Bahareh Boor Boor, Anahita Khodabakhshi-Koolaee, Mohammad Reza Falsafinezhad,
Volume 11, Issue 4 (Jul & Aug 2021)
Abstract
Background: Challenge between parents and their children is a rapidly growing phenomenon in Iran. The communication challenges of adolescence with emphasis on social media in this study is a phenomenon that based on the changes and developments of adolescence, can affect the nature and quality of family relationships, question the parental authority, and cause changes in regulations. The present study explored the communication challenges of parents and adolescents with a focus on the use of the Internet and social media.
Methods: This qualitative study was performed using content analysis. The research population consisted of several parents with children (daughters) who were studying in the first secondary school in District 11 of Tehran in the academic year 2019-2020. The participants were 15 parents who were selected using purposive sampling and based on the theoretical saturation criterion. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and were then analyzed, codified, and categorized. Finally, after the extraction of the themes, the relevant and common themes were combined in the form of secondary and main categories.
Results: Based on the content analysis of the data collected from the interviews, 4 main categories were identified: social media opportunities, social media coping strategies, social media problems from the parents’ point of view, and communication problems with the child.
Conclusion: In the modern world, parent-adolescent communication challenges are intermingled with the common challenges of using social media. However, it is impossible to ignore the effective and useful presence of social media in modern life. Acquiring knowledge, training conflict resolution skills, and recognizing the factors related to conflicts between parents and adolescents can help parents and pave the way for reducing parent-adolescent conflicts and improving the quality of parent-adolescent communication concerning social media use.
Forough Faroughi, Mahnaz Modanloo, Mohammad Sadeghi, Behnaz Khodabakhshi, Iman Taghizadeh Firozjaie,
Volume 14, Issue 6 (Nov & Dec 2024)
Abstract
Background: The COVID-19 has spread worldwide since December 2019 and continues to affect populations today. Studies have shown that changes in blood coagulation, as well as an increases in D-dimer levels, occur in patients with the COVID-19, leading to increased hospitalization and patient mortality. This study was conducted to determine the levels of D-dimer in patients who survived and those who died from COVID-19.
Methods: In this case-control study, the participants were divided into two case and control groups according to the outcome of the disease. This research was conducted at 5th Azar and Sayad Shirazi Hospital in Gorgan from March 20, 2020, to June 20, 2021. A total of 158 patients who were eligible for the study were retrospectively screened. Among these hospitalized patients, 107 were in the survivor group and 51 were in the deceased group. Clinical and laboratory parameters, as well as the results of confirmed cases of COVID-19, were analyzed retrospectively. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and SPSS software, version 21.
Results: The mean D-dimer levels of the patients in the survival and death groups were 1.48±2.09 and 2.62±2.55, respectively. This difference was confirmed to be statistically significant (P=0.007). The odds ratio interpretation showed that the chance of death due to COVID-19 in patients with high D-dimer levels is 1.29 times that of patients with lower D-dimer levels.
Conclusion: The D-dimer levels on admission can serve as one of the biomarkers to predict mortality in patients with COVID-19.
