Patients’ active role is crucial in managing chronic illnesses like type 2 diabetes. Current evidence demonstrated patients who were activated had better clinical outcomes. Some factors influencing patient activation have been identified but there little knowledge on how successfully start to take their This study aimed explore begin activate themselves self-management. The narrative inquiry wa...

abstract background : today, as many as 1.5 million americans use ventilators once in a year. .response to mechanical ventilation alarms remains to be one of the most challenging tasks facing physicians, nurses or other medical personnel in the icu. in the present study we aimed to compare the response times to “vocal alarms” and “visual or audible ones”. methods : in the present study we devel...

BACKGROUND Frail older adults are increasingly expected to self-manage their health and healthcare. We assessed the extent to which this group is able to take up this responsibility by measuring their level of activation as patients (i.e. their knowledge, skills and confidence to self-manage their health and healthcare). Further, we studied which characteristics of older adults were associated ...

in the present research work, the kinetics of sunflower oil transesterification reaction in the presence of ba-sr/zsm-5 nanocatalyst which prepared using incipient wetness impregnation method was investigated. the 10wt.%ba-sr/zsm-5 (sr/ba=3/2) nanocatalyst was calcined at 600 °c for 6 h with a heating rate of 3 ºc/min. the experimental conditions were the methanol/oil 9/1molar ratio, reaction t...