INTRODUCTION The demands of our rapidly expanding older population strain many emergency departments (EDs), and older patients experience disproportionately high adverse health outcomes. Trainee attitude is key in improving care for older adults. There is negligible knowledge of baseline emergency medicine (EM) resident attitudes regarding elder patients. Awareness of baseline attitudes can ser...

BACKGROUND Endovascular treatment of internal carotid artery stenosis (ICAS) has gained popularity in recent years. Offering CAS, which is a controversial treatment in asymptomatic disease, may provoke patient distrust of the diagnosis and intervention benefit. The aim of this study was to prove that asymptomatic ICAS patients tend to show an emotional attitude to their illness, and therefore t...

BACKGROUND Physicians are responsible for making decisions about the do not resuscitate (DNR) order of patients; however, most of them are faced with some uncertainty in decision making and ethical aspects. Moreover, there are differences on decision making related to the DNR order among physicians, which may be related to the different attitudes toward this issue. Considering the lack of infor...

Results The peculiarities of response to diseases in cancer patients were found according to the nosological group. It was shown that, despite the dominance of conventional adaptive ergopathic type of attitude to the disease (which is characterized by an obsessive attitude to work) in all studied groups, the presence of a high level of sensitivity component illustrates the lack of success to ad...

The aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice of herbal remedies (HRs) in infertile patients. This was a cross sectional study in a referral infertility care center. Three hundred and six outpatients, both women and men, presenting for the first time with complaint of infertility at Arash hospital, were recruited. Verbal consent for participation was received. A self ad...

Dentists' self-reported attitudes towards patients with HIV/AIDS might not reflect their actual behaviour. In this study 2 observers posed as HIV-positive patients and directly evaluated the behaviour of 300 dentists in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Two months later another observer interviewed the same dentists at their offices regarding AIDS-related knowledge and self-reported attitudes. ...

background: acquired immunodeficiency may impose considerable consequences on patients’ family behaviors toward them. the objective of the present study was to investigate whether a counseling program atbehavioralcounselingcenter in the city ofshiraz,iran could change the attitude, knowledge and behavior of patients' family members.   methods: 125 hiv/aids patients’ family members were intervie...