BACKGROUND To humanize the management of children in hospitals has become a serious concern of civil society and one of the main goals of public and private health centers, health care providers and governments. DISCUSSION The concepts of family-centered and family-oriented care are discussed with the aim to emphasize their importance in pediatrics. Notions related to family-centered care, su...

conclusions: family-centered empowerment model, easily adapted to methamphetamine users and their families, leads to improved social supports and qol. results: mean scores of qol and social support dimensions changed significantly in two intervention groups (p < 0.0001), but didn’t change in the control group (p > 0.05). also, there was a positive significant relation (p < 0.05) between total s...