission. Little is known about barriers of readmission rate control. The aim of this study was used for data exploring the barriers of readmission rate control. Methods and Materials: A qualitative study was designed with grounded theory approach. Data were gathered with interview. This study was started with proposly sampling and continues with theoretical sampling during 6 months. A convenience sample of 42 people was recruited from two public educational hospitals in Tehran during 6 month. The data were analyzed using constant comparative analysis. Results: Data analysis demonstrated lake of sensitivity on barriers of readmission incorrect patient’s health believes and expectations insufficient patient education, drug and diet adherence, and incorrect life style lack of active medical system , distrust on physicians and lack of communication psychological issues and patient - family challenges, were as the barriers of readmission control. Conclusion: This research had shown that the barriers of readmission control recognized by applying Qualitative research method with source triangulation better than the biomedical approach with single source. On the other hand, lack of sensitivity of partcipants on barriers of readmission control is a new finding. So, for controlling the barriers of readmission despite of exploring the barriers, making sensitive of involved people to readmission, is also proposed
Akram Bayati, Fatemeh Ghanbari, Mohsen Shamsi,
Volume 15, Issue 10 (3-2013)
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Background: Considering the importance of the presence of volunteer health care communicators and the reduction in their cooperation with health centers or their breaking off their communication in recent years, this study was done to explore the educational needs of health care communicators and their instructors. Materials and Methods: In a qualitative study, data were obtained through focus group discussions (FGDs) and individual depth interviews (IDIs) for need assessment from three groups of active volunteer health care workers, inactive volunteer health care workers and health instructors. In total, 14 FGD and 5 DII were held to cover the aims of research chosen by aimed sampling. The analysis was carried out by qualitative content analysis. Results: Three major themes emerged from data analysis, including the concepts of soft and hard tools (time, space, educational tools, and educational content), educator (teaching methods, awareness, and skills), and learner (application, literacy, experience learning level, and motivation). Conclusion: Many of the educational needs of the health care communicators and their educators had not been met which, in many cases, had led to the discontinuation of their cooperation with health centers. Hence, presenting the obtained feedback to officials for meeting their needs can be an effective measure in improving the activities of the communicators and their continuous presence in the health care system.
Akram Bayati, Fatemeh Ghanbari, Akram Maleki, Seyyed Shahriar Hoseini, Mohsen Shamsi,
Volume 17, Issue 1 (4-2014)
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Background: One of the amendments made in Iran's Health System was family physician program were introduced in 2004 . This study aimed to describe the experiences of physician and other health team members about general interest of this program.
Materiasl and Methods: This study is a qualitative and data collection method was in-depth interviews (semi-structured). Groups participants including 15 physicians, 15 midwives and 25 healthworker declare their experiences about of general advantage in this program. In total, 55 interviews were carried out in population. Purposive sampling fand content analysis with comparative of the methods were used.
Results: In this study, after continuous analysis of data 376 initial codes were obtained. After integration of theses codes 30 the secondary cods come out which consist of public or general interest and economic benefit, respectively. Moreover 4 sub-categories (improve of index of public health and care, health folder, insurance for rural, low referral to expert of physican), were created.
Conclusion: Based on the results the use of electronic folders instead of traditional folder and accelerate to acsess of information patient for promotion of care and finally delivery some facilitate for health team worker recommended.
Homa Yousefie, Anahita Khodabakhshi-Koolaee, Mohammad Reza Falsafinejad,
Volume 22, Issue 6 (1-2020)
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Background and Aim: Currently, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease has increased for a variety of reasons. Renal diseases, followed by dialysis and kidney transplantation, can greatly affect the People's physical and mental health. Since most of previous studies have examined the physical and often preoperative problems of kidney transplant patients and many of them have used quantitative methods, the present study aimed to investigate the psychological challenges of renal disease patients after Kidney transplantation.
Methods & Materials: The study population consisted of kidney transplant patients referred to the Nephrology Clinic of Labafinejad Hospitalin Tehran, Iran in 2019 aged 35-50 years and 1-5 years had passed since their transplantation. A semi-structured in-depth interview was done for collecting information. A purposive sampling and continued until data saturation and until no themes were available. In the end, 15 patients were interviewed. Data analysis was performed by Colaizzi’s method.
Ethical Considerations: This study with a code of IR.IAU.SRE.1398.022 was approved by the Research Ethics Committee at Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch in Tehran, Iran.
Results: The primary themes were divided in to 3 main themes including: Concerns and psychologically disturbing feelings, emotional and spiritual support of the family, and uncertainty of receiving specialized, financial and welfare support.
Conclusion: Patients with kidney disease after transplantation surgery have psychological challenges in addition to physical problems that are of great importance to mental health professionals. Studying these challenges can provide a deeper understanding of their psychological problems and adaptation after surgery.
Bahare Bayat, Kobra Rahzani, Davood Hekmatpou,
Volume 27, Issue 6 (1-2025)
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Introduction: The coronavirus crisis is a multidimensional phenomenon that affects even the family. The impact of the situation on the family has been less discussed. Therefore, a qualitative study was conducted to explain families' experiences with patients suffering from COVID-19.
Methods: A qualitative study was conducted with a content analysis approach in 2021. Sampling started with purposive sampling and continued theoretically until information saturation was reached. The primary data collection tool was a semi-structured, in-depth interview in which
10 participants were interviewed. The participants were people from the family of a patient with COVID-19 who, while willing to participate in the study, were either involved in caring for the patient or were worried about the patient's infection. In addition, their patient recovered from Corona and was alive. The interview location was chosen according to the participants' opinion, whether it was at their home or a place that was convenient for them. The interviews were analyzed using the Granheim and Lundman method.
Results: After analyzing the data, initially, 391 codes, 16 subcategories, and finally, five themes were extracted. The five themes that emerged are the experienced symptoms of the disease with two subcategories (symptoms of the onset of the disease and the course of the symptoms), mental and emotional disturbances with seven subcategories (contagion anxiety, death anxiety, fear of the vague nature of the disease, torment of conscience, obsession, emotional suffering, and financial worries), sacrifice in care with two subcategories (suffering care and multiplicity of roles), resilience in the path of care with three subcategories (supportive aspects, reduction of caregiving stress and obtaining information about the disease), Change and evolution in the course of life with two subcategories (individual growth and getting the meaning of life).
Conclusions: According to the present study, after one of the family members gets infected with Corona, the other members have a crisis. The individual, psychological, social, and economic dimensions of the family foundation are facing challenges. It needs the comprehensive support of the family as the first and most important institution of society. Although facing this crisis and accompanying challenges leads to the experience of special suffering, it lays the foundation for personal growth and a better understanding of the meaning of life. Therefore, it can be said that the experience of this crisis is not only from the social aspect but also from the individual aspect, along with tremendous positive and negative developments.
