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Sexual satisfaction is an important factor in people's lives, which is effective in all aspects of a couple's life. During pregnancy, due to existing changes, sexual performance is affected, which will also change sexual satisfaction. By performing effective interventions, changes can be made in the level of sexual satisfaction. The aim of this study is to investigate effective psychological interventions in the sexual satisfaction of pregnant women, which has been conducted in the form of a systematic review. This study is performed in 2022 with the steps of design of study question, search in SID, PubMed, Magiran, Iran doc, Science Direct, Scopus, and Google Scholar search engine with keywords such as "interventions", "sexual satisfaction", "Sexual function", "couples", "pregnant women" and their English equivalents, and after that, related studies were identified from the period of 2012 to 2022 (the last 10 years), the selection of studies, which after screening the title, abstract, and full text. Among 821 studies, finally 13 studies were left to announce the results. Researches that had unclear sample size and method of implementation and whose full text was not available were initially excluded from the study process. Screening of the quality of the studies was done by the risk assessment checklist and the Jadad Scale of the intervention studies. Then the findings were classified. The results of the present study were taken from 13 articles, which included mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral therapy, therapy based on acceptance and commitment and group counseling, PLISSIT model intervention, and education and support package. As per the results of interventions, all interventions during pregnancy can increase sexual satisfaction in pregnant women. Therefore, such interventions are recommended but it is necessary to do more interventions with minimal bias and long-term follow-up and comprehensive examination of variables to reach stronger evidence.
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Introduction: Parturient women's privacy preservation and respectful maternity care (RMC) in delivery room is an important principle in the high quality of midwifery care to achieve maternal satisfaction and positive childbirth experience. Hence, it is essential to make natural vaginal delivery (NVD) a positive experience and increase the mothers' satisfaction. This study aimed to investigate the privacy preservation of parturient women's in the delivery room. Methods: Using conventional content analysis, this qualitative study was conducted from June 2018 to December 2020 at two hospitals and three health centers in Shahroud, Iran. Purposeful sampling was employed and it was continued till data saturation through in-depth interviews with 37 participants. Results: The results of interviews with 21 women with NVD experience and 16 maternity health service providers resulted in the extraction of four themes including physical, spiritual-mental, informational, and social privacy. Conclusion: Various mechanisms were found to promote the privacy and satisfaction of parturient women in the delivery room. They included the necessity continuous education, monitoring about mother's privacy preservation and intervention to improve effective communication skills among staff in delivery rooms.
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Introduction: Phobia is a mental disorder that can occur following rape and pose a serious threat to women's health. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of paranoia in female victims of rape referred to Isfahan Forensic Medicine Center in 2014. Methods: This descriptive study included 93 women rape victims referred to Isfahan Forensic Medicine Center who were randomly selected. The study tool was the demographic information and mental health questionnaire scl-90. Descriptive statistics and Spearman correlation, independent t test, one-way analysis of variance in SPSS version 17 were used to analyze the data. Results: This study showed that there was a significant positive correlation between rape and phobia (P < 0.001) so that the prevalence of phobia in people who were raped was moderate to high. Also 9.1% (8 people) of mild phobias (scores 1-0), 79.5% (70 people) moderate phobias (scores 1-1) and 11.4% (10 people) phobias in the range Severe (scores 4-3) reported. Of the seven sub-indices in the phobia section, 52.3% (46 people) had very unreasonable fears. Approximately 52.3% (46 people) were afraid of traveling, 46.6% (41 people) were afraid of being alone. Going, 38.6% (34 people) fear of the market, 51.1% (45 people) anxiety, 12.5% (11 people) feeling of alienation, 1.1% (1 person) fear of fainting in total. Conclusion: Due to the increasing number of rapes in women and the recognition of rape as a factor disrupting mental health, strategies and resources should be provided to prevent rape against women and its adverse consequences, including phobia and early diagnosis and treatment of this complication and other complications Be allocated.
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Objective: Different factors have an important role in the positive and negative childbirth experiences of the mothers. The parturient mother's privacy preservation is one of the factors for increasing the mothers' satisfaction consistent with natural childbirth. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the factors affecting the parturient mother's privacy preservation. Materials and methods: Content analysis was used in this qualitative study that is based on the semi structured individual interviews with women who had experienced natural vaginal delivery, midwives, and the specialist in a maternity ward from 2018 to 2021 in Shahroud, Iran. The collected data were analyzed simultaneously with the sampling procedure using a five-step qualitative content analysis method. To ensure the robustness of the data, Lincoln and Guba's four criteria (credibility, dependability, confirmability, and transferability) were used. Results: The findings of the study with 40 participants resulted in the extraction of 28 codes, 9 subcategories, and 2 main categories entitled extra-and intra personal factors affecting the mother's privacy. Conclusion: To foster the mother's awareness of her rights and privacy during pregnancy and delivery, continuous education, monitoring, and evaluating both the students and the staff to respect preserving the mother's privacy is necessary to develop an instrument to measure the preservation of the mother's privacy in the maternity ward.
