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Background: Women's empowerment was defined as their ability to achieve awareness and control their personal, social, economic and political forces aiming at taking measures in order to improve their lives. This study aimed to compare the empowerment of the married women in medical sciences university in social, economic and familial domains in three cities, IRAN
Methods: This was a descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2016 on 399 married and employed women. Data collection instrument was a four-part questionnaire consisting of demographic, social, economic and familial domains and made by researchers. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS, version 16. Using paired t-test for intra-group and Chi-square and t-test for between groups comparisons. The significance level was set at<0.0
Results: The total score of empowerment in Rasht [126.34 +/- 17.51] was more than the two cities of Shiraz [123.46 +/- 15.62] and Bandar Abbas [123.42 +/- 12.34]. There was a significant relationship between the mean score of the total empowerment and monthly income of the participants in Bandar Abbas [P=0.04], and job of their husbands in Rasht [P=0.004]. The mean score of family empowerment of the women was significantly interrelated with the number of their children in Rasht [P=0.001], and with the education of the participants' husbands in Shiraz [P=0.002]
Conclusion: The score of social empowerment in Rasht was more than two other cities. In economic domain, the scores of Rasht and Bandar Abbas were more than those of Shiraz. Scores of Rasht and Shiraz were more than Bandar Abbas in the familial domain. It is useful to carry out qualitative studies aiming at determining the effects of various factors on women's empowerment and strategies for improving it
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To evaluate the effect of mode of delivery on postpartum sexual functioning in primiparous women. In this cross-sectional descriptive study, 150 primiparous women in postpartum period, who attended the family planning or vaccination clinics, were enrolled for the study. Eighty-one had vaginal delivery with episiotomy and 69 had experienced cesarean section. Sexual function was evaluated by the Female Sexual Function Index within 3 and 6 months postpartum. About 29% in vaginal delivery group and 37% in cesarean delivery group had resumed their sexual intercourses four weeks after delivery [p=0.280].There were no significant differences between mode of delivery and sexual functioning, including desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction and pain. The present study showed that postpartum sexual functioning was not associated with the type of delivery
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To evaluate the effect of LI4 acupressure on labor pain and duration during the first stage of labor. Parturient women [n=149] with singleton pregnancies in the active phase of spontaneous labor, without any medical or obstetric problems, were enrolled in this single-blinded, randomized, clinical trial. Participants were placed into one of three groups: an LI4 acupressure group, a touching group, and a control group in which no pharmacological or non-pharmacological methods of pain relief were used. Pain intensity was measured by visual analog scale before and after the intervention in the first stage of labor. Pressure or touch was applied for 30 minutes during uterine contractions. The difference in the pain scores between the acupressure and control group was statistically significant [p < 0.001] but there was no statistically significant [p=0.942] difference in the duration of the first stage of labor between the three groups. Acupressure is an effective, non-invasive, and easily applicable technique to reduce labor pain