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Background: Birth represents an influential moment in women's lives that can be a powerful or traumatic experience. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the relationship among maternal perception of childbirth experience, spiritual health, and maternal-infant relationship in the postpartum women. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 305 postpartum women referred to Health Centers in Karaj. The data were collected using the Perception of Birth Scale (POBS), maternal postnatal relationship scale, and spiritual health questionnaire. Results: In this study, the mean (standard deviation (SD) age of the participants was 27.50 (5.56) years. The Spearman's correlation test results showed that there was a significant positive relationship among the maternal perception of childbirth experience, the general maternal-infant relationship (r = 0.34, p < 0.001), quality of relationship (r = 0.17, p = 0.002), pleasure with interaction (r = 0.32, p < 0.001), and absence of hostility (r = 0.28, p < 0.001). In addition, a positive relationship was observed among spiritual health and general maternal-infant relationship (r = 0.21, p < 0.001), pleasure in interaction (r = 0.08, p = 0.164), absence of hostility (r = 0.15, p = 0.008), and the maternal perception of childbirth experience (r = 0.11, p = 0.039). Conclusions: It seems that to promote maternal-infant relationship, health care providers should not only try to promote physical intimacy between mother and infant but also create a positive emotional state for the mother during birth.
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BACKGROUND AND AIM: The marriage readiness is a new concept that helps adolescents learn how to choose the right choices and have a better marital life. The present study aims to assess needs of the training priorities of marriage readiness using Bourich model and quadrant analysis. METHODS: The present study was a descriptive study. The research sample consisted of 400 students who participated in this study by random and convenience sampling from the three selected universities in the province of Alborz and 28 specialist and counselors in the sphere of marriage. The questionnaire of marriage readiness with 68 items has been provided in three areas including individual, interpersonal and contextual skills. RESULTS: The average age of student was 21.05 years. In the individual field, 20 training needs had priority scores more than 4 and the highest priority for youth in this area was "Lack of sexual inappropriate behaviors and habits and lack of disabling diseases." In the area of interpersonal skills, the highest priority is related to "participation in pre-marital training, the ability to regulate the cost of living and the parenting ability ". In the field of contextual skills, 10 issues of training scored the priority scores of more than 4, and the highest priority was given to "having a vehicle, having sufficient income and financial independence." CONCLUSIONS: Based on the quadrant analysis model, the views of students and marriage counselors are not aligned and experts do not have the right viewpoints about the youth needs.
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PURPOSE: One of the most significant current discussions is the effect of different levels of physical activity on health-related quality of life (HRQOL), but there have been no studies in Iran which investigate this issue. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the level of physical activity and HRQOL in Iranian women. METHODS: This was an analytical cross-sectional study conducted from October 2010 to January 2011 in Karaj's gymnasiums. We selected gymnasiums using simple randomized sampling. The validated Persian short form 36-item HRQOL questionnaire version 2.0 (SF-36 v2) and the short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire were used for data collection. Based on IPAQ, participants were classified into two groups: one with a high level of physical activity (N=240) and another with a moderate level (N = 120). RESULTS: The group with a high level of physical activity had significantly higher vitality scores (P=0.01) and lower role limitation-physical scores (P=0.02) than the group with a moderate level. The high level of physical activity was associated with considerably higher scores in general health (73.94 ± 0.99 vs.70.82 ± 1.33) (P=0.06) and mental well-being (73.94 ± 1.18 vs.70.88 ± 1.82) (P=0.1) domains than moderate level. CONCLUSIONS: It seems that the high level of physical activity, compared with the moderate level, tends to have positive association with more domains of SF-36 v2.
