background & aim: caregivers’ education should be an active and dynamic process. updated training programs are essential. this research was conducted to assess the effectiveness of virtual education on health care practitioners' self-efficacy in the neonatal unit . methods & materials : in this quasi-experimental research, hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences that had...

background: self-efficacy is one's belief in ability to succeed in specific situations and considerable factor to maintaining healthy behaviors. it has an important role in person-centred care and significantly improves after effects of heart attacks. this study aimed to investigate the effects of a peer based intervention on cardiac self-efficacy of the patients after bypass surgery. methods: ...

background and aim: breastfeeding is a health-promoting and disease-preventing activity of mother with acceptable cost-effectiveness. successful breastfeeding depends on various physiological and psychological factors such as maternal breastfeeding self efficacy and perceived stress. the aim of this study is to determine exclusive breastfeeding self efficacy and perceived stress in primipara mo...

social interest is human phenomenon which can be considered as structure of personality in psychology. this descriptive correlation study aimed to investigate self efficacy, social acceptance and locus of control as predictors of social interest. this was correlational study. the sample consisted of 153 boys and 147 girls who were studying at private middle schools. multistage cluster sampling ...

objective: the objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship of perceived social selfefficacy (psse) with depression in students. methods: the sample of the present study consisted of 216 adolescent students including 120 males and 96 females randomly selected from different educational institutes of karachi, pakistan. the age of the participants ranged from 16 to 19 years o...

abstract background: nurses, who are considered to form the largest group of professional healthcare providers, face the challenge of maintaining, promoting, and providing quality nursing care and to prepare themselves to function confidently and to care effectively. among the factors affecting nursing performance, self-efficacy has been expected to have the greatest influence. however, the con...

abstract: background: diabetes is a major problem for health systems and physical activity is one of the most important modifiable and life style factors to management of diabetes. this study aimed to determine the status of physical activity (pa) in patients with type 2 diabetes based on trans theoretical model (ttm). methods: this study was conducted on 393 diabetic patient’s type 2 diabetes ...

introduction: nowadays, eating fast food among youth is one of the health issues in iran as well as other countries around the world, and nearly one-third of these people eat such food. this study was meant to evaluate attitudes, normative and control beliefs as well as self-efficacy of students regarding consumption of fast food among students of hamadan university of medical sciences. methods...

background: physical symptoms are often associated with poor quality of life (qol) in patients with heart failure (hf). progressive impairment in the ability ofperforming routine physical activities of daily lifeand decrease inexercise tolerance is thought to lead to the worsening of physical symptoms. exercise and physical activity can improve functional capacity, and improve the symptoms asso...

background and aim: nosocomial infections have been always among the major problems of healthcare delivery systems. the operating room is an appropriate place for causing severe nosocomial infections. knowledge of infection control guidelines and standards is the key to infection prevention. this study was conducted to investigate nurses’ knowledge and self-efficacy regarding the principles of ...