BACKGROUND Patients with breast cancer are predisposed to some psychiatric symptoms and mental disorders due to their life styles or disease conditions. These problems cause patients to deal with daily stress, feeling guilty, anxiety, dysphoric mood, and impaired social relations. Such problems would lead to serious mental disorders. OBJECTIVES Therefore, life skills training may help patient...

objective: since fosters adolescents are deprived of family environment and probably the friendly relationships, some of them may develop problems in achieving self-awareness and communication skills and adjusting to the environmental conditions. thus, this study was conducted to assess the effect of self-awareness and communication skills training on increasing the level of adjustment in foste...

Introduction. Training midwives on life saving skills is one of the most important strategies in preventing maternal and neonatal mortality, especially in areas that physicians are absent. The effectiveness of each training program must be evaluated. Objective structured clinical evaluation can be applied to evaluate the learner skill improvement on special tasks with lowest skill evaluation bi...

Highly resourceful individuals have been found better able to meet life's challenges and to experience more positive health outcomes. Although psychometrically sound measures of resourcefulness exist and resourcefulness training trials show that the intervention increases adaptive functioning and enhances quality of life, there is no direct measure of intervention fidelity. This study examined ...

objectives : stressful life events, coping strategies and attitude towards life have been known as important components in tendency toward substance abuse. this study investigates coping patterns and dysfunctional attitudes among a group of clients at mashhad welfare center as substance abusers comparing with those of control group. method: 50 male substance abusers were selected randomly and m...